Fortune 500 Companies

Arkansas is proud of the four homegrown Fortune 500 companies headquartered here: Dillard’s, Murphy Oil, Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart. These companies are among the more than 100 Fortune 500 parent firms with more than 310 facilities in Arkansas.

Many Arkansas companies are making headlines:
Wal-Mart, which was named by Fortune as the world's largest corporation from 2002 to 2009, has also ranked as one of the nation's most admired companies.
Other Arkansas companies contending for the list of America's Most Admired Companies in 2009 were Alltel (bought by Verizon), Arkansas Best, Dillard's, Murphy Oil and Tyson Foods.
J. B. Hunt Transport and Murphy Oil are on the 2009 Forbes Platinum List of 400 companies.
J.B. Hunt is also the only transportation firm in the top ten of Computerworld’s top 100 information technology workplaces.
Arkansas Children's Hospital and Chesapeake Energy are among Fortune's 2009 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.