Manufacturing

The Arkansas District Export Council (AR DEC) is accepting applications for the 2022 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Global Trade to recognize the exporting success of small, medium and large Arkansas companies. The Arkansas District Export Council is a nonprofit…

Envirotech Vehicles announced Thursday its selection for the first commercial electric vehicle dealer in Arkansas. DaVinci Innovations (DVI), based in Jonesboro, will be the Osceola electric vehicle manufacturer’s first dealer in the state. Guy Pardew, the owner of DVI, created…

Walmart has signed a definitive agreement with Canoo, a high-tech advanced mobility company, to purchase 4,500 all-electric delivery vehicles, beginning with the Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (LDV), with the option to purchase up to 10,000 units. The vehicles will be used…

Lexicon, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Universal Limited, Inc. of Trussville, Alabama. Effective immediately, the insulation contractor and its nearly 200 Alabama-based employees will join Lexicon’s portfolio of businesses. All existing employees and key leadership will continue their…

Half of America’s workforce is at or near retirement age and there is not an existing workforce waiting to take the torch when called upon. Nonprofit organization Be Pro Be Proud knows that today’s students need to understand the full…

This week, more than 1,100 businesses from across the country pitched their products made, grown or assembled in the U.S. to Walmart and Sam’s Club merchants at Walmart’s ninth annual Open Call. Preliminary results indicate that more than 330 of…

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT), one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, and Waymo, the leading autonomous driving technology developer, announced today the latest development in their collaboration on autonomous trucking technology will include…

  The Be Pro Be Proud National Conference will be held in Bentonville, Arkansas from June 28 through June 30. The National Conference will convene key workforce leaders from Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina,  South Carolina and Tennessee among other states, to join industry leaders and legislators…

With gun sales down 12.6% year-over-year but the U.S. having experienced at least four mass shootings every week in 2022, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2022’s States Most Dependent on the Gun Industry, as well as accompanying videos and audio files.  …

History in Hi-Fi: Hope Organization Sharing the Paul Klipsch Legacy   For a few miles north of Hope, meadows of yellow wildflowers ferry Arkansas Highway 32 into a dramatic dogleg at the old Southwest Proving Grounds, a major U.S. Army…