Business Travel Stirs, But Many Road Warriors Stay Grounded
Of the 2 million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travelers. read more >
Of the 2 million people clogging airport security lines and gate areas again each day, one crowd is still largely missing: business travelers. read more >
A recent Wisconsin jury award of $125 million against Walmart Inc. for failing to accommodate a longtime employee with Down syndrome will be lowered to $300,000, the maximum amount allowed under federal law. read more >
The first new house built in the neighborhood immediately east of downtown Little Rock since 1995 is occupied, and scores of apartments will be ready within weeks. read more >
Walmart Inc. rules Arkansas Business’ annual lists of the state’s public companies and how much their executives are paid, and it’s hard to imagine a time when that won’t be true — especially as the lists get shorter. read more >
More than a year after Murphy Oil Corp. severed most of its old and deep roots in El Dorado, the region still leans hard on one of its branches. read more >
A craft brewery is just one example of a string of developments Bill Luther names in assessing Union County’s recent economic rebound. read more >
America’s Car-Mart Inc. of Rogers is making the switch from a collections company that sold cars to a car company that's good at collections. read more >
Stores for the Little Rock retailer overcome obstacles as customers get out again, with sales ‘firing on all cylinders.’ read more >
This week, we serve up a six-pack of real estate transactions that includes apartments, commercial space and a home in Little Rock as well as undeveloped acreage in northwest Pulaski County and undeveloped apartment land in Sherwood. read more >
John A. Moore, the Murphy USA senior vice president and general counsel, announced his retirement last month. It just didn’t generate headlines. read more >
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette President Lynn Hamilton says that current Sunday print circulation is roughly 62,000, including home delivery and single-copy sales. read more >
A St. Louis private equity real estate firm spent approximately $105 million on a round of property acquisitions, and a Springdale retail center was a part of it. read more >
The best thing about being a journalist is being paid to learn stuff, and the best thing about working on Arkansas Business has been learning about so many different industries, each with its own nuances. read more >
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy. read more >
A court feud between the two men licensed as owners of one of the state’s top-selling medical marijuana dispensaries has ended. read more >
The U.S. economy reached a peak in February 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research says. The recession began the following month and ended in April. read more >
Megan Crozier, chief merchant for Sam's Club, and University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Athletics Hunter Yurachek are among the featured speakers for the fall Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy in Bentonville. read more >
More businesses around the world are accepting cryptocurrency — or digital money — as payment, more people are using ATMs that dispense one of its best-known forms, and more of those people are baby boomers. read more >
Walmart insists it doesn’t want to be a bank, but it’s surely acting like one. read more >
An affiliate of New York’s White Oak Healthcare MOB REIT purchased the 12th Street project from an affiliate of Orion Investment & Management Ltd. of Miami. read more >
