Tax Credits Help Little Rock Company Raise $1.25M for Movies
Gary Newton hopes the movie “Antiquities,” which finished filming last month, primarily in North Little Rock, will be the first in a string of movies to come out of the startup film production company...
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Seeing Things That Don’t Exist — Yet (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
There are two sides to every argument, and I’m in no position to take sides in the legal fight between Bad Boy Mowers and Intimidator Inc., the two homegrown manufacturers of lawn mowers and UTVs in...
View ArticleArkansas Grown Announces Local Conversations Events
The Arkansas Grown Program announced Monday that four free regional "Local Conversations" events, which aim to connect local farmers and producers with grocery store managers, chefs, restaurateurs and...
View ArticleDonna Smith Galchus of CGWG Dies
Cross Gunter Witherspoon & Galchus P.C. of Little Rock announced Monday the death of founding member Donna Smith Galchus. The firm said she died Dec. 4 following a brief illness. Galchus practiced...
View ArticleUA Business Forecast Lunch Set for Jan. 27
The University of Arkansas' Center for Business & Economic Research will host its 2017 Business Forecast Luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center in...
View ArticleDallas Building Gets BDG's Hyperleap Internet Service
Broadband Development Group (BDG) announced Thursday that it has expanded its HyperLeap internet service outside central Arkansas, to the recently opening McKinney & Olive Building in uptown...
View ArticleLittle Rock Tech Park Announces First Tenants
The Little Rock Technology Park on Tuesday announced the first slate of tenants moving into Phase 1 of its permanent offices at 415 and 417 Main St., which are set to open March 1. In all, the tenants...
View ArticleArkansas Scholarship Lottery Picks CJRW for $34.5M Contract
Little Rock ad agency CJRW is the anticipated winner of a $34.5 million, five-year contract to provide advertising, marketing and public relations services for the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. The...
View ArticleSPONSORED: Protect Your Business From Identity Theft And Fraud
It's that time. Shopping and spending are at their peak for the year and that puts identity thieves on high alert. While many consumers are aware of the threat to their personal proprietary...
View ArticleClean Harbors Opens $120M Expansion, Will Add 120 Jobs
Clean Harbors unveiled Tuesday the $120 million expansion of its El Dorado facility, which it said will create 120 full-time jobs. The company said it added a third commercial hazardous waste...
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The Overtime Exemption Rules Are On Hold — What Do You Do Now? (Stuart...
Don't you love it when you get all ready for a party, and at the last minute it gets canceled? Although the new overtime exemption rules were not going to be a "party" for employers by any stretch of...
View ArticleUS Home Price Gains Lift Household Wealth to $90.2T
WASHINGTON — A healthy increase in home values and higher stock prices drove up U.S. household wealth in the July-September quarter, though the gains are largely concentrated among wealthier Americans....
View ArticleArkansas Innovators Promote Tech's Everyday Problem-Solving
Two years ago, Justyn Hornor was in Little Rock for the Ark Challenge accelerator program when he learned that Little Rock real estate agent Beverly Carter had been kidnapped and murdered while showing...
View ArticleGroup Trend Continues for Dentists
Last month, when Jordan Cooper sold five of his dental locations in Arkansas to Rock Dental Brands of Little Rock for $1.7 million, he became the latest in a trend of dentists selling to a larger group...
View ArticleFamily Owners Wrangle Over Homer's Restaurant
The popular Homer’s Restaurant in east Little Rock is at the center of a complicated family feud pitting the daughter of the restaurant’s founder against her two brothers. Katrina Connell Vaughn has...
View ArticleLaura Fine Named State Director of UALR ASBTDC
Laura Fine has been named state director of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Jane Wayland, the UALR Stephen Harrow Smith Dean...
View ArticleSouthern Bancorp Community Partners Gets $2M
Southern Bancorp Community Partners, a nonprofit loan fund that works in partnership with Southern Bancorp Inc. of Little Rock, said Tuesday that it has received $2 million — the maximum available...
View ArticleUS Consumer Prices Up 0.2 Percent in November
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices rose in November by the smallest amount in three months as the climb in energy prices moderated a bit and food prices remained flat. The Labor Department said Thursday that...
View ArticleClaims for Unemployment Benefits Fall to 254K
WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week, the second straight week that claims have declined. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly claims for...
View ArticleChristmas by the Numbers
$626.1BHoliday sales in 2015, an increase of 3 percent compared with 2014. Source: National Retail Federation $105BNonstore holiday sales in 2015, an increase of 9 percent compared with 2014. Source:...
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