by - April 27, 2017 10:26 am
A month ago when Home Bancshares acquired Stonegate Bank of Florida in a $778.4 million deal, the Conway-based bank picked up an unknown asset in Cuba. Johnny Allison, chairman of…
by - April 27, 2017 10:09 am
Nuclear power plants accounted for nearly 20% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2016, but the plants only comprise of 9% of U.S. generation capacity, according to the U.S. Energy…
by - April 27, 2017 10:04 am
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has hired Miguel Lopez as its first director of entrepreneurship and small business programming, the organization announced in a press release on Thursday…
by - April 27, 2017 7:30 am
Top executives with publicly-traded Voxx International Corp. will travel to southwest Arkansas Thursday (April 27) for a ceremony to transfer the museum and archives of Hope native and audio pioneer…
by - April 26, 2017 8:48 pm
Changes sought by the state of Arkansas to the Arkansas Works program would reduce enrollment by more than 60,000 individuals and reduce the state’s costs by between $67 million and…
by - April 26, 2017 4:06 pm
BHP Billiton CEO Andrew Mackenzie said Wednesday (April 26) the Australian mining giant has initiated the sale of its “non-core” U.S. operations and is reviewing the possible auction of its…
by - April 26, 2017 2:39 pm
American Trucking Associations spearheaded efforts to allow carriers to use hair testing as an alternative to urinalysis for drug testing truck drivers, and a recently approved highway bill will allow…
by - April 26, 2017 12:45 pm
While President Donald Trump may be fighting a stagnant approval rating, at least one of his policies associated to American manufacturing has widespread support—“Buy American.” According to a new study…
by - April 26, 2017 12:43 pm
In several ways, Katie Cook is unique. She was born with a rare defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum, or ACC, where the band of white matter connecting the…
by - April 26, 2017 12:20 pm
John Dornhoffer has been named chairman of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The appointment…
by - April 26, 2017 11:51 am
Publicly held Ecoark Holdings of Rogers (OTCQX: EARK), which has taken several steps recently to streamline operations and reallocate capital, has sold one of its subsidiaries, Phoenix-based Eco3d, a 3-D…
by - April 26, 2017 11:45 am
Margie Raimondo is about to be able to ask her customers if they want cheese with her vintage wines. The owner of Raimondo’s Winery in Mountain Home bought Kent Walker…
by - April 26, 2017 11:27 am
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says he thinks the Trump administration will install more business-friendly regulators into the nation’s banking oversight system – an allowance that the controversial Dodd-Frank law…
by - April 26, 2017 11:20 am
Crude oil production in the Permian Basin is projected to rise to 2.4 million barrels per day in May, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between January 2016 and…
by - April 25, 2017 7:57 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission named Michael Griffin as the facility’s new airport director during Tuesday night’s (April 25) meeting. Griffin replaces former director John Parker, who announced his…
by - April 25, 2017 7:12 pm
The state Legislature will meet May 1 to adjourn its regular biennial session and then enter into a three-day special session to pass health care legislation and make technical corrections…
by - April 25, 2017 4:06 pm
Changes with the Wal-Mart Stores board of directors have shaved 11 years off the board’s median age in the past two years. The board in fiscal 2017 had a median…
by - April 25, 2017 3:32 pm
A two-physician heart procedure has been successfully administered at Fort Smith-based Sparks Health System. Dr. German Kamalov of the Cardiology Center at Sparks and Dr. Ronald Kantola of the independent…
by - April 25, 2017 3:02 pm
The Manufacturing Institute, APICS, and Deloitte have released a new study delving into the employment gap of women in manufacturing. The survey targeted more than 600 women in manufacturing and…
by - April 25, 2017 2:37 pm
Ed Mueller, founder of Carolina Gumbaya, rekindled his food passion after retiring and relocating to Myrtle Beach, S.C., five years ago from Michigan. Mueller told the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal…
