Mountaire Corp.

Seventeen private companies owned and headquartered in Arkansas are believed to have had revenue of more than $1 billion in 2023. read more >

Mountaire Corp. of Little Rock remained the largest private company headquartered in Arkansas as measured by revenue in fiscal 2022. read more >

What the vote for recreational marijuana could mean for business, from the size of the market to its sales and tax potential. read more >

For most of the businesses on this year’s list of Arkansas’ 75 largest private companies, top-line revenue in 2021 was significantly better than in 2019, before any of us had heard of COVID-19. read more >

Noncompete contract clauses draw scrutiny, but often prevail. read more >

The company alleges that he broke a non-competitive agreement by going to work for Mountaire Corp. read more >

Data collected for this week’s list of private companies illustrated the uneven and sometimes counterintuitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries. read more >

Mountaire Corp. last month settled an environmental lawsuit in Delaware for $65 million and agreed to other improvements in its process. read more >

A Superior Court judge has ordered Mountaire Corp. of Little Rock and two Delaware subsidiaries to pay more than $28,000 in sanctions for repeatedly refusing to provide information in a lawsuit over wastewater violations. read more >

Revenue at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield topped $2.5 billion last year, a milestone achieved by only one other company in the 30 years that Arkansas Business has been ranking private companies by revenue. read more >

Politico recently ranked the top 100 donors to political campaigns in 2014 and an Arkansan made the list. read more >

Most large private agricultural enterprises in Arkansas posted double-digit growth last year, and the chiefs of at least two of those companies expressed cautious optimism that the worst of the recession is behind them. read more >

Mountaire Corp., one of the largest private companies headquartered in Arkansas, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding by the family of current Chairman Ronnie Cameron. read more >

Private companies in Arkansas’ hugely important poultry, agriculture and timber industries — reported stronger revenue in 2012 for the most part. read more >

Truman Arnold Cos. returned to the top of Arkansas Business' annual list of the state's largest private companies last year and remains there with 2011 annual revenue that is more than double the next-highest confirmed figure on the list. read more >