Jim Walton
Arvest Bank Names Kevin Sabin as Chair, Matt Machen as President
Jim Walton, the son of Walmart Inc. founder Sam Walton, will step down as bank chair but remain chair for Arvest Bank Group, the bank’s holding company. read more >
Opera in the Ozarks Gets $34M Grant From Waltons
The grant will fund a new 300-seat theater as well as cabins for faculty housing. read more >
Newly Launched Arvest Opportunity Fund Provides Loans to Small Businesses
Since May 2022, the fund has provided loans and lines of credit to businesses that fall just short of Arvest Bank’s business loan requirements. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Arvest Leads Arkansas in SBA Lending, Again
It was the ninth consecutive year the bank has led the SBA lending list in Arkansas, and Arvest was third among banks in Oklahoma and fourth in Kansas. read more >
Arkansas’ Top Stockholders: 2020 Very Good for Walton Family Fortune
Arkansas’ richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
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Arkansas’ Waltons Among Forbes’ Top 12 Richest
Only one Walton family member was in the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people, and she doesn’t live in Arkansas. read more >
Walton Family Foundation Gives $20M for Delta Trail
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the Walton Family Foundation announce a $20 million matching grant from the foundation that will complete a 84.5-mile Delta Heritage Trail. read more >
Top Stockholders in Arkansas Buoyed by Runup in Markets
It’s been almost two years since Arkansas Business listed the state’s top stockholders based on the value of publicly disclosed stock. Since then, the Walton family’s fortune — the part disclosed publicly — has increased by more than $20 billion. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
Cash Offers & Rival Bids: Inside Bear State Bank’s $391M Sale
Randy Dennis, the president of DD&F Consulting, thought Arvest Bank of Fayetteville and Bear State Bank of Little Rock would be a good fit. read more >
by Mark Friedman -
Update: Arvest to Buy Bear State Bank in $391M All-Cash Deal
Arvest Bank will acquire Bear State Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at about $391 million, or $10.28 per share of Bear State common stock. read more >
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At 5, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Transforms Bentonville
There are any number of ways to try to gauge the impact — economic and otherwise — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has had on Bentonville, on Arkansas and beyond since its opening Nov. 11, 2011. read more >
by Jan Cottingham -
Waltons Among Forbes’ Top 20 Richest
The Walton family has fallen out of the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people. read more >
Bank of the Ozarks Seals 2 Deals, Is Biggest in Arkansas by Assets
Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock completes acquisitions of Community & Southern Bank of Atlanta and C1 Bank of St. Petersburg, Florida, and leaps over Arvest in asset size. read more >
Wal-Mart Embraces Change at Meeting, Hitching Up With Uber
During the retailer's annual meeting, Wal-Mart Chairman Greg Penner cast the company as changing with the economic and shopping landscape, just as it has done throughout its long history. read more >
by Marty Cook -
At Wal-Mart, Doug McMillon’s Total Pay Rises to $19.8M
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. President and CEO C. Douglas McMillon saw his total compensation increase 2.1 percent to $19.8 million for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31 compared with the previous year. read more >
by Mark Friedman -
Arkansas Business Power List 2016: Banking & Finance
A banking and finance resource to help navigate the leadership of the largest Arkansas companies or institutions. read more >
Walton Family Members Give Away $407M in Shares
Sam Walton's three surviving children have given about $407 million worth of stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to a nonprofit organization founded by their family. read more >
by Lance Turner -
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 -
CPI Sells Oklahoma Newspapers to Warren Buffett’s BH Media Group
Community Publishers Inc. of Bentonville has sold the last of its newspaper holdings to a firm owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathway Co. read more >
by Lance Turner -
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 >
by Mark Carter -
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