Most Feedback Is Just Noise (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
by Barry Goldberg – 4 days ago
Is it any wonder that the phrase “May I provide you with some feedback?” sets up an emotional loop almost guaranteed to grate on nerves and create stress?
Manufacturing
Cardboard and Coronavirus (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
2 weeks ago
Point-and-click commerce, growing even faster during the quarantine, means more and more cardboard is being consumed by shippers and shippees alike.
The 2020 20 In Their 20's: The Future Looks Bright From Here
2 weeks ago
From Rogers to Jonesboro to Benton and McCrory, there is bright young talent across our state. For the 11th year, Arkansas Business is proud to introduce 20 of the freshest faces in business and community service.
UA Center Gets $1 Million Gift
The University of Arkansas' Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation received a $1 million gift from an alumnus. read more >
Steuart Walton Places Great Value on Pandemic Leadership, Outdoor Recreation
Steuart Walton, Sam Walton's grandson, heads the state's pandemic recovery task force and discusses the virus, the response and the criticism. read more >
Central Arkansas Population Stands at 750,000
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area now has a population of about 750,000, according to a report by Metroplan, the planning agency for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. read more >
$1 Fee Ruling Pits Law Firm Against Judge
The Sanford Law Firm PLLC of Little Rock has appealed an award of $1 in attorneys' fees from U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson, who wrote a blistering order about the firm's billing practices in June. read more >
Cynergy Cargo 2 Opens New Crossett Plant
Cynergy Cargo 2 of Douglas, Georgia, a manufacturer of enclosed cargo trailers, marks the opening of its new facility in the Crossett Industrial Park. read more >
Fed's 'Beige Book' Finds Widespread Pessimism About Economic Future
The latest Federal Reserve survey of U.S. economic activity found generally modest gains in August but also pessimism about the future given the threats posed by the coronavirus. read more >
Arkansas Business Announces 'Best Places to Work' Honorees, Online Event
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an interactive online ceremony in November. read more >
Survey: Midwest Economy Improves Despite Pandemic, Derecho
The rural economy in Middle America showed improvement in August, despite the effects of a global pandemic and a rare devastating wind storm earlier in the month, according to a monthly survey of nine Midwest and Plains states released Tuesday. read more >
Medeiros Shares How Small, Mid-Sized Manufacturers Can Avoid Virus Outbreaks
Public health expert Paul Medeiros of NSF International spoke with Arkansas Business by email ahead of leading a webinar for small and mid-sized manufacturers interested in mitigating risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Roach Manufacturing to Expand Caraway Plant, Add 30 Jobs
Roach Manufacturing Corp., which makes conveyors and conveying equipment and is also known as Roach Conveyors, announced Monday that it will expand its facility in Caraway (Craighead County) and create 30 new jobs over the next two years. read more >
Black-owned Businesses in the U.S. Make Up 2.2% of Employer-owned Firms
Blacks owned 124,004 employer businesses (firms with at least one paid employee) in 2017, or 2.2% of the 5.7 million employer businesses in the United States, according to the 2018 Annual Business Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
US Economy Plunged An Annualized 31.7% in 2Q
The U.S. economy shrank at an alarming annual rate of 31.7% during the April-June quarter as it struggled under the weight of the viral pandemic, the government estimated Thursday. It was the sharpest quarterly drop on record. read more >
Koppers to Invest $23M in NLR Plant Expansion
Quick collaboration among state and local economic developers helped persuade Koppers Holdings Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to retain its North Little Rock plant and invest at least $23 million to expand it over the next two years. read more >
A-State, Companies Offer Employees Help With Furthering Their Education
Four companies have partnered with Arkansas State University to help their employees who want to earn credit hours toward a degree. read more >
Lithium Project in El Dorado Defies Pandemic
After six months locked down in Canada, Robert Mintak is itching to fly south to see firsthand how Standard Lithium Ltd.'s pilot plant is doing drawing lithium from Arkansas' underground brine. read more >
Broadaway Moves Forward at Safe Foods (Movers & Shakers)
Blake Broadaway has been promoted to the newly created role of chief commercial officer at Safe Foods Corp. in North Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas Unemployment Drops to 7.1% in July
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7.1% in July from 8.1% in June, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
Georgia-Pacific CEO: Speed, Not Variety, Key to Customers in Pandemic
Georgia-Pacific President and CEO Christian Fischer shares how the massive company has met and learned from the challenges of operating during a global pandemic. read more >
NanoMech Faces $1.5M Foreclosure
While the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Springdale's NanoMech Inc. concluded earlier this summer, the industrial lubricants manufacturer recently was served with a nearly $1.5 million foreclosure suit read more >
Craft Breweries In the Age of COVID-19
Craft brewers in Arkansas, like a lot of businesses in the state, appeared to be on track to make 2020 a banner year, and then COVID-19 struck. read more >
Distilleries Pouring Out New Products
Five Arkansas distilleries are working on new products, and business is flowing steadily for them, despite the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the opening of a sixth and bringing a seventh to a standstill. read more >
Arkansas Ranks 49th in Alcohol Consumption
Per capita consumption in the United States of ethanol from all alcoholic beverages totaled 2.35 gallons in 2018, according to an April 2020 report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism. read more >
Brewers Guild's Sylvia Blain Offers 6 Steps to Help Open Bottled Breweries
Sylvia Blain, the executive director of the Arkansas Brewers Guild, says the industry needs more help to survive the pandemic. read more >
Stinnett Promoted, Three Hired at WER Architects (Movers & Shakers)
Elizabeth Stinnett has been appointed as a new associate at WER Architects/Planners in Fayetteville. Larry Troillett, Holly Vetsch and Jordan Arrington have joined the firm in Little Rock. read more >
Order for Keystone Pipeline to Benefit Welspun Work in Little Rock
Welspun Tubular LLC of Little Rock gets an order from TC Energy that's expected to keep 500 people working through at least 2021. read more >
Former Deltic Timber Corp. CEO Donates $1M to UA
The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville announced Thursday a $1 million donation from former Deltic Timber Corp. CEO Ray Dillon and his wife, Deborah, that will support timber initiatives there. read more >
Domtar to Permanently Close Ashdown Paper Machine
Domtar Corp. of Fort Mill, South Carolina, will permanently close four operations, including its A62 paper machine at Ashdown (Little River County), as part of a plan to cut costs by $200 million by the end of 2021. read more >
NuShores Gets NuCress Contract, Opening 'Clean' Facility in Little Rock
NuShores Biosciences LLC is moving from the BioVentures building on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus in Little Rock to a west Little Rock office complex, where it will open one of only a few medical device clean manufacturing facilities in the state, the company said. read more >
Walmart CTO Tops Executive Compensation List
Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar's experience explains why his total compensation for the first seven months he spent at Walmart made him the highest-paid executive among Arkansas' public companies. read more >
Tyson Upgrades Worker Safety Amid Pandemic
Meat producers have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale is no exception. read more >
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