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The Stephens Group Acquires Industrial Cleaning Services Firm Astro Pak

Astro Pak provides on-site, shop and cleanroom services for a variety of critical systems and components. The company has clients in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, aerospace and defense, and other markets. read more >
Investments

The Stephens Group Agrees to Sell Portfolio Company Catalyst Acoustics

The Little Rock private equity firm combined a group of acoustic, seismic, vibration and noise control companies to form Catalyst in 2020. read more >
Business Services / Investments / Technology

The Stephens Group Adds Aviation Safety Firm VisionSafe to Portfolio

The company designs, develops and manufactures cockpit smoke displacement systems. read more >
Investments

Katrinka Shields Joins The Stephens Group in Talent Development Role

Shields comes to The Stephens Group from education technology firm Apptegy Inc. of Little Rock read more >
Investments

The Stephens Group Promotes Allie Laborde, Ryan Morrow

She leads business development at the firm. His work focuses on technology investing. read more >
Construction / Investments / Manufacturing

Three Stephens Group Portfolio Companies Make Acquisitions

The private investment firm said the deals are another step toward building industry leading engineered product and specialty distribution companies. read more >
Business Services / Construction / Investments

Stephens Group Sells Summit Construction to Comfort Systems USA

The Witt Stephens-led private equity firm purchased a controlling interest in Summit in 2011. read more >
Health Care / Investments

Stephens Group Exits Surgery Device Maker CoreLink

The Stephens Group said it was the first institutional investor in CoreLink, which provides spinal implant and instrumentation systems. read more >
Business Services / Investments / Transportation

Stephens Group Invests in Shipping Solutions Firm

The deal is designed to "accelerate the value Princeton TMX delivers to industrial shippers," the companies said in a news release. read more >
Business Services / Investments

Stephens Group Acquires Alabama Repair Parts Distributor

Quality Valve, founded in 1994, supplies over 25,000 orders annually across 500 unique customers. read more >
Joyce Latham and Kimberly Linn of First Service Bank in Greenbrier.
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Investments

Latham, Linn Named VPs at First Service Bank (Movers & Shakers)

Joyce Latham has been hired as vice president of strategic operations at First Service Bank in Greenbrier. Kimberley Linn has been promoted to vice president of human resources. read more >
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Construction

Stephens Group Buys Kele Inc. of Memphis

The Stephens Group of Little Rock finalizes its acquisition of Kele Inc. of Memphis, which sells building automation peripherals and controls solutions. read more >
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Construction

Stephens Group Buys Sound Seal Holdings Inc.

The Stephens Group of Little Rock says it finalized its acquisition of Sound Seal Holdings Inc. of Agawam, Massachusetts. read more >
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Investments / Real Estate

Witt Stephens Jr. Snags Georgia PlantationLock Icon

Witt Stephens Jr. has bought Blue Springs Plantation, paying $40 million for the 7,235 acres in Baker and Dougherty counties in south Georgia near Albany. read more >
The former home of Stephens Inc. at 114 E. Capitol Ave.
Construction / Investments / Real Estate

Former Home of Stephens Inc. Torn Down for Tech Park

The 20,952-SF building at 114 E. Capitol Ave. was demolished as part of the Little Rock Technology Park development. read more >
Health Care / Insurance

Consultants: Arkansas’ Health Plan Should Move People Upward

Consultants hired to review the state's "private option" Medicaid plan recommended that the program continue but suggested changes that would move participants into jobs and ensure they are leading healthy lives. read more >
Business Services / Transportation

TAC Air to Buy Supermarine FBO at Clinton National Airport

TAC Air agrees to purchase the assets of Supermarine of Little Rock LLC’s fixed base operation at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock. read more >
Millionairess Melanie Steele’s last real estate purchase was this house at 3 Cantrell Road, which she purchased in July 2001 for $335,000. (Photo by Mark Wilson) | Originally published in Arkansas Business on April 10, 2000.
Insurance / Investments / Legal

Who is Melanie Steele… And Why Is She Buying All This Stuff?

Since the beginning of the year, Melanie Steele has paid $1 million for a home in Chenal Valley; $385,000 for a house in Canal Pointe and $92,000 for the lot next door; $357,500 for a house in the Lakewood section of North Little Rock; and $80,000 for a house that she then moved off its lot in Indian Hills. All in cash. read more >