Covering the business news of Arkansas

Wal-Mart Pushes To Win Holiday Sales, Share Price Rises

Arkansas Best, Teamsters Agree On Contract Talks

Arkansas Best Corp. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have agreed to begin negotiations toward a new labor contract for the about 7,800 unionized company...

Study Shows Potential Of Arkansas Wine Industry

Traffic Congestion Costs NWA $103 Million Annually

Anyone who lives in Northwest Arkansas is fully aware of the traffic congestion the region suffers from an insufficient road infrastructure still trying to catch...

Firestone Opens $36 Million Expansion In Prescott

The Blunt Force Trauma Of Health Care Reform

Envision Program Bringing Civil Engineers Into ‘LEED World’

$1 Billion Project Could Be Headed To Arkansas

Grant Tennille teased during a Friday panel discussion in Rogers that Arkansas may soon announce what could be the largest private-sector economic development project in...

Weekend Digest: From Bimbos To Bert & Ernie

In our weekend compilation of outside reading, we take a look at a worldwide bakery known for its efficiency and the cast of characters on...

More Consumers Seeking New-car Smell

The average age of cars and trucks on the road today is 11 years old. Historically it's been about 8 years, but consumers have held...

NanoMech Partners With KDH Defense On Body Armor Technology

Bank Of The Ozarks Acquires Genala Banc Of Alabama For $27.3 Million

Metro Jobless Rates Decline Across State

Banks In Arkansas Sit Flush With Cash

Deposits grew at a rate of 8.42% across the nations’ banks according to the June 30 market share report made public Tuesday (Oct. 2) by...

The Man Known Simply As ‘Archie’

LM Wind Power To Expand In Brazil

Danish wind turbine blade manufacturer, LM Wind Power, announced on Tuesday (Oct. 2) that it will construct a new factory in Brazil and hire 300...

Most Arkansas-based Stock Prices Up In 2012

Share prices improved during the first nine months of 2012 for nine of the 15 publicly-held companies based in Arkansas, with the two retailers who...

NWA Economic Report Highlights Need For Improvement

Weekend Digest: The Top 50 Start-ups In The World

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