by - March 23, 2025 2:00 pm
Ritter Communications sponsored the 45th Annual St. Jude Radio/Cablethon, which was broadcast on March 1. The annual event raised $313,530 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the world’s…
by - January 14, 2025 8:18 pm
Conway-based internet provider TCW announced Tuesday (Jan. 14) an $8 million infrastructure project to bring high-quality fiber internet service to the city of Magnolia. Construction is expected to begin during…
by - September 4, 2024 8:30 am
We are pleased to introduce to you the 2024 class of Northeast Arkansas Women in Business award winners, presented by Ritter Communications. This is our sixth year producing this award…
by - April 11, 2024 5:37 pm
Departures in the U.S. House of Representatives have resulted in U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, being elevated to chair of the House Transportation and Housing & Urban Development (THUD) subcommittee…
by - April 8, 2024 8:30 am
Small Business finalists Specialized Real Estate Group Fayetteville CEO: Jeremy Hudson Year founded: 2010 Line of work: Real estate development and property management Website: specializedreg.com Although company co-founders Seth Mims…
by - February 18, 2024 8:23 am
A 386,416-square-foot industrial building in Siloam Springs changed hands recently for $16.3 million. The purchase price equals $42.18 per square foot. Simmons Pet Food Inc. of Siloam Springs sold the…
by - July 18, 2023 9:16 am
Tonnage on the Arkansas River totaled 6.297 million tons between January and June, up 19%, with inbound traffic on the navigable water up 38% in the first six months, according…
by - April 14, 2023 1:13 pm
Charles Redfield, chief merchandising officer and 32-year employee at Walmart, is leaving the retailer in May, according to an internal email sent Friday (April 14). He will transition into an…
by - February 16, 2023 10:33 am
Adam Stoverink, director of Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, is a published author for the first time. Stoverink said the new business…
by - October 9, 2022 10:28 am
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the Sept. 26 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business…
by - October 5, 2022 9:00 am
The cost to avert disaster was $11. If you lived through the ’70s, you will understand. If you hear the words “Ford Pinto,” you likely have an image of fire…
by - May 9, 2022 8:05 am
Megan Heckes’ journey to her work at the United Way started with a degree in accounting from Harding University in 2017. After graduation, she became a business analyst in Walmart’s…
by - May 4, 2022 4:44 pm
Arkansas State University System President Dr. Chuck Welch announced Wednesday (May 4) that Jeff Purinton, an athletics administrator who most recently spent the last seven years as part of the…
by - April 14, 2022 1:32 pm
Tonnage on the Arkansas River in the first quarter of 2.706 million tons was up 10% compared with the same period in 2021. Traffic may have been more robust if…
by - March 15, 2022 8:11 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved a resolution Tuesday night (March 15) that pledges $100,000 for the purpose of getting a second airline service into the Fort Smith Regional…
by - March 14, 2022 6:58 pm
The Department of Arkansas Heritage presented Public Art Grant checks in a ceremony at their headquarters in Little Rock on Friday, March 11, 2022. $42,035 in grant funding was distributed…
by - March 10, 2022 10:20 pm
EPIC Glass Recycling (EGR), a newly established 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has ramped up operations in central Arkansas. Spearheaded by local businessmen Courtney Little and Bob Crawford, the company is now…
by - January 24, 2022 3:59 pm
T. Baridi Nkokheli, the former Fort Smith Sanitation Director whose impersonation of legendary lawman Bass Reeves helped raise awareness of the historic figure and money for a Reeves statue now…
by - January 6, 2022 6:53 pm
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading quickly through Sebastian County, the Future School of Fort Smith Board of Directors voted Thursday (Jan. 6) at a special called meeting to…
by - August 16, 2021 7:25 am
In a decade, Jonathan McNair transformed dismal job prospects into his dream job. McNair graduated from the University of Arkansas with a finance degree soon after the recession and discovered…
