Acxiom just might have tipped off the sender where to find a good prospect. Except for some embarrassing publicity over Charles Morgan's 1997 divorce, Acxiom was golden. People who considered themselves suckered by the stock offering sought remedy in court. But, no longer having jobs, those laid off had time to talk. Betrayal was a word on many lips, though often quietly, because many of those fired still had friends and family on the payroll.
Some employees talk here for the first time.
Its leaders say the best is yet to come, and the numbers tend to support them. Acxiom is taking its place among the nation's, even the world's, elite cyber explorers. But let's step back from world adulation for a minute and go back to the beginning. It started with school buses. In 1968, Charles Ward needed some help with his Conway school bus company.