Retail Academy program helping boost business growth in Arkansas towns

NEWPORT, Ark. (KAIT/KATV) – Six Arkansas towns were chosen for a program providing training and assistance to help them attract businesses.

According to our content partner KATV, the Retail Academy program provides resources ranging from training to market research and technical assistance.

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission selected Newport, Hope, Marion, Morrilton, and Stuttgart to participate in the program.

Jon Chadwell, executive director of the Newport Economic Development Commission, said Retail Strategies’ retail strategies have already worked for Newport.

“We actually hired Retail Strategies ourselves several years ago to help us recruit and get a new hotel in town, and they did that,” Chadwell said, “we now have a new hotel that we looked for through their help, through their assistance. And so, we’re pretty excited to be working with them again. We know it works.”

The Retail Academy program launched Tuesday and will run through next September.

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