People paying close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic in Arkansas have likely encountered ArkansasCOVID.com, a website founded and edited by Misty Orpin of Springdale that is closely tracking data tied to the outbreak.
La-Z-Boy Inc. of Monroe, Michigan, expects to have about 350 employees back at work at its production facility in Siloam Springs as the company transfers part of its production line to the site.
L. Dickson Flake, the commercial real estate developer whose major projects include the 33-story Regions Center in Little Rock and J.B. Hunt Transport Services headquarters in Lowell, died Tuesday in Little Rock. He was 81.
The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville appoints David Snow as the interim vice chancellor for economic development. read more >
Arkansas Business will not publish its Daily Report, Morning Roundup and industry-specific e-newsletters on Friday. read more >
Sean T. Keith has received the Golden Gavel Award from the Arkansas Bar Association. read more >
Rick Herrick has been named leader of the transportation development team at Olsson in Fayetteville. read more >
Troubled investment adviser Adam Kuettel has added a new problem to his list: the Arkansas Securities Department. read more >
The recent fraud trial of Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart represented a first for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. read more >
Some, like the hospitality industry, are bracing for a long, slow return to pre-COVID vitality. Others, like the energy sector, see a quicker recovery after the early swoon. Some trends seem baked into expectations, like reliance on home-based employees and the technology they use. read more >
This month's legal action by fired Razorback football coach Bret Bielema paints the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Wally Hall as something of a stenographer for the Razorback Foundation, Bielema's target in a $7 million breach-of-promise lawsuit. read more >
The Harps Food Store adjacent to the company's headquarters in Springdale has sold for nearly $6 million to two Fayetteville investors. read more >
USA Truck CEO James Reed is three years into his rebuilding project at the Van Buren-based trucking company. read more >
The Fryar Family Charitable Foundation donates $10 million donation to the University of Arkansas System. read more >
The families of three workers who died after contracting the coronavirus in an Iowa meat plant outbreak sued Tyson Foods and its top executives Thursday, saying the company knowingly put employees at risk and lied to keep them on the job. read more >
Walmart Inc. says it will continue to review its policy on working with suppliers that deploy prison labor, as part of its review of overall practices in the wake of civil unrest over racial inequality. read more >
The undergraduate supply chain management program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville was ranked the top program in North America by Gartner, a global research firm. read more >
The Walton Family Foundation promoted Moira Mcdonald to director of its environment program. read more >
The former northwest Arkansas real estate developer revealed the terminal diagnosis Wednesday morning as testimony wrapped up in bankruptcy court in Dallas, where he is accused of defrauding creditors. read more >
Bob Scott has been named director of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service, effective July 1. read more >
The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education will begin accepting applications to its School of Physical Therapy on July 1. read more >
A 108,627-SF office complex in Lowell sells for slightly less than $13 million. Graham Streett of Fort Smith and Clinton Bennett of Fayetteville buy the Northwest Arkansas Business Center. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale names Johanna Söderström as executive vice president and chief human resources officer, effective July 6. read more >
HMG Investments proved to be a popular topic of questioning Monday in the bankruptcy fraud trial of Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart in Dallas. read more >
China's decision to ban imports from a single Tyson Foods poultry plant where there was a coronavirus outbreak has raised concerns about the implications on the U.S. meat industry if the action is expanded to other plants. read more >
A ruling won't be coming this week in the Dallas trial regarding alleged bankruptcy fraud by Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart. read more >
AT&T is doing its part to answer the call for more rural internet in the COVID-19 era, combining with the Federal Communications Commission to extend high-speed service to more than 41,000 rural homes and businesses in Arkansas. read more >
Did Bill Schwyhart, the former high-flying northwest Arkansas developer, and his wife, Carolyn, commit bankruptcy fraud? That question goes before the judicial firing line during a three-day trial scheduled to run today through Wednesday in Dallas before Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale. read more >
B-Unlimited of Fayetteville is best known as the apparel company that makes college-themed T-shirts; CEO Ben Clark said B-Unlimited reached $10 million in sales in 2019. read more >
Shane Perry shared some of Walmart's management tips while he was on the stand in his divorce proceeding in 2018. read more >
Since I'm not at all sure any of us have a good grasp on how much our worlds will have been changed by the pandemic, I think of this week's list as a final snapshot of the old normal that will be valuable when it comes time to document the new normal. read more >
The 33rd annual list of the state's largest private companies serves as a baseline for pre-pandemic revenue. read more >
A former in-house attorney for Walmart Inc. said he knew in February 2017 that his career at the Bentonville retailer was coming to an end when he refused to make changes to a memo he had written years earlier about a bribery investigation in Mexico. read more >
