Acxiom establishes LinkedIn partnership
Acxiom will partner with LinkedIn to help marketers better target audiences on the social media network, the Conway company said this week.
In a news release, Anne Doherty, Acxiom's senior vice president of sales, said that because LinkedIn is the world's largest professional online network with more than 500 million users, "we're excited to unlock the potential that this relationship will have on the marketing industry."
David DeRobbio, vice president of global partner development at Acxiom, said the new relationship and information will affect all segments of the business.
"If you think of the financial services clients that Acxiom represents, for example, and the demographics of the audiences they want to reach, LinkedIn will provide a great platform for this," he said.
DeRobbio said Acxiom maintains partnerships with several other social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.
-- Emma N. Hurt
ArcBest's CEO again makes Top 25 listing
For the third time, Judy McReynolds, president, CEO and chairman of ArcBest Corp., has been named to CEO Connection's Top 25 2017 Most Influential Women of the Mid-Market.
CEO Connection membership is only available to CEOs of companies with between $100 million and $3 billion in annual revenue. Parameters for the honor include sales, number of employees and community involvement.
McReynolds has been at the Fort Smith transportation and logistics company for two decades and been in charge since 2010. ArcBest's annual revenue under her management has risen from $1.7 billion in 2010 to $2.7 billion in 2016.
She serves as the chairman of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Foundation and the American Transportation Research Institute boards, and sits on several others, including that of the First National Bank of Fort Smith and the Dean's Executive Advisory Board at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
-- Emma N. Hurt
Arkansas Index rises 7.13; Dillard's up 5̶%̶ 10%*
he Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 7.13 to 337.59 Friday.
Dillard's Inc. shares rose 5̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶c̶e̶n̶t̶ $5.06, or 10 percent*, Friday.
For the week, 12 stocks advanced, five fell, and one was unchanged.
Home BancShares rose 9.2 percent for the week.
USA Truck shares fell 10.7 percent for the week.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997
Business on 06/10/2017
*CORRECTION: Dillard’s Inc. stock rose 10 percent Friday. A previous version of this story and headline misstated the increase.