Editing Conway, Arkansas (section)

==Economy==
Conway was home to one of the world's largest [[school bus]] manufacturers, [[IC Corporation]]. The Conway plant was one of only two IC manufacturing plants; the other is located in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]. IC Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Navistar International Corporation]] of [[Lisle, Illinois]]. IC was previously known as American Transportation (AmTran) Corporation and [[Ward Body Works]]. The company was founded in 1933. IC Corporation closed its plant and moved all bus manufacturing operations to its Tulsa plant in 2010, largely due to incentives offered by the city of Tulsa.<ref name="IC">{{cite web| url=http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=94004 |title=IC Bus Corporation To Lay Off Conway Workers |access-date = December 4, 2009}}</ref>

R. D. "Bob" Nabholz founded [[Nabholz Construction]] in Conway in 1949. It currently employs over 800 people and has been listed by ''[[Engineering News-Record]]'' (''ENR'') magazine as one of the Top 400 General Contractors every year since 1986. Currently, the company is ranked #161.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} [https://www.conwaycorp.com Conway Corporation] handles the local utilities (cable TV, Internet, and telephone services, in addition to electricity and water) for the city of Conway.

[[LiveRamp|Acxiom Corporation]], an interactive marketing services company, was founded in 1969 in Conway.

On June 19, 2008, [[Hewlett-Packard]] announced it would be opening a {{convert|150000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility with 1,200 employees in 2009. The building, built by Nabholz Construction and located in the Meadows Office and Technology Park,<ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/HP/@35.0379027,-92.4278315,13z/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1shp+conway+ar!3m1!1s0x0:0xc16f2b4f45a97af1 Google Maps<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name="JoeCabin">{{cite news|url=http://www.thecabin.net/stories/062008/loc_0620080001.shtml|title=HP cat out of bag, officially|last=Lamb|first=Joe|date=June 20, 2008|publisher=Log Cabin Democrat|access-date=August 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722171811/http://thecabin.net/stories/062008/loc_0620080001.shtml|archive-date=July 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> has since been abandoned by HP and is now leased to Gainwell Technologies.

On December 16, 2021, Arkansas-based company Westrock Coffee announced the planned opening of a new plant in Conway. The company purchased a {{convert|524,000|sqft|adj=on}} facility that is expected to create 250 jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Westrock Coffee Announces Major Plant Expansions - Including Nation's |url=https://westrockcoffee.com/pages/expansion |access-date=September 28, 2022 |website=Westrock Coffee Company |language=en}}</ref>

===Largest employers===
The largest employers in Conway as of May 2023 were as follows:<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://pulseofconway.com/2023/05/24/list-conways-largest-employers/ | title=LIST: Conway's Largest Employers | work=Pulse of Conway | date=May 24, 2023}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Rank
!Employer
!Employees
|-
|1
|Conway Regional Health System 
|1,650
|-
|2
|[[University of Central Arkansas]]
|1,600
|-
|3
|[[Interpublic Group of Companies|Acxiom]]
|1,450
|-
|4
|[[Conway School District (Arkansas)|Conway Public School District]]
|1,150
|-
|5
|[[Arkansas Department of Human Services|Conway Human Development Center]]
|900
|-
|6
|[[Walmart]] 
|825
|-
|7
|Gainwell Technologies
|650
|-
|8
|[[Virco Manufacturing]]
|650
|-
|9
|[[Home BancShares]]
|550
|-
|10
|[[Nabholz Construction]]
|550

|}