Details of Bobbitt’s retirement will now be finalized while the board of trustees ramps up a national search for his replacement.
Scott Ford
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‘Bend, Don’t Break’: A Q&A with Frank O’Mara
Former University of Arkansas track athlete and Alltel executive Frank O’Mara released his memoir, “Bend, Don’t Break,” in which he shares lessons he’s learned from a storied life.
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Westrock Coffee opens new 570,000-square-foot facility in Conway
Westrock Coffee held the grand opening last week for its new 570,000-square-foot $315 million manufacturing facility in Conway.
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Is Asa Hutchinson interested in becoming the next UA System president? Apparently.
For now, though, the system already has a president.
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Little Rock’s Westrock Coffee going public in billion-dollar deal
Westrock Coffee, the 13-year-old Little Rock-based company led by CEO and co-founder Scott Ford, announced today that it is going public in a deal that values the company at almost […]
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Money talking for Sarah Sanders, if not necessarily with her
Stephens and Ford backers likely should produce a good cash haul for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But will she speak?
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Scott Ford connects 99 percenters with Rwandan genocide
Scott Ford, who had the great good fortune to be born into the Alltel empire, is drawing wide attention for a recent speech in Fort Smith in which he seemed to draw a parallel between the 99 percenters of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations with those responsible for genocide in Rwanda.
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Arkansas Baptist begins business program
Arkansas Baptist College is rolling out a new effort today to encourage minority entrepreneurs. The Scott Ford Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development will be housed in a new building at 16th and M.L. King.