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• AIG VALIC
• AMR Corp.
  AMR Corp.
  AMR Corporation is a commercial aviation business and airline holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Formed in 1982, as part of American Airlines's non-bankruptcy reorganization into a Delaware corporation, its name derives from American Airlines's ticker symbol on the New York...
  
  
• AT&T
  AT&T
  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
  
  
• Acme Brick Company
• Advantage Rent A Car
  Advantage Rent A Car
  Advantage Rent a Car was a formerly-independent car rental company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas which at its peak operated more than 150 U.S. locations and 130 locations in 33 countries internationally...
  
  
• Affiliated Computer Services
  Affiliated Computer Services
  Affiliated Computer Services Inc. provides information technology services as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. ACS is based in Dallas, Texas and the current CEO is Lynn Blodgett. ACS is ranked at number 341 on the 2010...
  
  
• Affiliated Food Stores
  Affiliated Food Stores
  Affiliated Foods is a grocery wholesaler. It was founded by the 1968 merger of South Plains Associated Grocers of Lubbock, Texas and the Panhandle Associated Grocers of Amarillo, Texas, and is a retailers' cooperative serving Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming....
  
  
• Air Liquide America L.P.
  Air Liquide
  L'Air Liquide S.A., or Air Liquide , is a major French company supplying industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, it is first in the world market in its field, now operating in over 80 countries. It is...
  
  
• Alliance Data Systems
• American Airlines
  American Airlines
  American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...
  
  
  • American Eagle Airlines
    American Eagle Airlines
    American Eagle Airlines is a brand name used by American Eagle Airlines, Inc. , based in Fort Worth, Texas, and Executive Airlines based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the operation of passenger air service as regional affiliates of American Airlines. All three airlines are wholly owned subsidiaries...
    
    
• American Eurocopter
  American Eurocopter
  American Eurocopter is a subsidiary of EADS North America, the United States subsidiary of EADS. American Eurocopter manufactures and markets a broad range of civil helicopters, and as of 2005 had almost a 50% share of the American market...
  
  
• American Ironhorse
  American IronHorse
  American IronHorse was an American motorcycle manufacturer that was founded in 1995 by Tim Edmundson and Bill Rucker. At one time, AIH was the largest factory producer of custom motorcycles in the USA. Their factory was located in Fort Worth, Texas, and housed the complete manufacturing process...
  
  
• American National Insurance Company
  American National Insurance Company
  American National Insurance Company is a major American insurance corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company and its subsidiaries operate in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa.-Company description:...
  
  
• American State Bank
  American State Bank
  American State Bank, founded in 1948 and headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, is a financial service company with $2.5 billion in assets and offers a full range of banking and financial services to customers in West Texas...
  
  
• Ameristar Jet Charter
• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
  Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
  Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, with approximately 2.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent of proved reserves and production of 206 million BOE as of December 31, 2008. Anadarko employs a worldwide...
  
  
• Apache Corp.
  Apache Corp.
  Apache Corporation is an American independent oil and gas corporation. It is headquartered in 1 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district of Houston, Texas....
  
  
• Architel
  Architel
  Architel Holdings LLC is an American professional services company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Architel provides computer and network support. Architel operates multiple data center and network operation facilities with personnel in more than six countries around the globe...
  
  
• Ashmore Energy International
• Aspyr Media
  Aspyr Media
  Aspyr Media, Inc. is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in porting Windows games to Mac OS. It has been in business since 1996, and as of 2003 owns 60 percent of the Mac entertainment market...
  
  
• Atmos Energy
  Atmos Energy
  Atmos Energy Corporation , headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the largest distributor of natural gas in the United States, serving 3.2 million customers nationwide. Atmos acquired TXU's natural gas and pipeline holdings in 2004. The company began as Energas in 1983, a spinoff of the natural gas...
  
  

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• Baker Hughes
  Baker Hughes
  Baker Hughes Baker Hughes provides the world's oil & gas industry with products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production and reservoir consulting. Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries worldwide mainly based in countries with a mature petroleum industry as is...
  
  
• Beal Bank
  Beal Bank
  Beal Bank is a Texas-based bank founded in 1988 by Andy Beal. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Beal Bank has deposit branches in more than 30 major metropolitan areas across the United States....
  
  
• Bell Helicopters
• Belo
  Belo
  Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
  
  
• Benchmark Electronics
  Benchmark Electronics
  Benchmark Electronics Inc is an EMS, ODM, and OEM company based in Angleton, TX. It provides contract manufacturing services.-History:Initially a subsidiary of Intermedics, a medical implant manufacturer, Benchmark was sold to Electronic Investors Corporation in 1986.The company made an IPO in...
  
  
• Berry Aviation
  Berry Aviation
  Berry Aviation is an American charter airline based in San Marcos, Texas, United States. It was established and started operations in 1983 and operates charter passenger and cargo flights as well as work for the US Postal Service...
  
  
• BP Exploration
  BP
  BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
  
  
• BJ Services Company
  BJ Services Company
  BJ Services Company was an oil and gas equipment and services company that is now a subsidiary of Baker Hughes.It was founded in 1872 as the Byron Jackson Company by inventor Byron Jackson and at its peak operated in more than 50 countries worldwide....
  
  
• Black-Eyed Pea Restaurant
  Black-Eyed Pea Restaurant
  Black-eyed Pea is a United States restaurant chain. The restaurants are located primarily in Texas and Colorado.-History:Black-eyed Pea was founded in 1975 by Dallas restaurateur Gene Street. Its first location opened on Cedar Springs road in Oak Lawn, Dallas, and is still in operation there...
  
  
• Blockbuster (movie rental store)
  Blockbuster (movie rental store)
  Blockbuster LLC is an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services, originally through video rental shops , later adding DVD-by-mail, streaming video on demand, and kiosks. At its peak in 2009, Blockbuster had up to 60,000 employees. There are around 1700 Blockbuster...
  
  
• Blue Bell Creameries
  Blue Bell Creameries
  Blue Bell Creameries, founded in 1907, is the manufacturer of Blue Bell brand ice cream.Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in only 20 states, mostly in the Southern United States, although Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David...
  
  
• BNSF Railway
  BNSF Railway
  The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary...
  
  
• Bombay Company
  Bombay Company
  The Bombay Company is a furniture and home accessories retailer in Canada. It was formerly part of a larger American chain based in Fort Worth, Texas, but the U.S. outlets are now closed.-History:...
  
  
• Borden Milk Products
  Borden Milk Products
  Borden Milk Products L.P. is a privately held American corporation owned by the Dallas, Texas-based Milk Products LLC, a subsidiary of Grupo Lala.- Borden's Beginnings :...
  
  
• Brach's
  Brach's
  Brach's Confections is a candy and sweets company which produces and invented many modern icons of the sugary world; it is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. In November 2007, Brach's Confections was sold to Farley's & Sathers Candy Company and the corporate office moved to Round Lake,...
  
  
• Brantly International
  Brantly International
  Brantly International Inc. is a helicopter manufacturer company based in Coppell, Texas, United States.-Brantly Helicopter:The company started out 1945 as Brantly Helicopter Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by Newby O. Brantly. Brantly was so impressed with the Sikorsky VS-300...
  
  , a helicopter manufacturer
• Brinker International
  Brinker International
  Brinker International, Inc. , is the parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy.-History:It was founded in 1975 as Chili's Bar and Grill, purchased by restaurateur Norman E. Brinker in 1983 and rechristened Brinker International in 1990; it now has more than 1,500 restaurants worldwide...
  
  , parent company of Chili's
  Chili's
  Chili's Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine. The chain has more than 1400 casual dining restaurants, mostly located in the United States and Canada...
  
  , On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is a chain of Texmex food casual dining restaurants located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and recently opened in Egypt, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea...
  
  , Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Northern Ireland founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood in 1991 by Richard Melman's Lettuce Entertain You and named for Melman's late partner,...
  
  , and Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The first restaurant was founded by Texas restaurateur Philip J. Romano in Leon Springs, Texas, on April 19, 1988. Brinker International bought the...
  
  
• Broadway Bank
  Broadway Bank (Texas)
  Broadway Bank is a community bank founded in 1941, and encompasses most of Central Texas. As of 2009, It operates approximately thirty-eight branches....
  
  
• Brookshire Brothers
  Brookshire Brothers
  Brookshire Brothers Grocery is a supermarket retailer headquartered in Lufkin, Texas.Brookshire Brothers operates 70 stores under the names Brookshire Brothers and B&B Foods, and seven stand-alone pharmacies in a market area covering Texas and Louisiana...
  
   Grocery
• Brookshire Grocery Company
  Brookshire Grocery Company
  Brookshire Grocery Company is a Tyler, Texas-based supermarket chain with 151 stores operating in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Until recently, the company had operated 4 stores in Mississippi but recently pulled out with a sale to Kroger and a local chain, Food Depot. The company was founded...
  
  
• Buffet Partners, L.P., parent company of Furr's Family Dining(Furr's Cafeteria)
• Burger Street
  Burger Street
  Burger Street is a small Fast Food Restaurant chain with 17 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and 5 locations in the Tulsa area.-Overview:...
  
  
• Burlington Resources
  Burlington Resources
  Burlington Resources, was an American oil and gas company. Their headquarters were in Houston, Texas. The company was acquired by ConocoPhillips in 2006....
  
  

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• Cabot Oil
  Cabot Oil
  Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation is an independent petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas ....
  
  
• Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages/Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group
  Cadbury Schweppes
  Cadbury is a confectionery company owned by Kraft Foods and is the industry's second-largest globally after Mars, Incorporated. Headquartered in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide....
  
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• Cameron International
• Carino’s Italian Grill
• Carter Aviation Technologies
  Carter Aviation Technologies
  Carter Aviation Technologies is a privately held aviation research and development company based in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States....
  
  
• CB&I
• Celanese
  Celanese
  Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The company is a leading producer of acetyl products, which are intermediate chemicals for nearly all major industries, and is the world's largest producer of vinyl...
  
  
• CenterPoint Energy
  CenterPoint Energy
  CenterPoint Energy is a Fortune 500 electric and natural gas utility serving several markets in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. It was formerly known as Reliant Energy , NorAm Energy, Houston Industries, and HL&P...
  
  
• Centex
  Centex
  Centex Corporation began as a Dallas, Texas based home builder in 1950.-Division:*Centex Destination Properties*Centex Homes*Centex Insurance*Centex Title*CTX Mortgage*Fox & Jacobs Homes-External links:****...
  
  
• Central Freight Lines
• Chicken Express
  Chicken Express
  Chicken Express is a small, regional chain of fast food restaurants concentrated in the Southern United States.-History:Chicken Express was established in 1988 by Stuart Group Inc...
  
  
• Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. Chuck E...
  
  
• Church's Chicken
  Church's Chicken
  Church's Chicken is a US-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken, also trading outside North America as Texas Chicken. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To Go by George W. Church, Sr., on April 17, 1952, in San Antonio, across the street from The Alamo...
  
  
• CiCi's Pizza
  CiCi's Pizza
  CiCi's Pizza is an American buffet restaurant chain based in Coppell, Texas, specializing in pizza. There are approximately 600 franchised and corporately owned restaurants in 35 states...
  
  
• Citgo
  Citgo
  CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a United States-incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de...
  
  
• Clear Channel Communications
  Clear Channel Communications
  Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
  
  
• Click Computers, Ltd
• Combined Agents of America
  Combined Agents of America
  Combined Agents of America, LLC is based in Austin,TX, and consists of 45 independent insurance agencies located throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas....
  
  
• Commercial Metals Company
  Commercial Metals Company
  Commercial Metals Company , based in Irving, Texas, is a United States based steel and metal manufacturer founded in 1915. It owns four steel minimills in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina and Arkansas, one copper minimill in Virginia, fabricators, and recyclers in the United States and CMC...
  
  
• CompUSA
  CompUSA
  CompUSA is a retailer and reseller of consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. Its headquarters are in Miami, Florida.Until its reorganization, CompUSA, Inc. was a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Commercial Corp S.A.B...
  
  
• ConocoPhillips
  ConocoPhillips
  ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States...
  
  
• The Container Store
  The Container Store
  The Container Store is a specialty retail chain that sells storage solutions for home and office.On July 1, 1978, The Container Store opened its doors in a small, retail space in Dallas...
  
  
• Continental Airlines
  Continental Airlines
  Continental Airlines was a major American airline now merged with United Airlines. On May 3, 2010, Continental Airlines, Inc. and UAL, Inc. announced a merger via a stock swap, and on October 1, 2010, the merger closed and UAL changed its name to United Continental Holdings, Inc...
  
  
  • Continental Express
    Continental Express
    Continental Express is the operating brand name used by a number of independently owned regional airlines providing regional jet feeder service under agreement with Continental Airlines...
    
    
• Cooper Industries
  Cooper Industries
  Cooper Industries is a former US-based company that in 2009 switched its incorporation office from Bermuda to Ireland, maintaining its chief operational offices in Houston, Texas. It produces transformers, tools and electrical equipment, employing 29,000 staff around the world. Revenue in 2007 was...
  
  
• Cornell Companies
  Cornell Companies
  Cornell Companies was an American corporation that operates correctional facilities, contracting them to state and local governments. The company's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Curves International

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• D. R. Horton
  D. R. Horton
  D.R. Horton is the largest homebuilder in the United States based on its 18,839 homes closed in the 12-month period ended March 31, 2010. Founded in 1978 by Donald R. Horton in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, D.R. Horton is ranked as the largest homebuilder by units closed in the United States...
  
  
• DataTreasury
  DataTreasury
  DataTreasury, located in Plano, Texas, United States, develops, acquires and licenses technology for secure check image capture and storage. The company has a patent portfolio relating to these technologies which it is has been enforcing since 2002 through several patent infringement lawsuits...
  
  
• Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's is an American restaurant and entertainment business headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Each D&B has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. As of July 1, 2009, the company had 57 locations across the United States and two in Canada. The company also licenses the D&B concept...
  
  
• Dean Foods
  Dean Foods
  Dean Foods is an American food and beverage company with two operating divisions: Fresh Dairy Direct and WhiteWave-Morningstar. The company maintains plants and distributors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dean Foods products are sold throughout the USA.-History:In 1925, Samuel E...
  
  
• Dell
• Dick Clark Architecture
  Dick Clark Architecture
  Dick Clark Architecture, LLC is an Austin, Texas-based architectural firm.The firm, founded in 1979 by Dick Clark III, designs contemporary architecture. Dick Clark Architecture's projects include residential, commercial, educational and restaurant design. They are also involved in the...
  
  
• Dickies
  Dickies
  Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company, more commonly referred to as the brand Dickies, is an American company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas that manufactures and sells work-related clothing and other accessories, including back packs, steel-toe boots, and belts. Its major competitors are...
  
  
• Dresser Industries
  Dresser Industries
  Dresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources...
  
  
• Dunlaps
  Dunlaps
  Dunlaps, based in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, was a family-owned chain of department stores in the central and southern United States catering to most classes depending on the location. The chain operated under the trade names of Dunlaps, Stripling & Cox, MM Cohn, Rogers, Clark's, Schreiner's, Kerr's,...
  
  
• Dynegy
  Dynegy
  Dynegy Inc. , based in Houston, Texas, United States, is a large owner and operator of power plants and a player in the natural gas liquids and coal business...
  
  

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• EGL
• EatZi's
  EatZi's
  EatZi's is a chain of bakery, gourmet takeout markets, and restaurants, created by Philip J. Romano. It was based in Dallas, Texas, and proposes high end products. Two locations in Dallas remain open...
  
  
• Electronic Data Systems
  Electronic Data Systems
  HP Enterprise Services is the global business and technology services division of Hewlett Packard's HP Enterprise Business strategic business unit. It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems,...
  
  
• El Paso Corp.
  El Paso Corp.
  El Paso Corporation , provides natural gas and related energy products and is one of North America's largest natural gas producers. It is headquartered in Houston, Texas. United States....
  
  
• Enbridge Energy Partners
• Energy Transfer Partners
  Energy Transfer Partners
  -Overview:It was founded in 1995. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. They have 5000 employees. The Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer is Kelcy Warren....
  
  
• ENSCO International
  ENSCO International
  Ensco plc is a multinational oil and gas services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's second-largest offshore oil and gas well drilling company, and has 49 offshore jack-ups, seven drillships and 20 semi-submersible drilling rigs servicing domestic US, international,...
  
  
• Enterprise Products
  Enterprise Products
  Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004, and is a member of the Fortune 500...
  
  
• EOG Resources
  EOG Resources
  EOG Resources is a Fortune 500 company with its headquarters in the Heritage Plaza building in downtown Houston, Texas. The company is one of the largest independent oil and natural gas companies in the United States with proven reserves in the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, the United...
  
  
• ExpressJet Airlines
  ExpressJet Airlines
  ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. is an American regional airline based in the A-Tech Center in College Park, Georgia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Southeast Airlines which is in turn a subsidiary of the airline holding company SkyWest, Inc., parent company of the air carrier SkyWest...
  
  
• ExxonMobil
• Eye Care Centers of America
  Eye Care Centers of America
  Eye Care Centers of America, Inc. is an American company which operates or manages about 430 optical retail stores in 36 U.S. states. The company was incorporated in 1988. It is based in San Antonio, Texas, and has about 5,600 employees. Stores operate under eleven different trade names,...
  
  

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• Fairchild Aircraft
• FedEx Kinko's
• Fiesta Mart
  Fiesta Mart
  Fiesta Mart Inc. is an American supermarket chain based in Houston, Texas that was established in 1972. Fiesta Mart operates stores in Texas, including the Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Waco areas. The chain uses a cartoon parrot as a mascot...
  
  
• First Texas Energy Corporation
• Flowserve
  Flowserve
  The Flowserve Corporation is a world leading supplier of pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and other industries. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, which is a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Flowserve has over 15,000 employees in more than 50 countries...
  
  
• Fluor Corp.
• FMC Technologies
  FMC Technologies
  FMC Technologies, Incorporated , is an American oil and gas equipment and services technology company. FMC Technologies was incorporated in 2000 when FMC Corporation divested its machinery businesses...
  
  
• Fossil, Inc.
  Fossil, Inc.
  Fossil, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of clothing and accessories, primarily watches and jewelry, but also sunglasses, wallets, handbags, belts, shoes and clothing, based in Richardson, Texas, United States...
  
  
• Frazer, Inc.
• Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Freedom Airlines
  Freedom Airlines
  Freedom Airlines, Inc. was an American FAA Part 121 certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number FDKA087K issued on April 1, 2002. The Nevada Corporation is headquartered in Irving, Texas and is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group...
  
  
• Frito-Lay
  Frito-Lay
  Frito-Lay North America is the division of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets and sells corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips,...
  
  
• Frontier Oil
  Frontier Oil
  Frontier Oil , begun in 1949 as Wainoco Oil, is a U.S. energy company. Its headquarters are located in Houston, TX, and its subsidiary company, Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc., is located in Denver, CO...
  
  
• Frost National Bank
  Frost National Bank
  Frost National Bank is a nationally chartered bank founded in 1868 and based in San Antonio, Texas with more than 110 financial centers across Texas. Frost is the largest Texas-based bank with operations only in Texas, and is the 62nd largest U.S. bank by asset size...
  
  
• Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised, restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. In 2011 Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatchewan, Canada and four in Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Fred Loya Insurance
  Fred Loya Insurance
  Fred Loya Insurance is a car insurance company headquartered in El Paso, Texas. As of 2010 the company has 2,500 employees in California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, and Texas....
  
  

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• GameStop
  GameStop
  GameStop Corporation is an American video game and entertainment software retailer. The company, whose headquarters is in Grapevine, Texas, United States, operates 6,500 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New...
  
  
• General Motors Financial Company
• Gerland's Food Fair
• GlobalSantaFe Corporation
  GlobalSantaFe Corporation
  GlobalSantaFe Corporation, which traded on the NYSE as GSF was an offshore oil and gas drilling contractor, which owned or operating a fleet of 59 marine drilling rigs...
  
  
• Gold's Gym
  Gold's Gym
  Gold's Gym International, Inc. is an international chain of co-ed fitness centers originally started in California by Joe Gold. Each gym features a wide array of exercise equipment, group exercise classes and personal trainers to assist clients...
  
  
• Goodman Global
  Goodman Global
  Goodman Global is a privately held company which manufactures commercial grade room air conditioners and specialty cooling products for residential and light commercial applications...
  
  
• Grandy's
  Grandy's
  Grandy's Country Cookin is a homestyle cooking and comfort food restaurant chain based in San Antonio, Texas. Still known for their homestyle meals, Grandy's specializes a hearty country breakfast while the lunch and dinner meals features fried chicken, country fried steaks, catfish and eight...
  
  
• Greyhound Lines
  Greyhound Lines
  Greyhound Lines, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, operating under the well-known logo of a leaping greyhound. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and...
  
  
• Group 1 Automotive
  Group 1 Automotive
  Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company, founded in 1997. It has its headquarters in the One Memorial City Plaza building in the Memorial City district of Houston, Texas....
  
  
• Grunt Production Studios

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• Half Price Books
  Half Price Books
  Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is the largest family-owned chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company’s original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale...
  
  
• Halliburton
  Halliburton
  Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....
  
  
• Harken Energy
  Harken Energy
  HKN, Inc., formerly known as Harken Energy Corporation, is a small American oil and gas production company, with ownership interests in other production companies. The company is headquartered in Southlake, Texas, near Fort Worth. There is a second office near Dallas, in the town of Paris. The...
  
  
• HCC Insurance Holdings
  HCC Insurance Holdings
  HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. ) is a leading international specialty insurance group with offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Ireland. The company is based in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. and has a heavy concentration in property and casualty insurance...
  
  
• HealthMarkets
  HealthMarkets
  HealthMarkets, Inc is a company, formerly known as UICI and headquartered in North Richland Hills, Texas, that provides health and life insurance products to individuals, families, the self-employed and small businesses....
  
  
• H-E-B
  H-E-B
  HEB Grocery Company, LP is a privately held San Antonio, Texas-based supermarket chain with more than 315 stores throughout Texas and northern Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer.H-E-B ranked No...
  
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  Central Market (Texas)
  Central Market is a gourmet grocery store chain owned by San Antonio, Texas-based H-E-B Grocery Company. It specializes in high-quality, hard-to-find gourmet foods. Most locations also have a full-service kitchen, offer cooking and wine classes in their culinary school, and offer catering...
  
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• Helpinstill
  Helpinstill
  Helpinstill is an US-based company which produces a unique electromagnetic pickup system for amplifying grand and upright pianos on stage. During the late 1970s the company also marketed a range of portable pianos ready-fitted with the pickups; these instruments were built by Kimball to...
  
  
• Hitachi Construction Machinery (America) Corp.
  Hitachi Construction Machinery
  is a construction equipment manufacturer in Japan, and a Hitachi Group company. It is listed on the Nikkei 225.-Current Products:*Crawler*Excavator*Loader*Recycle machine*Roller...
  
  
• Hitachi Consulting
  Hitachi Consulting
  Hitachi Consulting is an international management and technology consulting firm with headquarters in Dallas, Texas. It was founded in November 2000 as subsidiary of the Japanese Hitachi Limited Group and currently employs approximately 4,000 people in the U.S., Japan, the UK, Spain, Portugal,...
  
  
• HONS Integrated Services
• Hunt Petroleum
  Hunt Petroleum
  Hunt Petroleum Corporation was an oil and gas exploration and production company formed in 1950. The company was originally called Petrol Production Co. and was later renamed Hunt Petroleum Corporation. The company was a Delaware corporation owned 52.84% by the Margaret Hunt Trust Estate and...
  
  
• Huntington State Bank

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• Imperial Sugar
  Imperial Sugar
  Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana....
  
  
• International Bank of Commerce
  International Bank of Commerce
  International Bank of Commerce is a state chartered bank owned by International Bancshares Corporation headquartered in Laredo, Texas . It is one of the largest banks based in Texas, and is the 90th largest U.S. bank by asset size. In addition, IBC is the largest minority-owned bank in the United...
  
  
• Interstate Batteries
  Interstate Batteries
  Interstate Battery System of America, Inc., a.k.a. Interstate Batteries, is a privately owned company that markets automotive batteries manufactured by Johnson Controls through independent distributors to more than 200,000 automotive shops worldwide. The company is based in Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• Intercontinental Manufacturing Company
  Intercontinental Manufacturing Company
  The Intercontinental Manufacturing Company was formed in the Dallas, Texas area in 1948 by Harold J. Silver and Robert F. Yonash, initially to fulfill an order from Argentina for tractors. IMCO soon changed focus to defense subcontracting, where it remains today.-Intercontinental C-26 tractor:In...
  
  

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• KBR (company)
• Kimberly-Clark Corporation
  Kimberly-Clark
  Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle", Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes"...
  
  , maker of Kleenex
  Kleenex
  Kleenex is a brand name for a variety of toiletry paper-based products such as facial tissue, bathroom tissue, paper towels, and diapers. The name Kleenex is a registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Often used as a genericized trademark, especially in the United States, "Kleenex"...
  
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• Kinder Morgan
  Kinder Morgan
  Kinder Morgan, Inc. is an American energy company. It is also, through a subsidiary, the general partner of and owner of many of the interests in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a publicly traded pipeline and terminal limited partnership....
  
  

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• La Quinta Inn
  La Quinta Inn
  La Quinta Inn is a chain of limited service hotels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. LQ Management LLC, the owner, has its headquarters in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, near Dallas....
  
  
• Landry's Restaurants, Inc.
  Landry's Restaurants, Inc.
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• Lennox International
  Lennox International
  Lennox International Inc. is an American company. Through its subsidiaries, it is a provider of climate control products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets around the world...
  
  
• Luby's
  Luby's
  As of March 2011, Luby's, Inc. operates restaurants under the brands Luby's, Fuddruckers and...
  
  
• Lyondell Chemical Company
  Lyondell Chemical Company
  LyondellBasell Industries is a public multinational chemical company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was formed in December 2007 by the acquisition of Lyondell Chemical Company by Basell Polyolefins for $12.7 billion. LyondellBasell was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on October 14, 2010...
  
  

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• Mapsco
  Mapsco
  Mapsco was a privately-held publisher of maps and atlases, and was based in Addison, Texas. Universal Map Group, LLC, an affiliate of Kappa Media Group, Inc. acquired the assets of Mapsco, Inc. from Dallas based Rupe Investment Corp. in March, 2010. Rupe Investment Corp. had owned Mapsco, Inc...
  
  
• Marathon Oil
  Marathon Oil
  Marathon Oil Corporation is a United States-based oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Principal exploration activities are in the United States, Norway, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Canada. Principal development activities are in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway,...
  
  
• Marble Slab Creamery
  Marble Slab Creamery
  Marble Slab Creamery is a chain of independently owned and operated franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and a variety of other desserts. It is a franchise brand in the portfolio of Global Franchise Group LLC...
  
  
• Market Basket
  Market Basket
  Market Basket is a supermarket chain that serves southeast Texas and Louisiana. Formed in 1962, the grocer now operates 34 Market Basket stores and four Lucky Seven conventional supermarkets and employs 2,200 associates. It is headquartered in Nederland, Texas.-History:Johnnie Alford, Ed Hughes,...
  
  
• Marshall Pottery
  Marshall Pottery
  Marshall Pottery Inc. is the largest manufacturer of red clay pots in the United States. Marshall Pottery operates a 100,000 ft² retail store adjacent to its headquarters in Marshall, Texas, which attracts over 500,000 tourists each year....
  
  
• Maxxam Inc
• McDermott International
• Men's Wearhouse
  Men's Wearhouse
  Men's Wearhouse is a men's dress apparel retailer in the United States. The company is based in the Westchase area of Houston, Texas, and it is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange...
  
  
• Merit Energy Company
  Merit Energy Company
  Merit Energy Company is one of the largest privately held oil and gas companies in the world, with some US$1billion in net income on $1.67 billion in revenue. The company was formed in 1989 by William K. Gayden, formerly of EDS and Petrus Oil and Gas L.P., which was founded by H. Ross...
  
  
• MetroCorp Bancshares
  MetroCorp Bancshares
  MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc. is an American banking corporation headquartered in Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown in Houston, Texas....
  
  
• Metromedia Restaurant Group
  Metromedia Restaurant Group
  The Metromedia Restaurant Group is a United States casual dining company that operates and franchises more than 800 restaurants under the names Bonanza, Ponderosa, The Plano Tavern, The Southlake Tavern and the 29 Degree Tavern. Its headquarters are in Plano, Texas...
  
  , parent company of Bennigan's
  Bennigan's
  Bennigan's is an Irish pub-themed casual dining restaurant chain with locations throughout the United States, and in 14 countries and 15 territories outside the continental U.S...
  
  , Ponderosa/Bonanza Steakhouse
  Ponderosa/Bonanza Steakhouse
  Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse are a chain of buffet/steakhouse restaurants. They are two of the most franchised subsidiaries of Metromedia Restaurant Group....
  
  , and Steak and Ale
  Steak and Ale
  Steak and Ale was an American chain of casual dining restaurants, operated by S&A Restaurant Group. Steak and Ale was founded as an independent restaurant chain in Dallas, Texas, on February 26, 1966, by Norman E. Brinker...
  
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• Michaels
  Michaels
  Michaels is an arts and crafts retail chain. It currently operates more than 1040 Michaels Arts and Crafts Stores located in 49 U.S. states and in Canada. The company owns and operates the Aaron Brothers retail chain which consists of more than 140 stores...
  
  
• Moody National Bank
  Moody National Bank
  Moody National Bank is a nationally chartered bank, founded in 1907, that is based in Galveston, Texas, USA.With assets of nearly $1 billion dollars Moody Bank is one of oldest and largest privately owned Texas-based banks. Its trust department, established in 1927, administers over $15.5 billion...
  
  
• Mooney Airplane Company
  Mooney Airplane Company
  The Mooney Aviation Company, Inc. is a U.S. manufacturer of single-engined general aviation aircraft. Mooney has been a leader in civil aviation even though the company has gone bankrupt and changed ownership several times...
  
  

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• National Oilwell Varco
  National Oilwell Varco
  National Oilwell Varco is a multinational corporation based in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas, which manufactures land-based and offshore oil drilling rigs as well as all the major mechanical components for such rigs...
  
  
• Neiman Marcus
  Neiman Marcus
  Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in the One Marcus Square building in Downtown Dallas, Texas, and competes with other department stores such as Saks Fifth...
  
  
• Newfield Exploration
  Newfield Exploration
  Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Newfield Exploration is an independent company that specializes in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas...
  
  
• Noble Energy
  Noble Energy
  Noble Energy, Inc. of Houston, Texas, United States is the modern name of Noble Affiliates Inc., by which it was known through the 1990s, and it is now an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with almost US$3 billion in revenue at #660 on the 2007 Fortune 1000 list of the largest...
  
  
• North American RailNet
  North American RailNet
  North American RailNet, Inc., based in Bedford, Texas, was a holding company of short line railroads. It formerly owned the following:...
  
  

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• Panda Energy International
  Panda Energy International
  Panda Energy International, Inc. is an American privately held company that constructs, maintains and operates environmentally friendly power plants, with the name of the company a reference to the endangered Giant Panda. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is a division of The Panda...
  
  
• Parker Drilling Company
• Patterson-UTI Energy
• Permian Basin Royalty Trust
  Permian Basin Royalty Trust
  The Permian Basin Royalty Trust is a United States oil and natural gas royalty trust based in Dallas, Texas. With a market capitalization of US $790,000,000, and an average daily trading volume of about 186,000 shares at the end of 2007, it is one of the largest royalty trusts in the United States...
  
  
• Perot Systems
  Perot Systems
  Perot Systems was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States. A Fortune 1000 corporation with offices in more than 25 countries, Perot Systems employed more than 23,000 people and had an annual...
  
  
• Peterbilt
  Peterbilt
  Peterbilt Motors Company is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas , and Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec...
  
  
• Petro Stopping Centers
• Petrohawk
  Petrohawk
  Petrohawk Energy Corporation was an independent energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2003, Petrohawk grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions....
  
  
• Petroleum Geo-Services Inc.(US)
  Petroleum Geo-Services
  Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, an oilfield service company, provides geophysical services worldwide. The company provides various seismic and reservoir services, including acquisition, processing, interpretation, and field evaluation. The floating production unit was demerged in 2006 and listed as a...
  
  
• Pier 1 Imports
  Pier 1 Imports
  Pier 1 Imports Inc. is a Fort Worth, Texas based retailer specializing in imported home furnishings and decor, particularly furniture, table-top items, decorative accessories and seasonal decor. The chain operates over 1,000 stores under the name Pier 1 Imports in the United States, Canada, Mexico...
  
  
• Pilgrim's Pride
  Pilgrim's Pride
  Pilgrim's Corp., previously Pilgrim's Pride , is a former U.S.-owned company with its U.S. headquarters relocated to Greeley, Colorado. As a subsidiary of the Brazilian food giant, JBS, it is the largest chicken producer in the United States and Puerto Rico and the second-largest chicken producer...
  
  
• Pioneer Natural Resources Company
• Pizza Hut
  Pizza Hut
  Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....
  
  
• Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn is a restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pizza. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas....
  
  
• Plains All American Pipeline
  Plains All American Pipeline
  Plains All American Pipeline is a publicly traded Master Limited Partnership in the oil pipeline transportation, marketing, and storage business in the United States, LPG business in Canada, and Natural Gas Storage business in Michigan and Louisiana...
  
  
• PlainsCapital Bank
  PlainsCapital Bank
  -About PlainsCapital Bank:PlainsCapital Bank, a subsidiary of PlainsCapital Corporation, is one of the largest independent banks in Texas with approximately $5.2 billion in assets. PlainsCapital operates 34 branches in Arlington, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Lubbock, San Antonio and Weatherford...
  
  

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• Rackspace
  Rackspace
  Rackspace US, Inc. is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008...
  
  
• RadioShack
  RadioShack
  RadioShack Corporation   is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, RadioShack reported net sales and operating revenues of $4.81 billion. The headquarters of RadioShack is located in Downtown...
  
  
• Randall's Food Markets
  Randall's Food Markets
  Randall's Food Markets operates 112 supermarkets in the Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth areas under the Randalls, Flagship Randalls, Tom Thumb, Flagship Tom Thumb, and Simon David banners. Randall's employs more than 10,000 associates and is the Texas division of Safeway Inc. The Texas...
  
  , a division of Safeway
  Safeway Inc.
  Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...
  
  
• Rave Motion Pictures
  Rave Motion Pictures
  Rave Cinemas, formerly known as "Rave Motion Pictures," often called Rave and owned by Rave Cinemas, LLC, is a movie theater brand founded in 1999. It is formerly headed by Thomas W. Stephenson, Jr., former CEO of Hollywood Theaters, and currently headed by Rolando B. Rodriguez, former Vice...
  
  
• Reddy Ice
  Reddy Ice
  Reddy Ice Holdings, Inc. is the largest packaged ice manufacturer in the United States, serving approximately 82,000 customer locations under the Reddy Ice brand name....
  
  
• Reliant Energy
  Reliant Energy
  RRI Energy, Inc. , based in Houston, Texas, United States, was an energy company that provided electricity to wholesale customers in the United States. The company was one of the largest independent power producers in the nation with more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation capacity across...
  
  
• Rent-A-Center
  Rent-A-Center
  Rent-A-Center is an American public furniture and electronics rent to own company based in Plano, Texas. The company was incorporated in 1986 and as of 2010 operates 3,007 company-owned stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico, accounting for 38% of the rent-to-own market in...
  
  

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• Sabre Holdings
  Sabre Holdings
  Sabre Holdings or Sabre, Inc. is an American privately held travel technology company, encompassing several brands in three global distribution system channels: travel agency, airline, and direct to consumer. These areas are serviced by TSG's three main business groups...
  
  , holding company of Travelocity
  Travelocity
  Travelocity is an online travel agency and wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation, which was a publicly traded company until taken private by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in March 2007...
  
  
• Samsung Telecommunications America Inc.
  Samsung Electronics
  Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul...
  
  
• Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company
  Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company
  The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company is a tobacco manufacturer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, best known for its production of the Natural American Spirit cigarette brand....
  
  
• Schlotzsky's
  Schlotzsky's
  Schlotzsky's is a privately held franchise chain of restaurants, specializing in sandwiches, headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. Schlotzsky's has more than 350 franchised and company-owned locations worldwide...
  
  
• Schlumberger Technology Corp.
  Schlumberger
  Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
  
  
• Service Corporation International
  Service Corporation International
  For other uses of the acronym SCI, see SCIService Corporation International is North America’s largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas, United States, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states,...
  
  
• Shell Oil Company
  Shell Oil Company
  Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The head office in the U.S. is in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Smith International
  Smith International
  Smith International was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the Greenspoint district and in unincorporated Harris County, Texas. Smith International ceased to exist as an independent company following the merger with Schlumberger. This company supplies products to gas and oil production and...
  
  
• Souper Salad
• Southern Union Company
• Southwest Airlines
  Southwest Airlines
  Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried,...
  
  
• Southwestern National Bank
  Southwestern National Bank
  Southwestern National Bank is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States with headquarters in Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• Space Industries Incorporated
  Space Industries Incorporated
  Space Industries Incorporated was a company formed in the 1980s for the purpose of building a privately owned space station, which was to be called the Industrial Space Facility...
  
  
• Spaghetti Warehouse
  Spaghetti Warehouse
  Spaghetti Warehouse is an Italian restaurant geared towards families with 16 locations in 7 U.S. states. The chain started in 1972 in Dallas, Texas, and has since spread throughout the southern and eastern parts of the United States. The location in Columbus, Ohio, which opened in 1978, is the...
  
  
• Stage Stores Inc.
• STI International Inc
  STI International Inc
  STI International, Inc. is a Texas-based company that manufactures complete M1911 pistols and parts for competition, duty and self-defense...
  
  
• Strayer Voigt Inc
  Strayer Voigt Inc
  Strayer-Voigt, Inc. is a manufacturer of M1911-styled modular pistols. The Strayer-Voigt system is called modular because the lower grip and trigger guard, which is made of a fiber reinforced plastic, is a separate component from the metal upper portion of the frame that comprises the dust cover...
  
  
• Susser Holdings
• Sysco
  SYSCO
  Sysco Corporation is the global leader in marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels and inns, and other foodservice and hospitality businesses...
  
  

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• TEPPCO Partners
  TEPPCO Partners
  TEPPCO Partners LP was Fortune 300 company based in Houston, Texas. The company operated petroleum pipelines.-History:During the second quarter of 2007, it was acquired by another Fortune 500 company, Houston-based Enterprise GP Holdings along with 35 percent of Dallas-based Energy Transfer...
  
  
• TPG Capital
• TXU
  TXU
  Energy Future Holdings Corporation is an electric utility company headquartered in Energy Plaza in Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. The company was known as TXU until its $45 billion leveraged buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific Group and Goldman Sachs...
  
  
• Taco Bueno
  Taco Bueno
  Taco Bueno is a U.S.-based fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex-style Mexican cuisine. Currently headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, the first location was in Abilene, Texas in 1967. The company has locations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,...
  
  
• Taco Cabana
  Taco Cabana
  Taco Cabana is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrols Restaurant Group. Taco Cabana is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas...
  
  
• Temple-Inland
  Temple-Inland
  Temple-Inland, Inc. is an American corrugated packaging and building products company based in Austin, Texas.-History:-Early Years:In 1893, when Thomas Louis Latane Temple, Sr., founded Southern Pine Lumber Company on of East Texas, Angelina County, timberland...
  
  
• Tenet Healthcare
  Tenet Healthcare
  Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health-care delivery systems company based in Dallas, Texas. THC owns and operates 49 acute-care hospitals in 11 states and 90 outpatient centers in 12 states, with a majority of these hospitals in California, Florida and Texas...
  
  
• Tesoro
  Tesoro
  Tesoro Corporation is a Fortune 100 and a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with 2008 annual revenues of $28.3 billion, and approximately 5,600 employees....
  
  
• Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
  
• Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy, a division of Safeway
  Safeway Inc.
  Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...
  
  
• Tony Roma's
  Tony Roma's
  Tony Roma's is a casual dining chain restaurant specializing in baby back ribs . The first location was established in 1972 in North Miami, Florida, by the founder, and today there are roughly 260 locations in 27 countries comprising 32 territories...
  
  
• Torchmark Corporation
• Toshiba International Corp.
  Toshiba
  is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
  
  
• Transocean
  Transocean
  Transocean Ltd. is one of the world's largest offshore drilling contractors. The company rents floating mobile drill rigs, along with the equipment and personnel for operations, to oil and gas companies at an average daily rate of US$282,700...
  
  
• Triad Hospitals
  Triad Hospitals
  Triad Hospitals was a hospital operator based in Plano, Texas. Originally a spinoff of Hospital Corporation of America, it was merged into Community Health Systems in 2007....
  
  
• Trinity Industries
  Trinity Industries
  Trinity Industries Inc. is a company that owns a variety of market-leading businesses which provide product and services to the industrial, energy, transportation and construction sectors....
  
  

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• Waste Management, Inc
  Waste Management, Inc
  Waste Management, Inc. is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company in North America. Founded in 1894, the company is headquartered in Suite 4000 at the First City Tower in Downtown Houston, Texas, in the United States....
  
  
• Westlake Chemical Corporation
• Whataburger
  Whataburger
  Whataburger is a privately held, regional restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. The company, founded by Harmon Dobson, opened its first restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950...
  
  
• Whole Foods Market
  Whole Foods Market
  Whole Foods Market is a foods supermarket chain based in Austin, Texas which emphasizes "natural and organic products." The company has been ranked among the most socially responsible businesses and placed third on the U.S...
  
  
• WidowPC
  WidowPC
  WidowPC, based in Boulder, Colorado, shipped the world's first dual-core CPU laptop based on the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and debuted at the AMD press-only event at CES 2005 in Las Vegas...
  
  
• Woodforest National Bank
  Woodforest National Bank
  Woodforest National Bank is a privately held bank headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. Consisting of over 750 branches in 17 different states, Woodforest National Bank is among the nation’s largest full-service in-store banks...
  
  

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• Zale Corporation
  Zale Corporation
  The Zale Corporation is, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, a leading specialty retailer of jewelry in North America. The Zale Corporation was incorporated in Delaware in 1993...