Dillard’s Inc.

The results still beat Wall Street forecasts. Shares of the company jumped more than 10% Thursday morning. read more >

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In its latest proxy on April 5, the Little Rock department store chain reported that in Dillard’s fiscal 2023, Stephens Insurance LLC of Little Rock received about $1.4 million in commissions related to the sale of voluntary insurance products to Dillard’s workers. read more >

Clark Contractors is nine months into an $18 million project at the Pleasant Valley Country Club while celebrating its 15th year in business. read more >

Park Plaza Mall owner CBL & Associates Properties Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, seeking to restructure its debt and survive amid rising e-commerce and declining in-store traffic. read more >

Analysts predict grim quarter for the Little Rock department store chain, which has now closed 200 of its 285 locations amid the coronavirus outbreak. One analyst expects same-store sales to fall 31.7% in its first quarter. read more >

Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr is pushing for more companies to start captive insurance subsidiaries, which can write insurance only for its parent or related companies, and locate them in Arkansas. read more >

Steven Nelson and his wife, Deborah, of Little Rock have given $100,000 to support accounting faculty in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. read more >

There was good news and there was bad news in Arkansas in 2012. And in case you’ve forgotten the details, the Arkansas Business staff is here to remind you. read more >

The practice known as peer group compensation benchmarking is the reason CEO pay has climbed to stratospheric levels in the last two decades, according to a recent study. read more >