by - April 27, 2017 4:18 pm
Things are different with Tyson Foods CEO Tom Hayes. He’s more likely to wear a plaid dress shirt and dark pants than the traditional khaki duds worn by his predecessors….
by - April 27, 2017 2:46 pm
Arkansas State University has selected three finalists for its chancellor’s position left open since August 2016 when Tim Hudson was forced resigned after an audit discovered numerous violations. Doug Whitlock…
by - April 26, 2017 12:43 pm
In several ways, Katie Cook is unique. She was born with a rare defect called agenesis of the corpus callosum, or ACC, where the band of white matter connecting the…
by - April 26, 2017 12:20 pm
John Dornhoffer has been named chairman of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The appointment…
by - April 26, 2017 11:51 am
Publicly held Ecoark Holdings of Rogers (OTCQX: EARK), which has taken several steps recently to streamline operations and reallocate capital, has sold one of its subsidiaries, Phoenix-based Eco3d, a 3-D…
by - April 26, 2017 11:39 am
Hog Radio Inc. of De Queen in southwest Arkansas has filed the necessary paperwork to purchase a 50,000-watt radio station licensed in Bella Vista. According to a filing with the…
by - April 25, 2017 7:57 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission named Michael Griffin as the facility’s new airport director during Tuesday night’s (April 25) meeting. Griffin replaces former director John Parker, who announced his…
by - April 25, 2017 4:06 pm
Changes with the Wal-Mart Stores board of directors have shaved 11 years off the board’s median age in the past two years. The board in fiscal 2017 had a median…
by - April 25, 2017 3:32 pm
A two-physician heart procedure has been successfully administered at Fort Smith-based Sparks Health System. Dr. German Kamalov of the Cardiology Center at Sparks and Dr. Ronald Kantola of the independent…
by - April 25, 2017 2:37 pm
Ed Mueller, founder of Carolina Gumbaya, rekindled his food passion after retiring and relocating to Myrtle Beach, S.C., five years ago from Michigan. Mueller told the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal…
by - April 25, 2017 12:18 pm
Supporting STEM & Space, a Fayetteville-based nonprofit, is raising money to transport from Pennsylvania to Northwest Arkansas a 50,000-pound, antique telescope, donated to the organization by Swarthmore College. At 36…
by - April 25, 2017 7:39 am
Tyson Foods is acquiring Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods Holdings in a $4.2 billion deal that includes assumption of $1.1 billion in debt, or roughly $40.25 per share. Tuesday’s (April 25) news…
by - April 24, 2017 9:47 pm
Teachers in the Fort Smith Public School (FSPS) district will see pay increases for the 2017-2018 School Year after a 5-0 vote of School Board members at Monday night’s (April…
by - April 24, 2017 7:33 pm
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Welch celebrated his sixth anniversary at the helm of the Arkansas State University System on April 23, 2017. As president of the system, Welch has guided the…
by - April 24, 2017 5:25 pm
While investors were buying into less-than-truckload stocks late last year, some analysts were “pointing fingers” at the move, driving up the stocks. Since January, stocks have started to return to…
by - April 24, 2017 4:18 pm
Chris Weiser, president and CEO of J.V. Manufacturing in Springdale, has been appointed to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The institute…
by - April 24, 2017 3:20 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission is closer to naming a replacement for former Director John Parker, who announced his retirement last November and officially stepped away from the position…
by - April 24, 2017 3:19 pm
Wal-Mart Stores announces Jenny Fleiss has joined the retailer’s innovation division dubbed Store No. 8. Fleiss is the co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway, which began as an online-only…
by - April 24, 2017 2:43 pm
The Arkansas Supreme Court’s Office of Professional Conduct (OPC) has placed a veteran Bella Vista attorney on interim suspension for allegedly mismanaging funds from a client’s trust account. Tom C….
by - April 24, 2017 12:10 pm
A new $15 million manufacturing facility that will employ up to 75 workers has opened in West Memphis. Sediver USA, a subsidiary of the Seves Group has started production, according…
