Car-Mart reports growth, 114 stores
America’s Car-Mart, the Bentonville-based buyhere /pay-here car dealer, continued its steady growth in the past year, according to the company’s annual report …
America’s Car-Mart, the Bentonville-based buyhere /pay-here car dealer, continued its steady growth in the past year, according to the company’s annual report …
Arkansas’ unemployment rate edged slightly higher in May, driven in part by more people re-entering the work force, seeking jobs, the state Department of Workf…
Arkansas Best Corp. of Fort Smith has agreed to buy logistics firm Panther Expedited Services Inc. of Seville, Ohio, in a deal worth about $180 million, the tr…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which prevailed a year ago when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected class-action status for a federal lawsuit in which female employees claim…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. delivered another star-studded presentation Friday as thousands of shareholders and employees celebrated a year of resurgence in U.S. sale…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives delivered a generally upbeat message to national and international reporters Thursday as they prepared to host shareholders fro…
Key events at Wal-Mart in 2011 Key events at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. during the past year: July: Wal-Mart announces plans for up to 300 new stores over the next 4…
Nashville, Tenn.’s loss is Maumelle’s gain as Dillard’s Inc. prepares to move its Internet-order center to central Arkansas.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter profit and sales Thursday that surpassed its own guidance and retail analysts’ expectations.
Home sales in Arkansas rose slightly in March compared with a year earlier, after a 15 percent spike in February sales, according to figures released Thursday …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday that it is offering a cash payment option for online customers who do not use conventional banking services nor have credit …
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday that it generated $231 million in revenue in its last fiscal year from recycling, saved $75 million by improving its truck …
Harps Food Stores Inc., the 65-store regional grocery chain based in Springdale, says it has installed video recognition technology aimed at reducing theft at …
Baby boomers helped fuel the growth of the big-box retail format in recent decades. Increasingly, it appears, they are growing less fond of the superstore, and…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives said Thursday that the company intends to push its everyday-low-price, everyday-low-cost approach in its international operatio…
Two former rivals in the highly competitive world of soft-drink production and sales shared a stage recently to talk about their unexpected friendship and subs…
Commercial and multifamily vacancy rates in Benton and Washington counties continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest Skyline …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has turned the corner on declining sales and store traffic, despite rising gasoline prices and high unemployment that has many of its cust…
In a small, spartan office in a strip center just down the street from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. headquarters, a small group of people has some big ideas about gett…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced plans Tuesday to enable customers to convert their DVD and Blu-ray movie collections to digital versions that could be accessed …
David Medlock, owner of Hollywood Satellite and Sound Inc. of Benton, runs a business that has a steady demand for services such as hanging flat screen televis…
South Africa’s Competition Appeals Court approved Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s pending acquisition of Massmart Holdings Ltd. on Friday but attached two conditions.
General Electric Co. has won a partial victory in a patent infringement dispute that has kept Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. from opening a completed b…
Dillard’s Inc. of Little Rock reported Thursday fourth quarter income for the period ending Jan. 28 of $141.5 million, or $2.77 per share, bolstered by a 3 per…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. closed out its fiscal year ending Jan. 27 with a mostly strong performance, reporting Tuesday an increase in store traffic and in sales at…
America’s Car-Mart Inc., the Bentonville-based buyhere, pay-here auto chain, reported third-quarter net income Thursday of $7.3 million, or 73 cents a share, u…
Proponents of allowing package liquor sales in Benton County are preparing a petition drive to put the issue on the ballot.
Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, called on the nation’s elected officials and policymakers Wednesday to establish a consistent monet…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday introduced a new “Great for You” icon for food products to help shoppers identify nutritious foods that also are low in fat, sa…
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.
The role of the Wal-Mart greeter, a fixture at the retailer’s stores for three decades, is, in a word, evolving.
A 66-year-old Fort Smith wholesale distributing company appears poised for growth after gaining membership in one of the nation’s largest wholesale grocery sup…
Northwest Arkansas and the rest of the state are likely to see only modest business and job growth in the near term, according to economists and business exper…
The Fort Smith region, battered by layoffs in its manufacturing sector, is hoping for a breakthrough this year with the opening of a completed but so far unocc…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Friday that it is making several executive-level changes, including the top spot at Sam’s Club, effective with the beginning of its n…
Attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are seeking dismissal of a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, that claims the retailer dis…
Experian, a key employer for the city, marked the fifth anniversary of its call center Wednesday, as the region and the state see more better-paying manufactur…
Retailers on Thursday reported a mostly positive end to the Christmas shopping season, although some of the gain in sales came at the expense of profit margins.
Shoppers recovered from their post-Thanksgiving lull to provide U.S. retailers with a strong finish to the Christmas shopping season, according early tallies f…
The nation’s retailers are wrapping up a heavily promotional Christmas shopping season featuring deep discounts, after a lull in shopping activity that came af…
The rapid growth and popularity of social media is proving to be a boon for a Bentonville company approaching its third year of operations.
If all goes as planned, downtown Fayetteville will soon be home to budding entrepreneurs seeking to turn their business ideas into viable companies that will c…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said in a regulatory filing Thursday that it has agreed to transfer 70.6 million shares of its stock held by Walton Enterprises LLC, which…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is well-positioned for a strong finish to the Christmas shopping season, despite economic conditions that are challenging its customers, t…
Christmas is fast approaching, and shoppers are working their way down their gift lists.
The Black Friday numbers are coming in, and they point to record sales for the day-after-Thanksgiving, unofficial launch of the Christmas shopping season.
Renovation began Monday on the newly renamed Chancellor Hotel, formerly the Cosmopolitan Hotel, in downtown Fayetteville after a nearly two-month delay in clos…
As Black Friday officially arrived at midnight Thursday, a group of four shoppers had been patiently waiting at the Best Buy in Rogers since 8 a.m. Sunday.
Retailers eager to launch the Christmas shopping season have pushed Black Friday opening times into Thanksgiving Day in a few cases. Others are starting their …