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Online Recruitment Works If Done Correctly, Experts Say
It seems to be a common complaint: Online employee recruitment efforts produce lots of resumes but few great prospects. PC Magazine reported last month that the percentage of new hires coming from job...
View ArticleSPONSORED: Uncle T's: A Neighborhood Mainstay For 50 Years And Counting
History books may devote more pages to nearby Little Rock Central High School, but in the day-to-day life of the neighborhood it’s hard to imagine any landmark around here ranking higher than Uncle T’s...
View ArticleMillennials in Mind, Fornetti Brings Bakeries to Arkansas Road Runners
Fornetti, an international bakery with 8,000 European locations, has opened some of its first U.S. locations at Road Runner stores in Conway, Fort Smith, Heber Springs, Little Rock and Hot Springs....
View ArticleWLR Apartment Land Draws $2.5M Sale (Real Deals)
A future apartment site in west Little Rock weighed in at $2.5 million. Madison at Chenal LLC, led by Brandon Huffman and Graham Smith, bought the 5,000-SF office-warehouse at 15500 Kanis Road and an...
View ArticleNew Man on the Roost at Slim Chickens
Slim Chickens, the Fayetteville restaurant chain, has a new executive on board. He’s Mark Mears, chief marketing officer. Mears has spent time with Noodles & Co., Schlotzsky’s and the Cheesecake...
View ArticleYoung Chefs Offers Classes In Rogers
A Rogers couple, Mary and Alfonso Vidal, are opening a Young Chefs Academy, which offers cooking classes to children, in December. It’s the first Young Chefs Academy in Arkansas. Young Chefs Academy,...
View ArticleDry Spell for Fort Smith Brewing Set To End
If the permits come through and everything falls into place, Fort Smith Brewing Co. should be up and running next year — the earlier the better, as far as Brooke Elder is concerned. Elder, an...
View ArticleConvenience Store Trio Packaged in $2.8M Transaction
Three convenience stores in Lonoke County, residential property in Saline County, an eatery in Cabot and a future restaurant location in Conway form our group of multimillion-dollar transactions this...
View ArticleAlice Walton Reels In Flying Fish to Bentonville
Dallas restaurateur Shannon Wynne and his partners didn’t really want to go to Bentonville, and they certainly knew they didn’t want to locate a Flying Fish restaurant there. But that was before Alice...
View ArticleChurch Friendship Collapses Along With Building Plans
Was an ex-con seeking to improve his life taken advantage of by a couple from his church who gained his trust by trying to help him repair his marriage? Or were the couple just more victims of a man...
View ArticleAt 5, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Transforms Bentonville
There are any number of ways to try to gauge the impact — economic and otherwise — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has had on Bentonville, on Arkansas and beyond since its opening Nov. 11, 2011....
View ArticleConsumer Spending Rebounded in September
WASHINGTON — Consumers boosted their spending in September at the fastest pace in three months, while their incomes grew by a modest amount. Consumer spending increased 0.5 percent, a significant...
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Medical Marijuana: A Fact of Life for Arkansas Employers (Stuart Jackson...
The election is over, and Arkansas is now the latest of many states to have a medical marijuana law on the books. Although the new amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is effective immediately, it...
View ArticleRock Town Distillery Receives Awards for Whiskey, Bourbon
Rock Town Distillery announced Wednesday that three of its whiskeys have scored the rating of "Liquid Gold" in Jim Murray's 2017 Whisky Bible. Rock Town's Arkansas Rye Whiskey received a grade of 95.5...
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The Everyday Proof of Social Proof (Jim Karrh On Marketing)
One of the most powerful forces of persuasion is “social proof,” the tendency of people to look to the behavior of similar others when they aren’t sure what is correct in a given situation. You can...
View ArticleColony West Center Sells for $7.1 Million (Real Deals)
The sale of a 90,000-SF retail center in west Little Rock weighed in at $7.1 million. Colony West Group LLC, led by T.J. Leflar, Marshall Saviers and Brian Shaw, and C-Lef Partners LLC, led by Leflar,...
View ArticleAfter High Feed Prices and Glutted Market, Catfish Farmers Hope Luck Is Changing
There was a time when Arkansas was dotted with catfish ponds, and not the kind where children with cane poles and a can of worms would try their luck. These catfish ponds covered acres and acres,...
View ArticleUS Retail Sales Jump 0.8 Percent in Sign of Consumer Health
WASHINGTON — American consumers ramped up their spending last month in a sign of robust health heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales rose 0.8 percent in October, after an...
View ArticleHarps Names Kim Eskew as New CEO
Harps Food Stores Inc. of Springdale announced Thursday that Kim Eskew, its president and chief operating officer, has been elected as the privately held grocery store chain's new CEO. Eskew replaces...
View Article6 Planning Tips From The Pros on Throwing An Eventful Event
When it comes to planning your event, the to-do list may seem daunting. It makes sense — event planning is all in the details — but we’ve spoken with event planners from around the state for their tips...
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