Lance Fritz, the head of Union Pacific Railroad, said last week during a Q&A panel celebrating the Little Rock Port Authority's 60th anniversary that he had cautionary words for President Trump regarding the country's trade war with China.
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an awards luncheon in September.
Mundo-Tech, a tube bending and fabrication supplier for the aerospace and defense industries and commercial companies, announced Wednesday that it is expanding its facility in Rogers.
A growing list of gun manufacturers with Arkansas facilities are currently employing more than 3,000. read more >
Power Technology Inc., a home-grown Arkansas company that's been doing innovative things with lasers for 50 years, is ready for its cinema close-up. read more >
A $70 million investment in the peanut industry in Arkansas is expected to usher in a new era for farmers. The operation will feature the first peanut-shelling plant in Arkansas and create between 125 and 130 jobs. read more >
Manufacturing employment in Arkansas stood at 163,000 workers in May 2019, far below its peak in the 1990s but higher than the trough experienced in the aftermath of the Great Recession. read more >
If you win the no-reserve auction starting at 4 p.m. Central time Tuesday, your home can, in fact, be your castle. read more >
Investing in opportunity zones means investing in communities around Arkansas and joining the broader effort to combat poverty and geographic inequality. read more >
Dan Curtis, the head of AEDC-Manufacturing Solutions, says the biggest challenge to business growth is the need for workers. read more >
Job growth strengthened in nearly all major industry sectors in June, with notable jumps in government, business services, education and health. read more >
A new report says a June survey of business supply managers suggests economic growth will continue over the next three to six months in nine Midwest and Plains states. read more >
This spring's rain and flooding have already taken a heavy toll on the farming sector. The trade war with China is only adding to farmers' pain. And because the agriculture industry is Arkansas' No. 1 industry, that pain can quickly be felt by other sectors of the state's economy. read more >
President Trump's trade war with China is creating casualties in Arkansas. Soybean farmers have seen their exports to China plummet as prices have dropped 15%. read more >
The Candian's company, Standard Lithium Ltd., broke ground last week on a pilot plant in El Dorado, a key step toward a unique vision of pulling battery-grade lithium from a saltwater sea beneath south Arkansas. read more >
President Trump's tariffs of 25% on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods is making some Arkansas business either absorb their price increases or pass the cost hikes to their customers. read more >
Transportation equipment accounted for nearly $2 billion in exports in 2017, according to World Trade Center Arkansas. read more >
An investor group, through Legacy Land & Timber LLC, purchased the 1,787-acre tract that wraps around the western and southern perimeter of the Alotian Golf Club. read more >
The $12.5 million class-action judgment against a New Jersey man and his business will stand after the Arkansas Supreme Court decided last month not to review the case. read more >
Yang Luo-Branch, president of the Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses, says her organization seeks to bridge Arkansas and Asia. read more >
A Canadian company's plan to mine battery-grade lithium from the salty waters beneath south Arkansas took physical shape this month as Standard Lithium Ltd. of Vancouver broke ground on a demonstration plant near El Dorado. read more >
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland, gets a $561.8 million production contract for Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles for the U.S. Army and Foreign Military Sales customers. read more >
For the past few years, Kyle Lamb has been thinking outside the brown box — looking for a practical technology to let his packaging business print high-quality color images directly onto retail boxes. Now Lamb, president of Lamb & Associates Packaging Inc. of Maumelle, is the proud owner of a multimillion-dollar Spanish-made press that can do just that. read more >
A new location for a Benton auto dealership, a new home for a Little Rock television station and a Little Rock industrial property lead off a six-pack of notable real estate transactions. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate in May, at 3.6%, was unchanged from the previous month. read more >
Flexsteel Industries Inc. of Dubuque, Iowa, is closing its furniture manufacturing plant in Harrison in August, putting 109 people out of work. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and officials with Lockheed Martin announce that the company will expand its operation in East Camden, investing $142 million and hiring 326 new employees over the next few years. read more >
Startups that build medical devices must clear some high hurdles, but the rewards can be huge. read more >
The sale of a 384-unit apartment complex in North Little Rock leads off this week's lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
A fast-food eatery in Sherwood, a postal project in west Little Rock's Otter Creek neighborhood, a warehouse property in North Little Rock and a home in the Heights area of Little Rock form this week's quartet of million-dollar real estate sales. read more >
In its way, a corporate decision that devastates a town feels almost like a natural disaster. The news came suddenly, like a tornado that flattened one side of the Georgia-Pacific community while sparing the 500 workers at the tissue and paper towel plant next door. read more >
Private-sector employers in Arkansas need to be aware of what the National Labor Relations Board is doing, because not knowing exposes them to litigation from employees or former employees and to costly disruptions that can come from NLRB investigations. read more >
New Age Hemp LLC's leadership wants to make two things starkly clear: Grandma's hemp-based CBD oil is legal, and it won't make her high. read more >
