by - July 18, 2018 5:14 pm
The executive suite at America’s Car-Mart has pretty much looked the same for the past three decades but this past year Hank Henderson, the face and voice of the buy-here,…
by - July 18, 2018 4:52 pm
The city of Jonesboro is developing another tool to combat poverty and blight in specific parts of Northeast Arkansas’s largest city. Jonesboro land bank manager Johnathan Smith told members of…
by - July 18, 2018 4:35 pm
Just three years ago, Walmart was ramping up its manufacturing operation in Fayetteville that makes optical lenses sold by the retail giant. This week, roughly 150 workers in Fayetteville were…
by - July 18, 2018 3:36 pm
For the third time in less than 10 years, Sparks Health System will have a new owner. Little Rock-based Baptist Health System has agreed to acquire the Fort Smith hospital…
by - July 18, 2018 2:06 pm
James Smith backed into a career in the furniture business out of necessity. Nearly seven years later, it remains a runaway success. Two months away from its seventh anniversary, Springdale…
by - July 18, 2018 10:08 am
BHP Billiton’s high-stakes auction to sell off its Fayetteville Shale interest in Arkansas and exit the U.S. onshore oil and gas business by year-end is progressing as planned, the Australian…
by - July 17, 2018 6:27 pm
Row crop fields in Arkansas’s Delta Region include miles and miles of polypipe, a pipe used to irrigate crops. Holes are punched in the pipe to allow water to spill…
by - July 17, 2018 6:13 pm
Walmart continues to dole out the majority of its capital expenditures on growing its e-commerce business, which many believed was second only to Amazon and its 49.1% dominance in e-commerce…
by - July 17, 2018 5:55 pm
As the Trump administration enters a new era of trade relations with key allies and long-term trading partners, new data shows spending by so-called foreign direct investors in American businesses…
by - July 17, 2018 3:07 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and a host of local business and community leaders will get a chance to preview the 2018 class of financial technology startups that have for the past…
by - July 17, 2018 3:04 pm
Springdale-based healthcare technology startup Now Diagnostics developed the first blood-based pregnancy test to be sold over the counter in Europe. Now Diagnostics, which develops fast, simple diagnostics tests, recently shipped…
by - July 17, 2018 2:02 pm
A brief but violent storm that swept through Fayetteville on Monday (July 16) damaged research structures on the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, resulting in the cancellation of a…
by - July 17, 2018 1:15 pm
Dr. Karama Neal has been named president of Southern Bancorp Community Partners (SBCP), a nonprofit development finance organization and loan fund. SBCP works with Southern Bancorp Inc. and Southern Bancorp…
by - July 17, 2018 1:02 pm
Just two years after moving into a 120,000-square-foot store west of Interstate 49 in Springdale, family-owned Sam’s Furniture continues to grow. Later this year, the retailer will open a 50,000-square-foot…
by - July 17, 2018 12:57 pm
New consumer options for dining and banking will be arriving on the west side of Springdale next year. An 11,300-square-foot retail shopping center called Sunset West Plaza is in development…
by - July 17, 2018 8:55 am
Oklahoma-based Grand Savings Bank, which has a large footprint in Benton County, has made a key hire that clearly signals its intention to expand into Washington County. The locally owned…
by - July 17, 2018 6:48 am
Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College will renew and expand its polling partnership in 2018-2019 by increasing the number of polls it produces, extending the scope of those polls…
by - July 16, 2018 6:20 pm
Consumer spending ramped up in June sending retail sales up 0.5% in line with economists’ predictions. Total sales, including food, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau were $506.8 billion….
by - July 16, 2018 6:07 pm
Corn prices on Monday traded in the $3.30 per bushel range, just 1-cent higher than the yearly low, according to Markets Insider. Prices are predicted to rebound into the $3.40…
by - July 16, 2018 5:22 pm
Skechers has finalized a lease agreement with IRC to open a location at the Chicago-based property owner’s Fort Smith Pavilion this September. The retailer will occupy the 7,980-square foot space…
