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Walmart Stores exceeded the $500 billion revenue threshold for the first time in company’s 53-year history. So it’s no surprise the company’s top five executives, who benefit from performance-based compensation,…
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Arkansas’ tight job market held serve in March in line with the national trend where unemployment rates in nearly all 50 states reported little or no change at the end…
by - April 19, 2018 4:41 pm
Walmart announced Thursday (April 19) it’s testing a new mobile checkout service – “Check Out With Me” – in more than 350 U.S. stores. The service is available at Arkansas…
by - April 19, 2018 3:30 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services has seen demand unlike ever before in this upcycle and expects double-digit revenue growth in 2018, and operating income to rise at a faster rate than…
by - April 19, 2018 11:40 am
Home Bancshares Inc. closed out the first three months of 2018 with record first quarter earnings, largely boosted by strong loan growth from the bank’s commercial real estate lending arm…
by - April 19, 2018 11:30 am
BHP Billiton has begun the “exit process” for its U.S. onshore operations and expects to receive one or several bids later this summer for the Australian mining conglomerate’s money-losing shale…
by - April 19, 2018 11:11 am
Tupelo, Miss.-based BancorpSouth Bank announced after the close of market on Wednesday (April 18) it is expanding deeper into Texas with the purchase of Houston-based Icon Bank in a stock-and-cash…
by - April 18, 2018 6:39 pm
Typing and texting aren’t going the way of the old yellow pages phone book yet, but the next generation of search and content programming is going to let your voice…
by - April 18, 2018 4:43 pm
The first class at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine on the Arkansas State University Jonesboro campus is set to begin medical clerkships or rotations this…
by - April 18, 2018 11:51 am
Supply chain experts and executives provided insight on industry trends and what will disrupt the sector over the next two decades in an annual conference at the University of Arkansas….
by - April 17, 2018 4:35 pm
A new U.S. Labor Department report posted Tuesday (April 17) indicates that Millennial workers born in the early 1980s held an average of 7.8 jobs before they turned 30, highlighting…
by - April 17, 2018 4:14 pm
A Fayetteville-based startup has its sights set on becoming the Uber/Airbnb of the event parking space. FanSpotz is expanding its peer-to-peer mobile parking app, which facilitates event parking by connecting…
by - April 17, 2018 4:07 pm
Driving Arkansas Forward, the group pushing for a casinos for highway funding constitutional amendment proposal, has filed suit against Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge after she rejected their ballot measure…
by - April 17, 2018 3:58 pm
A top Acxiom Corp. executive who headed the Conway data marketer’s fast-growing LiveRamp business has departed the company to lead a crosstown Silicon Valley startup that specializes in healthcare data…
by - April 17, 2018 3:10 pm
Arkansas Public Service Commission executive director John Bethel will step down from his post after 18 years in the position effective April 30, 2018. Bethel announced his pending departure in…
by - April 17, 2018 11:20 am
Former first lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush are in good spirits, and, like the author Mark Twain, “the reports of Barbara Bush’s demise are highly exaggerated,”…
by - April 16, 2018 7:20 pm
The first independent analysis of the proposed five-year labor contract between Fort Smith-based ABF Freight and the Teamsters suggests the union negotiators won the day. An April 13 investor note…
by - April 16, 2018 6:29 pm
The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture has released a rough draft of its new proposed federal farm bill, and it contains several provisions that would slash costs by billions of…
by - April 16, 2018 6:18 pm
Times are good for Tyson Foods’ beef business. Cattle supplies continue to rise, packers have plenty of livestock, and domestic and export demand has held strong, according to Derrell Peel,…
by - April 16, 2018 5:20 pm
Research from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville combined with medical products made by a Fort Smith-based company resulted in new products touted as a better way to train clinicians…
