LITTLE ROCK — DENSO adding jobs at Michigan plants
DENSO, an automotive-parts supplier with a manufacturing facility in Osceola, said Wednesday that it will invest $151 million and add 442 new jobs at two of its operations in Southfield and Battle Creek, Mich.
Japan-based DENSO has a 224,000-square-foot radiator plant in Osceola that employs more than 475. The company employs more than 14,000 people in 28 subsidiaries and affiliates - including 26 manufacturing plants - in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The company said recently that it would invest nearly $1 billion in North America over the next four years and plans to add more than 2,000 jobs, according to a news release. More than $750 million will be invested in the U.S., with the creation of 1,200 jobs.
DENSO supplies thermal, power train control, and electronic components and systems. It operates in 35 countries and employs more than 120,000 worldwide.
- John Magsam
U-verse disruptions few, AT&T reports
AT&T U-verse customers in Arkansas and other Southeastern states were still experiencing service problems Wednesday, the company said.
The service failures, which have been attributed to a server problem, began Monday evening and affect fewer than 1 percent of the company’s 7.4 million television and Internet subscribers, said Anita Smith, a spokesman for AT&T, in an e-mailed prepared statement.
“This issue currently affects less than 1 percent of our U-verse subscribers, but that is too many and we are working hard to fix this. We are making progress in resolving the issue which is related to a server complex, and are working to determine when service will be completely restored. We apologize for this inconvenience.”
The U-verse service includes telephone, digital television and broadband Internet access.
-Jessica Seaman
State index slips, but 3 at year highs
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, dropped 1.12 to 255.16 Wednesday.
Deltic Timber Corp.
reached a 52-week high of $72.14 before closing at $71.39.
Acxiom Corp. shares gained 4 cents to finish at $18.43, just shy of its 52-week high of $18.99.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services hit a 52-week high of $64.12 before closing at $63.46.
Tyson Foods Inc. hit a 52-week high of $22.36 before finishing at $22.27.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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