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 >
It looks like one of the longest-running and largest bankruptcy cases in Arkansas is finally coming to an end. read more >
In a matter of weeks, Minute Man Restaurants of Arkansas will have not one, not two, but three mobile food trucks driving the state, a move brought about by accelerated demand amid COVID-19. 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 >
While helping Natural Capital get into the affordable housing market, Cushman & Wakefield/Sage Partners also brokered an $8.54 million sale of Little Rock's Colony West Shopping Center in late January. 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 >
This week's offering of million-dollar real estate transactions encompasses a fast-food outlet, apartments, big homes and sand land. read more >
John Rees of Rees Development says the businesses in his centers have struggled during the pandemic but survived. read more >
Clay Moon has been hired as senior sales director for national associations by the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau. read more >
McClard's Bar-B-Q in Hot Springs will open a location in Rogers on April 1. 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 >
The owners of a string of Little Rock-area hotels and motels have taken a shared property tax grievance to Pulaski County Circuit Court that could have implications across the state. read more >
The pandemic's impact on the state's largest airport shows operating revenue down 33% in 2020 from the previous year. read more >
There's an employee type likely to be judged expendable if the nation moves toward a $15 minimum wage, even if few business owners will dare mention it. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic sent hospitality tax collections in Arkansas plummeting last year, and the blow to some tourism bureaus in the state, which rely on the taxes for revenue, was even worse than those figures show. read more >
The Momentary opened to great fanfare in February 2020 in Bentonville, celebrating itself as the relaxed “living room” contemporary art satellite museum of the famed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. read more >
Some in the hospitality industry question the timing of raising the federal minimum to $15, fearing added burdens could halt recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
International tourist arrivals fell 74% in 2020 compared with 2019, according to the World Tourism Organization. That's equal to a decline of about 1.1 billion international arrivals, a level not seen since the late 1980s and early 1990s. read more >
Last year was a difficult one for many businesses, but not for Arkitchen Commercial Kitchen of Little Rock, operated and co-owned by Jon Lamb. read more >
Princeton Place Apartments LLC, an affiliate of Pace Burt Inc. of Albany, Georgia, acquired the 11-story building at 300 E. Roosevelt Road from the Institute in Basic Life Principles Inc. of Hinsdale, Illinois. read more >
Karen Trevino, CEO of the North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, says recovery from the pandemic will take a long time. read more >
Big Red Stores announced this week plans to construct three new stores, remodel two existing locations and partner with Dairy Queen Restaurants. read more >
A Fayetteville company that manufactures peanut butter and almond butter recently raised $1 million from investors. read more >
MAG Capital Partners of Fort Worth, led by Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi, bought J.J.'s Beer Garden & Brewery through its MAG-JBGB Investment Partners LLC. JBGB was created by Jody Thornton, who owns nine J.J.'s Grill sites in Arkansas. read more >
Mitzi Warren has been hired by wholesale distributor Douglas Cos. of Conway to serve as director of food services. read more >
Carmen Portillo makes and sells an appealing product — chocolate — and has an appealing story — she considers herself an artist whose medium is chocolate. read more >
Tax collections show liquor store sales grew, even during the coronavirus pandemic, while mixed-drink sales plummeted. read more >
Joseph Byrd and Guy Barker lead the government of the Quapaw Nation, which owns and operates Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff. They talk about casinos, business development and UA donations. read more >
