Henderson is retiring as chief financial officer and executive vice president of the AECC and AECI after a 36-year run, but will continue to lead their subsidiary, Today's Power Inc.
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.
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.
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 >
Rusty Deckard and Joey Daigle have been hired at Crow Group Inc. in Morrilton. 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 >
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Commission has approved $2.4 million in funding for water and wastewater projects serving more than 2,700 people in seven Arkansas communities. read more >
David Frankenberg has been named vice president and CFO of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc., effective Jan. 1. 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 >
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 >
Western utilities are looking to Southwest Power Pool for potential savings in electricity transmission, the not-for-profit Little Rock regional transmission organization said this week in a news release. read more >
Randy Eminger of Bella Vista and the Arkansas Affordable Energy Coalition are committed to keeping Arkansas as a coal customer, and he's challenging Entergy's coal-plant closure plan in federal court, arguing that state utility regulators haven't vetted it properly. 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 >
Chart Industries, a global manufacturer of engineering equipment, pays $20 million for BlueInGreen LLC, a Fayetteville water-treatment company. read more >
Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock and four Ouachita County entities break ground on four solar arrays to be built mostly before the end of the year. read more >
Murphy Oil Corp., an Arkansas fixture for decades before moving to Houston last spring, announces a net loss of $244 million in the third quarter as oil and gasoline prices remained depressed. read more >
In the wake of a National Public Radio report on Wyoming spending political “dark money” to derail plans to shut down two Arkansas coal-fired power plants, Entergy Arkansas says it still plans to close the plants in Newark and Redfield, but that those plans are held up by a federal court case. read more >
What has 87,000 SF of office space, a nice spot in the heart of El Dorado and a $15 million price tag? read more >
The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association in Little Rock is the newest member of the Solar Energy Industries Association of Washington, D.C., the national trade group advancing the American solar power industry. read more >
Robert Mintak, the crisp and precise CEO of Standard Lithium LLC, has been on a public relations tour that's anything but standard, promoting south Arkansas' lithium resources from 3,500 miles away. read more >
Southwest Power Pool, the nonprofit regional power transmission organization, buried the lead in its report on this month's quarterly meetings in Little Rock, its headquarters. read more >
General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems holds a commissioning ceremony for a utility-scale solar and storage project in Calhoun County. read more >
The city of West Memphis has enlisted Entergy Arkansas in spreading the word about its huge new business park off Interstate 40, the largest certified industrial site in Arkansas. read more >
Regional power grid operator Southwest Power Pool has elected Elizabeth Moore of New York to its board of directors, effective Oct. 27. read more >
Specialty waste and environmental services company Denali Water Solutions LLC of Russellville has acquired the stock of Veris Environmental LLC of Limon, Colorado, and AWS Dredge LLC of Smithfield, Utah. read more >
Online gaming, or esports, debuted as an extracurricular activity at some Arkansas high schools three years ago, bringing scholarship opportunities with it. And now industry experts say employers should pay attention to the tech-savvy talent evident in this new sport. read more >
In the next Insights webinar from Arkansas Business, John Satterfield of Amuni Financial and Stan Miller of Wilson+Miller will discuss what effect COVID-19 stimulus funding could have on taxes and individual retirement planning read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7.3% in September from 7.4% in August, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
Entergy Arkansas and NextEra Energy Resources will start construction next month on what will be the state's largest sun power array with battery storage, a 100-megawatt plant in White County. read more >
“We are at it again,” Today's Power Inc. marketing chief Jennah Denney announced Thursday as plans for two new solar arrays took shape at a groundbreaking with the Star City School District and the Yorktown Water Association, both in Lincoln County. read more >
Executives of Today's Power Inc. of North Little Rock and the Bearden School District held a “flip the switch” event for its two campus-based solar arrays Tuesday ahead of the school board's meeting. read more >
Jonesboro received two grants totaling $2.5 million to install a new rail storage facility near the Craighead Technology Park that will benefit manufacturers by giving them greater capacity to move products. read more >
The unemployment rate in Arkansas moved up slightly in August, to 7.4%, as it did in six of the state's eight metro areas. Only Fort Smith and Texarkana posted declines between July and August. read more >
