Top Stockholders in Arkansas Buoyed by Runup in Markets
It’s been almost two years since Arkansas Business listed the state’s top stockholders based on the value of publicly disclosed stock. Since then, the Walton family’s fortune — the part disclosed publicly — has increased by more than $20 billion. read more >
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Leads List of Public Companies Executive Compensation
The number of publicly traded companies in Arkansas is stable this year thanks to a couple of small IPOs and the federal government shutdown late last year, and Walmart executives continue to dominate the list of highest paid executives. read more >
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Overdraft Fees Provide Steady Cash Stream
Protecting customers from overdrafts, a standard service provided by most banks and credit unions, can also be a lucrative revenue stream. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Acquisitions Alter List of 75 Largest Private Companies in Arkansas
The departures of five companies that were acquired in the past year made room at the bottom of the list for companies that had not made the cutoff last year — or ever. The price of entry to the list? $100 million read more >
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UA Redesigning MBA Program on Quest to Be Best
The University of Arkansas slipped from first to fifth place on this year’s list of the state largest MBA programs after temporarily halting admissions to finish redesigning its full-time Master of Business Administration program. read more >
A&P Commissions Watching Tax Case on Online Booking
Websites collect tax on rooms based on customer’s price, not the price paid to hotels. read more >
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Big Deals of 2018 Skyrocket in Arkansas by 267 Percent
The value of big deals in Arkansas leaped to $53.9 billion in 2018, a 267 percent increase over the $14.7 billion figure of 2017. read more >
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Largest Commercial Projects in Arkansas Top $2.1B
This marks the fifth consecutive year that the roster of largest commercial construction projects in Arkansas topped $2 billion. The 2018 list consists of 160 projects around the state that represent a combined dollar total of $2.1 billion. read more >
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Accounting Firm ‘Merger Mania’ Comes to Arkansas
Three major mergers involving Arkansas companies over the past year have shuffled this year’s list of largest accounting firms in Arkansas considerably. read more >
by Jan Cottingham -
Shorter Public Companies List Reveals Top, Median Pay
Much about this year’s rankings of public companies and their highest-paid executives by total compensation is typical. But there is something new: data on the median employee compensation of most of the state’s publicly traded companies. read more >
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Simmons Bank Brings New Deposits to Pine Bluff
Arkansas bank deposits grew by almost $2.5 billion to $66.7 billion in the year that ended June 30. Almost three-quarters of the additional deposits — $1.8 billion — flowed into a single institution. read more >
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Bottom Line Taking Time to Get Better for Arkansas Hospitals
2017 was a tough year for some Arkansas hospitals, and the situation could be getting worse. read more >
by Mark Friedman -
Power Balance Shifting In Arkansas: Coal Crucial But Losing Ground
King Coal isn’t dead, but it’s being dethroned as the top fuel source for creating electric power in Arkansas. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Property & Casualty Holds No Luster for Most Lenders
After a path was cleared for banks to get into the insurance business, few Arkansas lenders jumped in. read more >
by George Waldon -
Locking In on the Companies Behind the Orange Barrels
The name Manhattan Road & Bridge might conjure an image straight out of New York City, but that would be off by about 1,300 miles. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Arkansas Business Presents the 40 Under 40 Class of 2018
Arkansas Business presents the 25th class of 40 Under 40 honorees, young professionals from throughout the state in a variety of industries who bear watching. read more >
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Dozens of Arkansas Companies Rank on List of Largest ESOPs
This week Arkansas Business debuts a new list of ESOPs — employee stock ownership plans — ranked by net assets at the end of the most recent fiscal year for which data is publicly available. read more >
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75 Largest Private Companies in Arkansas Combine for $38.9B
Revenue at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield topped $2.5 billion last year, a milestone achieved by only one other company in the 30 years that Arkansas Business has been ranking private companies by revenue. read more >
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Residential Trio Climbs the 2017 Ladder of Top Real Estate Agencies
Re/Max Elite, Coldwell Banker RPM Group and Keller Williams Realty, all of Little Rock, moved up among the top 10 residential realty firms in Arkansas last year. read more >
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Presenting the 30th Annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards
Arkansas Business honors the state's top executives, small businesses and nonprofits with the annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
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