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The tables may be turning. PetSmart Inc. has spent a good deal of money acquiring other companies. But as its stock sits near its 52-week low due to a drastic [...]

Several groups that successfully pushed for elimination of the business personal property tax last year - a hot issue for small businesses drowning in costs and paperwork - are now [...]

An upstart production company has struck it rich, lining up financing of almost $1 million from high-profile investors including Jerry Colangelo and Eddie Lynch as its first TV project is [...]

Chris-Town Mall store could be closing The future of JCPenney Co.'s Chris-Town store, one of only three traditional department store anchors left at the aging mall. appears to be in [...]

Peter Piper Pizza is picking up the pace in its propagation of pizzerias, pumping $25 million into the biggest expansion it has ever seen. The Phoenix-based family pizza restaurant chain [...]

The word 'entrepreneur' usually brings to mind images of a driven individual who dreamed up an idea for a company, scraped together enough cash to make it a reality, and [...]

Justifying the high costs of executive pay is a hot topic these days, and The Business Journal has put the state's highest priced CEOs of publicly traded companies to the [...]

One of two heavy hitters in the local ticketing arena may be seeing some of its highest-profile contracts in Arizona disappear. At least two major clients of Dillard Ticketing System [...]

After months of keeping their development plans fairly under wraps, owners of the Arizona Mills mall in Tempe are finally cracking the door when it comes to detailing the tenants [...]

Goodyear-based potato chip maker Poore Brothers Inc. could be hit with a $3 million bill, a hefty total for a company operating in the red for the past two years, [...]

Grocery chains grapple over millions in lease dispute Bashas' Supermarkets Inc. may have plunked down $22.6 million to buy most of Megafoods Stores' Arizona assets in December, but the two [...]

Unable to reorganize in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, owners have closed Gilbert-based K&M Printing Inc., once one of the Valley's larger commercial printers. However, the move is surrounded by questions from [...]

For perhaps the first time, the Valley is playing witness to a good old-fashioned daily newspaper war. The competing Arizona Republic and east Valley-based Tribune newspapers, who always have kept [...]

Labor unions, which have not been known to have a strong voice in Arizona, have been flexing their local muscle with more fervor recently, even breaking into industries that have [...]

Bank loans can be a tough thing for a small business to get, and sometimes it gets even tougher when you need them most, as owners of Phoenix Heat Treating [...]

Growth is the goal of most companies, but it also comes with a price - and a working capital loan is often one of the best ways to help keep [...]

The judges at this year's local Addy Awards gave credence to what most industry observers already had known in the back of their minds - 1996 was the year of [...]

After some false starts on a planned $40 million Valley film studio, former Fox Animation Studios head Steve Brain says he's finally got full financing in place for his Arizona [...]

While closing of The Phoenix Gazette was bad news for at least 55 employees who lost their jobs this week, the move bodes much better for the paper's parent company, [...]

It's Planet Hollywood meets Bourbon Street and the House of Blues, with shades of the Arizona Center. The Valley will serve as the testing ground for a high-end entertainment venue [...]

Fry's Food & Drug Stores is upping the ante for a coveted grocery industry target - families with children - launching a new high-cost, but potentially high-return experiment. In its [...]

It looks like Valley businessman Charles Busskohl will be having a green Christmas, as he sees his first seven-figure return from the sale of family business Arrow Stage Lines earlier [...]

The irony is so strong you can almost smell it. Phoenix ad agency E.B. Lane & Associates, which holds the coveted $10 million Arizona Lottery advertising account, will now see [...]

Printing giant New England Business Services Inc. is closing the book on its 2-year-old Valley presence, leaving most of its 103 local employees printing resumes in search of new jobs. [...]

After building the Sun Automotive Group into a cache of six high-end Valley auto dealerships over the past 16 years, its owners are driving off with $30.9 million in cash [...]

Arizona appears to be emerging over Texas as the immediate winner of a 100-employee manufacturing plant of a Tokyo-based conglomerate. Officials at Mitsui Components (USA) Inc., a division of Mitsui [...]

Valley potato chip maker Poore Brothers Inc. is preparing to dip into the public's pockets to raise about $5 million in an initial public offering to help fund expansion. The [...]

As the U.S. Small Business Administration prepares to close out its fiscal year Sept. 30. Arizona is on track to strongly buck a national trend of decreasing loans, hurdling well [...]

Women entrepreneurs take sales lead Median sales for small businesses owned by women and men WOMEN 1996 $543,931 1995 575,581 1994 431,249 1993 298,345 1992 345,375 1991 239,831 1990 322,784 [...]

Star Brewing Inc. is squeezing out its last barrel of beer in hometown Portland, and company owners have decided to reinvent themselves in a $3 million facility in the Valley's [...]

Two high level directors at the Arizona Lottery are leaving - one fired and one resigning - their moves part of a top-level restructuring leaders hope will beef up stale [...]

Dean Miller and Jack Walker, founders of Megafoods Stores Inc. - now reorganizing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court - are being investigated for land deals that may have lined their pockets [...]

The Valley is one step closer to getting federal funding for a high-tech training center that would make Maricopa County a national hub for producing semiconductor technicians. Maricopa Community College [...]

Scottsdale-based Mastering Computers Inc. has merged with Eagle River Interactive Inc., a deal that is expected to create 200 Valley jobs. Avon, Colo.-based Eagle River will issue 1.175 million shares [...]

Holsum Bakery is cooking up plans for expansion that includes acquiring a local competitor's shop, in a move that could affect 65 jobs. Bob Hans, director of associate services for [...]

Cable giant Cox Communications Inc. is taking a huge step in its plans to offer competitive local phone service as it shops the Valley real estate market for sites to [...]

Pulte Home Corp. is creating a new division to target the over-50 home-buying market, and one of its projects is a 267-acre, 740-lot master-planned community in Chandler. The Chandler development, [...]

After 68 years involving three generations of the Busskohl family, Arrow Stage Lines of Phoenix stands to rake in an estimated $7.8 million as it becomes part of Coach USA. [...]

Since the newsroom merger of The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette last October, 13,000 readers have dropped their subscriptions to the afternoon Gazette. If the paper's circulation continues to [...]

John Antioco led a group of six Circle K Corp. officers and directors who recently cashed in a total of $13 million worth of company stock. Antioco, chairman, CEO and [...]

ABCO Markets Inc. is closing 10 of its 71 stores in Phoenix and Arizona, causing as many as 350 employees to face transfers to other stores or possibly lose their [...]

A Valley ad agency has broken into The Dial Corp's multi-million-dollar retail advertising club. Lavidge Hiegel Communications Inc. is the first local firm to be named an agency of record [...]

The Dial Corp's consumer products division has formed a new health and beauty care unit that company officials and analysts predict will be a winner. The new venture is expected [...]

Small business could jump to the top of state lawmakers' agenda as Rep. Barry Wong prepares a last-minute addition to the Republican Party platform in the Arizona House. That's big [...]