Walmart Inc. of Bentonville says John Furner will become the president and CEO of Walmart U.S. as current leader Greg Foran takes a job as CEO at Air New Zealand Limited.
A long-running family dispute in northwest Arkansas over a small fortune in Walmart stock entered a new arena for courtroom contention: bankruptcy.
The University of Arkansas' Sam M. Walton College of Business will serve as host for the Supply Chain Hall of Fame in Rogers for the next five years.
A jury has awarded a former Wisconsin Walmart employee $5.2 million in a disability discrimination case. read more >
A former workers' compensation attorney for Tyson Foods has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Iowa accusing company officials of making anti-gay slurs, filing false information in workers' compensation cases and discriminating based on sex and age. 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 >
Dr. Ramon Ylanan, previously the head team physician for the Arkansas Razorbacks since 2012, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' orthopaedic clinical care practice in Fayetteville. read more >
Four business leaders who have made contributions to the banking, construction, publishing and real estate industries will be inducted into the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame on Feb. 7 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
Jamie Loftin, assistant vice provost for distance education administration at the University of Arkansas, was recently appointed as constituent chair to the board of directors for the Southern Association of College and University Business Officers. read more >
University of Arkansas alumnus Brian Wolff commits a $1 million planned gift to the university's Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. 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 >
One of the owners behind the defunct John Daly Steakhouse in Conway recently won a legal victory. read more >
Universal catastrophic coverage has been kicked around for decades, and it's the kind of thing that could have bipartisan appeal if given a chance. read more >
The Trucking Alliance has preached driver safety for years, lobbying for electronic logging devices and hair testing drivers for illegal drug use. Now, the Alliance says it has some concrete and scary numbers to support its stance on hair testing. read more >
The Northwest Arkansas Council hired Jeannette Balleza Collins as entrepreneurial development director and Nate Green as communications director. read more >
The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, forecasts that holiday sales will rise between 3.8% and 4.2% even as uncertainty looms over an escalating trade war with China. read more >
Walmart is rolling out a health care pilot program for its employees that will come up with a curated list of high quality providers but offer fewer choices than under the current plan. 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 >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville has become the latest retailer to halt sales of the popular heartburn treatment Zantac after health regulators warned about a potentially dangerous contaminant in the drug. read more >
Arkansas motorists will pay more to put fuel in their vehicles when new sales taxes go into effect to help maintain roads and highways. read more >
A planned 200,000-SF WeWork office project in downtown Bentonville should not be affected by the turmoil surrounding the parent company. read more >
Hospitals' bottom lines were hurt by flat patient volume, a shortage of nurses and the high cost of specialty drugs read more >
The idea of Americans scrolling through hospital websites to find the best deal on a mammogram or tonsillectomy sounds good to almost everybody. But the devil is in the details, and when federal plans emerged to force hospitals and insurers to reveal their negotiated rates for all kinds of medical services, the pitchforks came out. read more >
In the past few years, hospital expansions in Arkansas have captured the public's attention, but officials said the most important medical care usually happens well before a hospital visit. read more >
The Razorback Foundation sold 232 acres in south Fayetteville for $6 million to Ashton McCombs, president of the water treatment company Phigenics. read more >
Walmart Inc. unveiled its first Walmart Health center in Georgia earlier this month, marking its latest expansion into health care services. read more >
Walmart has set Nov. 6 for the reopening of its store in El Paso where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting. read more >
Franchisee Jon Foote recently opened an MIT Solutions office at 4210 N. Frontage Road, Suite 31, in Fayetteville. read more >
Walmart's Sam's Club is teaming up with several health care companies to offer discounts on everyday care its customers might delay or skip because of the cost. read more >
The Division of Arkansas Tourism said Wednesday that 32 million people visited Arkansas in 2018, spending $7.37 billion, up 4.4% from 2017. read more >
Engineering firm Benchmark Group of Rogers opened a branch office in downtown Dallas. read more >
Arkansas and private groups are putting aside $2 million for conservation and water quality grants within the Buffalo River watershed. read more >
