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The following individuals are lobbyists registered with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses were added by IBI Media staff to render the list more useful. Abel, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE POWER LIST DEBUTED IN 2006 with 71 profiles. This fourth installment has own to include 192 people who run the largest or most influential companies and institutions [...]

ARKANSAS BUSINESS' ANNUAL POWER LIST IS BACK THIS WEEK and more powerful than ever. The Power List draws primarily from the nearly 50 businessrelated lists that appear in this publication [...]

The policy debate on whether to strengthen or to remove the legal barriers between banking and commerce has paid little attention to what the practical effects of removing the barriers would be. To help answer this question, this article, the first part of a two-part study, provides an overview of the potential gains of integrating banking and commerce. Economic theory, the authors note, suggests that joint corporate ownership of banks and commercial firms has several potential benefits, including economies of scale and scope, increased internal capital markets, and diversification. Commercial firms could also enjoy a significant reduction in funding costs if affiliation with a bank extended the federal safety net for banks to cover the commercial firms' liabilities. But some benefits are already available without common ownership. Moreover, common ownership may also result in some disadvantages, such as significant diseconomies of scale and scope. Actual experience provides better insight than theory can about the relative magnitudes of the benefits and costs of cross-industry combinations. U.S. experience with limited openings between banking and nonbank activities suggests that the most common combinations were banks with nonbank financial firms, relationships that were authorized by a 1999 reform act. Foreign experience and U.S. conglomerates of nonbank firms in different industries fail to provide compelling evidence for large-scale combinations of banking and commercial firms. JEL classification: G21, G34, G28 Keywords: banking and commerce, The application by Wal-Mart in 2005 to acquire a type of bank called an industrial loan company (ILC) sparked a renewed interest in the issue of mixing banking and commerce. [...]

REGIONAL TRENDS NEW DEVELOPMENTS: a Wal-Mart distribution center opened in January, creating 800 jobs, and another for Sysco will add about 300 in Alachua County. David Ramsey, research-marketing manager for [...]

THE POWER LIST, WHICH DEBUTED in Arkansas Business a year ago, returns this week. The Power List draws primarily from the nearly 50 business-related lists that appear in this publication [...]

THE TRADITIONAL STORE THAT MADE Wal-Mart a retail giant is fading away. For the past decade, Wal-Mart has either closed its discount stores and opened a Supercenter in the shadow [...]

AS WAL-MART SUPERcenters are about to storm into California, grocery store chains and unions are bracing themselves for possible casualties. Next month, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville will open its [...]

MANY OF THE LARGEST publicly traded companies headquartered in Arkansas -- including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, the world's largest company -- are still 'family' businesses in a very real [...]

Byline: Anne Wallace Allen It's been a fast ride for Kelly Knopp, the marketing and events manager for Crooked Fence Brewing Company. Knopp, 32, was working for the Boys & [...]

Byline: Bernadette Starzee Name: Kirk Christian Title: Store Manager, Valley Stream Supercenter Company: Wal-mart Favorite pastimes: Camping and spending time outdoors with family Kirk Christian began working part-time at a [...]

ON A SUMMER EVENING IN 1984, in the days when Wal-Mart stores still closed at night and opened in the morning, the manager of the Stuttgart store was demonstrating closing [...]

What target has done for Merona and Cherokee, Wal-Mart plans to do for Sasson and GE small appliances. A new licensing agreement with General Electric and the purchase of the [...]

Byline: David Winzelberg U.S. Nonwovens Corp., a manufacturer whose products include baby wipes, dryer sheets, filtration fabrics and apparel linings, is expanding to 85 Nicon Court in Hauppauge, leasing the [...]

Byline: Scott Prater Competition for online shoppers among the nation's big-box retailers is affecting small businesses, even in Colorado Springs. Sears Holdings Corp. has followed Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. [...]

Although Wal-Mart only once celebrated a grand opening by erecting tombstones with local merchants' names, Oregon retailers still should worry. 'You will have businesses going out of business in your [...]

Manager, office of the chairman GlobalHue, Southfield Claim to fame: Led the project management team that secured a $50 million account with Wal-Mart. Next step: Preparing to go back to [...]

Livermore awaits Wal-Mart arrival LIVERMORE - Retail giant Wal-Mart Store Inc.'s decision to open a store in this town of 58,000 on the Bay Area's fringes could bring an estimated [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it's not looking for sites to build a supercenter in Detroit, though the retailer is open to looking at development opportunities. 'I think we're looking for [...]

The trend at Wal-Mart and other retailers toward sustainable or environmental marketing of fabric and apparel might have presented Cotton Incorporated with a challenging public relations battle 10 or 15 [...]

Thumbs down on Wal-Mart Despite a new report from Wal-Mart saying that New York City residents spent $128 million last year in its metropolitan area stores, City Council Speaker Christine [...]

Retail development continued to grow in 2005, and announcements for several large developments and national chains targeting Colorado Springs made news. Wal-MartWal-Mart continued its domination of the retail market by [...]

Staff Turner Construction is rapidly becoming one of the most experienced builders of sustainable structures. In Dallas, Turner is currently building SMU's first LEED certified building, the Embrey Engineering Building, [...]

Construction of a 12,300-square-foot retail building is expected to start soon adjacent to Wal-Mart in Caldwell, and Only $1.00 Superstore plans to occupy most of its space. Eagle-based developer and [...]

EXTON -- Wal-Mart employees have what the company calls the '10-foot rule' -- you get within 10 feet of a customer, you greet him. But at Wal-Mart's newest Chester County [...]

It has been a busy year for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Earlier this year, the company opened its first Wal-Mart Supercenter in San Antonio at Culebra Road and Loop [...]

Wal-Mart will no longer use Interlink-serviced debit cards due to a 125 percent increase in transaction fees, the company says this week. Interlink, a subsidiary of Visa International. increased individual [...]

Washington City -- A WAL-MART SUPERCENTER has opened at 1330 Providence Center Drive. Washington City officials expect the store to bring in $400,000 a year in sales tax [...]

A year-long dispute between discount giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and a local church over a large tract of wooded land in the city of Spring Valley has been settled. Last [...]

People are scurrying and products are piling up as the Wal-Mart on Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa gets spruced up. Once viewed as a poor stepchild, unkept to the point [...]

A Sam's Club discount store is coming to South Austin. Real estate sources say Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has signed a lease to put one of its Sam's Club stores in [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans gas stations at every one of its 480 Sam's Club stores and at 200 more Wal-Mart stores in the next year, according to The Wall [...]

Since Wal-Mart Stores Inc. accounts for about 8 percent of retail sales in the United States, 'things can get a lot worse before they get bad at Wal-Mart,' the company's [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT, NYSE, 12-month range $41.44 -- $64.94) principally is engaged in the operation of mass-merchandising stores, which serve customers primarily through the operation of three segments. The [...]

IF IT WEREN'T FOR GOVERNment jobs, Wal-Mart and chickens, Arkansas would be in a world of hurt. You won't see that statement on any chamber of commerce Web sites, and [...]

BERLIN -- ON A STREET named for the antithesis of capitalism, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fights for a toehold in the land of Aldi. Across Karl-Marx-Strasse from the two-story, 107,000-SF Wal-Mart [...]

I keep hearing tales about how Wal-Mart puts small-town merchants out of business. I suspect the real cause is that the owners of the deceased businesses just carried on with [...]

The competition to land a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. e-business account just got serious. E-commerce firms Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver and Jump Technology Services Inc. of Tulsa have both [...]

Plans for retail supercenter heading for a June showdown that some think could end in lawsuits, ballot referendum Renovator Charles Moon greets neighbors as he walks through Westerville's Uptown neighborhood, [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it will shut down its meat-cutting, operations in Jacksonville and 179 other stores in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas and sell only prepackaged [...]

Superstores are getting even more super. Wal-Mart has been opening Super-centers all around the state. In October it opened the first south Florida Super-center in Florida City; it has a [...]