Business

Women CAN! Conference: ‘Show Up, Be Bold, Play Big’

On Tuesday, more than 600 women in Arkansas heard hours of advice from some of the top female business leaders in the state.

Talk Business & Politics Podcast 3.17.15

TB&P Business Editor Wes Brown and Editor-in-Chief Roby Brock discuss the big business stories of the week, which included the Maker Faire coming to downtown North Little Rock and the…

Wal-Mart’s grocery division undergoes another management shift

Grocery is a business of thin margins but it is about 56% of Wal-Mart’s total annual U.S. sales. Getting it right is of the upmost importance to Walmart U.S. CEO…

Labor numbers positive for Arkansas in January, jobless rate dips to 5.6%

Labor market numbers moved in the right direction for Arkansas during January, with the number of employed up more than 3%, the workforce size up more than 2% and unemployment…

Gov. Hutchinson Touts Workforce Realignment Efforts

Keeping with his campaign rhetoric, Gov. Asa Hutchinson met with reporters on Tuesday to tout three measures designed to realign workforce education efforts in Arkansas. Surrounded by cabinet members and…

Monthly Unemployment Rate Falls To 5.6% In January

Arkansas’ unemployment rate fell one point in January to 5.6% as the state’s growing labor pool added another 9,200 workers, according to state Department of Workforce Services (DWS) officials. As…

SXSW: Are We Thinking Big Enough When We Think Of Video?

Editor’s note: Emily Reeves, director of digital innovation and insight planning for advertising powerhouse Stone Ward, will be providing contributions to Talk Business & Politics from the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival…

Maumelle Plastics Packaging Plant Investing $2.5 Million In Expansion

Plastic Ingenuity, a plastics packaging manufacturer, is expanding its Maumelle facility. The $2.5 million expansion will add 10 jobs to the company’s plastic food packaging lines and bring total employment…

Big Companies In A Small Town

Deltic Timber, Murphy Oil and Murphy USA have had a huge impact on El Dorado, its success and its quality of life.

Nucor Steel Has Big Reach In Small Mississippi County Community

While the recent focus has been on the brewing steel factory war in Northeast Arkansas, Nucor Steel has been part of the fabric of the region for nearly three decades….

Capitol Notebook: Rep. Harris Quits Committee Leadership Post

A House legislator facing questions in an adoption scandal resigned his committee leadership post Monday afternoon, while several education bills including two on workforce training sailed through the state Senate….

Fort Smith area homes sales off to strong start in 2015 (updated)

The possibility of rising interest rates, easier loan requirements and rising rental costs are helping to nudge more first-time homebuyers into the market, a dynamic that is playing out in…

Active new home market pushes up Northwest Arkansas real estate price

Rising prices and a more than 9% gain in home sales is the emerging early trend in Benton and Washington counties. Agents sold 928 homes in the first two months…

Former Beebe Chief Of Staff Morril Harriman Joins Mitchell Williams Law Firm

Former Gov. Mike Beebe’s chief of staff has a new job. Morril Harriman has joined the law firm of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. in the firm’s Little…

‘Innovation Summit’ geared to help manufacturers better use technology

Central Arkansas will play host next month to a two-day, first-of-its-kind Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit where companies across the state will be able to spotlight cutting edge manufacturing innovations and…

J.B. Hunt executives cash in after strong corporate profits in 2014

Logistics giant J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted healthy revenue and profits in 2014 which translated to hefty bonuses for the company’s top executives, according to the company’s Proxy filing with…

‘Innovation Summit’ To Help Arkansas Manufacturers Stay Ahead Of Tech Curve

Jonesboro Manufacturer Endows Arkansas State Engineering School With $200,000 Scholarship

One of Arkansas’ largest manufacturers has announced a $200,000 endowment to the College of Engineering at Arkansas State University that will be designated for scholarships to assist talented engineering majors….