by - May 24, 2019 12:52 pm
New orders for manufactured durable goods fell 2.1%, or by $5.4 billion, in April, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The federal agency on Friday (May 24) released an advance…
by - May 20, 2019 7:44 pm
One of the primary reasons President Donald Trump has enacted hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese goods that flow into the U.S. is intellectual property theft….
by - May 17, 2019 9:40 am
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) will hold a public hearing May 30 at Henderson State University to accept comments on the agency’s decision to issue an air permit…
by - May 15, 2019 6:10 pm
Civilian aircraft parts, ammunitions and rice were the top Arkansas exports purchased by U.S. trade partners in 2018, representing more than 25% of the $6.5 billion in homemade goods shipped…
by - May 15, 2019 1:32 pm
African Swine Flu (ASF) has already killed more hogs in China than the U.S. will produce this year, according to Tyson Foods CEO Noel White. Speaking at the BMO Capital…
by - May 13, 2019 6:44 am
Three decades after rock band Queen declared “I Want it All and I Want it Now,” consumers increasingly are now finding that they can do just that — get nearly…
by - May 10, 2019 10:59 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to include a federal judge’s decision Friday afternoon. Jim Phillips, former chairman and CEO of Springdale-based nanotechnology company NanoMech, had objected to the…
by - May 10, 2019 9:19 am
Tyson Foods announced Friday (May 10) an expansion to its Fresh Meats division, with plans to build a $300 million plant in Salt Lake City, Utah, for case-ready meat. The…
by - May 9, 2019 6:21 pm
Tristin Phillips spent a lot of time on the farm during his youth in Bismarck. A wide variety of machines used on the farm needed to be fixed and he…
by - May 9, 2019 4:40 pm
Workforce development is vital to Fort Smith. It’s a point Tim Allen, Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, has stressed often over the past several years. In…
by - May 9, 2019 4:34 pm
Steven Lamm, a project manager with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and former aide to Gov. Mike Beebe, will soon join the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce as vice…
by - May 8, 2019 12:15 pm
Fayetteville-chartered Arvest Bank and Daniel Carroll of Michigan have filed objections to financing plans submitted in the bankruptcy case of Springdale-based nanotechnology company NanoMech. Arvest and Carroll were listed as…
by - May 6, 2019 6:48 pm
Prysmian Group, formerly General Cable, announced Monday (May 6) it is expanding its Paragould facility. As part of the expansion, Prysmian Group plans to invest $2.8 million and create 12…
by - May 6, 2019 11:32 am
Tyson Foods outperformed Wall Street estimates in the second quarter ending March 30, with net income of $426 million, or $1.20 per share, on an adjusted basis and $1.17 on…
by - May 4, 2019 8:16 pm
The U.S. and regional economies continued to expand briskly in first quarter 2019, but a highly-watched Midwest economic indicator shows that possible labor shortages in the nation’s tightening job pool…
by - May 2, 2019 1:48 pm
Tyson Foods is expected to report lower earnings on Monday (May 6) ahead of the market opening. Wall Street analysts have pegged the second fiscal quarter profits at $1.14 per…
by - May 1, 2019 10:30 am
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) decreased 2.5 percentage points to 52.8% in April, from March as business strength continued to expand but at the softest levels since the fourth quarter…
by - April 29, 2019 5:59 pm
In what the company’s top executive described as “challenging operating conditions,” West Coast timberland trust PotlatchDeltic Corp. reported Monday (April 29) that first quarter profits were down nearly 55% just…
by - April 29, 2019 5:45 pm
Sales of poultry in the first quarter of 2019 for Industrias Bachoco – the parent company of Fort Smith-based OK Foods – declined 6.7% compared with the same quarter in…
by - April 25, 2019 5:33 pm
After Tuesday’s announcement that 565 jobs would be coming to the Little Rock Port from Czech Republic gun maker CZ-USA, state economic officials announced two more big projects in Camden…
