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Three Tech Firms Moving to Downtown Conway, Plan to Hire 140

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Three technology companies announced that they will open offices in downtown Conway, investing a combined $2.5 million and creating 140 jobs.

The firms, along with Gov. Asa Hutchinson, made the announcement Thursday in downtown Conway.

The companies are Metova Inc., a mobile app development firm based in Franklin, Tennessee, with an existing facility in Cabot; Atlanta-based Big Cloud Analytics, a predictive analytics firm; and Conway’s Eyenalyze, an Innovate Arkansas client firm that provides financial and managerial tools for the restaurant industry

“Today’s announcement is really a tribute to the leadership of Conway, which has created an attractive environment for technology companies, entrepreneurs and cutting-edge businesses,” Hutchinson said. “Metova, Big Cloud Analytics and Eyenalyze could have gone anywhere. But these fast-growing companies chose Conway and Arkansas for a reason. They know that the city and state are committed to growing with them, not getting in their way.”

Metova said it would move its radio-frequency identification (RFID) operations, recently acquired in New Hampshire, to Conway. It plans to invest $2 million and create about 60 jobs, said Metova CEO John Adams. 

In addition, Metova is working to establish a wireless engineering degree at the University of Central Arkansas in an effort to sustain and grow jobs.

“Conway offers a desirable combination of a skilled tech workforce, with a welcoming business environment and great living conditions,” Adams said in a news release. “We’re all very excited about opening offices here and look forward to working with central Arkansas’ universities to help bolster the region’s pool of engineering talent.”

Big Cloud plans to invest $116,000 and employ 40 in Conway, while Eyenalyze plans to employ 40 by 2016. No details were revealed about whether the companies will convert existing space downtown or build.

“These are the types of high-paying, technology-based jobs that will make Arkansas even more regionally competitive,” Hutchinson said. 

Conway Mayor Tab Townsell said he couldn;’ think of a better way to kick off 2015 than the announcement of 140 new jobs downtown.

“It affirms threefold the Conway model for success: Quality of place plus quality of workforce,” he said. “Logistics and infrastructure don’t drive these types of decisions — they’re driven by the promise of a talented workforce in an attractive location.”

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