Small business

Small-business owner Walter Burgess has announced his candidacy for House District 81 in the Arkansas State House of Representatives, which includes portions of Saline County. Burgess is the co-owner and vice president of sales & engineering at Power Technology, Inc.…

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), in partnership with The Venture Center and the State of Arkansas, has unveiled its fourth annual ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator cohort. The latest fintech cohort in this global fintech accelerator supports ICBA’s mission to…

Forge Institute of Little Rock has launched a new program designed to give small and mid-sized businesses valuable cyber and information security guidance. The unique program, “Ask a CISO,” makes available a variety of experts and security leaders to answer…

Central Arkansas’ Smith Family Funeral Homes recently acquired two Davis-Smith Funeral Homes, one in Hot Springs and Glenwood. On December 29, 2021, co-owners Jeff and Leslie Smith acquired Davis-Smith Funeral Home & Crematory from Everett, Tony and LaDonna Smith, merging…

The North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau and the City of North Little Rock’s Economic Development is hosting a “North Little Rock Restaurant Week” initiative in an effort to support of local restaurants. The weeklong celebration of North Little…

The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC), based at UA Little Rock, has created a Startup Team that is helping new entrepreneurs bring their business ideas to life. The Startup Team, which began this fall, specializes in assisting…

Westrock Coffee Company announced Thursday plans to expand its operations and beverage capabilities with the purchase of a new facility in Conway, which upon completion, will be the largest facility of its type in the United States. Conway will be…

The Cobb/Lyerly/Owens Partnership in Lake City has been named Farm Bureau’s “2021 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year.” The family’s 50-year-old, 4,250-acre farming operation, in Northeastern Arkansas’ Craighead County, is diverse and includes commodities that range from pigs and peanuts…

AMBOTS, a Northwest Arkansas autonomous manufacturing technology startup, was recently awarded a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Award from the National Science Foundation. AMBOTS stands for Autonomous Mobile roBOTS and Advanced Manufacturing roBOTS. The grant will enable…

A company started by University of Arkansas researchers has been awarded a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Grant. SIEV Technologies, a catalytic membrane reactor design company, received the grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that improves biofuel…