Covering the Lone Star State's emerging megapolitan area, DFW, ATX, San Antonio and Houston, aka The Texaplex.
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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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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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 emerges as dominant state and region for business
As Fortune Magazine released its seminal list of big companies online, the numbers came in big for Texas. According to the site, the Lone Star state had more companies in the top 500 than other state. Additionally, Irving-based Exxon-Mobil edged out Wal-Mart to become the only member of the Fortune 1 list.
| Rank # of Fortune 500 Companies | |
|---|---|
| Texas | 64 |
| New York | 56 |
| California | 51 |
Posted by editor at 20.4.09 0 comments
Labels: commercial real estate, Fortune 1000, public companies, rankings, Texas Triangle
Mark Druskoff is an award-winning journalist and business writer, who most recently worked for a Big Tex law firm as its marketing content writer. He has an avid interest in innovation and entrepreneurship and their impact on metropolitan and regional economic growth. Not a native Texan, Mark got here as soon as he could. .:.
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