Little Rock Coaches, a charter motorcoach company, has basically seen its business shut down since mid-March. It is not a Little Rock or an Arkansas phenomenon; the pandemic has hammered motorcoach businesses across the nation.
Helena Harbor has been awarded a $528,922 Delta Regional Authority grant to resurface a major road and to continue improving the eight miles of rail it owns.
Arkansas Business is once again seeking nominations of the state's outstanding businesses, business executives and nonprofits for its Arkansas Business of the Year Awards.
After years as VP at Arkansas Farm Bureau, Rich Hillman thought he knew what to expect as president. Then came COVID-19. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 7.4% in August from 7.1% in July, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
Walmart is teaming up with a company called Zipline to launch drone delivery program early next year that will deliver health and wellness products close to the retailer's headquarters in northwest Arkansas. read more >
Is it any wonder that the phrase “May I provide you with some feedback?” sets up an emotional loop almost guaranteed to grate on nerves and create stress? read more >
United Parcel Service says it plans to hire more than 100,000 extra workers to help handle an increase in packages during the holiday season. read more >
Walmart launches a pilot program using drones to deliver groceries and household essentials in Fayetteville, North Carolina. read more >
Only one Walton family member was in the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people, and she doesn't live in Arkansas. read more >
A super convenience store, apartments, an eatery and a home provide this week's installment of million-dollar real estate deals. read more >
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area now has a population of about 750,000, according to a report by Metroplan, the planning agency for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. read more >
From Rogers to Jonesboro to Benton and McCrory, there is bright young talent across our state. For the 11th year, Arkansas Business is proud to introduce 20 of the freshest faces in business and community service. read more >
Cynergy Cargo 2 of Douglas, Georgia, a manufacturer of enclosed cargo trailers, marks the opening of its new facility in the Crossett Industrial Park. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an interactive online ceremony in November. read more >
ArcBest Corp. of Fort Smith said Chief Yield Officer Danny Loe is promoted to president of the company's asset-light logistics division. read more >
James Reed is white and, even though he was the first of his family to attend college, he knows his whiteness played a role in his success. read more >
Reed is one of many executives in the state who are banging the drum for businesses to become more diverse and inclusive, a movement that has gained momentum in the wake of recent Black Lives Matter protests. read more >
Blacks owned 124,004 employer businesses (firms with at least one paid employee) in 2017, or 2.2% of the 5.7 million employer businesses in the United States, according to the 2018 Annual Business Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
Amazon of Seattle will open a new delivery station at 400 Sharkey Drive in Maumelle later this year, creating "dozens" of full-time and part-time jobs, the company says. read more >
Quick collaboration among state and local economic developers helped persuade Koppers Holdings Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to retain its North Little Rock plant and invest at least $23 million to expand it over the next two years. read more >
Rebecca Brewster had some sobering news but expressed hope for the future during a speech at the Arkansas Trucking Association's annual conference last week at the Hammons Center in Rogers. read more >
Pasha Ross Watson, the Chamber of Commerce chief in Polk County, wants you to know there's more to Mena than its famous airport. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7.1% in July from 8.1% in June, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the keynote speaker at the Arkansas Trucking Association's annual conference Tuesday. read more >
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell made its first delivery with an all-electric tractor Tuesday. read more >
On Aug. 1, an otherwise normal afternoon on Interstate 95 in Boynton Beach north of Miami, a weird, totally Florida scene broke out involving a passing ABF Freight tractor-trailer. read more >
Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar's experience explains why his total compensation for the first seven months he spent at Walmart made him the highest-paid executive among Arkansas' public companies. read more >
The biggest disasters are rarely the result of a single, isolated failure. read more >
Gross domestic product in the United States plunged at an annual rate of 32.9% in the second quarter of 2020, a record. The drop was 9.5% compared with the first quarter. read more >
Jeff Williams, America's Car-Mart Inc.'s CEO, describes selling used cars during a pandemic, and how his teams adjusted. read more >
Organizations are looking hard at how to make working from home work. The remote worker genie is absolutely not going back in the bottle. read more >
PAM Transport Inc. of Tontitown named Joe Vitiritto as the company's new president and CEO, effective Aug. 18. read more >
