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Whether it was another coincidental resignation or part of an administrative housecleaning, another executive in the St. Vincent Health System last week announced plans to make his exit. Chuck Stokes, [...]

Arkansas' two largest high-technology companies have more than 400 jobs between them to fill. Acxiom Corp. of Conway and Alltel Corp. of Little Rock are growing by leaps and bounds, [...]

State's Hospitals Could Lose $700 Million in Reduced Payments in Next 2-3 Years At least 650 hospital employees have lost their jobs in recent weeks, according to James Teeter, president [...]

Internet Service Providers Ranked by number of customers (for out-of-state firms, only subscribers in Arkansas are included). Provider Address, Phone No. of Web Address Subscribers 1. America Online Inc. 54,400 [...]

TWO TOPICS PROMPT EQUALLY strong but totally opposite reactions from Acxiom company leader Charles Morgan: AbiliTec and a 1999 Barron's article critical of the company's financial health. In a recent [...]

Vote Could Spark More Union Efforts in State's Health Care Industry ALTHOUGH 49 CHALlenged ballots could change the outcome, it appears registered nurses in the St. Vincent Health System voted [...]

Expanded women's health, imaging and cardiac services will fill a 51,000- SF addition/renovation at White River Medical Center in Batesville, according to hospital officials. According to hospital spokeswoman Sheila Mace, [...]

A Jonesboro rental store business will more than double in size with the purchase of the six stores in another rental company. Pearson-Vail Inc., which now operates five rental stores [...]

A new warehouse distribution facility for an electronic commerce company will bring more than 500 new jobs to Maumelle, the company announced last week. Officials at New jersey-based Hanover Direct [...]

Database software giant Oracle Corp. announced last week that it will use Acxiom Corp. sAbiliTec customer data integration system in its customer management product. Oracle said it will use the [...]

NEGOTIATORS FOR THE Arkansas Department of Human Services and the state's nursing home industry are '98 percent there' in agreeing on a new system for reimbursement under the Medicaid program, [...]

IN THE INFORMATION AGE, IT should have been easy to find a local concrete contractor for a project at an area Boy Scour camp. But James Hendren wasn't having. much [...]

An old dress factory in downtown Caraway got a new lease on life as a new tenant began production earlier this month. Mid-West Products Inc. of Stafford, Mo., began production [...]

Many In-state Providers Post Sizable Jumps in Subscribers SOME ARKANSAS-BASED Internet service providers have made big subscriber gains just as the ISP business looks to be on the verge of [...]

ARKANSAS BUSINESS RANKINGS: INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Ranked by number of customers (for out-of-state firms, only subscribers in Arkansas are included) Provider Address (phone) No. of Web Address subscribers 1. America [...]

More than 700 people crowded into the new multi-purpose facility on the campus of Arkansas State University-Newport for commencement May 13, the first event held in the 20,680-SF complex. The [...]

Except for some 'minor pieces,' Capitol Communities Corp. of California is selling its property holdings in Maumelle and moving away from the property development business, according to company officials. The [...]

State Department of Human Services officials said last week the agency had already planned to change a policy that had a coalition of mental health care providers saying they were [...]

A Paragould-based maker of store displays has announced the purchase of a Minnesota manufacturer of store fixtures and displays. L.A. Darling Co., which designs and builds store displays for some [...]

Construction has started on $1.1 million in improvements to a grain dryer facility near Parkin owned by Riceland Foods Inc. According to officials with the Stuttgart-based farmers' cooperative, the improvements [...]

Construction started late last month on a permanent facility for the seasonal mail sorting operation at the Arkansas Aeroplex in Blytheville. State and federal funding will cover the $2.2 million [...]

As officials hinted when Alltel Corp. agreed to set up a national roaming network as part of a property swap with Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., the telecommunications company [...]

Double-digit gains in. revenue and earnings buoyed fiscal year 2000 numbers released late in the day Wednesday by data management company Acxiom Corp. Wall Street reacted by bumping up the [...]

The numbers would make any economic developer glow with anticipation. Across Arkansas, plans have been announced for four power generation plants with price tags totaling more than $1 billion, more [...]

COMING OFF A YEAR that saw financial losses, the departure of a string of executives and a contentious unionization effort by nurses, the incoming chief executive officer for the St. [...]

Little Rock city directors last week approved a $36 million bond issuance that will free Acxiom Corp. from property tax obligations for 30 years on its planned 12-story facility downtown. [...]

After losing out to Southwestern Bell on an exclusive sponsorship for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, Alltel Corp. has found a way to continue its connection to the school's highly [...]

Ownership of a health and fitness center in Paragould recently changed hands. Randy and Tracy Wright of Paragould purchased the Paragould Health and Fitness Center from Sam and May Collins [...]

Officials at Williams Baptist Cob lege in Walnut Ridge dedicated a $1.75 million education center recently that received some construction funds from a multi-million-dollar fund-raising effort by the longtime supporter [...]

Registered nurses in the St. Vincent Health System will have another chance to vote on union representation after the National Labor Relations Board called for a new election recently, saying [...]

WITH THE WEIGHT OF A new payment system and a settlement with the government bearing down, Beverly Enterprises. Inc. officials took little comfort in the fact that 1999 was 'less [...]

Southwestern Bell's parent company and BellSouth Corp. announced plans last week to combine their wireless phone businesses and form a company that will be the second largest wireless carrier in [...]

Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock announced plans last week to join with a Dallas company and develop a 37-bed long-term acute are hospital within its Little Rock facility. [...]

A Little Rock company that went public in 1999 with its cure for chronic wounds announced last week that it would change its corporate name and senior management and eventually [...]

Alltel Corp. picked up about 430,000 new wireless customers last week as it completed a swap with Bell Atlantic Corp. of wireless properties in five states. The transaction was the [...]

Construction is under way on a 40,000-SF speculative building in the Walnut Ridge Industrial Park, in a project spearheaded by the Walnut Ridge Area Chamber of Commerce. The shell building, [...]

Finished railroad tanker cars began rolling our of the new American Railcar Industries Inc. plant at Marmaduke last year, but the company is still ramping up to full production by [...]

AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF FISCAL pressures that have forced the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to cut costs and personnel, in the past year, a recent revenue audit raised [...]

Alltel Corp.'s top executives received salary increases and some took advantage of the company's zooming stock price in 1999 to exercise stock options, according to the recently released company proxy [...]

The administrator of one of the busiest hospitals in Tennessee will be the new president and chief executive officer of the St. Vincent Health System, health system officials announced last [...]

AFTER JUST A COUPLE of weeks, Pat Henry is believer. The vice president of marketing for Multi-Staff Leasing, an outsourcing firm in Little Rock, recently began tapping into the Internet, [...]

Shrugging off any lingering effects of a tough 1999, Acxiom Corp.'s stock rose to new heights, closing at all-time highs through the middle of last week. Shares of the Little [...]

SWB, Acxiom, Kroger and Library Projects Criticized as Part of Trend TWICE LAST MONTH THE Little Rock City Board deviated from standard operating procedure to allow a commercial project to [...]

A STATE LOAN HAS HELPED rescue an 80-year-old Sherwood bakery from financial uncertainty just as business was turning around following 'the worst three or four years in the company's history.' [...]

Alltel Corp. will manage billing for United States wireless customers of competitor BellSouth Corp. under agreements announced last week. Under the terms of the five-year contracts, Little Rock-based Alltel will [...]

A family-owned trucking company in Wynne recently sold to a group of investors from Jonesboro, according to officials with Kennon Farms Trucking. The company plans to keep its name for [...]