Manufacturing Economy Monitor

Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products Manufacturing in Arkansas

Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products manufacturing added $6.6B of value to Arkansas's economy in 2025, down 1.2% year over year. That ranks Arkansas 22nd of 50 states and DC for this industry. It is 26.2% of Arkansas's manufacturing output. Nationally, food, beverage, and tobacco products is a $384B industry (the 2nd-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors), per the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Output and rank

  • Value added: $6.6B in 2025, #22 of 50 states and DC for this industry.
  • Growth: -1.2% year over year.
  • Share of Arkansas's manufacturing: 26.2% of the state's total manufacturing value added.
  • National context: food, beverage, and tobacco products is a $384B industry nationally, #2 of the 19 manufacturing subsectors (-1.6% year over year).
  • Classification: nondurable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 311FT).

Frequently asked questions

  • How big is the food, beverage, and tobacco products industry in Arkansas? Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products added $6.6B of value in Arkansas in 2025, ranking the state 22nd of 50 states and DC for this industry, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
  • Is food, beverage, and tobacco products growing in Arkansas? Arkansas's food, beverage, and tobacco products output shrank 1.2% year over year to 2025. The chart above traces the full annual series since 1997.
  • What share of Arkansas's manufacturing is food, beverage, and tobacco products? Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products is 26.2% of Arkansas's total manufacturing value added in 2025, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.

About this data

  • Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.

Last reviewed 2026-10-01.