by - July 29, 2019 1:47 pm
Lowell-based Central Research Inc. (CRI), a provider of management and financial service solutions for government and commercial sectors, announced Monday (July 29) the opening of a 12,000-square-foot call center in…
by - July 29, 2019 12:37 pm
Fayetteville-based clothing startup LIVSN Designs recently launched its second Kickstarter campaign to release an updated version of its Flex Canvas Pants. Andrew Gibbs-Dabney, founder of LIVSN Designs, said the company…
by - July 29, 2019 12:24 pm
Amazon remains the undisputed leader in online sales of consumer packaged goods (CPG) with 39% market share, but that’s down from 43% in 2017, according to a Nielsen report. Instacart,…
by - July 29, 2019 10:22 am
Little Rock-based Arkansas Urology has opened its 11th clinic in Arkansas. The new clinic is at 3400 S.E. Macy Road, Suite 18, in Bentonville. “Arkansas Urology is committed to ensuring…
by - July 29, 2019 7:57 am
A consortium of Arkansas healthcare organizations from central and Northwest Arkansas will work with five startups in this year’s cohort of the HealthTech Arkansas accelerator program. The five startups will…
by - July 29, 2019 7:57 am
As they come into the final stretch of a two month campaign of collections, a group of Northwest Arkansas bike enthusiasts and a bank hope their efforts create a new…
by - July 28, 2019 6:19 pm
Armor Bank has entered the Jonesboro market by hiring Brock Fletcher as market president and Bryan Wagner as senior vice president of commercial lending and business development. Fletcher and Wagner…
by - July 28, 2019 6:07 pm
First Financial Bank, headquartered in El Dorado, has entered into an agreement to acquire The First National Bank of Wynne and its branches in Cherry Valley, Forrest City, Harrisburg, McCrory,…
by - July 28, 2019 5:09 pm
Economist Mervin Jebaraj said that Arkansas’ record low unemployment rate is a positive, but he warned that it could still be revised like it has in previous instances. Jebaraj, director…
by - July 28, 2019 5:05 pm
Dr. Joe Thompson, president and CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, said a variety of new state laws that went into effect last week are geared towards school…
by - July 28, 2019 4:50 pm
Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (LRCVB) President and CEO Gretchen Hall has been named Secretary/Treasurer for the 2019-2020 Board of Directors of Destinations International (DI). DI is a professional…
by - July 28, 2019 4:34 pm
She describes her first few weeks on the job as a “time of discovery.” Part of that discovery, said University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Chancellor Dr. Terisa Riley, includes…
by - July 28, 2019 2:27 pm
TruTrak Flight Systems, a Springdale company that makes and sells autopilot systems a variety of aircraft, has been acquired by Arizona-based Honeywell Aerospace. Financial terms of the deal were not…
by - July 28, 2019 1:36 pm
Each entrepreneur faces a unique set of challenges when starting a new business. Some overcome them. Some do not. Take Jon Thompson, for instance. In October 2017, he and Amber…
by - July 26, 2019 12:41 pm
The U.S. economy expanded at a faster-than-expected clip in the second quarter as real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 2.1% for the three-month period that ended…
by - July 26, 2019 9:31 am
A panel of housing and real estate economists surveyed by Seattle-based real estate company Zillow predicted Wednesday (July 24) that the nation’s next recession will likely begin in 2020 following…
by - July 26, 2019 8:16 am
Windstream Holdings Inc., Uniti Corp. and other parties are scheduled to appear in federal bankruptcy court in upstate New York Friday (July 26) concerning a request by unsecured creditors and…
by - July 25, 2019 7:43 pm
More than 400 coaches from the Northwest Arkansas area spent Thursday (July 25) learning about heat-related illness and other physical ailments that will claim more than 658 lives this year….
by - July 25, 2019 4:43 pm
The Leadership Fort Smith Program, managed by the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce, on July 24 named the next 25 people to participate in the program launched in 1988….
by - July 25, 2019 4:29 pm
$1,000. That is the second-quarter net income for Van Buren-based USA Truck, well below the $2.544 million in the same quarter of 2018. Revenue in the quarter was $133.622 million,…
