Northwest Arkansas Business News
BENTONVILLE — Walmart Inc. announced today that its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be Wednesday, June 2, 2021, according to a press release.
March 30, 2021Entrepreneurship for All, a nonprofit organization, is beginning a free, yearlong business accelerator program in Northwest Arkansas, backed by the Walton Fa...
by John Magsam - March 25, 2021Walmart Inc. has introduced its online fashion brand Eloquii into 100 stores, including one in Bentonville, with plans to expand into more later this year.
by Serenah McKay - March 23, 2021Walmart Inc. has joined other top companies that will make customers’ vaccination status available on vaccination “passport” apps being developed through an ...
by Serenah McKay - March 19, 2021The Walton Family Foundation is giving a $1.3 million grant to a nonprofit organization that supports Black and minority entrepreneurs.
by Serenah McKay - March 18, 2021Tyson Foods plans to convert an idle factory in South Carolina in order to cut and package fresh beef and pork for grocery stores along the East Coast.
by Nathan Owens - March 18, 2021A proposal to fund private school tuition for qualifying students with up to $4 million in state income tax dollars failed in the Arkansas House with biparti...
by Rachel Herzog - March 17, 2021Arkansas' count of coronavirus cases rose Wednesday by 325 - a slightly larger increase than the one a week earlier - while the number of people hospitalized...
by Andy Davis - March 17, 2021Wednesday’s photo gallery has photos of work on a gate to the Hobbs gun range as they get ready to open in April, bird watchers at Beaver Lake and children u...
by NWA Democrat-Gazette - March 17, 2021SPRINGDALE — Northwest Technical Institute has established a nonprofit foundation to help pay for a proposed $10 million medical building.
by MARY JORDAN NWA DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE - March 15, 2021A plan is in the works to give the historic Buffalo Theater building to the city of Jasper.
by Bill Bowden - March 14, 2021ROGERS -- A college readiness program is showing early signs of success in helping students afford and get into their school of choice, said Carla Fontaine, ...
by Mary Jordan - March 14, 2021Universities from eight states are expected to compete next month in the 2021 Heartland Challenge hosted by Sam Walton College of Business at the University ...
by John Magsam - March 13, 2021Walmart Inc. is buying a small stake in Japanese e-commerce and entertainment company Rakuten Inc., which recently bought 20% of Walmart's Japanese unit Seiyu.
March 13, 2021Tyson Ventures, the meatpacker's investment arm, recently helped fund startup digital technology company Iterate Labs.
by Nathan Owens - March 12, 2021