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Cookie lover lives out dream job

NEA Outstanding Business of the Year Award Crumbl Cookies Startup Business award Entrepreneur Cody McPherson has always loved cookies. It didn’t matter if he was in college or the U.S….

Hytrol Conveyor thrives in pandemic, post-pandemic world

NEA Outstanding Business of the Year Award Hytrol Conveyor Large Employer award One of Jonesboro’s largest businesses has been aggressively expanding during the pandemic and in the post-pandemic world. Hytrol…

Four NEA businesses recognized as outstanding in 2022

For the second consecutive year, Talk Business & Politics is recognizing four outstanding businesses in Northeast Arkansas. This annual award — the Northeast Arkansas Outstanding Business of the Year Award,…

FemHealth Founders’ pilot accelerator taking off

FemHealth Founders (FHF), a female-led organization in Northwest Arkansas looking to help other women’s healthcare startups in the heartland, is eager to host its inaugural eight-week pilot accelerator. After the…

Pie, other key events helped create the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education

The answer to a question in 2013 over bourbon pecan pie at Hardscrabble Country Club in Fort Smith helped plant an idea. It would be one of five parts of…

Senate President Bart Hester says session will focus on education, public safety reforms

Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, says improving children’s reading will be a priority for better educational outcomes, and he believes 3,000 new prison beds may be needed…

NWA residential building permits decline; Centerton bucking trend

Through the first nine months of 2022, single-family residential building permits are down significantly in the region’s four largest cities. According to permit data from each city collected by the…

Bank of America donates $250,000 to Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Bank of America donated $250,000 to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock to help complete its renovation campaign on the museum’s MacArthur Park campus. The quarter-million dollar…

Taking a closer look at veteran swipe fees

It is upsetting to see that the same megabanks and credit card goliaths that continue to push their own social agenda in the name of the common good are, in…

The Supply Side: Walmart updates women’s lingerie, sleepwear offerings

Walmart is already a top retailer for women’s lingerie, with roughly one-fifth of U.S. consumers purchasing the Secret Treasures brand of intimate apparel or sleepwear in the year ending Jan….

Net income could fall by 7.7% in Walmart’s fiscal third quarter

Analysts at Citibank and Stephens Inc. believe Walmart will slightly outperform consensus when the retail giant reports third-quarter earnings on Tuesday (Nov. 15), but they say net income will be…

Osceola-based Envirotech moving into school bus business

Envirotech Vehicles’ first five electric school buses are in final assembly and are expected to be produced by the end of this year or in the next quarter, said Executive…

Ritter announces $45 million high-speed internet investment in Jonesboro

For years, many residents in Jonesboro have complained about availability of high speed internet services and not having options when it comes to providers. Ritter Communications announced Thursday (Nov. 10)…

U.S. Marshals Museum Foundation hires development officer; museum opens gift shop

A new development officer and opening of the gift shop at the U.S. Marshals Museum (USMM) are some of the actions toward the long-awaited goal of opening the museum in…

Tyson Foods expected to report lower quarterly income; CFO apologizes for being arrested

Tyson Foods is expected on Monday (Nov. 14) to report fourth-quarter net income of $577 million for the period ending Sept. 30. Estimated earnings per share of $1.60 would be…

Scenic Hill Solar looks to bolster U.S. production of array infrastructure

Little Rock-based solar power developer Scenic Hill Solar announced Thursday (Nov. 10) an initiative along with multiple U.S.-based solar array equipment manufacturers to encourage manufacturing American-made solar array components. A…

Regions Bank partners with Southern Bancorp, CDFIs on system fees

Regions Bank announced Thursday (Nov. 10) a collaborative agreement with seven Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) – including Arkadelphia-based Southern Bancorp – to enable people…

Arvest Wealth Management names Donny Rogers president of investment services

Arvest Bank subsidiary Arvest Wealth Management (AWM) said Thursday (Nov. 10) that Donny Rogers of Fort Smith has been promoted to president of investment services, effective Jan. 1. He will…

VA Clinic, apartments are top recent Sebastian County property deals

A $20.387 million sale of the new Veterans Affairs Clinic in Fort Smith and property is the largest Sebastian County property deal so far in 2022, according to info from…

Lyon College to play football in Southern Athletic Conference in 2024

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will reinstate the sport of football as an officially sponsored conference sport effective the 2024 playing season. In conjunction with that announcement, the SCAC has…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson