As Gov. Asa Hutchinson orders a state inquiry into how Arkansas' electricity grid performed in February's record cold snap and power generation crisis, Arkansas utilities plot ways to ease impacts on customers resulting from fuel price spikes during the emergency. read more >
Business strategist Renée Mauborgne says a company must make an honest assessment of where it is as an organization and where it stands in the marketplace if it is to develop a road map to success. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined three-tenths of a percentage point from 4.9% in December to 4.6% in January. read more >
Sue Colinger has been hired as market president and Kayla Jones has been hired as personal banking specialist by Armor Bank in Marianna. read more >
A federal judge in Little Rock on Thursday cleared the way for Entergy Arkansas, the state's largest electric utility, to close coal-fired power plants in Jefferson and Independence counties. read more >
On March 15, Steven Lamm begins his new job as vice president of economic development for Jonesboro Unlimited, returning to the city where he graduated Arkansas State University and met his future spouse. read more >
I participated in our Arkansas Business of the Year awards program on Wednesday and it was weird. I know it was weird because that was the word I kept hearing from other attendees. read more >
Heather Nelson of Seal Solar of North Little Rock and Fred Scarborough of the Arkansas Children's Foundation in Little Rock won Executive of the Year awards, and billionaire philanthropist Johnelle Hunt of Lowell was honored for her lifetime of leadership last week at the 33rd annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Melissa McDaniel has been named market president for IberiaBank in northeast Arkansas. read more >
Ruth Supko Owens has been named director of the Arkansas State University Faculty Center. read more >
Adam Mitchell, president and chief lending officer of Citizens Bank, says his company has multiple programs in place to retain workers, through community involvement and workplace culture. read more >
Foodservice packaging manufacturer Anchor Packaging LLC broke ground Tuesday on the $21.5 million, 90,000-SF expansion to its plant in Paragould that will create 45 new jobs over the next 2.5 years. read more >
Minorities and women do not have the same access to capital as their white male counterparts, a systemic issue that can be addressed, a panel of Arkansas bank leaders and a small-business owner says. read more >
Renee Mauborgne, an economist and professor at international business graduate school INSEAD, will lead the third webcast in a series presented by Arkansas Business throughout 2021. read more >
A foreclosure lawsuit against a West Memphis gas station operator is its latest legal woe. read more >
The stage is set for an especially busy year of progress on the Delta Heritage Trail. Construction will be complete or in motion on more than 24 miles of biking-hiking pathway in east Arkansas backed by an estimated $9.4 million during 2021. read more >
Brian Richardson has been chosen by Jonesboro Mayor Harold Copenhaver to serve as the city's chief administrative officer. read more >
What did the big February snowstorm do to the solar panels John Sawyer builds by the thousands at farms in schools in northeast Arkansas? Absolutely nothing, the Stone Creek Solar CEO reports. read more >
FFO Home stores in Batesville, Bryant, Conway, Little Rock and Sherwood have been acquired by American Freight and re-branded as American Freight Furniture, Mattress, Appliance stores. read more >
NEA Baptist will break ground Friday on a new Pain Management Clinic. read more >
Many of Arkansas' current infrastructure projects require long-term plans that can be modified as needed, four industry professionals said during the “RechARge Arkansas: Regional Infrastructure Update” webinar. read more >
As utilities and authorities investigate why millions of Texans were left without power last week, Arkansas power experts are looking for lessons in the debacle, and explaining how Arkansas and other states largely avoided Texas' fate. read more >
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield announces "Vaccinate the Natural State," a statewide initiative that aims to educate Arkansans about the benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccine and encourage them to get it. read more >
Private cloud users stand to gain more predictable pricing, better security that's the result of knowing where their data is and having more control over it, and greater customization, according to three providers of private cloud service in Arkansas. read more >
Haley Stotts has been hired as business development and marketing officer by First Security Bank in Jonesboro. read more >
Two of Arkansas' leading electric utility executives say the state is "not out of the woods yet" after limited cold-weather blackouts mandated in emergency orders by the two regional transmission organizations based in Little Rock. read more >
Crisis brings out the best and worst in people, says leadership expert John Maxwell, and the world-changing effects of COVID-19 have presented a proving ground to reveal who the true leaders are in workplaces across the country. read more >
Even Jacob “Kade” Holliday's mother lent thousands of dollars to her son before it was discovered that the former Craighead County clerk allegedly embezzled more than $1.6 million from taxpayers. read more >
Senate Bill 3, commonly known as the “hate crimes bill,” boils down to a crucial chance to burnish Arkansas' image and remove a hurdle to recruiting companies and workers, government officials and business leaders say. read more >
Since 1988, Arkansas Business has honored the state's top executives, small businesses and nonprofits with the annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
