Acme Brick Company began operation in 1891 and is now the largest American-owned brick and masonry manufacture...

The consumer data marketing company Acxiom began in Conway (Faulkner County) in the late 1960s as Demographics...

Simon Adler, born in Bavaria in 1832 (according to his tombstone), was one of the first Jewish immigrants to s...

The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...

The Albert Pike Hotel in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) opened in 1929 and was one of the state’s bes...

Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...

Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...

Alltel Corporation, a wireless communications company, began as a technical service provider to small-town Ark...

Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. was a lawyer and philanthropist who was known as a “real trailblazer” in pro...

The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of k...

In the quickly industrializing world of the late nineteenth century, so-called “friendly societies” or fra...

Glen Daniel Andrews Sr. is considered one of the all-time great professional bass anglers. Bobby Murray, two-t...

Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...

Antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silver-white metal with a relatively high specific gravity (6.69) and a rela...

Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...

Aquaculture—the farming of aquatic plants and animals—includes private sector, commercial fish farms, stat...

The Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad (A&OW), based in Rogers (Benton County), was incorporated on Ju...

Arkansas Brewing Company (originally Riley-Lyon Inc.) was a short-lived brewery in the 1980s based in Little R...

The Arkansas Business Hall of Fame was created by the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of A...

Arkansas Business, a weekly newspaper and website based in Little Rock (Pulaski County), is the leading source...

In 1989, the Small Business Administration (SBA), a federal government agency, asked the Arkansas Capital Corp...

Arkansas Community Foundation (ARCF) is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to helping generous indiv...

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state’s largest newspaper, is based in Little Rock (Pulaski County), with...

The Division of Career and Technical Education oversees vocational and technical education in the state. It wa...

In 1976, a group of professionals and volunteers involved in the economic development of Arkansas organized Ar...

The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission (AIDC) was created in 1955 by Act 404 of the Arkansas General A...

The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) is a private association of firms and individuals in the forestry indu...