by - December 24, 2015 2:34 pm
A Texas-based steel fabricating company has purchased an option to buy a 700,000-square-foot building in Osceola, with 350 jobs waiting in the wings, Osceola Mayor Dickie Kennemore said Thursday (Dec….
by - December 23, 2015 9:51 am
The growing healthcare field and associated industries will add the most jobs to the U.S. economy over the coming decade, according to a new report by the U.S. Bureau of…
by - December 22, 2015 5:44 pm
The U.S. Department of Commerce has released the final results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which found that business ownership in our nation is…
by - December 22, 2015 3:36 pm
Nucor Corp., which operates three large steel mills in northeastern Arkansas, said in its recent quarter guidance that it plans to shut down its entire Louisiana operations in the fourth…
by - December 22, 2015 10:11 am
A final revision of U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) on Tuesday (Dec. 22) showed that lagging corporate profits helped to take the steam out of economy in the third…
by - December 22, 2015 10:03 am
A year-ending survey of business contacts indicated that nearly half expect economic conditions in 2016 will be somewhat better than in 2015 as employment growth continue to strengthen across the…
by - December 17, 2015 5:26 pm
Lockheed Martin officials said Thursday (Dec. 17) the company has moved forward with a federal lawsuit after the U.S. General Accounting Office’s decision earlier this week to throw out the…
by - December 15, 2015 11:17 pm
Defense giant Lockheed Martin said it is considering filing a federal complaint based on “new information” brought to the company’s attention after the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) threw out…
by - December 15, 2015 4:53 pm
Siloam Springs-based Simmons Foods plans to spend at least $26 million on a new pet food ingredient plant that will create an estimated 78 jobs in the Northwest Arkansas city….
by - December 15, 2015 9:38 am
Lockheed Martin’s Camden-based operations, which is awaiting final word on a bid protest for the $30 billion Joint Light Armored Vehicle contract that went to Oshkosh Defense, will take part…
by - December 14, 2015 5:20 pm
Arkansas shed 1,354 industrial jobs from the beginning of 2014 to September 2015, continuing the post-recession slump that has shrunk the number of factory-related jobs across the state since 2007,…
by - December 14, 2015 2:17 pm
Rockline Industries’ plant in Booneville was recently awarded the Four Year Accumulative Safety Award after employees went without one lost day of work due to work-related injury or illness from…
by - December 14, 2015 2:11 pm
LSB Industries Inc. of Oklahoma City has completed the sale of $210 million of preferred stock and warrants in a private placement the company will use to complete the construction…
by - December 14, 2015 10:17 am
Editor’s note: Story changes and additions made throughout. Batesville-based Bad Boy Mowers is investing $7.8 million in a facility expansion that is expected to add 160 jobs, raising the total…
by - December 13, 2015 8:48 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a round-up of state and global manufacturing news. U.S. NOW PREFERRED LOCATION FOR NEW FACTORY CAPACITY AS RESHORING INTEREST GROWS: Of…
by - December 9, 2015 8:12 pm
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission was correct in granting a permit for a $1.3 billion steel mill in Mississippi County, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday (Dec….
by - December 9, 2015 7:02 am
Power Technology Inc. installed the state’s first laser-illuminated projection technology at the Ron Robinson Theater in downtown Little Rock last Wednesday, the first of many such ventures that local entrepreneurs…
by - December 8, 2015 5:16 pm
Arkansas is among the top 10 states with highest concentration of employment in animal food manufacturing, employing more than three times the national average, or 1,423 jobs, according to recent…
by - December 8, 2015 4:38 pm
Tyson Foods and most of the commercial meat industry aren’t happy with the recent World Trade Organization ruling that allows for $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs related to federal product…
by - December 8, 2015 9:21 am
The United States is expected to become the most competitive manufacturing nation over the next five years, with the current leader China sliding into second position, according to the upcoming…
