SIG Sauer Inc. of Newington, New Hampshire, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson celebrate the company's plant in Jacksonville, which has added more than 100 jobs since opening two years ago.
Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina, announced Wednesday a $33 million, 200,000-SF expansion of its West Memphis production facility.
The city of Osceola is hoping to find an attractive offer for a vacant industrial property when sealed bids are opened Thursday morning.
Arkansas' unemployment rate in March was 3.7%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. read more >
Publicly traded Greenbrier Companies Inc. of Lake Oswego, Oregon, announced Thursday that it will acquire the manufacturing business of American Railcar Industries of St. Charles, Missouri, for $430 million from ITE Management LP. read more >
The bids didn't materialize, so the city of Osceola will hang on to a former industrial site and lease it as warehouse and storage space. read more >
Arkansas Business will once again honor the state's outstanding young professionals at a luncheon for its 40 Under 40 class. You can order tickets here. read more >
The Springdale nanotechnology firm estimates both its debts and its assets as between $10 million and $50 million. Documents say the company has struggled through continual losses from operations together with slow revenue growth. read more >
Five years after hard cider manufacturer Black Apple Crossing was founded in downtown Springdale, it's now legal — well, even more legal — to manufacture hard cider in Arkansas. read more >
Private-sector workers in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area earned an average of $861.50 each week as of February 2019. read more >
The Women's Foundation of Arkansas will host its annual Girls of Promise Conference on Thursday and Friday at the Arkansas 4-H Center and the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in Little Rock. read more >
The Center for Business and Economic Research at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will present its regular Quarterly Business Analysis on May 16 in Fayetteville. read more >
When you think about Nike, which phrases or messages come to mind? How about “His shoe broke”? That one came from Barack Obama, in a spontaneous moment while in the crowd watching a basketball game. read more >
Bob Cooper Jr., the partner in Ghan & Cooper Commercial Properties, says Fort Smith is experiencing growth throughout the city. read more >
A new report says a March survey of business supply managers is signaling solid economic growth over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states. read more >
The financial mess created by former Nanomech CEO Jim Phillips (see Nanomech Chief Confronted With Ouster by Investors) has spawned another lawsuit. read more >
The previous CEO of Nanomech in Springdale retired before he could be ousted, investors say. read more >
Even an environment rich in business executives creates tenfold more blue-collar and trade skill jobs. Studies show that only 20 percent of the jobs created or open in northwest Arkansas require four years of college. read more >
Renewable energy and health care top the list of the fastest-growing jobs in the United States in 2016-26, as predicted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. read more >
Twenty-four "Sewbots" will soon be churning out a shirt about every 30 seconds in the new Suzhou Tian Yuan Garments Co. factory in Little Rock. read more >
While all defendants must take all litigation seriously and businesses should be on notice that exact wording matters, there is no federal law that requires lawyers to pummel defendants who have committed harmless technical violations. read more >
Sending faxes to M.S. Wholesale Plumbing Inc. of Russeville can be a multimillion-dollar mistake. read more >
Standard Lithium Inc. has raised $10 million in equity financing for building and testing a pilot plant in Canada, then shipping it in containers to be reassembled at one of three El Dorado bromine production sites. read more >
Last year, 29 homes sold for $1 million or more, down from the 33 homes purchased in 2017, which was the highest number since Arkansas Business began tracking them in 2004. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate in February was 3.8 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. read more >
Intimidator Group of Batesville announces its first distribution agreement outside the United States, an exclusive partnership with Doyle's Wholesale of Ireland, an importer and distributor of garden, construction and outdoor power equipment. read more >
Glass items will no longer be accepted for curbside residential recycling in Little Rock, North Little Rock and Sherwood, starting April 1. read more >
Anthony Timberlands Inc. of Bearden has partnered with the Arkansas Health Network of Little Rock to help cut costs and improve the health of about 1,000 people in the company's self-insured plan. read more >
The statistical reality of the the U.S. Department of Labor's overtime proposal is that Arkansas employees earn lower wages than much of the country, meaning Arkansas employers are more likely than employers in other parts of the country to feel the effects of an increase. read more >
We need to be investing in opportunity zones — in Arkansas and across the country — and we need to be doing it now. read more >
Erin Kiefer knew in high school that she wanted to work at Assembled Products Corp. in Rogers. Why wouldn't she? Her father, Bill Sage, founded the company in 1983 after he invented a motorized shopping scooter that is now, along with its doppelgangers, found in grocery and retail stores nationwide. read more >
Strategic Critical Metals is raising $17 million to acquire mineral rights. read more >
Arkansas ranks in the bottom 11 states in terms of the “economic clout” of women-owned businesses, according to the 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report commissioned by American Express. (Eleven states were included because of ties.) read more >
