Arkansas rice farmers are past the prime period for planting, and cotton growers are getting close. Growers say they need a break from the rain.

Profile 2009

Editor’s Note – The Daily World is saluting local businesses and industries with our annual Profile Edition. During the preparation of this special edition, Arkansas Business magazine announced that The Daily World was among Arkansas’s 19 oldest businesses. In the above article, we share some brief moments of our company’s history and heritage.  Please take time to read about the dozens and dozens of businesses that are the movers and shakers in our community in two sections we call “Profile 2009.”
 

“The whole United States is going to look like a spider web,” said Judy Stuckey of Judy’s Escorts of Beebe as she waited to escort the next 18-wheeler through traffic at the mat yard on Highway 49 near the railroad crossing.

Businesses across the nation are under pressure to meet the Federal Trade Commission’s Nov. 1 deadline to have an identity theft prevention program in place. Eduard F. Goodman, general counsel and chief privacy officer with Identity Theft 911, says that many businesses will not meet the deadline, estimating that less one third of banks will not meet the deadline.
 

Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business units.

Oil prices plunged to a seven-month low Monday as the Gulf Coast energy infrastructure appeared relatively unharmed after Hurricane Ike and traders bet that Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy could ignite a massive liquidation of commodities.

Phillips County’s newest industry Delta Yams is already getting ready for an expansion and this comes after only a year of operation.
 

What a difference a year makes for Phillips County grain farmers who welcomed good rains during the often-time dry month of August.

 A judge Wednesday released a handful of the million-plus documents offered under seal in a lawsuit over genetically modified rice. Plaintiffs say the documents aid their case, a defense lawyer says the papers will make no difference.

Superior Industries has announced it will lay off 65 workers at wheel plants in Fayetteville and Rogers and that it will not fill another 90 open positions.

Man Industries Ltd. has completed real estate purchases for a site in Little Rock where the company is to build a $100 million pipe manufacturing plant.

Arkansas began its fiscal year last month ahead of predictions and last year's figures, buoyed by a large amount of revenue from unclaimed property, state officials said Monday.

The next president will inherit a record budget deficit of $482 billion, according to a new Bush administration estimate released Monday.

"Every time we've occupied a space, we've filled it," said Gary Faulkner, pastor of Cummings Street Missionary Baptist Church, whose 5,000-member congregation is offering $12 million for the Memphis Pyramid.

Buying a used gas guzzler isn't necessarily a money-losing investment.