L’Oreal

The company has filled 50 new positions and is looking to add more as it undergoes a $12 million expansion of its North Little Rock facility. read more >

Bill Halter is hardly the face of Maybelline, but he’s looking good in the wake of L’Oréal USA’s announcement last month that it has reached carbon-neutral operations in the United States. read more >

The company was an early adopter of solar energy in Arkansas, where it built an array to power its North Little Rock plant. read more >

L’Oréal USA announces a $12 million-plus expansion of its North Little Rock plant that will create 45 full-time jobs and increase production for all its brands. read more >

This week, we serve up a trio of million-dollar real estate transactions in Pulaski County as well as a pair of major construction projects. read more >

Private-sector corporations in Arkansas are taking the spotlight with multimillion-dollar solar power projects, with a goal of cutting costs. read more >

In advance of Earth Day, L’Oreal Group reported significant advances last week in its corporate campaign for environmental sustainability, including a major commitment to solar power at its manufacturing plant in North Little Rock. read more >

How is making Lash Paradise mascara in North Little Rock like building a Chevy Volt in the Detroit area? read more >

Bill Halter was out in the sunshine Wednesday in Clarksville, looking over the state's largest municipal solar array and smiling despite the reality of new American tariffs on imported solar modules. read more >

Entergy Arkansas, which just completed the state's largest solar energy project near Stuttgart in partnership with NextEra Energy Solutions of Florida, now hopes to top itself with an even bigger solar facility in Chicot County. read more >

Scenic Hill Solar of Little Rock and Clarksville's city-owned utility have partnered to build the largest municipal power source in Arkansas using renewable energy. read more >

Scenic Hill Solar, led by former Arkansas lieutenant governor Bill Halter, has landed big work for its first projects — the multimillion-dollar job of putting thousands of solar panels on two L'Oreal USA cosmetics factories in North Little Rock and Florence, Kentucky. read more >

L'Oreal USA says it is building thousands of solar panels at its facilities in Kentucky and Arkansas, a move the company says will create two of the biggest solar-powered projects in each state. read more >

Southern Business & Development, has rated the Little Rock region among the “Top 10 Smaller Markets in the South for Foreign Investment,” with three (now four) major foreign advanced manufacturer locations since 2007. Additionally, the region’s largest manufacturer employer (Dassault Falcon Jet) is headquartered in France. read more >