by - March 13, 2014 9:55 am
Lockheed Martin has received a $255 million contract from the U.S. Army which will benefit the company’s Camden, Arkansas facility. The contract is for a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System…
by - March 13, 2014 8:45 am
Brandy Cox, a University of Arkansas graduate who grew up in Hot Springs Village, has been named associate vice chancellor for alumni and executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association…
by - March 13, 2014 6:21 am
Foreclosures continue to be a smaller part of the local housing markets of Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro area. Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac reports just 398 foreclosure filings across…
by - March 13, 2014 6:19 am
Editor’s note: This article, written by Jeanni Brosius, appears in our latest magazine edition of Talk Business Arkansas, which you can read at this link. When Shelley Haynes took her…
by - March 12, 2014 8:50 pm
Even though the economy has been slow to recover since the start of the Great Recession in 2008, it has not stopped Arkansas’ budding entrepreneurs from not only having dreams…
by - March 12, 2014 8:17 pm
Hot Springs leaders are initiating public hearings and a community-wide effort to plan “what’s next” for historic downtown Hot Springs in the wake of a major fire that destroyed the…
by - March 12, 2014 7:55 pm
The U.S. Marshals Museum, a more than $50 million museum to be built along the banks of the Arkansas River, will still have a September groundbreaking, but the opening of…
by - March 12, 2014 6:56 pm
Mother Nature has not been kind this winter to many business sectors from retail to airlines, and certainty not trucking and logistics firms who lose money every day trucks and…
by - March 12, 2014 5:30 pm
Tyson Foods CEO Donnie Smith took a seat on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” segment Wednesday (March 12) to discuss food inflation and any potential impact on the meat giant’s profits going…
by - March 12, 2014 4:58 pm
Real estate is a local business, but two global marketers Trulia and Zillow have been hard at it transforming aggregated local data into booming businesses and brands of their own….
by - March 12, 2014 3:05 pm
Sparks Health System is again looking for a CEO following the resignation this week of Charles Stewart, himself the second CEO to resign from the hospital since May 2013. In…
by - March 12, 2014 2:51 pm
The annual Henry Awards Banquet took place on Tuesday (March 11) during the 40th annual Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The conference was March 9-11 in Rogers. Highlighting the awards…
by - March 12, 2014 3:02 am
The Governor’s Cup business plan competition may launch the next Sam Walton, J.B. Hunt, or TrustedWills.com’s Lindsey Fowler and Bryan McKinney.
by - March 12, 2014 2:01 am
David Bartlett, the author of this guest commentary, is President and Chief Banking Officer of Simmons First National Corp. and Chairman of the Arkansas Bankers Association. This article first appeared…
by - March 12, 2014 1:00 am
Editor’s note: Marcy Doderer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital President & CEO, is the author of this guest commentary. It first appeared in the most recent magazine edition of Talk Business Arkansas,…
by - March 11, 2014 11:20 pm
Dr. Mounir Farah from the University of Arkansas will present a lecture titled “The Hidden Factors in the Syrian Upheaval” on Thursday (March 13) in room 108 of the student…
by - March 11, 2014 10:38 pm
Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said Tuesday (March 11) that the retailer failed in three of its five main operating objectives last year — sales growth, leveraging its expenses…
by - March 11, 2014 9:16 pm
The Fort Smith Planning Commission passed a set of planned zoning districts Tuesday (March 11), both of which faced opposition from residents in neighborhoods surrounding the proposed districts. The PZDs,…
by - March 11, 2014 7:27 pm
Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner was found guilty on all 14 counts of bribery and extortion she was facing from federal prosecutors. Shoffner, whose jury trial began last week, was…
by - March 11, 2014 4:44 pm
Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said Tuesday (March 11) that the retailer failed in three of its five main operating objectives last year — sales growth, leveraging its expenses…
