Fortune 500 Companies

Arkansas is proud of the five homegrown Fortune 500 companies headquartered here: Alltel, Dillard’s, Murphy Oil, Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart. These companies are among the 112 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 2006, has also ranked as one of the nation's most admired companies.
• Tyson Foods was named by Fortune as the most admired company in the food production industry in 2003. Acxiom Corporation was on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2003.
• Alltel, Arkansas Best, J. B. Hunt Transport, Murphy Oil and Tyson Foods were on the 2004 Forbes Platinum List of 400 companies, which listed J.B. Hunt first among transportation companies.
• J.B. Hunt is also the only transportation firm in the top ten of Computerworld’s top 100 information technology workplaces.