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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Arkansas offers companies a strong transportation network with intersecting Interstates, rail access and water transportation. In Arkansas, you will find: 1,000 miles of navigable waterways. Four ports are located along the Arkansas River in Fort Smith, Little Rock, North Little Rock and Pine Bluff. Hunt and ABF Freight Systems.

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Writing the book on smarter warehouse design and construction

The Korte Company

They protect inventory and, when designed and constructed correctly, improve on the efficiency with which inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped.”. Those precise conditions were necessary to preserve the quality of the $1 billion or so of inventory inside the facility. The result? Speed to market secured.

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Foster Farms Investing $30M In Louisiana Poultry Plant Expansion

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With financial assistance from the state, the company invested $100 million to complete facility improvements and rebuild inventory, while announcing plans to refill more than 1,000 jobs in the area, making the site a major economic driver for North Louisiana and a leading agribusiness project in the state.

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Linking The Global Supply Chain

Business Facilities

A number of states are now in the matchmaking business, all trying to help companies solve their increasingly complex and demanding supply chain issues.

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INSIDE LIVEXCHANGE: You Rank, We Rank, Some Stank

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The better choice, depending on the needs of the company, might be South Dakota, or Arkansas, or Pennsylvania or even, gulp, California. It is true that China’s cost advantage is eroding, according to the Hackett Group’s “total landed cost” measure, which includes raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, inventory and taxes and duties.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Education • BS, Medical Sciences, University of Arkansas. Certifications • Arkansas Contractors License. Extracurricular • Northwest Arkansas Design Association board member • Equestrian Bridges’ Mini Derby Committee member. Rogers, Ark. . . Off the Clock • Snowboarding • Wakeboarding • Surfing • Clay shooting.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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With such a large inventory of bridges and a sizeable backlog of repair needs, we looked to innovative solutions to address the problem,” said PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. The income tax credit earned may be used to offset 50 percent of the investor’s Arkansas income tax liability in any one tax year.

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