Harps to open 70-worker Lincoln store
Harps Food Stores is opening a store at 310 W. Pridemore Drive in Lincoln at 10 a.m. Wednesday .
The store will employ 70 workers and also feature Harps Express with gas pumps.
Harps is joining forces with Bell Pharmacy of Lincoln, and Luke Hall and his staff will be serving the community from the store pharmacy.
Harps Food Stores Inc., a 100 percent employee-owned company, operates 87 Harps and Price Cutter stores in northern and central Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, southern Missouri and southeast Kansas. Based in Springdale, Harps employs more than 4,300 people.
Burn Boot Camp sets up in Bentonville
Burn Boot Camp, a national fitness franchise, has set up at 103 S.W. Winsted Lane, Suite 21 in Bentonville. The business is owned and operated by Renae Elkins. She started with Burn Boot Camp as a client at the first one in Charlotte, N.C.
Each camp involves a 45-minute circuit-style workout made up of 72 styles and 15 formats, such as high-intensity interval training and suspension training. Trainers certified by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies lead each session and create new programs daily.
All sessions before 5 p.m. are available only to women, and child care is available free of charge.
Devan and Morgan Kline started Burn Boot Camp in 2012 in Huntersville, N.C. The franchise has more than 50 locations and has 194 in various stages of development across 28 states.
Dollar General opens store in Decatur
Dollar General is open at 154 N. Main St. in Decatur. Dollar General stores employ approximately six to 10 people.
Stores sell national name brands and private brands of food, housewares, seasonal items, cleaning supplies, basic apparel and health/beauty products.
Dollar General operated 13,320 stores in 43 states as of Feb. 3.
Team from UA wins business contest
The five University of Arkansas, Fayetteville team members representing Grox Industries won the graduate division of the 10th Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Collegiate Business Plan Competition held Wednesday at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Grox was formed to develop low e-glass coatings for thermal insulation on residential and commercial windows,
Team members Andrew Miles, Willie Evans, Stonie Hopkins, Witness Martin and Qiuting Zheng won a $30,000 cash prize. Another $3,500 cash prize was presented to their adviser, Carol Reeves.
The competition is an invitation-only event for the first- and second-place winners in the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup state collegiate business plan competitions in Arkansas, Nevada and Oklahoma.
Arkansas teams also won the 90-second elevator pitch competition. The undergraduate division went to Michael Bennett, representing Easy Dam from John Brown University, and Tiffany Jarrett, representing Rejuvenics Technologies from the University of Arkansas, won the graduate division. Both received $2,000 cash prizes.
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