Arkansas Business News
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September 17, 2021Sam's Club is taking to TikTok to find college athletes wishing to monetize their names and images under new NCAA rules -- there's one catch, those athletes ...
by John Magsam - September 16, 2021Home BancShares Inc. is expanding into Texas with the $919 million acquisition of Happy Bancshares Inc. in an all-stock transaction that the Conway bank says...
by Andrew Moreau - September 16, 2021Ford Motor Co. and its autonomous-driving affiliate, Argo AI, have teamed with Walmart to begin testing the home delivery of groceries and other items by sel...
by NEAL E. BOUDETTE THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 16, 2021LR warehouse deal put at $38 million
September 16, 2021Home BancShares Inc. is expanding into Texas with the $919 million acquisition of Happy Bancshares Inc. in an all-stock transaction that the Conway bank says...
by Andrew Moreau - September 15, 2021Carvana, an e-commerce site for buying and selling cars, is now offering as-soon-as-next-day vehicle delivery in Fayetteville, its fourth market in Arkansas,...
by John Magsam - September 15, 2021Sam's Club is boosting its starting wage to $15 an hour as of Sept. 25, joining a rush by retailers to increase pay in a tight labor market.
by Bloomberg - September 15, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday that he would support efforts to overturn a forthcoming federal mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees to require...
by Andy Davis - September 15, 2021The North Little Rock City Council unanimously approved Monday night a $5 million deal to purchase a 92,384-square-foot office building.
by Neal Earley - September 15, 2021Sam's Club to raise
September 15, 2021Two weeks ago, Homeland Grocery opened a 30,000-square-foot store in a blighted Oklahoma City neighborhood that was described as a "food desert" where half t...
by Andrew Moreau - September 15, 2021Arkansas' first shipment of rice to China was made earlier this summer, with more scheduled in the coming months, the Ralston family of Atkins and Gov. Asa H...
by Stephen Steed - September 15, 2021A fake news release Monday outlining a partnership involving Walmart and digital currency Litecoin led to a brief flurry of inaccurate reporting from nationa...
by The Associated Press - September 14, 2021A legislative subcommittee on Monday recommended the release of $2.2 million to county and district fairs to help them recover losses sustained last year dur...
by Stephen Steed - September 14, 2021