by - April 10, 2013 2:33 pm
Arvest Bank announced that Ruthanne Whitehead has accepted a position as a commercial lender at the bank’s downtown Bentonville location. Whitehead most recently served as a specialist with the Special…
by - April 10, 2013 12:44 pm
While beef packers like Tyson Foods and Cargill were spared any major setbacks from meat inspector lay-offs following the federal sequestration budget cuts, they did lose a forecasting tool when…
by - April 10, 2013 10:56 am
Holding $7.33 billion in cash at the end of fiscal 2013, Wal-Mart has lots of options on how to expand its global reach through acquisitions in Turkey, Colombia and other…
by - April 10, 2013 9:35 am
David R. Fox is the new President of St. Vincent North located in Sherwood. Fox replaces Tim Osterholm who accepted a position as Vice President and Chief People Officer at…
by - April 10, 2013 6:20 am
Holding $7.33 billion in cash at the end of fiscal 2013, Wal-Mart has lots of options on how to expand its global reach through acquisitions in Turkey, Colombia and other…
by - April 9, 2013 7:30 pm
Melody Trimble, the former CEO of Sparks Health System, has been named the recipient of the Jack White Leadership Fort Smith award. The award for Trimble and six other community…
by - April 9, 2013 7:07 pm
Often times when a new tax is started, it can be hard for taxpayers to see the visual benefits of their money being used by the government. Or at least,…
by - April 9, 2013 4:51 pm
Consumers want more choices and Wal-Mart seeks to deliver with a wide range of products in hopes their customers will fill keep filling those shopping carts, and feeding the retailer’s…
by - April 9, 2013 4:22 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors are not at all happy about what they see as poor communication from Whirlpool related to the company’s pollution issue around its former Fort…
by - April 9, 2013 7:00 am
The number of employed Arkansans has fallen by an estimated 25,000 workers during the past year, part of a 13-month decline in the state’s workforce. Why?
by - April 8, 2013 9:11 pm
The Arkansas House of Representatives met for more than two hours in a “committee of the whole” on Monday (April 8) to discuss a Republican plan to reform the state’s…
by - April 8, 2013 8:49 pm
Whirlpool has submitted a revised remediation plan for the company's former Fort Smith manufacturing site and surrounding areas contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer causing chemical that Whirlpool has…
by - April 8, 2013 8:11 pm
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made his first-ever trip to Arkansas over the weekend, but he was not here to enjoy all the natural beauty the state has to offer or…
by - April 8, 2013 8:02 pm
Big box retailers Wal-Mart and Target are no strangers to competition, going head-to-head in the U.S. market for more than four decades. But the latest frontier for these two players…
by - April 8, 2013 7:12 pm
A recent amendment to a 2009 Arkansas law is already making a buzz in the film industry and local people in the industry hope that buzz only gets louder. The…
by - April 8, 2013 4:00 pm
Big box retailers Wal-Mart and Target are no strangers to competition, going head-to-head in the U.S. market for more than four decades. But the latest frontier for these two players…
by - April 8, 2013 3:11 pm
Likely to garner broad interest is an estimated $30 million inheritance-related lawsuit filed in Newton County, Arkansas, involving family members of Banquet Foods founder Howard Stamper and the Metropolitan Museum…
by - April 8, 2013 1:20 pm
A companion bill to an already approved Senate measure that would provide a bond issue and the terms of the agreement for the Big River Steel Mill superproject passed the…
by - April 8, 2013 12:40 pm
Springdale-based George’s Inc. has appointed Carl George and Charles George as co-CEO and presidents for the chicken processing company. Chief executive Gary George is stepping aside from the day-to-day operations,…
by - April 8, 2013 6:17 am
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made his first-ever trip to Arkansas over the weekend, but he was not here to enjoy all the natural beauty the state has to offer or…
