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The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is home to numerous corporate headquarters. The metropolitan area is home to over 10,000 corporate headquarters making the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex the largest corporate headquarter concentration in the United States. This also results in the growth of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the world's third busiest airport, and the rapid population growth of the metropolitan area, one of the largest in the United States.
The following companies are notable companies based in the metropolitan area.
Fortune 500
- 2 Exxon Mobil (Irving)
- 10 AT&T (Dallas)
- 105 AMR Corporation (Fort Worth)[1]
- 108 Electronic Data Systems (Plano)
- 118 JC Penney (Plano)
- 140 Kimberly-Clark (Irving)
- 162 D.R. Horton (Fort Worth)
- 167 Texas Instruments (Dallas)
- 169 Fluor Corp. (Irving)
- 171 Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (Fort Worth)
- 175 Centex (Dallas)
- 216 Dean Foods (Dallas)
- 228 TXU (Dallas)
- 236 Tenet Healthcare (Dallas)
- 300 Southwest Airlines (Dallas)[2]
- 329 Commercial Metals (Irving)
- 347 Energy Transfer Partners (Dallas)
- 356 Celanese (Dallas)
- 366 Blockbuster Inc. (Dallas)
- 423 Radio Shack (Fort Worth)
- 430 Atmos Energy (Dallas)
- 432 Triad Hospitals (Plano)
- 471 Affiliated Computer Services (Dallas)
- 487 Comerica (Dallas)
- 499 Brinker International (Dallas)
- Broadview Security (formerly Brink's Home Security) (Irving)
- Enterhost (Fort Worth)
- Excel Communications (Dallas)
- Fossil, Inc. (Richardson)
- Frito-Lay (owned by PepsiCo, Inc.) (Plano)
- Flowserve Corporation (Irving, Texas)
- FUNimation (North Richland Hills)
- Galderma Laboratories (Fort Worth)
- GameStop (Grapevine)
- Greyhound Bus Lines (Dallas)
- Haggar (Dallas)
- Halff Associates, Inc. (Richardson)
- i2 Technologies (Dallas)
- id Software (Mesquite)
- Kinko's (owned by FedEx) (Dallas)
- Lennox International (Richardson)
- Mary Kay Inc. (Dallas)
- Matrix Business Technologies (Dallas)
- Metromedia Restaurant Group (Plano)
- Michael's Stores (Irving)
- Minyard Food Stores Inc. (Coppell)
- Neiman Marcus (Dallas)
- Ntegrated Solutions (Irving)
- Perot Systems (Plano)
- PDS Tech Inc (Irving, Texas)
- Pier 1 Imports (Fort Worth)
- Pizza Hut ( by Yum! Brands, Inc.) (Dallas)
- Research In Motion (USA Head-Quarters) (Irving)
- Rent-A-Center (Plano)
- Revomatica (Fort Worth)
- Sabre Holdings (Southlake)
- Samsung Telecommunications America (Richardson)
- Sally Beauty Company (Denton)
- Southern Star Concrete, Inc. (Irving, Texas)
- Southwest Securities (Dallas)
- Taco Bueno (Carrollton)
- Tandy Leather Factory (Fort Worth)
- Taylor Publishing (Dallas)
- Texas Health Resources (Arlington)
- The Container Store (Coppell)
- The Odee Company (Dallas)
- United Surgical Partners International (Dallas)
- VAR Resources (Mesquite)
- Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. (Dallas)
- Westwood Holdings Group (Dallas)
- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (Dallas)
- XTO Energy (Fort Worth)
- Zale Corporation (Irving)
- United Healthcare (Plano)
References
- ^ "Corporate Structure." American Airlines. Retrieved on May 18, 2009.
- ^ "Southwest Airlines Fact Sheet." Southwest Airlines. December 15, 2008. Retrieved on February 11, 2009.
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