by - May 15, 2014 12:54 pm
• Cargill to reduce meatpacker jobs Tightening cattle supplies is prompting Cargill Meat Solutions to downsize the workforce at its Dodge City, Kansas plant, according to Cargill spokesman Mark Klein. The…
by - May 15, 2014 6:52 am
Officials with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said bad weather and a currency exchange rate were partially to blame for a comparable decline in net income in the first fiscal quarter and…
by - May 15, 2014 6:11 am
The foreclosure train is slowing across the Natural State, particularly in Benton County, that once led in the number of distressed homes. Irvine, Calif.,-based RealtyTrac reports 389 foreclosure filings in…
by - May 14, 2014 9:12 pm
Wal-Mart plans to fill up to 95 new jobs being created at its Neighborhood Market in Farmington that is slated to open this summer. A temporary hiring center has opened…
by - May 14, 2014 8:40 pm
The volunteer auxiliary of Northwest Medical Center – Bentonville won the American Hospital Associations (AHA) award for volunteer excellence for their “Sock-It-To-Me” program collecting over 2,000 pairs of new socks…
by - May 14, 2014 7:42 pm
The Arkansas Supreme Court denied a state of Arkansas request for a stay in a ruling that struck down Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriages, but the court’s order created more…
by - May 14, 2014 7:23 pm
The two most important phrases used in leadership are not delegation and profit margins but rather “please” and “thank you,” according to Don Soderquist, retired chief operations officer of Wal-Mart…
by - May 14, 2014 7:07 pm
Ken Nisch, chairman of JGA, has designed brick-and-mortar retail stores for nearly 40 years. He said digital is and will continue to transform the retail experience during the next three…
by - May 14, 2014 6:44 pm
An area of highly contaminated soil at the former Whirlpool manufacturing facility has the company's environmental consultants proposing not just chemical oxidation treatments, as previously approved by the Arkansas Department…
by - May 14, 2014 4:58 pm
Arvest Bank has named Eric Buster as a community lender in the bank’s Gravette branch. Buster has worked for Arvest Bank for the past two years. He began in Arvest’s…
by - May 14, 2014 4:48 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe on Wednesday (May 14) announced the following appointments to boards and commissions: Theresa Brassfield, Blytheville, as the Mississippi County Judge, until such time as the elected county…
by - May 14, 2014 4:07 pm
When Kyle Parker recently said progress was “moving quickly” on the establishment of a $58 million medical college in Fort Smith, he wasn’t kidding. The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education…
by - May 14, 2014 1:33 pm
Time and again we read in the news or hear from media reports that a single federal judge or a judicial panel of three or at most five, have taken…
by - May 14, 2014 1:04 pm
He's polling more than 30% above his opponent and many analysts believe the May 20 primary will be an easy victory for Arkansas House Majority Leader Bruce Westerman, who is…
by - May 14, 2014 12:45 pm
Chris Spear, the new chief of legislative affairs for the active American Trucking Associations’, has Arkansas connections and his former Arkansas boss says Spear “has the experience and the skills”…
by - May 14, 2014 12:29 pm
Big Data feeds analytics well beyond point of sales data that used to be the be-all, end-all in retail forecasting. Today, retailers and suppliers are tapping “Big Data,” which encompasses…
by - May 14, 2014 12:18 pm
The $150 million Dynamic Fuels plant in Geismar, La., jointly owned by Tyson Foods and Syntroleum Fuels came online in November 2010, but has failed to live up to its…
by - May 14, 2014 12:03 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Schneider Logistics Inc., have agreed to a settlement for $21 million for federal and state-level wage and hour violations committed at a Walmart warehouse facility in…
by - May 14, 2014 6:52 am
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum will participate this summer in Blue Star Museums and offer half price RAM Family memberships to all active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial…
by - May 13, 2014 6:38 pm
A special legislative session could be called to address rising school employee health insurance costs by the end of August, the chairman of a task force that is meeting about…
