Shortly after Walmart opened its first Supercenters with food markets in 1988, top executives began to see groceries as the retail titan's future bread and butter. Now Walmart is America's biggest grocery seller, and food is becoming ammunition in the Bentonville company's online duel with Amazon.
Some University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences employees saw red flags long before auditors discovered a deficit at the Myeloma Institute for Research & Therapy that was allowed to grow to $29 million over nine years.
PAM Transport Inc. of Tontitown is fighting a class-action lawsuit brought in 2016 that it said could send shock waves through the trucking industry and radically change the way drivers are paid.
| Rank | Name | City | No. of Trucks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. | Lowell | 15,808 |
| 2 | FedEx Freight | Harrison | 25,000 |
| 3 | YRC Worldwide Inc. | Little Rock | 14,100 |
| 4 | XPO Logistics | Little Rock | 16,000 |
| 5 | ArcBest Corp. | Fort Smith | 5,200 |
Kappa Realty LLC, led by Chris Robertson, purchased the 17.6-acre home of the Riverdale Shopping Center at 2500-2610 Cantrell Road from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock.
Keli Jacobi has been hired as the director of marketing and communications at Lyon College in Batesville.
Newspapers are in a death spiral: More people are getting their news online, which would be fine if online advertising had similar value to print advertising. But it doesn't, not even close.
Five years after its founding, Roadie, the crowdsourced delivery service startup based in Atlanta, has attracted partnerships with major retailers, including Walmart, and, in February, $37 million in new funding.
Doug Voss, associate professor of logistics and supply chain management at UCA, says the school's logistics program excels at recruiting employees for the transportation industry.
The Medical Center of South Arkansas of El Dorado plans to start construction next month on a $3.5 million cancer center.
