The Chamber honors its member businesses/organizations which have achieved 100 years of continuous service in the region and/or state by designating them Founders.

The following were honored at the inaugural event, held September 28, 2010 in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center.

If your Chamber member business/organization is approaching its centennial, please contact Gary Newton, 377.6007.

Fouunders (in order of longevity)

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1819, 1878)
Rose Law Firm (1820)
First United Methodist Church of Little Rock (1831)
Mount St. Mary Academy (1851)
Coleman Dairy (1862)
12th Episcopal District, A.M.E. Church (1865)
Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce (1866)
Little Rock School District (1869)
Democrat Printing & Litho Company (1871)
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP (1871)
Arkansas Press Association (1873)
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (1873)
Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa (1875)
Bank of America (1877)
Capital Hotel (1877)
Philander Smith College (1877)
AT&T (1879)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (1879)
Roller-Drummond Southwest (1881)
Arkansas Baptist College (1885)
Bemberg Iron Works, Inc. (1885)
Cromwell Architects Engineers (1885)
Ketcher & Company Inc. (1885)
WACO Title Company (1885)
YMCA of Metropolitan Little Rock (1885)
Tipton & Hurst (1886)
St. Vincent Health System (1888)
A. Tenenbaum Company, Inc. (1890)
Arkansas Bankers Association (1891)
Immanuel Baptist Church (1892)
Salvation Army (1896)
Bank of England (1898)
Methodist Family Health (1899)
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, LLP (1900)
Ruebel Funeral Home (1901)
Regions Bank (1902)
Bank of the Ozarks (1903)
Simmons First National Bank (1903)
Sol Alman Company (1905)
Darragh Company (1906)
HomeBank of Arkansas (1908)
AFCO Steel (1909)
Meadors, Adams & Lee, Inc. (1909)
WEHCO Media, Inc. (1909)
Central Arkansas Library System (1910)
Delta Trust & Bank (1910)
Barber Law Firm (1910)
Arkansas Children's Hospital (1912)