James H. Faulkner: Arkansas Business Hall of Fame

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James H. Faulkner

Founder, Faulkner & Associates
Founder, Falcon Productions & Falcon Publications
Founder, Jimco, Inc.
Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Born in Malvern and now living in Little Rock, James H. Faulkner established Faulkner and Associates as a one-man advertising-public relations firm in 1957. While representing a number of Arkansas’ top companies, the firm was honored with national, regional and state awards. In 1985 Faulkner founded Falcon Publications, a company that produced Take One, a video entertainment magazine that was the first of its type in the nation with a circulation in excess of 1.5 million monthly. He also started several other companies that were unique to Arkansas, including Falcon Productions, the state’s first video production company and Jimco Inc., a firm that created and sold bank premiums nationally.

Today he is a director of First Security Bankshares and First Security Bank of Mountain Home. He is also director of the University of Arkansas Foundation and has served on the University of Arkansas Board of Advisors from 2006 to the present. He served as a member of the steering committee for the university’s Campaign for the 21st Century, is a founding member of the Towers of Old Main and was the university’s volunteer of the year in 2004.

 

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