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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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CVS produces “Grab Apples” from locally grown apples that are sliced, packaged and shipped to local schools, retail markets, restaurants and their distributors. There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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eStockIt.com in Hollywood is an online retailer of restaurant, janitorial and office supplies. Twenty-eight Fortune 500 companies operate within the Little Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Union Pacific, ConAgra Foods, Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. Motorola Mobility, Plantation, FL. million passengers annually. and Mutual of Omaha.

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Contractor Marketing That Works: There's Goodness In The Badness

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Retail sales better than both 3rd and 4th quarter projection. In his February 24th State of the Union Address, Barack Obama publicly declared that “The future of our economy relies on the imagination of our Entrepreneurs.” Someone in this country is being paid to build an actual house? Someone tell CNN!) Good riddance.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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percent, the lowest since 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the latest statistics from the U.S. agriculture, construction, gambling, healthcare and retail). The percentage of electricity generated by renewables continues to surge in the United States. ACHIEVEMENT IN TARGETED INCENTIVES.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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2009 (the Recession officially ended in April 2009, but unemployment didn’t peak until the end of that year) to the most current numbers available (April 2014, Bureau of Labor Statistics). For this new state ranking, we compared state unemployment rates when the economy bottomed out in Dec. percent from a Recession high of 12 percent.

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