Largest Private Companies

Magazine debuts latest list of big non-publics

Raising the floor to $2 billion in sales to make the list, a number of Texas companies were cut from Forbes' list in 2009.

• Austin Industries
• Brookshire Brothers
• CompuCom Systems
• David Weekley Homes
• Freeman
• Goodman Manufacturing
• GSC Enterprises
• HealthMarkets
• Interstate Battery System International
• Safety-Kleen Systems
• The Brock Group
• Truman Arnold Cos
• Vought Aircraft Industries
• Warren Equipment
• Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing

Nevertheless, 23 Lonestar firms made it onto the list of the 250 largest companies in the U.S. .:.

Texas Rank.....Overall Rank.....Company
1.....19.....HE Butt Grocery
2.....26.....Energy Future Holdings
3.....67.....Freescale Semiconductor
4.....68.....Gulf States Toyota
5.....85.....Republic National Distributing Company
6.....103.....Michaels Stores
7.....109.....Neiman Marcus Group
8.....128.....US Oncology
9.....145.....Glazer's Wholesale Drug
10.....147.....Sabre Holdings
11.....149.....Grocers Supply
12.....156.....Hunt Consolidated/Hunt Oil
13.....162.....Sammons Enterprises
14.....163.....Zachry Construction
15.....166.....Interstate Bakeries
16.....169.....Ben E Keith
17.....175.....Mary Kay
18.....193.....Camac International
19.....206.....Brookshire Grocery
20.....210.....Academy Sports & Outdoors
21.....214.....Dresser
22.....223.....Merit Energy
23.....227.....Metals USA

Innovation Clusters Round-up

1. Venture Capital Hubs> Fascinating Harvard paper on VC clusters, DFW ranked 6th, down from 1990 peak, ATX not ranked.:. http://bit.ly/2hG3rz
2. Top 10 Nano Metros> ATX and Houston rank 9th and 10th among nanotechnology cluster cities .:. http://bit.ly/DUtCC
3. Small is Big> Texas ranks 4th in nanotech among states, PDF of nanotech resources here.:. http://bit.ly/YLEIz
4. How much the Apollo Program would cost today .:. http://bit.ly/U0nw9
5. Tech Empires> Rome wasn't built in a day, neither are technology powerhouses .:. http://bit.ly/3Q1xuK
6. IPOs in the Lone Star> How Texas stacks up in public offerings over last 10 years .:. http://bit.ly/qMYlb
7. Arcologies for Innovation> Nations invest big in research & tech parks to attract corporations .:. http://bit.ly/1oTWPu
8. Creator Class> Film-maker Mike Judge and who Butt-head really was based on .:. http://bit.ly/OCBw0
9. Aerospace Clusters> #AlamoCity fights for aerospace work, borne of Air Force presence, plenty of competition .:. http://bit.ly/AFDSe
10. Cluster Power> How a small California #industrycluster gave rise to the Information Age .:. http://bit.ly/D4hyv
11. Physicians heal themselves > Houston Medical Center giants seek to mend past wounds, bring back breakthroughs.:. http://bit.ly/4ToXI
12. Think Different> Richard Florida tells Fort Worth to get creative to prosper .:. http://bit.ly/6PYRu

Visualizing the F1000

2007 Fortune 1000

• Houston [49]


• Dallas-Fort Worth [43]


• Austin-San Antonio [9]

Honchos> At Comerica, $202,928 in Country Club Fees

Country club initiation fees tend to be one of those closely held secrets that rarely see the public light. While it’s easy enough to compare greens fees online, especially at public or semi-private courses, initiation fees are next to impossible to find, especially at the most exclusive country clubs. After all, as the saying goes, [...]

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Honchos> At Southern Union, a President With Ties to a Law

When Eric D. Herschmann was named last May as president and chief operating officer of Southern Union, a Houston-based natural gas company, he continued to be a partner at the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. Southern Union also happens to be a very good client of the law firm, where Mr. Herschmann [...]

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Honchos> Ponying Up for Politics at Halliburton

Some companies frown upon their top executives getting too entrenched in politics. But Halliburton actually seems to be encouraging political giving, by matching top executives’ contributions to an in-house political action committee with donations to nonprofits.In the proxy that the company filed Monday, Halliburton disclosed it had spent $

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Texas Triangle 10-K Filings

2008-2009 Texas Triangle 10-K filings

• Austin metro 10-K filings
• DFW Metroplex 10-K filings
• San Antonio metro 10-K filings
• Houston metro 10-K filings

Proxy Filings

2008-2009 Texas Triangle DEF-14A filings

• Austin proxy filings
• DFW Metroplex proxy filings
• Houston metro proxy filings
• San Antonio metro proxy filings