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H-E-B Grocery Company, LP, is an American privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 380 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas and Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer. As of 2022, the company had a total revenue of US$38.9 billion. H-E-B ranked number 6 on Forbes's 2022 list of "America's Largest Private Companies". H-E-B was named Retailer of the Year in 2010 by Progressive Grocer. Supermarket News ranks H-E-B 13th on the list of "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" by sales. Based on 2019 revenues, H-E-B is the 19th-largest retailer in the United States. It donates 5% of pretax profits to charity. The official mascot of H-E-B is named H-E-Buddy, an anthropomorphic brown grocery bag, with multiple grocery items emerging from the top. History The company was founded on November 26, 1905, when Florence Butt opened the C.C. Butt Grocery Store on the ground floor of her family home in Kerrville, Texas. In 1919, Howard Edward Butt, Florence's youngest son, took over the store upon his return from World War I. Shortly after becoming owner of his mother's small store, Howard tried four expansions into Central Texas, including one in Junction, all of which failed. Finally, in 1927, Howard launched a successful second store in Del Rio, Texas, followed by the purchase of three grocery stores in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The initials of Howard E. Butt became the name of the store.Charles, the younger son of Howard E. Butt, became president of H-E-B in 1971. As of 2019, Charles Butt is chairman and CEO of H-E-B, having grown the business from annual sales of $250 million in 1971 to $13 billion in 2006. In 2010, Craig Boyan was named H-E-B's president and COO. By 2018, Martin Otto, the former CFO and chief merchant, had become the COO. In 2011, the company was #12 on Forbes’s list of “America’s Largest Private Companies”. H-E-B is the largest privately held company and largest private employer in Texas.H-E-B acquired Favor Delivery as a wholly owned subsidiary in February 2018. The details of the merger were not disclosed.In 2019, H-E-B invested millions of dollars to replace cashier stations with self-checkout kiosks or smartphone apps at the same time that many other supermarkets (such as Walmart and Target) were shifting toward more self-checkout lanes and app usage. Operations Headquartered in downtown San Antonio, H-E-B operates more than 300 stores in over 150 communities across Texas. As of late 2010, its operations serve approximately "55-plus" percent of the Texas market, with primary Texas markets including the Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Laredo and Houston metro areas. The company does business in five different retail formats: general H-E-B stores, Central Market, H-E-B Plus, Mi Tienda, and Joe V's Smart Shop. In 2010, the company announced plans to build 19 new stores in Texas. H-E-B opened its first store outside of Texas in 1996, a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) H-E-B Pantry store in Lake Charles, Louisiana, though the expansion was short-lived and ultimately failed. The H-E-B Pantry store format was discontinued in 2000, and the company closed its sole Louisiana store in 2003. In 2010, H-E-B offered consumers the opportunity to vote on possible designs for new stores as they expanded into new communities.The company operates several manufacturing facilities in Texas, including one of the largest milk- and bread-processing plants in the Southwest. H-E-B produces many of their own-brand products, including milk, ice cream, bread, snacks, and ready-cooked meats and meals. These and other private-label products are sold under various brands, including "Central Market Naturals", "Central Market Organics", "H-E-B", "H-E-Buddy", "Hill Country Fare", "H-E-B Creamy Creations" ice cream, "H-E-B Mootopia" milk, and "H-E-B Fully Cooked". Several stores include multiple-tenant operations through third-party lease arrangements. Many stores include a bank operation, cellular kiosk, and multiple nationally recognized tenants.The Austin Business Journal rated H-E-B as the largest private-sector employer in the region in 2017.In 2019, the company announced plans to build a technology center at its headquarters complex. Central Market In 1994, H-E-B introduced its Central Market concept in Austin. Based in San Antonio, Central Market offers an organic and international food selection, including a European-style bakery and extensive wine and beer selections. The chain is now composed of 10 stores – three in Dallas, two in Austin, and one each in Fort Worth, Houston, Plano, San Antonio, and Southlake. H-E-B operates four different formats of stores that introduce general merchandise and elements of the Central Market concept: The Woodlands Market in The Woodlands in Montgomery County, Kingwood Market in the Kingwood section of Houston, and the Austin-Escarpment store in south Austin. A fourth store opened on March 22, 2008, in West Lake Hills, and in 2009, the H-E-B in Bee Caves was remodeled. H-E-B's Alon Market opened on October 17, 2008, in San Antonio.In July 2015, the Market concept was expanded as a new Spring Creek Market was opened in southern Montgomery County in Spring, Texas, on Rayford Road. H-E-B Plus! In 2004, the company launched three (in Austin, Corpus Christi, and Waco) H-E-B Plus! stores with an expanded focus on nonfood categories, such as entertainment and other general merchandise. The company added three additional locations in 2005 (Corpus Christi, Round Rock, and San Antonio). The stores offered several new departments, including Do-It-Yourself and Texas Backyard, and greatly expanded product categories in baby, card and party, cosmetics, entertainment, housewares, and toys. Several other locations were later added, including stores in Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Burleson, Bastrop, Beaumont, Belton, Boerne, Katy, Killeen, Cypress, Victoria, Waxahachie, New Braunfels, Kyle, Laredo, Leander, Mission, Rio Grande City, San Juan, San Antonio, Midland, Pearland, Copperas Cove and Hutto. Mi Tienda In 2006, H-E-B opened Mi Tienda in South Houston (adjacent to Pasadena) in greater Houston – a 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) Latino-themed store. Another Mi Tienda opened in north Houston in 2011; it is twice the size of the original location, and has 97,000 square feet (9,000 m2) of space. This second location is off of Little York and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59. Mi Tienda, which means "my store" in Spanish, sells Mexican baked goods: a tortilleria, where employees make tortillas; and a carniceria providing marinated cuts of chicken, beef and pork. In addition, Mi Tienda also houses the Cocina restaurant, which serves Mexican food and drinks. Joe V's Smart Shop In 2010, H-E-B opened Joe V's Smart Shop, a brand featuring discount items modeled after discount grocer Aldi. The fir.... Discover the E B Dawson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular E B Dawson books.

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    The Traveler

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    WHAT IF YOU COULD TRAVEL TO ANOTHER WORLD IN YOUR DREAMS?In the modern nationstate of Riyen, few people dream anymore, and those who do are prescribed medication. But when Ani...

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    Government Man

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    Caleb Weiss knew his government was crooked, but he had no reason to tip the status quo...until they pushed him.

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    The Guardian

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    WHAT WOULD YOU RISK TO SAVE YOUR WORLD?Winter has crippled the nation of Riyen and Hawthorne has made moves to take over the city for his own mysterious purposes. When Rodge and Ja...

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    Under the Skin

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    After narrowly avoiding catastrophe on the world's first space colony, humanity struggles to redefine itself. Logan, Druce, and the crew try to remain neutral. But tensions are mou...

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    Beast in the Machine

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    There are only two reasons people move to Ilford: to study at the renowned scientific research center, or to get away from the world. Dr. Richter intends to further his research. B...

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    Voyage of the Pequod

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    Commissioned to hunt down straggler MICs (Mechanized Intelligence Cruisers) in the outer reach of the great Commonwealth, the starship Pequod sets sail only to find out their capta...

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    Into the Void

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    As the Chief of Security for humanity's first space station colony, Logan Bailey is ready to put her unique gifts to work for the benefit of mankind. But with her friends tied up i...

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    Sing to Me of Rain

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    A REALM AWARD WINNER!An innocent naiad. A wounded boy. An adventure that will change their lives forever. Plip is a naiad of the Great Waterfall, destined to one day sing the ...

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    Out of Darkness

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    Sixteenyearold Logan Bailey finds herself forcefully recruited into an underground paramilitary organization. Outperformed by the older candidates, Logan doesn't understand wh...

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    Until the End

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    After the Mechs are neutralized in a devastating battle, Logan and Druce consider changing their priorities as they rebuild their lives. But the emotional and physical trauma of re...

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    Watson and Holmes

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    A SOLDIER TIRED OF WARBorn into wealth and privilege, Jenny Watson left her parents' way of life behind when she volunteered to go fight the Shifters. After giving up her commissio...

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    Shadow Figure

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    Sarah Johnson has often had the strange sensation that something is missing from her lifesomething incredibly important, which she has forgotten. Her life is turned upside down whe...

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    The Citizen

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    WHAT IF YOU WERE MEANT FOR MORE THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE?As the nation of Riyen tries to recover from a shocking revelation, Anissa finds herself completely isolated from her friends...

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    Ahab

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    After a devastating interstellar war against the machines known as Mechanized Intelligence Cruisers, the Commonwealth is ready to return to normal life.Captain Ahab is not.Tired of...