Four Arkansas companies made the 2021 Fortune 500 list, down one from last year. These four companies include Walmart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt Transport Services and Murphy USA. Now in its 67th year, the Fortune 500 ranks the top corporations in…
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Women’s Foundation of Arkansas Launches Inaugural Tjuana Byrd Summer Internship Program
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleMinority female college students will have the opportunity to intern with leading Arkansas companies in 2021 through a new program launched by the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas (WFA). In 2020, the WFA is launching the inaugural Tjuana Byrd Summer Internship…
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Winds of Change: Windstream Enters New Chapter Leaner, Wiser
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain Hebda“What exactly is it that you guys do, anyway?” That question — or some variant of it — is something with which Tony Thomas has become very familiar during his six years as president and CEO of Windstream Communications, and…
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Windstream Stepping Out from Bankruptcy to Operate as Privately-Held Company
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleWindstream Holdings, Inc. will soon emerge from bankruptcy proceedings and begin operating as a private company after a court ruling confirmed its reorganization plans. The Arkansas-based data networking and communications company is planning to complete its restructuring this summer. It…
by Jeremy Peppas Little Rock-based Windstream Holdings, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, the company announced in a press release. The move was expected, Bloomberg reported, after a federal court ruled that a spinoff of the company’s assets…
Kristi Moody, a former partner at Wright Lindsey Jennings, has been appointed general counsel at Windstream Holdings Inc., a Little Rock-based provider of voice and data network communications and managed services to businesses nationwide. In that role, she will manage…
Little Rock-based Windstream announced today, Oct. 19, that it has entered into a definitive agreement with TierPoint, a leading national provider of cloud, colocation and managed services, to sell its data center business in an all-cash transaction for $575 million. As part…
Windstream Holdings, Inc. announced Sept. 18 that its board of directors has adopted a shareholder rights plan. The rights plan is designed to protect Windstream’s valuable net operating loss carryforwards (NOLs) from the effect of limitations under Section 382 of the…
Little Rock-based Windstream announced Aug. 4 that has been awarded a contract to provide voice, data and Internet services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology under the National Consolidation of Local Exchange Carrier Services…