by - December 28, 2015 7:50 am
SBA SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR ANNUAL AWARDS: The Small Business Administration is accepting nominations for the 2016 National Small Business Week Awards. All nominations must be submitted online, postmarked or hand-delivered…
by - December 28, 2015 7:48 am
CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING HIGHLIGHT 2016 GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY PREDICTIONS: Shifts in global technology manufacturing trends and processes – with an even greater emphasis on the manufacturing powerhouse of China – will…
by - December 27, 2015 10:08 am
Second District Congressman French Hill was one of two Arkansas representatives to support the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill approved before Congress left for the holidays. Hill, R-Little Rock, appeared…
by - December 25, 2015 1:34 pm
TV PREVIEW On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics with Roby Brock, which airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on KATV Channel 7. U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Little…
by - December 24, 2015 2:34 pm
A Texas-based steel fabricating company has purchased an option to buy a 700,000-square-foot building in Osceola, with 350 jobs waiting in the wings, Osceola Mayor Dickie Kennemore said Thursday (Dec….
by - December 23, 2015 5:23 pm
A week after Southwestern Energy Inc. announced plans to shut down in drilling operations in the Fayetteville Shale, Arkansas now has only one rig in operation as natural gas production…
by - December 23, 2015 5:11 pm
The city of Jonesboro collected $1.42 million from its sales tax in the December report, up 6.69% over the same time in 2014. Craighead County brought in $1.588 million in…
by - December 23, 2015 9:51 am
The growing healthcare field and associated industries will add the most jobs to the U.S. economy over the coming decade, according to a new report by the U.S. Bureau of…
by - December 23, 2015 9:29 am
The Hillshire Brands unit of Tyson Foods agreed to settle with 74 African-American employees who formerly worked in its Sara Lee baking facility in Paris, Texas. The Equal Employment Opportunity…
by - December 23, 2015 9:29 am
The Hillshire Brands unit of Tyson Foods agreed to settle with 74 African-American employees who formerly worked in its Sara Lee baking facility in Paris, Texas. The Equal Employment Opportunity…
by - December 23, 2015 9:24 am
The Scott Family Amazeum will host its Priceless Nights again in 2016, thanks to a grant from Tyson Foods. This program allows families free admission to the children’s discovery museum…
by - December 23, 2015 9:14 am
Arkansas remains one of the less expensive places to live in the country. Even in Northwest Arkansas where median home prices rose 8% year-over-year, Irvine-based RealtyTrac notes that it’s still…
by - December 22, 2015 5:44 pm
The U.S. Department of Commerce has released the final results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which found that business ownership in our nation is…
by - December 22, 2015 5:40 pm
Crittenden County voters will head to the polls March 1 to decide whether to re-direct a one-cent sales tax that supporters say will help build a new hospital in the…
by - December 22, 2015 5:24 pm
Lower fuel prices and a growing population in Benton and Washington counties in 2015 helped fuel a 9.48% increase in combined year-to-date sales tax revenue for the region’s four largest…
by - December 22, 2015 3:48 pm
Arkansas and U.S. motorists will receive the gift of extra cash this holiday season as the national price for regular unleaded gasoline falls below the two-dollar mark for the first…
by - December 22, 2015 3:41 pm
Parkway Bank in Rogers will keep its name, but its acquisition by Citizens Bancshares of Batesville has been completed, according to CEO Phil Baldwin. The transaction close is effective immediately….
by - December 22, 2015 3:41 pm
Parkway Bank in Rogers will keep its name, but its acquisition by Citizens Bancshares of Batesville has been completed, according to CEO Phil Baldwin. The transaction close is effective immediately….
by - December 22, 2015 3:36 pm
Nucor Corp., which operates three large steel mills in northeastern Arkansas, said in its recent quarter guidance that it plans to shut down its entire Louisiana operations in the fourth…
by - December 22, 2015 10:11 am
A final revision of U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) on Tuesday (Dec. 22) showed that lagging corporate profits helped to take the steam out of economy in the third…
