by - November 9, 2017 4:14 pm
Walmart Supercenters at Baseline Road in Little Rock and Highway 65 North in Conway recently completed remodels that were designed to improve shopper experiences. The stores added new interactive displays…
by - November 9, 2017 1:59 pm
Congressional Steel Caucus Co-Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, Co-Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Vice-Chairman Peter J. Visclosky, D-Ind., sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to defend during his trip…
by - November 9, 2017 1:35 pm
Windstream Holdings’ third quarter losses deepened as the company incurred millions in hurricane-related expenses across its Gulf Coast operations and closed on its recent acquisition of upstate New York cloud…
by - November 9, 2017 12:11 pm
MarCom Awards recently announced the 2017 winners in its annual creative competition for marketing and communications, and Arvest Bank received two awards and an honorable mention for its People Helping…
by - November 9, 2017 10:54 am
Global Entrepreneurship week is Nov. 13-19, and Arkansas Tech University in Russellville and the Conductor of Conway have announced events in conjunction with the celebration. Each is free and open…
by - November 9, 2017 10:37 am
Coal stockpiles at coal-fired power plants fell to 144 million tons in August, the lowest monthly level since late 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The stockpiles usually…
by - November 9, 2017 9:57 am
University of Arkansas alumni Ted and Leslie Belden of Fayetteville have made a $2 million planned gift to Campaign Arkansas that will endow a faculty chair in architecture, fund student…
by - November 9, 2017 7:50 am
SurfTec of Fayetteville has won a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation to test the company’s nanoparticle-based adhesion technology within the metal-polymer bearings…
by - November 8, 2017 8:20 pm
A room full of business owners and managers ranging from family-owned ventures like Clinger Holsters of Van Buren to Bio-Tech Pharmacal of Fayetteville to J.B. Hunt Transportation spent the afternoon…
by - November 8, 2017 7:32 pm
By this time last year, J.B. Hunt Transport Services had released its financial expectations for the upcoming year, but John Roberts, president and CEO of the Lowell-based carrier, said the…
by - November 8, 2017 6:09 pm
Tyson Foods on Wednesday (Nov. 8) said longtime executive Dennis Leatherby, the company’s chief financial officer since 2008, will step down from that role on Feb. 10, 2018, and leave…
by - November 8, 2017 6:08 pm
Sales tax revenue fell 4.83% in Fort Smith’s September report to $1.637 million from $1.72 million the previous year, but year-to-date figures for 2017 continue to hold up at $16.021…
by - November 8, 2017 5:41 pm
The developers of a new indoor climbing, fitness and yoga facility in Bentonville say they are thrilled about their building’s proximity to a planned 70-acre public park backed by the…
by - November 8, 2017 3:17 pm
Arkansas State Plant Board members voted Wednesday (Nov. 8) during a public hearing and board meeting to ban dicamba in Arkansas during a bulk of the 2018 growing season. Dicamba is used…
by - November 8, 2017 2:20 pm
Enactus members and students at NorthWest Arkansas Community College had an intimate conversation about business execution and leadership with a veteran Wal-Mart exec who spent the bulk of his 17…
by - November 8, 2017 11:07 am
Replacing older wind turbines with newer ones, or repowering, has become more common in the United States, and federal incentives that have been extended through 2019 are expected to encourage…
by - November 8, 2017 8:07 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Oct. 30 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - November 8, 2017 7:56 am
Banks tightened standards on credit card and auto loans because of a more uncertain economic outlook, while demand for business and home loans fell in the third quarter of 2017,…
by - November 8, 2017 7:34 am
A federal judge in New York City late Tuesday vacated an earlier court order setting up a scheduled Dec. 5 trial in Manhattan that would have pitted Windstream Holdings, Inc….
by - November 7, 2017 6:38 pm
It was pilot Harold Johnson’s time to die. The DC-9 he was co-piloting was commandeered by three domestic terrorists, Nov. 10, 1972. The FBI shot the plane’s tires on a…
