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The Little Rock Regional Chamber announced an initiative to attract more international entrepreneurs to the region and outlined a year of delivering thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars in investments to central Arkansas at the business groups annual meeting Wednesday.

The Little Rock Regional Chamber announced an initiative to attract more international entrepreneurs to the region and outlined a year of delivering thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars in investments to central Arkansas at the business groups annual meeting Wednesday.

Elopak will create over 100 jobs in Little Rock, Arkansas with its first U.S. carton production plant. Owens Corning grows in Russellville.

A Norwegian packaging company has selected Little Rock as the site of its first production plant in the United States.

Industrial facilities like the $400 million Trex plant, the Synthesia Technology thermal/acoustic insulation plant and the Fiocchi primer complex are under construction now at the Little Rock Port.

"Go fix things."

After launching the Little Rock Love Connection Campaign in May, the chamber has received close to 700 resumes from job applicants.

SIG SAUER will expand manufacturing operations in Jacksonville, Arkansas. Family Dollar returns distribution center to West Memphis.

JACKSONVILLE — SIG SAUER, a global leader in the firearms and ammunition industry, has announced plans to expand its ammunition manufacturing facility in Jacksonville. This expansion is …

The project is expected to create 625 jobs over the next five years.