by - October 22, 2018 10:26 am
Fayetteville-based computer software startup Engine has closed on a $3.5 million fundraising round. Company co-founder and CEO John James declined to disclose the investors. Earlier this year, Engine raised $1…
by - October 21, 2018 5:14 pm
Movers and shakers in Northwest Arkansas have worked for a year volunteering more than 3,000 hours toward the upcoming Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit and its two pre-summit events. It will…
by - October 19, 2018 5:32 pm
North Little Rock-based Garver, the largest engineering, planning, architectural and environmental services firm in Arkansas, announced Dan Williams, president, CEO and board member, will retire in December 2019, and chief…
by - October 19, 2018 12:31 pm
City officials, poultry industry representatives and employees of Siloam Springs-based broiler breeder Cobb-Vantress Inc. recently celebrated the opening of its 35,000-square-foot corporate office building in downtown Siloam Springs. Nearly 200…
by - October 19, 2018 12:19 pm
Northwest Medical Center – Springdale, a hospital of Springdale-based health system Northwest Health, has earned accreditation from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program as a comprehensive…
by - October 18, 2018 1:44 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services on Nov. 16 will pay a cash dividend of 24-cents per share to stockholders of record as of Nov. 9. The Lowell-based carrier announced the dividend…
by - October 18, 2018 11:27 am
Tyson Foods and its subsidiary Cobb Vantress will ramp up their investments and support for OneEgg, a non-profit dedicated to ending child hunger around the world by providing egg protein…
by - October 18, 2018 11:16 am
Affordable housing, traffic and the failed Little Sugar Creek dam were some of the topics the five candidates for mayor addressed at the Bentonville Mayor Candidate Forum on Wednesday (Oct….
by - October 18, 2018 7:54 am
2019 is shaping up as a significant year for Springdale-based restaurant/sports bar chain Foghorn’s. Not only will the company celebrate its 15th anniversary, but there are also plans for an…
by - October 17, 2018 4:08 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved an annual salary of $205,000 for Aaron Burkes, the next CEO and executive director for the Highfill-based airport. Burkes accepted the offer after an…
by - October 17, 2018 3:51 pm
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT)will present the preliminary findings for possible improvements to a segment of U.S. Highway 412, between Arkansas Highway 112 in Tontitown and 40th Street in…
by - October 17, 2018 10:26 am
Glenn Mack has resigned as executive director of Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food. The culinary school in Bentonville is a division of NorthWest Arkansas Community College, and…
by - October 16, 2018 3:30 pm
Pearl McElfish has been promoted to vice chancellor of the Northwest Arkansas regional campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Fayetteville. McElfish has been serving as…
by - October 15, 2018 12:16 pm
It’s been almost a year since Bryce Paden and Trent Carrender quit their jobs and jumped head first into i2i Labs, a Rogers-based startup that acts as a matchmaker between…
by - October 15, 2018 8:04 am
For the fourth year, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal is honored to recognize 10 of the most worthy C-level executives in the region with the C-Suite Award. The healthy economy…
by - October 15, 2018 8:03 am
While Little Rock’s mayoral race is driving state capital politics, Arkansas’ commerce capital – Bentonville, home to Walmart’s world headquarters – has an equally crowded field of contenders for mayor….
by - October 12, 2018 3:48 pm
Tontitown-based carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services’ net income rose 168.4% and revenue increased 28.9% in the third-quarter as it received rate increases from customers and grew its fleet by 11% fleet….
by - October 12, 2018 11:00 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - October 12, 2018 9:03 am
Conversation focused on ethics at a legislative forum Thursday (Oct. 12) at Rogers City Hall, as candidates for four races considered fallout from the General Improvement Funds (GIF) scandal that…
by - October 11, 2018 6:41 pm
A recent report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shows a slowdown in the pace of deposit growth among banks in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro. The…
