GLENWOOD, Ark. — Caddo River Forest Products will invest $50 million to reopen a Glenwood sawmill, a move expected to create 136 jobs in the Pike County town. Owners of the company will receive a mix of state and federal incentives totaling $2.3 millio ...
LITTLE ROCK —Sun Paper, one of the top 500 Chinese enterprises and one of the world’s top pulp and paper makers, has announced the selection of a site in Arkadelphia, AR for a large new bio-products mill. The company will invest more than $1 billion i ...
PARAGOULD, Ark. — GW Communications, a company providing broadband solutions to telecommunications, cable and other industries, announced plans to locate a new office in Paragould, Arkansas. More than 28 new jobs will be created by GW Communications at ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce announced the wireless carrier Sprint recently opened a regional office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to serve as the South Central headquarters which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississip ...
GREEN FOREST, Ark. — Tyson Foods Inc. will build a $136 million processing plant in Green Forest. The 200,000-square-foot facility will be across the street from an existing Tyson plant. Tyson says the project will bring about 85 jobs to the county, wh ...
OSCEOLA, Ark. — Forty miles upriver from Memphis, nearly 2,000 construction workers from far away as Utah and Texas are completing the final stages of a $1.3 billion steel mill that has turned the once faded Arkansas Delta city of Osceola into a boom to ...
ROGERS, Ark. — The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has announced expansions in the state by global steel wire products manufacturer and supplier Bekaert and by FMH Conveyors, which designs and manufactures material handling products and service ...
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Glatfelter, a global manufacturer of specialty papers and fiber-based engineered materials, announced the company is locating a new manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, subject to the approval of the Fort Smith Board of Di ...
OKLAHOMA — Country music star Blake Shelton, a native of Ada, and Smithworks Vodka have released a new spirit made with corn from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and water from Lake Fort Smith in Arkansas. Smithworks is distilled three times and charco ...
LONOKE, Ark. — The Remington Outdoor Company, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of firearms, ammunition and related products, announced growth plans at its ammunition plant in Lonoke, Arkansas. As part of the plans, the company plans to i ...
DALLAS — 10th Magnitude, one of the top Microsoft Azure services firms, has opened in Dallas, Texas. Key business development and consulting personnel are set to serve clients in the South Central region, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and A ...
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CONWAY, Ark. — The vice president of a tech startup company and co-founder of angel investment firm Cadron Creek Capital says that college-town Conway could become a hotspot for future tech firms. In the big picture of the state’s emerging tech ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) executive director will travel to Asia this month to recruit companies to the state. The governor and AEDC Executive Director Mike Preston wi ...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The McLarty Daniel Automotive dealership has moved to a new and bigger location, creating new jobs through the expansion. The company expects the new dealership to create about 50 jobs, bringing total employment in Bentonville to ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As a testament to the possibility of increased business growth, telecommunications giant AT&T plans to add employees in Arkansas. The company announced it will hire workers for more than 75 jobs. The positions are primarily cal ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Cromwell Architects Engineers has drafted a major development project downtown, including plans for its own headquarters. Cromwell Architects Engineers and Moses Tucker Real Estate are working together on what the firms call a n ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The SFC Fluidics insulin delivery research company was awarded a grant to develop a drug delivery pump for animals. SFC Fluidics announced it has received Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding from the National Inst ...
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Baxter International Inc. said it will add hundreds of new employees to its plant in Arkansas. Baxter, of Deerfield, Illinois, a publicly traded health care products manufacturer, announced Thursday that it will add about 225 full ...
MELBOURNE, Ark. — Nylon fastener maker Micro Plastics is expanding its north central Arkansas plant with a $2.4 million investment, and plans to add 79 jobs in the next five years. The company, which produces threaded nylon fasteners, will begin pro ...
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