Charles E. Scharlau began working at Southwestern Energy as an attorney and worked at the company in many different positions before eventually becoming its chairman, president and chief executive officer. read more >

Tom Schueck, a newly graduated civil engineer, moved to Little Rock in the 1960s to work on the Murray Lock and Dam. But it didn’t take him long to form Schueck Steel Products in his converted garage — a company with $800 to its name and one employee, Tom’s pregnant wife, Marge. read more >

Sherman Tate has stacked up a pretty good record of being “the first” at a number of things in his long career in business and government in Arkansas. But while breaking barriers was never something Tate shied away from, it wasn’t really his goal, either. read more >

Gus Vratsinas is a builder of award winning shopping malls, theatre complexes, university buildings, office and residential towers, hotels, and much more. read more >

The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas this week announced four new inductees to its Arkansas Business Hall of Fame. read more >

Patti Upton likes to say Aromatique happened by accident. But the fact that success and Patti Upton found each other was no accident. read more >

Winthrop Rockefeller’s effect on the economy, community and psyche of Arkansas was sweeping, especially after becoming the first Republican governor in Arkansas since post-Civil War Reconstruction. read more >

George K. Mitchell knew in his youth that by becoming a doctor he could improve people’s lives. But it was by leaving the practice of medicine and joining Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield that he touched the lives of perhaps all Arkansans and brought about improvements to the health care system nationwide. read more >

Bill Dillard’s is a story of opportunities taken and challenges faced. His time leading Dillard’s Inc. has seen an Arkansas company maintain its corporate headquarters here and still compete with landmark rivals in the upscale retail market. read more >

The 2016 inductees are: William T. Dillard II of Dillards Inc.; Dr. George K. Mitchell, former Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield CEO; former Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller; and Patricia P. Upton of Aromatique. read more >

The selection committee for the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame is now accepting nominations for the 2016 class of inductees. read more >

Throughout his career, Al Bell has been considered a visionary, a seer, an icon, a music mogul, a communications and entertainment maverick and a legend, which is how most people throughout the industry view him today. read more >

Twenty-six dollars went a lot farther in 1968 than it does today. Even then, that was a small amount for a business to take in on a single day. But $26 is exactly what Stephen L. LaFrance Sr. put in the cash register on his first day in business at the pharmacy at Gibson’s Department Store in Pine Bluff. From that rather modest beginning, LaFrance built that single drugstore into USA Drug, which grew to be the largest privately owned chain of drugstores in the United States. read more >

Millie Ward is at the center of things. As president and co-founder of Stone Ward, a full-service advertising agency with offices in Little Rock and Chicago, she is at the center of the group’s ethos of intelligent thinking, committed service and creative drive. read more >

In early 1965, Buddy Wray moved to Tyson’s first Springdale processing plant and began managing both plants. He was still sales manager too. As the business grew, Wray was an integral part of expanding it into cut chicken parts, deboned chicken meat and one of Tyson’s early expansions into the Cornish game hen business. That was the beginning of Tyson’s sales and marketing as we understand it today. read more >

The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas on Monday announced four new inductees to its Arkansas Business Hall of Fame. read more >

Jim Faulkner turned a minor setback in his communications career into years of success with his advertising and publishing businesses Faulkner & Associates, Falcon Productions, Falcon Publications and Jimco, Inc. read more >

Global citizen Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty’s success is rooted in Arkansas soil. His distinguished career has spanned multiple sectors — Main Street to Wall Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to Pan-American and international highways; yet he traces his achievements back to the lessons he learned in Arkansas, and to the people who helped to inspire, support and guide him along the way. read more >

In a life dedicated to his family and his farm, Stanley E. Reed also managed to serve his fellow farmers of Arkansas, his state, his country and the world. Many forces pulled at him — practicing law, public service — but the pull that always had a hold on him and the one that won out was the pull to be a dirt-under-his-fingernails farmer. Reed, who died July 15, 2011, became that while managing to also be much more. read more >

Mark C. Simmons has never been one to shy away from a daunting task. Whether taking over the family company when only in his 20s, overseeing one of the nation’s largest privately held broiler processing companies and the largest private label pet food company during economic turmoil or working to keep northwest Arkansas growing while protecting its natural beauty, Simmons accepted the challenge. read more >