Bring Your Business to Arkansas

Business Climate

Market

Within an 880-kilometer (550-mile) radius of Arkansas is a market of 103 million people (42 percent total U.S. population).

Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, and St. Louis.

Principal Industries

Manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, business services and tourism

Principal Manufactured Goods

Chemicals, food and kindred products, lumber and wood products, paper, electronic equipment, rubber and plastic products, furniture, home appliances, apparel, machinery, transportation equipment and steel

Tourism

Tourists spent more than $5.5 billion in Arkansas in 2010; the Ozark and Ouachita Mountain regions are popular recreational areas.