ArcBest Q2 Profit Beats Wall Street Expectations
by Arkansas Business Staff – 4 days ago
ArcBest Corp. of Fort Smith reported Monday second-quarter revenue of $949 million. The company said the revenue figure was the highest in its history.
ArcBest Corp. of Fort Smith reported Monday second-quarter revenue of $949 million. The company said the revenue figure was the highest in its history.
After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a lengthy debate over President Joe Biden's big priority.
Author and organizational health guru Patrick Lencioni will lead the eighth webcast in a series presented by Arkansas Business throughout 2021.
The Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee fully reopened Monday ahead of schedule following repairs to a crack that had shut down the span since early May. read more >
Shay Stevens of Little Rock is selling her home care business, Millennium Companion Inc., in an era of wage pressures and acquisitions. read more >
Hospitals in Arkansas and around the country are desperately seeking nurses to care for a surging number of COVID-19 patients, and providers fear the demand will rise during the upcoming flu season. read more >
The tools will change but not our mission of providing meaningful content that our business audience can't get anywhere else. read more >
Authorities on Saturday night reopened the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that had been closed ever since a crack was discovered in the span in May. read more >
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren reported Thursday second-quarter revenue of $170 million, which the company said was an all-time best. read more >
The Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that was closed after a crack was found in the span will begin reopening to traffic next week, transportation officials say. read more >
Of the 2 million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travelers. read more >
Walmart Inc. rules Arkansas Business' annual lists of the state's public companies and how much their executives are paid, and it's hard to imagine a time when that won't be true — especially as the lists get shorter. read more >
America's Car-Mart Inc. of Rogers is making the switch from a collections company that sold cars to a car company that's good at collections. read more >
Ronnie Sturch and Alan Pillow have been selected as new directors by the city of Jonesboro. read more >
Tamika Edwards and Keith Harvey are sworn in as new members of the Little Rock Port Authority Board. read more >
Uber Freight will buy transportation management and logistics company Transplace of Dallas, which just opened a 150,000-SF operations center in Rogers. read more >
The U.S. economy reached a peak in February 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research says. The recession began the following month and ended in April. read more >
J.B. Hunt's net earnings of $172 million was an increase from the $121.7 million the company reported in the same quarter of 2020. read more >
Megan Crozier, chief merchant for Sam's Club, and University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Athletics Hunter Yurachek are among the featured speakers for the fall Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy in Bentonville. read more >
Real gross domestic product rose in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2021. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, at 4.4% from May to June. read more >
Transportation management and logistics company Transplace of Dallas marks the grand opening of its new 150,000-SF operations center in Rogers. read more >
PAM Transport Inc. of Tontitown reports second-quarter income of $15.3 million, a big increase from a loss of $823,000 in the same quarter of fiscal 2020. read more >
Total compensation for Jeff Williams, CEO of America's Car-Mart Inc. of Rogers, declined due to a lack of option awards, according to the company's latest proxy statement. read more >
No official has given a hard date for when the six-lane Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi River will reopen for traffic, but it is beginning to look like the end of July is a good bet. read more >
Arkansas can implement a range of strategies in six key areas to guide itself out of the economic harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report commissioned by the governor's Economic Recovery Task Force. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor 50 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during a live event in September at the DoubleTree Little Rock. read more >
West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon says his town of approximately 25,000 has “probably” lost about $1.5 million in tax revenue. read more >
President Joe Biden's proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 includes $149 million for the Three Rivers Project, which officials say would prevent an economically devastating shutdown of the 50-year-old McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. read more >
For reasons that I cannot grasp, a depressing majority of Arkansans over age 16 — two out of three — are still not fully vaccinated against the disease that has killed almost 6,000 of our neighbors. read more >
As of early last week, President Joe Biden's eight-year, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal appeared to be holding, but polarization in Washington makes the deal fragile. read more >
This week, we welcome a quartet of million-dollar real estate transactions to the show. read more >
Steve Frisbee and Michael Hill, engineers with ArDOT, say the fix of the I-40 bridge at Memphis will be a long-term repair. read more >
