Targeted Industries

An accessible location with road, water, rail, and air combined with skilled workforce and talented pipeline of students makes Little Rock an ideal place for manufacturing. When it comes to energy costs, Arkansas is ranked 8th lowest in the nation an ...

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Central Arkansas are four-year public universities with each an enrollment of 12,000 that provides a talent pipeline for corporate operations. Corporate operations in Little Rock region ...

With its central location and comprehensive transportation infrastructure, Little Rock is home to a number of distribution and logistics companies. The region offers an intermodal network including interstates with direct access to I-40 (California t ...

Little Rock is home to two of the seven regional transmission organizations in the United States: Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO). Both organizations oversee cost-effective delivery of electric power thr ...

The largest, private investment bank outside Wall Street is headquartered in Little Rock: Stephens Inc., which was founded in 1933 and has 25 offices worldwide. Little Rock is the birthplace of FinTech and is home to two national FinTech Accelerators ...

The Little Rock region is the home of several leading national and multi-national business/organization headquarters.

The Little Rock region is the center of the healthcare industry in Arkansas with more than ten medical hospitals and numerous other psychiatric and drug rehabilitation facilities. The University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS), Baptist Health ...

With the presence of the Little Rock Tech Park, The Venture Center, two national FinTech accelerators, and the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, among other assets, Little Rock is becoming known and respected in the startup/innovation sector. Littl ...