Alan Hope

Longtime CEO Alan Hope has grown the North Little Rock company from 60 to 350 employees and $100 million-plus in sales, despite legal hurdles. 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 >

Little Rock area contractors Alan Hope and Mikel Kullander will not be retried on charges that they defrauded the federal government on contracts intended for companies owned by disabled veterans. read more >

I spend exactly zero minutes worrying about who advertises in Arkansas Business. That’s someone else’s job. read more >

U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes declared a mistrial Thursday in the criminal trial of R. Alan Hope and Mikel C. Kullander, Little Rock area contractors accused of defrauding the government. read more >

With a pretrial hearing scheduled for Thursday and trial set to start Sept. 5, the filings are flying in the federal criminal case of R. Alan Hope and Mikel C. Kullander. read more >

Two officers of a North Little Rock company were indicted on 31 felony counts related to an alleged scheme to get millions in federal contracts by falsely claiming their company was headed by a disabled veteran. read more >

An affiliate of Los Angeles real estate investment firm AndMark bought the Oakwood Apartments project at 1310 Smithwick Drive in Jacksonville. read more >

A federal grand jury has been hearing testimony related to the August 2015 searches of Powers of Arkansas and Kullander Construction Co. read more >

The subject of a federal law enforcement search at a North Little Rock office on Wednesday was DAV Construction Co., according to a statement issued Thursday afternoon by Powers of Arkansas. read more >

Powers of Arkansas hires away 10 salespeople from competitor John Prince Co. read more >