Ross Whipple

Plans are in motion for new investors to enter the ownership picture at Sparkman’s Riverside Bank through a $10.1 million transaction. read more >

The honorees will be recognized at an induction ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock in February. read more >

More than 135 years ago, a group of Little Rock businessmen banded together to form a hunting club on about 2,000 acres of bottomland woods in south Pulaski County. read more >

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas received $3 million in donations for forestry-related projects. read more >

An affiliate of Americas Realty in Pikesville, Maryland, purchased the 143,210-SF retail center at 6420 Col. Glenn Road. read more >

An apartment project in Little Rock’s Riverdale area and agri acreage in southeast Pulaski County were at the heart of two recent real estate transactions. read more >

Ross Whipple manages more than 120,000 acres of Arkansas timberland as chairman of the Ross Foundation and president of Horizon Timber Services Inc. read more >

River Mountain Investments bought the Ozark Automotive Distributors facility at 4350 Stockton Drive in North Little Rock. read more >

Relyance Bank of Pine Bluff and Citizens Bank of Batesville are the first two buyers in a new light commercial development on the southeast side of Hot Springs, developer Ross Whipple confirmed last week. read more >

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday announced the following appointments. read more >

8114 Cantrell LLC, led by Billy Roehrenbeck, purchased its namesake project. read more >

An eatery site at Little Rock’s Gateway Town Center, a dental development in North Little Rock and rural acreage in southeast Pulaski County provide our trio of million-dollar deals. read more >

If you were thinking Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman might go unchallenged by a Democrat in 2016, think again. The calls that Ross Whipple of Arkadelphia has been making lead us to believe that his son-in-law, W. Conner Eldridge Jr., has moved past the thinking stage and will soon announce his candidacy. read more >

Greg McKinney, Bank of the Ozarks' chief financial officer and chief accounting officer, is elected to the firm's board of directors during its annual shareholders' meeting. The 45-year-old executive joined the company in 2003. read more >

The pending acquisition of Summit Bancorp Inc. of Arkadelphia by Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock is heading into the station. Since the Jan. 30 announcement, the approval process has moved at a rapid clip. read more >

When the acquisition of Summit Bancorp is completed later this month, Ross Whipple also will become one of the largest shareholders at Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock. read more >

George Gleason, chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Bank of the Ozarks Inc., was paid $4.3 million in total compensation last year and realized an additional $3.8 million by exercising stock options. read more >

The way Ross Whipple and George Gleason described it, the courting process between Summit Bancorp Inc. of Arkadelphia and Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock was abbreviated. read more >

Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock announces a $216 million deal to buy Summit Bancorp Inc. of Arkadelphia, continuing a streak of Arkansas bank mergers that began last year. The deal will also be the second big bank transaction for Summit CEO Ross Whipple, who sold Horizon Bancorp Inc. in 1998 for 3.2 times book value. read more >

Ross Whipple is the chairman and CEO of Summit Bancorp Inc. He is also chairman of the board of trustees at Henderson State University and a board member of the Arkansas Forestry Association and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute. read more >