Acxiom CEO made $5.1 million in '13

Scott Howe, chief executive officer and president of Acxiom Corp., earned about $5.1 million in 2013, according to the Little Rock company's latest proxy statement.

Howe was paid $650,000 in salary, $838,500 in incentive plan compensation, about $3.6 million in stock and option awards and $7,650 in other compensation.

Warren Jenson, Acxiom's chief financial officer and executive vice president, was paid about $2.2 million in 3013; Nada Stirratt, chief revenue officer and executive vice president, about $2.1 million; Phil Mui, chief product and engineering officer and executive vice president, about $1.7 million; and Jerry Jones, chief ethics and legal officer and executive vice president, about $4.9 million.

Acxiom will hold its 2014 stockholder meeting at 10 a.m. Aug. 7 at its headquarters in Little Rock.

The data mining company also announced this week that its almost $310 million acquisition of LiveRamp, a marketing services company, has been finalized.

-- Jessica Seaman

3 courses offered at Global Campus

Three summer professional development and business technology classes at the University of Arkansas' Global Campus are open for online registration.

The classes and workshops focus on wage and hour trends, shifting to new computer software and negotiating salaries, according to a Thursday release. Online registration is available at the Global Campus website.

Negotiating Salaries: Due Diligence Rules of Engagement for Stakeholders will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and costs $59. Transitioning to Agile & Scrum is 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. July 17, 24 and 31 and August 7 and 14, and it costs $490. Wage and Hours Trends: What You Need to Know is 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15 and costs $49.

Judith Tavano, director of professional development programs, can be contacted at [email protected] for details.

-- John Magsam

State index up 1.92 in shortened session

The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, was up 1.92 to 356.39 Thursday.

Eleven stocks advanced and six declined in an abbreviated session.

Home BancShares and Bank of the Ozarks each rose more than 2 percent.

Bear State Financial lost 2.2 percent.

Dillard's reached an all-time high of $120.86 during the session.

For the week, all but two stocks rose.

P.A.M. Transportation Services had the biggest gain for the week, rising 11.3 percent. America's Car-Mart climbed 5.7 percent for the week.

Total volume of the index was 13.6 million shares. The average daily volume for the week was 25 million shares.

The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.

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