3 leaders at Wal-Mart to speak with retailers Top executives from Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other companies will be featured at the eighth annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference on Sept. 4.
The event will be at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers.
The Center for Retailing Excellence at the Sam M. Walton College of Business will host the event. The college is part of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Addressing operations, merchandising and marketing will be Bill Simon, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Wal-Mart; John Fleming, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer; and Stephen Quinn, executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
Kathy Deck, director of the Walton College’s Center for Business and Economic Research, and Javier Reyes, assistant professor in the university’s economics department, will speak on the global and domestic economy.
Adam Werbach, former chief executive of Act Now and currently with Saatchi & Saatchi S, will lead a panel on sustainability in retail.
Registration information is available on the retailing center’s Web site, http: // cre. uark. edu. New electric substation gets OK from judge An administrative law judge has approved Oklahoma Gas and Electric’s request to build a new substation and transmission line projected to cost about $ 5. 9 million.
OG&E’s Razorback substation will be built near Prairie View in Logan County, and be linked by a 9. 7-mile, 161-kilovolt line that will cross the Arkansas River and connect with OG&E’s Igo substation near Hartman in Johnson County.
The new facilities are needed to upgrade the electric grid’s ability to handle increased load, Judge Burl C. Rotenberry of the Arkansas Public Service Commission wrote Thursday in a sevenpage ruling. No objections to the expansion or waterway crossings were made in the case, Rotenberry said.
The project is scheduled for completion by June 2009. Arkansas 20 sinks 0. 42 Acxiom shares up 5. 6 %
The Arkansas 20, a priceweighted index that tracks public companies based in the state, fell 0. 42 to 188. 34 on Thursday.
“The Arkansas 20 was mixed as 10 stocks moved lower, nine traded higher and one remained unchanged,” said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.
Low-priced Equity Media bounced off a 52-week low, but rallied to rise 9. 1 percent.
Acxiom Corp. gained 5. 6 percent in above-average trading.
Tyson Foods Inc. dropped 5. 4 percent in light trading.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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