
Bark Bar of Little Rock Under New Ownership
William Doxey plans to expand the kitchen, upgrade the outdoor play area and give the interior space a makeover. read more >
William Doxey plans to expand the kitchen, upgrade the outdoor play area and give the interior space a makeover. read more >
In the weeks after Arkansas cannabis financial firm Abaca was acquired for that amount by Colorado’s SHF Holdings Inc. late last year, Abaca co-founder Dan Roda says in some ways, very little. read more >
The deal gives the buyer, Colorado-based Safe Harbor Financial, access to more than 300 accounts. read more >
The company will use the money to “keep fueling our national expansion,” said CEO Dan Roda. read more >
Here's how central Arkansas was an incubator at the beginning of marijuana fintech. read more >
Neobanks offer digital and nontraditional banking services through an app or platform, with no physical branches. read more >
Growth has come at a blazing pace for the company. read more >
Dalton Craig and John David have joined AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in Little Rock as credit analyst trainees. read more >
The Arkansas Cannabis Industry Association, which represents cultivators, dispensary operators and ancillary businesses, has elected nine new members to serve on its board of directors. read more >
The advertising gods giveth, and they taketh away, particularly these days. read more >
Cannabis financial technology firm Abaca Co-founder Brian Bauer is transitioning to a full-time role with Abaca as the chief strategy and revenue officer. read more >
A North Little Rock enterprise, launched in the Little Rock Technology Park and given flight with venture capital from Colorado, keeps pioneering its way into the burgeoning billions of cannabis commerce. read more >
Elizabeth Michael, a partner in the Bark Bar and a PR veteran in Little Rock, describes how the newly opened AC Hotel in downtown Little Rock came to be her client. read more >
SAFE Banking will also enable more banks to begin offering conventional loan products to cannabis operators, with a lower cost of capital than currently available from the mostly nonbank lenders filling this void today. read more >
A startup that offers financial services to the cannabis industry has scored $800,000 from investors. read more >
Dan Roda, a product of Philadelphia, went to law school at nearby Villanova University, and there he met the woman he would follow back to her home: Arkansas. read more >
Pinpointing legally permissible real estate for the state’s first medical cannabis enterprises after a 2016 legalization vote was like plunging into the haystack to find the perfect spot for a needle, those involved in the process say. read more >
Elizabeth Michael has teamed up with Martin Thoma of Thoma Thoma to create Bud Agency, the marketing and PR firm devoted to the new medical marijuana industry. read more >
A Little Rock company that originally planned to offer medical marijuana consumers a cashless method for filling their prescriptions has broadened its scope to include financing for marijuana-related businesses. read more >