Forbes essay<\/a>, Byron Trott, chairman and co-CEO of merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners, offers an assessment of America\u2019s family businesses that certainly applies to H-E-B:<\/p>\n“At a time when much of the business conversation is defined by speed, scale, and disruption, family businesses reflect a different model of success, one grounded in endurance, stewardship, resilience, and trust,\u201d wrote Trott. \u201cTheir impact is often felt not only in revenues or valuations, but in livelihoods, institutions, and the strength of local communities.”<\/p>\n
H-E-B shows up regularly on Forbes lists and similar rankings. The company ranks:<\/p>\n
First on Dunnhumby\u2019s list of grocers on its Retailer Preference Index.Third on the American Customer Satisfaction Index\u2019s list of the top U.S. grocers.Third on Glassdoor\u2019s list of the best places to work in the consumer services category.Fifth on Forbes\u2019 list of the country\u2019s largest private companies.20th on YouGov\u2019s list of the most popular grocers in the U.S.40th on Forbes\u2019 list of the country\u2019s best large employers<\/p>\n
One other San Antonio company, Zachry Group, lands on the family business list at No. 82. Its annual revenue is $6.2 billion. Zachry Group, led by John Zachry, specializes in engineering, construction, maintenance, turnaround, and fabrication services for the energy, chemical, power, manufacturing, and industrial sectors.<\/p>\n
Other Texas companies that appear on the Forbes family business list are:<\/p>\n
The 10th-ranked pipeline company, Enterprise Products Partners, based in Houston and affiliated with the billionaire Duncan family. The company\u2019s annual revenue is $52.6 billion.33rd-ranked Houston-based Friedkin Group, which owns car dealerships, resorts, sports teams, and other assets. The company, led by billionaire Dan Friedkin, has an annual revenue of $15.7 billion.44th-ranked Westlake Corp., a Houston-based company that produces petrochemicals, polymers, and fabricated building products. Ting Tsung Chao founded the company, whose annual revenue is $11.2 billion.69th-ranked Ben E. Keith, based in Fort Worth. The company\u2019s annual revenue is $8 billion. Ben E. Keith, connected to the Keith and Hallam families, is a wholesale distributor of food and alcohol.95th-ranked Consolidated Electrical Distributors, based in Irving. The company, with annual revenue of $5.5 billion, distributes electrical equipment. It\u2019s tied to the Colburn family.<\/p>\n
The No. 1 company on the Forbes list shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. Retail giant Walmart, a public company that\u2019s largely controlled by the Walton family, lands in the top spot with annual revenue of $713 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Texas\u2019 most beloved companies is also one of the country\u2019s largest family businesses, and it\u2019s based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2327,2038,3742,4090,82,84,83,26539,23172],"class_list":["post-301958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-environment","tag-families","tag-lady-bird-lake","tag-nature","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-trash-cleanup","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}