UA's CBER to Host Quarterly Business Analysis on May 16
The Center for Business and Economic Research at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will present its regular Quarterly Business Analysis on May 16 in Fayetteville.
View ArticleTeams From Four Schools Win $154K In Governor's Cup
Teams representing four Arkansas universities won first place awards and a share of $154,000 in cash prices Thursday at the 2019 Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition luncheon.
View ArticleBaker House Reopens After $150K Remodel
Stacy and Nathan Hamilton — a real estate agent and communications director for the city of North Little Rock, respectively — are hosting a grand reopening at 5 p.m. Friday for the remodeled...
View ArticleCentral Arkansas Average Weekly Earnings on Rise
Private-sector workers in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area earned an average of $861.50 each week as of February 2019.
View ArticleBlack Apple Crossing Pleased with Clarification on Cider House Rules
Five years after hard cider manufacturer Black Apple Crossing was founded in downtown Springdale, it’s now legal — well, even more legal — to manufacture hard cider in Arkansas.
View ArticleSissy's Breaks Ground on New Conway Store
Sissy’s Log Cabin breaks ground on its new Faulkner County store at 820 Elsinger Blvd. in Conway.
View ArticleArkansas Business to Honor 2019 40 Under 40 Class
Arkansas Business will once again honor the state's outstanding young professionals at a luncheon for its 40 Under 40 class. You can order tickets here.
View ArticleArkansas Unemployment Drops to 3.7% in March
Arkansas' unemployment rate in March was 3.7%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month.
View ArticleBooming Economy in NWA Fuels Area’s Private Aviation
It doesn’t take a numbers guru to know that things are adding up for the Fayetteville Executive Airport at Drake Field. Summer Fallen, the airport service manager, says the airport has felt the...
View ArticleDelta I-Fund Startups Featured at Demo Day
Rejuvenix of Little Rock, a graduate of the Delta Innovation Fund accelerator, won $10,000 for technical assistance last week at the program's 2019 Demo Day at the Clinton Presidential Library in...
View ArticleLittle Rock Chamber Announces Partnership with SCORE
The Little Rock Regional Chamber announces a new partnership with the local SCORE chapter of Little Rock.
View ArticleChris Caldwell Sees Success Grown in The Delta
Christ Caldwell, the federal co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority, touts the agency’s return on investment in the area.
View ArticleTwo-Thirds of Arkansas Counties Lose Residents
Two-thirds of Arkansas’ counties lost population between 2012 and 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
View ArticleArkansas Delta Boosters Seek 'Critical Mass'
The Arkansas Delta Council, a nonprofit economic development organization still in formation, hopes to raise money and entice investors to a region that has been losing population, unevenly but...
View ArticleUS Consumer Confidence Improves in April
American consumers are feeling more confident this month, though optimism hasn't fully recovered from a period of roiling markets and slowed hiring early this year.
View ArticleFIS, Venture Center Launch 4th Annual Fintech Accelerator
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.
View ArticleLittle Rock Startup Set to Sell Speed-Torque
Vascugenix, a Little Rock startup run mostly by students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, plans to bring its medical device for emergency heart surgeries to market in late August or early...
View ArticleInsult Added to Injury at the Atkins Chronicle
Last month, folks at the Atkins Chronicle felt the latest blow in a couple of hard-knock years when the small newspaper’s retail boxes were robbed.
View ArticleCentral Arkansas Unemployment at 3.5 Percent
The unemployment rate in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area remains near a historical low, 3.5% in February.
View ArticleGrants to Jump-Start Economic Development in Park Hill, Levy
The city of North Little Rock is sprucing up the Park Hill and Levy business districts with federally funded Jump Start grants and playing a long game when it comes to economic development in those areas.
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