J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell acquires the assets of Mass Movement Inc. of Foxborough, Massachusetts, expanding its "final-mile" delivery operations.
Ritter Communications of Jonesboro recently opened its $8 million, 8,544-SF multiuser data and cloud storage facility in northeast Arkansas.
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting.
Westrock Group CEO and co-founder Scott Ford and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among the featured executives scheduled to speak during the spring 2021 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
Entergy Arkansas and the Little Rock Regional Chamber are putting on a virtual show for businesses interested in locating in Arkansas, offering detailed online tours of buildings ready for service. read more >
A Fayetteville real estate investor paid $7.4 million for a 42,609-SF office building in south Springdale. read more >
Arkansas Business on Monday announced 32 businesses, nonprofits and executives from around the state as finalists for its 33rd Annual Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Arkansas' richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
Let another pesky woman editor encourage you to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving this year as never before, even as we must limit the traditional togetherness — a small sacrifice by historic standards. read more >
ABC Real Estate LLC, led by Jim Bottin, sold three office buildings on the ABC Financial campus and adjoining properties in Sherwood for a combined $4.5 million transaction read more >
Andrew Levenson has been promoted to director of growth at MHP/Team SI in Little Rock. read more >
As a component of the CARES Act, the Federal Reserve established the Main Street Lending Program to provide up to $600 billion in financing to businesses and nonprofit organizations negatively impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Effective leadership isn't always about giving orders. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declines to 6.2% in October from 7.2% in September, the state Department of Workforce Services reports. read more >
Joey Moll has been named senior vice president of commercial lending for Relyance Bank's central Arkansas market. read more >
Arkansas Business and the Best Companies Group last week honored 47 Arkansas companies with "Best Places to Work" awards, which honor firms that have exceptional workplace environments. read more >
For many independent insurance agents, consolidation through merger or acquisition is a popular option. read more >
The insurance industry responds to COVID-19 with rebates instead of lower rates and remains flexible on claims and operations. read more >
Simmons Bank hauled Encore Bank into court last week over accusations that include improperly luring executives and customers away from the Pine Bluff bank. read more >
As I studied up on dozens of PPP fraud cases filed around the country since May, several common elements began to emerge. read more >
The tally of Paycheck Protection Program funds that flowed through the 20 largest banks in Arkansas topped $4.4 billion and encompassed more than 50,149 loans. read more >
The 10-state footprint of Little Rock's Bank OZK will have two fewer states by March 31, exiting South Carolina and Alabama, where it operates two branches in each state. read more >
J.B. Hunt CEO John Roberts and Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer, participated in FreightWaves' virtual fall conference earlier this month and gave some color to how the company's technological pursuit led to its newfound success. read more >
The first step in addressing these risks that might happen is to consider that these risks can happen and have happened. Consideration should be given to these uncertain, remotely possible, future risks. Nothing should be off the table. read more >
Bridgette Kasinger has joined Black River Technical College in Pocahontas as an allied health nursing instructor. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council is starting a $1 million Life Works Here pilot program in an attempt to attract skilled workers to relocate to the region. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic may not be the work-related crisis we expected in 2020, but it reminds us that strong leadership directly impacts success. read more >
COVID-19 has taken a toll on bank profitability, but the combination of federal relief money and pandemic-induced financial caution created a temporary glut of deposits. read more >
Bankers get some money back, but federal process should be simpler, they say. read more >
Solar businesses fear the toll as U.S. tax credits, now 26%, are set to fall to 22% in 2021 and to 10% for commercial projects only in 2022, barring policy shifts. read more >
A Dumas agribusinessman who admits to selling property used as security for millions of dollars in bank loans expects to be charged by federal prosecutors, but as of Wednesday he was still waiting. read more >
Data Driven Partners works with businesses and nonprofit foundations to gather and formulate their important data into easy-to-read and accessible dashboards. read more >
George Gleason, Bank OZK chairman and CEO, is becoming a Texan, in a transient sort of way. read more >
