Jerry Jones
Texas Bound: Chambers Bank of Danville Sets Sights on Dallas
The Dallas office will be Chambers Bank’s first operation there. But it is no stranger to making loans in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Having Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in the extended family helped the bank build some lending relationships. read more >
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Industrial Purchase Tops $4.3M (Real Deals)
Nearly 874 acres for a future expansion of the Little Rock Port Industrial Park tipped the scales at $4.35 million. read more >
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Mile-High Net Worth Puts Walmart Heir Atop NFL
And there’s another owner with strong Arkansas ties in the top 10 of richest football owners. read more >
Pope County Casino Still on Hold
Cherokee Nation Businesses’ $225 million Legends Resort & Casino in Pope County, expected to create more than 1,000 direct jobs, remains on hold amid lingering litigation. read more >
In Gas Price Spike, CenterPoint Conserves as Jones’ Company Notes Price Jump
As natural gas prices skyrocketed in a winter power crisis and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' production company benefited from the price spike, gas utility CenterPoint Energy pleaded with customers to continue to conserve even as polar temperatures rise above freezing in many states for the first time in over a week. read more >
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Razorback Foundation Makes $6M Deal (NWA Real Deals)
The Razorback Foundation sold 232 acres in south Fayetteville for $6 million to Ashton McCombs, president of the water treatment company Phigenics. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Acxiom Corp. Employees To Remain In Conway, Little Rock
Acxiom Corp. employees will remain in Conway and Little Rock, some working for LiveRamp and others for Acxiom Marking Solutions, the business unit Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. of New York is buying for $2.3 billion. read more >
Acxiom Corp. Trims Workers As It Combines Segments
Acxiom Corp. of Conway says it is cutting 2 percent of its global workforce of about 3,300 as it combine its Audience Solutions and Marketing Services divisions into a new business unit called Acxiom Marketing Solutions. The company declined to say how many Arkansas workers would be affected. read more >
Update: $1.5M Lawsuit Over Digital Training Platform Dismissed
A lawsuit by Ron Crawford, who sought to recover more than $500,000 plus $1 million in punitive damages over an investment in a mobile platform for athlete training, is dismissed after both the plaintiffs and defendants requested it. read more >
The Influencers: Tom Schueck of Lexicon Inc.
After building Schueck Steel into a family of companies under the Lexicon corporate banner, Tom Schueck has developed a secondary career of sorts. read more >
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Governor Appoints Arkansas CEOs to Study State’s Computer, Data Sector
Gov. Asa Hutchinson forms a blue ribbon commission to study how to grow the state's computer science and data analytics sector. The 19-member commission is co-chaired by Acxiom Corp. founder Charles Morgan and Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston. read more >
Business Icons: Jim Lindsey Builds Real Estate Empire from Toughness
An initial investment from money made playing football led to a real estate career that spawned a development conglomerate — made up of such companies as Lindsey & Associates and Lindsey Management — that oversees 145 apartment complexes throughout the mid-South. read more >
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Forbes List of Richest People for 2015 Includes 10 with Arkansas Ties
The list once again is led by Microsoft's Bill Gates. Wal-Mart heir Jim Walton leads a group of Arkansans and those with close ties to the state included on the list. read more >
by Mark Carter -
Nine Billionaires with Arkansas Ties Make Forbes 500 List
Nine billionaires with Arkansas ties find themselves on the most recent Forbes 500 list of the world's richest people, released this week. read more >
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Jerry Jones Gives $10.65M to University of Arkansas Athletic Department
The Jones' gift is a combination of cash to be paid over a five-year period and land donated to the Razorback Foundation. The donation will address several projects of the university's athletics department, including a 55,000-SF student-athlete center. read more >
Jerry Jones Buys Land for $7M, Gives Ownership to Razorback Foundation
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones bought 254 acres in south Fayetteville for about $7.3 million. Jones purchased the property from Chambers Bank of Danville. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys Top $3B in Value
The Dallas Cowboys are once again ranked as the top U.S. sports franchise, topping $3 billion value, according to Forbes magazine. read more >
by Lance Turner -
M. David Howell’s Debts May Total $60 Million
M. David Howell, the former bank CEO in Little Rock and Fayetteville who died in a Beverly Hills hotel on Oct. 23, may have received $60 million or more from investors to whom he promised exorbitant returns, sources have told Arkansas Business. read more >
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Oily Deals: Pattern Emerging in Questionable Arkoma Gas Transactions
Jerry Jones has always pleaded innocent in the controversial 1982 Arkla-Arkoma gas deal, a deal worth at least $174.8 million when the final numbers were tallied last fall. This January, a ratepayers’ class-action suit declared the deal an insider’s rip-off for Arkansas gas consumers who got stuck with an $80 million overcharge bill that went straight into Jones’ bulging bank account. read more >
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Acxiom’s Jerry Jones Joins Heifer International Board
Jerry C. Jones of Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock has been elected to an at-large position of the board of directors of international nonprofit Heifer International. read more >