This year’s meeting planner helps those planning events know how best to add value to their meetings.

It will be important for event organizers to consider the government, city or facility COVID-19 restrictions and safety measures with which they will have to contend.

Trying times force employers to re-think what makes their company tick

Rather than be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, controls engineering firm Fidus Global LLC of Paragould is leaning into the aftermath as it completes its first year of operation.

Thriving communities have certain things in common — successful job creation, quality of life for residents and visitors and, above all, a plan for making these things happen.

In close to six decades of service, First Service Bank has helped back the region’s robust, diverse economy, providing opportunities for lenders to support not only customers, but to finance new construction and help develop new businesses, housing and commercial development.

Conway-based packaging manufacturer Wonder State Box wanted to do its part to help fight the virus, and luckily, it has a far reach.

Conway Corp. developed its mission to produce safe, affordable and reliable utility and telecommunications services that are innovative and environmentally sound, while also striving to enhance the quality of life in the community.

Arkansas State University and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine have decided to re-up for the long haul.

On March 15, Steven Lamm begins his new job as vice president of economic development for Jonesboro Unlimited, returning to the city where he graduated Arkansas State University and met his future spouse.

Not only does its expansion in Fort Smith mark Hytrol’s first new location since arriving in Jonesboro in 1962, it begins a mutually supportive arrangement between the two sites.

In this age of virtual meetings and events, people are getting ready for their closeup.

The “gee whiz” factor of company-wide Zoom meetings or scheduling a face-to-face on Google Meet has faded. What was once new has become routine.

As much as employers have tried to give their workplaces the comforts of home, nothing has succeeded as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, during which people are literally working from the comforts of home.

It may not be much of a surprise that in the midst of a global pandemic, Arkansas State University’s fall enrollment is down from a year ago. What may be surprising is how little the enrollment actually dropped.

After a few months of dormancy, Jonesboro’s economy is getting up to speed as business owners and developers use unexpected savings, federal stimulus money and assistance programs to build, enhance and improve.

In just over 20 years, Centennial Bank has kept community service as a pillar of its foundation.

The city of Conway has been doing its best to keep construction companies close to home.

If something happens in Conway, there’s a good chance it’s happening along the Donaghey Avenue corridor.

Conway’s manufacturing and technology sectors are getting a boost thanks to local expansion and a newcomer from the United States’ neighbor to the north.