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

Good Times

5 Texas Triangle metros dominate Forbes best cities list

Urban observer and researcher Joel Kotkin assembled a list of the best U.S. cities for job growth Forbes magazine and his blog NewGeography.com. Competition was tough since the entrants included 336 cities but Texas came out smelling like roses... yellow roses in fact. Out of the hundreds of cities, Texas and, particularly for large cities, the Triangle region took home most of the top spots.  .:.

Fortune 1000 Braggin' Rights for Lone Star State

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

In the overall top 1000, Texas took 118 spots and, of those, 114 companies were based in Texas Triangle.



Within the Triangle, here's how the regions breakout:

1. Houston Area - 56
2. Dallas-Fort Worth - 48
3. Austin/San Antonio - 10

The four remaining Fortune 1000 firms were 1 in El Paso, 1 in Corpus Christi, 1 in Pittsburg, and 1 in Angleton.

With these numbers, it's now undeniable that Texas and the Texas Triangle has emerged as a dominant business community in the United States and the world.

2007

• Houston [49]
• Dallas-Fort Worth [43]
• Austin-San Antonio [9] .:.