{"id":389161,"date":"2026-07-28T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:46:19","slug":"h-e-b-leads-san-antonio-brands-on-times-best-private-businesses-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389161\/","title":{"rendered":"H-E-B leads San Antonio brands on Time&#8217;s best private businesses list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine has released its inaugural &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Private Companies of 2026&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/08\/americas-best-private-companies-2026\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a>, and over half a dozen San Antonio-linked brands and businesses made the cut \u2014 including a few familiar favorites.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural ranking recognizes 500 privately held companies across the country. Businesses had to be privately owned to qualify, while\u00a0nonprofit organizations, hospitals and universities were excluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Time&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/08\/americas-best-private-companies-2026-methodology\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">methodology<\/a>, researchers surveyed about 217,000 employees at U.S. companies over a three-year period, evaluating businesses based on two key factors: employee satisfaction and company impact.<\/p>\n<p>Those two factors were further divided into 19 subcategories spanning four &#8220;pillars,&#8221; including &#8220;society, knowledge, health and the environment.&#8221; After that, researchers assigned each company a total score out of 100 based on those metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the San Antonio-area companies that made the list and where they ranked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time magazine has released its inaugural &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Private Companies of 2026&#8221; list, and over half a dozen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-389161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389161","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=389161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}