SupplyPike, a startup that offers a digital supply chain management platform for consumer packaged goods, is coming to Fayetteville and creating nearly 180 jobs within the next five years. read more >
Mike Preston, the newly-appointed state Secretary of Commerce, his hired Charisse Childers to serve as director of the Division of Workforce Services when it becomes part of the department on July 1. read more >
Prysmian Group of Milan, Italy, says it will expand its Paragould facility, investing $2.8 million and adding 12 positions. The plant already employs 182 people at 1 Prestolite Drive. read more >
Global financial services company FIS of Jacksonville, Florida, and the Venture Center in Little Rock named the 10 startups selected to participate in the 2019 VC FinTech Accelerator program. read more >
President Donald Trump’s trade war with China may have helped delay the $410 million textile plant planned for Forrest City, but it hasn’t killed it. read more >
President Trump may think that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” but St. Francis County workers need jobs and Arkansas farmers, the top rice producers in the world, would love to ship their rice to China. Agriculture is, after all, the state’s biggest industry. read more >
Czech gun-maker CZ-USA plans a $90 million gun manufacturing operation and North American headquarters that will employ 565 people at the Little Rock Port, the governor and company officials announce. read more >
Two major economic development projects in Arkansas are caught up in the trade fight between the United States and China, and one is now on hold, Arkansas' economic development office said Monday. read more >
Arkansas is one of 35 states still being considered as a potential new home for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service office and National Institute of Food & Agriculture office. Both are moving from Washington, D.C. read more >
Key leaders from Arkansas businesses, research universities, philanthropic organizations and state agencies will form the new Arkansas Innovation Council at Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s request. read more >
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission names Mitch Chandler to a new position, director of executive communications. read more >
Nucor Corp.’s new cold mill in Mississippi County could be opening right as the company is experiencing record earnings. read more >
A federal program, whose Arkansas participants include Shorter College in Little Rock and Arkansas State University-Newport, provides need-based Pell Grants to state and federal prisoners through college partnerships. read more >
Anne and Mike Preston were in the spotlight at this VIP event held as a prelude to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Breath of Life gala. The gala co-chairs were honored at this night full of fine wine, hors d'oeuvres from Copper Grill and a silent auction, all hosted by Barbara and James Freeman. read more >
Entergy, which serves over 700,000 electric customers in Arkansas, has long been an engine of economic development, a gene present in the company’s DNA since its birth more than a century ago. read more >
Gas Pos announced Thursday that it has relocated its headquarters to North Little Rock from Birmingham, Alabama, and will create 30 high-paying technology jobs. read more >
Firearms manufacturer Nighthawk Custom announced Tuesday the expansion of its facility in Berryville (Carroll County). read more >
Mike Preston, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, said it’s "disappointing" that the Wisconsin Legislature has delayed a vote on an incentive package that would keep paper products maker Kimberly-Clark from closing a plant there. read more >
Diversity and inclusion are subjects of growing importance to leaders in northwest Arkansas. read more >
With a $30 million investment commitment from the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, plans to build a $3.5 billion plant to turn natural gas into refined liquid fuel near Pine Bluff reached a significant landmark this week. read more >
