Arkansas Business Pubilshing Group

The value of big deals in Arkansas plummeted 85% in 2019 compared with the previous year, dropping to $7.9 billion compared with a stratospheric $53.9 billion in 2018. read more >

It’s almost like the Business Roundtable heard Olivia Farrell’s speech when she accepted the Little Rock Rotary Club’s Business & Professional Leader of the Year award in June and decided to get on board. read more >

Olivia Farrell, the former CEO of Arkansas Business Publishing Group, accepted her honor of being chosen as the Rotary Club of Little Rock’s Business & Professional Leader of the Year by expanding on her successful fivefold business philosophy. read more >

After blazing a four-decade trail for Arkansas women, helping build the Arkansas Times and then ABPG into two of the state’s biggest independent multimedia firms, Olivia Farrell is taking her dogs and going home. read more >

The Arkansas Times, which lost ad business with the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College after rejecting pro-Israel language in an ad contract, is suing to neuter the state law requiring it. read more >

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is seeking a new Walmart writer since its latest reporter is going to work for Walmart Inc. read more >

Companies provide 401(k) plans for all the right reasons, but in doing so, employers also take on a fiduciary responsibility for making smart choices. read more >

A media and marketing resource to help navigate the leadership of the largest Arkansas companies or institutions. read more >

The arrival in the market of the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism’s new publication, My Arkansas Wedding, came as a surprise to the for-profit publishers of magazines. read more >

Later this week, I’ll celebrate my 15th anniversary as editor of Arkansas Business. If your first thought is, “Wow, you’d think she’d be better at it by now,” let me assure you that I am in complete agreement. The longer I do this job, the more I realize just how much I don’t know. But that’s one of the reasons I keep doing it: I learn something about something every day. read more >