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Business Icons: Johnny Allison Backs Talk With Banking Performance

Johnny Allison is chairman of Home BancShares Inc. of Conway, the parent company of Centennial Bank, indisputably one of the best-performing banks in the country. He’s its biggest shareholder, with stock worth about $200 million, and he says his job these days is to impose discipline on a bank that is one of the most efficient money-makers despite completing 19 acquisitions between 2003 and 2015 that have pushed its assets to nearly $10 billion. read more >
In June 1997, a man walked into the Conway office of Spirit Mobile Homes and kidnapped Johnny Allison. “It changed my whole complexion on life,” Allison said. “My calendar was booked that week and I had lots of things to do, and suddenly nothing was important.” The wife of Allison’s friend Alex Lieblong, inset, had previously been kidnapped by Slack.
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Kidnapped! Johnny Allison Describes Shocking Incident That Changed His Life

Johnny Allison, the manufactured-home magnate who apparently was kidnapped June 5 by escaped convict James Avery Slack and escaped by crashing his car into a dump truck, spoke to Arkansas Business about the ordeal after returning home to Conway last week. read more >