Olivia Farrell
Charles Nabholz, CARTI Honored at 37th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards
An evening ceremony honoring nominees and winners took place March 5 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
Through The Years: The ’90s (40 Years of Arkansas Business)
See highlights from Arkansas Business from 1990-1999. read more >
40 Years of Arkansas Business: A Note From The Publisher
Our goal has always been to bring you, the readers for whom Arkansas Business exists, reliable information of value or interest that you can’t get anywhere else. read more >
by Mitch Bettis -
Recognizing 100 Women of Impact (Mitch Bettis Publisher’s Note)
Twenty-four years in the making, this is a list you need to know. read more >
by Mitch Bettis -
Tate, McReynolds, Head Honored at Arkansas Business of the Year Awards
Arkansas Business Publishing Group of Little Rock presents the awards each year to recognize businesses, nonprofits and executives in Arkansas. read more >
Famine, Then Feast (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
I’m not sure I’ll live long enough to use up all the bottles of clear goo that have inexplicably multiplied at my house, on my desk, in my car and in my handbag. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
CEO Finds Ways to Help, Woman to Woman
Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl doesn’t necessarily buy the notion of women’s intuition, but she may have a sixth sense when it comes to business. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
PPP Loan Forgiven, ABPG Expands to Texas
“Fort Worth and Dallas, about a million miles away,” Texas singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore croons, but Arkansas publisher Mitch Bettis knows better. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Ted Wagnon, Wordsmith and First Arkansas Business Editor, Dies at 68
Ted Wagnon, a communications professional who made Arkansas Business’ reputation as its first editor with an expose that embarrassed Bill Clinton and Arkansas’ business establishment, died Saturday. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Slowly They Turn (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
As of last week, Arkansas' 17 publicly traded companies had 170 directors and 32 of them were women. That’s almost 19%. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
Biggest Deals of 2019 See Values Plummet 85%
The value of big deals in Arkansas plummeted 85% in 2019 compared with the previous year, dropping to $7.9 billion compared with a stratospheric $53.9 billion in 2018. read more >
by Jan Cottingham -
Four to Join Arkansas Business Hall of Fame
Four business leaders who have made contributions to the banking, construction, publishing and real estate industries will be inducted tonight into the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame. read more >
Upside Down World (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
It’s almost like the Business Roundtable heard Olivia Farrell’s speech when she accepted the Little Rock Rotary Club’s Business & Professional Leader of the Year award in June and decided to get on board. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
A Company’s Constituencies (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Olivia Farrell, the former CEO of Arkansas Business Publishing Group, accepted her honor of being chosen as the Rotary Club of Little Rock’s Business & Professional Leader of the Year by expanding on her successful fivefold business philosophy. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
Olivia Farrell: Six-Legged Stool Approach Key to Success
From treating vendors as partners to hiring the best talent and serving the community, Olivia Farrell shared her "six-legged stool" approach to running a media company at the Rotary Club of Little Rock's weekly luncheon. read more >
Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame Announces New Inductees
The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame announces its fifth annual group of inductees — seven women and one organization — who will be honored at a ceremony on Aug. 29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
Gender Equity Award Winner Windstream Learns From New Assessment
A “deeper dive” into gender equity, inclusivity and diversity was already underway at Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock when the publicly traded telecommunications firm filled out the new “gender equity scorecard” that netted it the inaugural award. read more >
At Our Own Business, A Passing of the Torch
After blazing a four-decade trail for Arkansas women, helping build the Arkansas Times and then ABPG into two of the state’s biggest independent multimedia firms, Olivia Farrell is taking her dogs and going home. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
My Mama Done Tol’ Me (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
As our CEO, Olivia Farrell, has told me in the pained voice of experience, be careful what you incentivize because you will surely get it. read more >
by Gwen Moritz -
Update: Natural State Media to Buy the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal of Springdale will be acquired by the owners of Talk Business & Politics, the two publications announced Thursday. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
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