Food RetailNorthwest Arkansas

Walmart

Food Retail · Bentonville, AR

Walmart is the world's largest retailer by revenue, operating supercenters, grocery stores, and e-commerce.

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About NW Arkansas

Northwest Arkansas sits in the Ozarks — rolling hill country, historically rural — which makes it an unlikely place to find one of the largest corporate headquarters in the world, but Walmart is based there, and every consumer brand of scale eventually has to sell through it. That contrast is the region's real character: a landscape that still reads as small-town Arkansas, built around a retail-tech and supply-chain ecosystem that operates at global scale.

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In January 1925, Three Men Founded an Airplane Company in Wichita, Kansas. By 1928, One in Four US-Built Planes Came From There. The Colorado School of Mines Was Founded in 1874 for a Gold Rush That Ended Decades Ago. It Now Feeds the Country's Second-Largest Aerospace Cluster. In 1994, 48 Companies Kept an Office Near Walmart's Headquarters. By 2001 It Was 445. Today It's Over 1,500.

Region Stats

Total firms 7

VC / investors 2

Companies 4

Schools 1

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Retail Tech

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