by - January 17, 2019 2:53 pm
Rogers-based sign company Best Sign Group has changed ownership after founder Laura Tucker sold the 25-year-old business to Mike Jones, who has more than 30 years of experience in the…
by - January 17, 2019 12:33 pm
The Hot Springs facility of Triumph Group will benefit from a deal to provide structural formed skins for the Bombardier thrust reversers to be fitted on Geared Turbo Fan powered…
by - January 17, 2019 12:28 pm
Machine tool orders in November fell slightly on a monthly basis while still posting a gain compared with a year earlier, based on a report from the Association for Manufacturing…
by - January 17, 2019 11:30 am
A 15-story hotel in downtown Fayetteville recently sold for $31 million. Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners of Chicago is the new owner of the 206-room Chancellor Hotel at 70 N. East…
by - January 17, 2019 11:06 am
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will establish a Lithium Battery R&D Recycling Center and a Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize in efforts to reclaim and recycle critical materials, including cobalt…
by - January 17, 2019 10:07 am
Although local GDP growth has lagged the rest of the nation coming out of the Great Recession, central Arkansas’ economic fortunes are improving as the region’s labor pool emerges out…
by - January 17, 2019 10:07 am
After celebrating 20 years in business at the beginning of the New Year, Home Bancshares Inc. ended 2018 with a string of 31 straight profitable quarters and assets of more…
by - January 16, 2019 7:24 pm
Greenway Equipment, based in Northeast Arkansas, has spent years donating thousands of dollars to a backpack food program that provides hungry children food on the weekends when they are not…
by - January 16, 2019 4:18 pm
CVS Health Corp. announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that Walmart is exiting its prescription network over pricing disputes. Walmart confirmed the discussions over price continue with CVS Caremark, which manages the…
by - January 16, 2019 3:56 pm
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Wednesday (Jan. 16) that many Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices will reopen temporarily in the coming days to perform certain limited services for…
by - January 16, 2019 2:55 pm
Arkansas State University is one of the fastest growing universities in the country in terms of online programs offered, according to U.S. News and World Report. The organization released the…
by - January 16, 2019 2:01 pm
Tontitown-based carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. said earnings fell from 2017 results that included the effects of tax reform, but the carrier set operating records for best quarter and year…
by - January 16, 2019 1:51 pm
International benchmark Brent crude oil is expected to rise from $61 per barrel in 2019 to $65 per barrel in 2020, up from the end of 2018 but lower than…
by - January 16, 2019 1:44 pm
Walmart announced this week its new high-tech consolidation center under construction in Colton, Calif., is slated to come online in July. The 340,000-square-foot facility will be the first in Walmart’s…
by - January 16, 2019 1:11 pm
Online grocery is slowly growing its share in the U.S., but in the next five years, analysts expect e-commerce food sales will be a $59.5 billion market, a compound annual…
by - January 16, 2019 12:34 pm
Lowell-based carrier J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ earnings should rise in the fourth quarter even though peak season was not as strong as expected and intermodal freight volumes were impacted by…
by - January 16, 2019 8:00 am
The manufacturing sector could face a headwind in 2019 based on a prediction that U.S. sales of cars and light trucks are forecast to slow this year, according to Cox…
by - January 16, 2019 5:19 am
Marlisa Thompson, the administrator at Greene Acres Nursing Home in Paragould, knew she was destined for a life in long-term care immediately. A former aerobics instructor and director of activity…
by - January 16, 2019 12:05 am
Farmers and Merchants Bankshares, Inc. and Mountain Home Bancshares, Inc. have executed a definitive agreement for Farmers and Merchants to acquire Mountain Home and its subsidiary, Integrity Bank. Terms of…
by - January 15, 2019 8:09 pm
The Fort Smith Central Business Improvement District endorsed a nine-month, non-renewable, one-cent sales tax to benefit the U.S. Marshals Museum at its regular meeting Tuesday (Jan. 15). Voters go to…
