Anna Tucker Ashton, senior director of government affairs at the U.S.-China Business Council, spoke to Arkansas Business on Friday about the trade war and its effects here.
An affiliate of Cleveland's Boyd Watterson Asset Management bought the seven-story Mann Building at 322 Main St. in downtown Little Rock.
A Washington County judge offered Levi Crowe a choice in 2016: a drug recovery program or jail. It was an easy choice, but Crowe had no idea that recovery would include working full time for no pay.
Trade policy has been a “shock” to the economy, and uncertainty over it is rising sharply, Kevin Kliesen of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said Thursday at the Little Rock Regional Economic Briefing. read more >
Superior Group of Companies of Seminole, Florida, announces a $10 million expansion and update to its garment distribution center in Eudora, which is expected to create 125 jobs. read more >
Arkansas must improve its workforce because a skilled labor pool attracts economic development projects, Ted Abernathy said at the annual Arkansas State Chamber/Associated Industries of Arkansas. read more >
Danny Games knows a good industrial site when he sees one, and as Entergy Arkansas' director of business and economic development, he and his team have identified one on 121 acres near Maumelle High School. read more >
TACenergy of Dallas, a division of The Arnold Companies, has acquired the U.S. wholesale petroleum distribution business of IPC of Santa Ana, California. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. read more >
Leaders of Southwest Power Pool gathered in Little Rock last week to elect new officers and approve the construction of 44 power transmission projects in its 14-state footprint, including 166 miles of 345-kilovolt lines. read more >
An October survey of business supply managers suggests a bump occurred in economic growth for nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a report released Friday. read more >
HMS Mfg. Co. of Troy, Michigan, announced Wednesday that it will open a 550,000-SF injection molding facility at the Port of Little Rock, creating about 90 jobs over the next two years. read more >
U.S. businesses added a mere 125,000 jobs in October, a slowdown in hiring driven in part by job cuts in manufacturing and construction. read more >
The U.S. economy slowed to a modest growth rate of 1.9% in the summer as consumer spending downshifted and businesses continued to trim their investments in response to trade war uncertainty and a weakening global economy. read more >
Mayor Kevin Smith of Helena-West Helena says the grand opening of Dragon Woodland on the former Chicago Mill property in April was an emotional moment for him. read more >
Following the money explains the opioid crisis and explains why it has been allowed to continue. read more >
Arkansas' elected officials know President Donald Trump's trade war with China is hurting the state. They just don't appear to know exactly what to do about it. read more >
The U.S.-China trade war is being fought in the forests and mill towns of Arkansas as tariffs take their toll on the hardwood lumber industry. So far, state lumbermen say, they've been able to absorb most of the losses, but a day of reckoning is coming. read more >
Six months after a rain-drenched grand opening, Dragon Woodland is on the brink of boosting the output of its Helena-West Helena sawmill facility. read more >
Nucor Corp. marks the opening of its $230 million specialty cold mill complex in Hickman, which has added 100 jobs to the steel giant's Arkansas payroll. read more >
Safe Foods Corp. of North Little Rock marks the grand opening of its new $15 million, 120,000-SF headquarters on 22 acres at 1501 E 8th St. read more >
Little Rock business leaders Rajesh Chokhani of Welspun Tubular and Jay Heflin of Legacy Termite & Pest Control talk about the importance of relationships to the economy and community. read more >
Hefei Risever Machinery Co. Ltd officials, joined by state and local leaders, held a ribbon cutting Wednesday for its new $20 million-plus, 125,000-SF Jonesboro plant in the Craighead Technology Park. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Robotics Training Center in Fayetteville is working to create the largest certified robotics-skilled workforce in the state's history. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point, from 3.4 percent in August to 3.5 percent in September, the state Division of Workforce Services reports. read more >
The U.S. economy was expanding at a modest pace in September and into October despite the fact manufacturing was being hurt by rising trade tensions and weaker global growth while adverse weather was affecting farmers. read more >
A former Jonesboro accountant recently made a dent in a $9 million civil judgment owed to a former client from which he embezzled for more than 20 years. read more >
This week's triple bill features industrial property in Jacksonville, a medical office building in Bryant and a trailer project between Cabot and Jacksonville. read more >
The Harrison Regional Chamber of Commerce has nearly completed its transition, moving to a model laser-focused on economic and business development. read more >
Arkansas Business' 2019 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. read more >
The sun never sets on Arkansas' solar power pricing battle, it seems, but a swirl of cases before Arkansas regulators and a major ruling in Louisiana favoring Entergy Inc. suggest a reckoning may be near. read more >
An apartment project, medical office building, workforce center and bank branch-office building all in Little Rock combine with a grocery store in Damascus to form this week's five-piece group of million-dollar transactions. read more >
Arkansas Secretary of Government Transformation and Shared Services Amy Fecher and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among executives scheduled to speak as part of the 2020 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
United States Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh announces a $700 million stake in Big River Steel of Osceola, a move that will pave the way for the company's full ownership within the next four years. read more >
