Jessica Seaman
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Archive company expands in Pacific
posted: 05/25/2013 3:28 a.m. Discuss
More than 40 million newspaper photographs and negatives from New Zealand and Australia will soon be loaded onto cargo ships and dispatched to North Little Rock, where they will be digitally copied.
Acxiom profit off 71.3% but still tops predictions
posted: 05/16/2013 3:48 a.m. Discuss
Acxiom Corp.’s net income for its fiscal-2013 fourth quarter fell 71.3 percent compared with the same quarter a year ago, the company said Wednesday.
Windstream profit falls 13%
posted: 05/10/2013 3:27 a.m. Comments 2
Windstream Corp.’s shares fell 3.8 percent Thursday after the telecommunications company reported a 13 percent drop in its net income for the first quarter of 2013.
LR-set telecom makes top 500
posted: 05/07/2013 2:55 a.m. Discuss
Windstream Corp. was named to the Fortune 500 list for the first time Monday, making it the sixth Arkansas company on the annual listing.
Windstream: Fortune 500, here we come
posted: 05/05/2013 2:47 a.m. Discuss
Windstream Corp.’s 2012 revenue of $6.16 billion is expected to put the Little Rock-based company on the Fortune 500 list for the first time when it is released Monday.
Murphy Oil profits up 24%
posted: 05/02/2013 12:34 a.m. Discuss
Murphy Oil Corp. on Wednesday posted a first quarter profit of $361 million, up 24 percent from the same period a year ago.
Business news in brief
posted: 04/30/2013 2:07 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Job additions and rising household wealth will continue to support housing demand.” Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors chief economist Article, 1D First Federal reports officers’ earnings Dabbs Cavin, chief executive officer at First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, earned $263,000 last year, the Harrison bank said in a federal filing Friday.
Civilian workers await furlough news
posted: 04/21/2013 2:23 a.m. Discuss
About 1,000 civilian employees with the Arkansas National Guard, 860 workers at the Pine Bluff Arsenal and 650 employees at the Little Rock Air Force Base at Jacksonville are still waiting to hear when the Pentagon will order the start of furloughs mandated by automatic federal spending cuts.
LR-set network aims at blacks
posted: 04/18/2013 12:45 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock-based television network aiming to attract black viewers in the South is set to begin broadcasting next month.
Osceola rail-to-barge oil hub in works
posted: 04/09/2013 12:26 a.m. Discuss
A Texas development company has plans to build a rail-to-barge oil terminal near Osceola that could bring 200 jobs to the area.
