A Spring In Our Step (Lance Turner Editor's Note)
Regular check-ins provide opportunities to develop the strengths of your best people and can build affinity between employers and employees. read more >
Regular check-ins provide opportunities to develop the strengths of your best people and can build affinity between employers and employees. read more >
David Burritt, the head of the industrial giant, praised Arkansas' people and business environment at the AEDC's annual banquet. read more >
A few themes emerged at the 34th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Two of Arkansas Business' most-read news stories in January will reverberate throughout the rest of the year. read more >
Car manufacturers looking to cut shipping costs might take a harder look at northeast Arkansas for their next facility. read more >
Arkansas had been competing against Alabama and Mississippi for the project. read more >
Projects in Wynne and Osceola are expected to create about 300 jobs. read more >
Arkansas has made some good bets in Mississippi County and they continue to pay off. It’s worth remembering how improbable the biggest of those seemed. read more >
Lexicon’s 2020 performance included the start of a $100 million job for Tesla in Austin, Texas, and continuing work for Nucor and Big River Steel. read more >
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the value of the biggest deals in Arkansas last year jumped 157%, from $7.9 billion in 2019 to $20.3 billion in 2020, pushed largely by Walmart’s sales of stakes in two subsidiaries, Asda Group and Seiyu. read more >
The regional electric grid was stretched to the limit and beyond, and Arkansans joined Texans, Oklahomans and Missourians sitting in their darkened houses, getting chillier. read more >
Two of Arkansas' leading electric utility executives say the state is "not out of the woods yet" after limited cold-weather blackouts mandated in emergency orders by the two regional transmission organizations based in Little Rock. read more >
United States Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh says it has purchased the remaining stake in Big River Steel LLC for $774 million cash. read more >
Longtime Osceola Mayor Dickie Kennemore was 78 years old when he died late Saturday, but just a week before he fell ill with COVID-19 he was healthy and sturdy, State Sen. Dave Wallace of Leachville said Monday morning. read more >
Women must support other women in their professional march forward, four panelists agreed during the Jonesboro Women’s Leadership Symposium, an online event hosted by Arkansas Business. read more >
Big River Steel of Osceola enters an agreement with Koch Metallics LLC under which Koch will act as the exclusive agent to Big River Steel for metallics procurement. read more >
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 >
United States Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh announces a $700 million stake in Big River Steel of Osceola, a move that will pave the way for the company's full ownership within the next four years. read more >
Air Products, an industrial gas company, announces an agreement to build, own and operate a second air separation unit that will support expansion of Big River Steel's plant in Osceola. read more >
The bids didn’t materialize, so the city of Osceola will hang on to a former industrial site and lease it as warehouse and storage space. read more >
