by - July 30, 2018 7:10 pm
Tyson Foods was flying high on hopes for a record year of earnings with low grain costs and growing market share among its largest brands. But escalating trade tensions and…
by - July 30, 2018 5:11 pm
Black River Technical College President Eric Turner has resigned. Turner told Talk Business & Politics he has been offered the president’s job at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. Turner’s…
by - July 30, 2018 4:22 pm
The Arkansas Plant Board unanimously approved the appointment of former Arkansas Agriculture Secretary Butch Calhoun to serve as its director. He was selected Friday after Plant Board Director Terry Walker…
by - July 30, 2018 1:58 pm
Rogers could soon be the site of the state’s second Northern Tool + Equipment store. A large-scale development plan has been filed with the city to build a 20,000-square-foot store…
by - July 30, 2018 11:24 am
U.S. energy expenditures declined for the fifth consecutive year and fell 9% to $1 trillion in 2016, from 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In 2016, total energy…
by - July 30, 2018 10:42 am
Gemma Kubat, vice president of global business services services at Walmart, will join Target on Aug. 6 as senior vice president of supply chain engineering and activation. Kubat previously worked…
by - July 30, 2018 10:37 am
ProPak Corporation and Pinnacle Communications have signed on to help sponsor Fort Smith’s first large-scale LAN party. LAN refers to a local area network in the technology sector. But in…
by - July 29, 2018 7:25 pm
Fayetteville apparel firm Lauren James has been recognized for being one of the fastest growing businesses in the U.S. It now appears the company may have grown too fast. According…
by - July 29, 2018 9:59 am
Economist Mervin Jebaraj says you can point to good and bad in the GOP tax cuts that have been in effect for a little over six months. The UA Walton…
by - July 27, 2018 6:13 pm
Arkansas economic development officials are in near daily contact with Kimberly Clark leaders as the state is considering all options to save a Conway manufacturing facility and its 350 jobs….
by - July 27, 2018 5:45 pm
Marion has a “super site” for industry and the city, Crittenden County and the city of West Memphis have reached a cooperative agreement to help develop the 1,800 acres. The…
by - July 27, 2018 4:03 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods is reportedly working to acquire Keystone Foods, a protein supplier to food service and retailers with annual sales of $2.8 billion worldwide and around 11,000 employees. By…
by - July 27, 2018 3:45 pm
A new mixed-use office building has opened south of the square in downtown Bentonville. A limited liability company owned by David Adair and Zach Kennedy developed the 17,415-square-foot building at…
by - July 27, 2018 3:43 pm
Privately owned Eagle Bank & Trust Co. of Little Rock has recently opened a mortgage office in Fayetteville. A formal ribbon cutting was held July 18 at the new location,…
by - July 27, 2018 2:22 pm
The nation’s economic engine accelerated substantially in the second quarter as consumer and government spending, along with a spike in U.S. exports ahead of expected retaliatory tariffs, lifted real gross…
by - July 27, 2018 2:01 pm
The $4.5 billion Wind Catcher project approved by Arkansas regulators in May has been canceled after a July 26 decision by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to deny approval…
by - July 27, 2018 1:31 pm
Arkansas will open a crime lab on Arkansas Highway 264 in Lowell next year to reduce the backlog of cases at the Arkansas State Crime Lab in Little Rock, Gov….
by - July 27, 2018 11:13 am
The Bank of Fayetteville (BOF), a division of Suttgart-based Farmers & Merchants Bank, has hired Blake Holzhauer as market president. His first day will be Monday (July 30). Holzhauer was…
by - July 27, 2018 6:15 am
After nearly three years of hand-wringing over the declining value of the Fayetteville Shale play, Australian multinational BHP Billiton Ltd. sold off the Arkansas natural gas development and its other…
by - July 26, 2018 5:08 pm
The United States Marshals Museum (USMM) has begun construction on its new $50 million location on the banks of the Arkansas River near downtown Fort Smith. For USMM President and…
