↓ "The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as a whole has one of the
largest concentration of corporate headquarters in the United States. The city of Dallas has 14
Fortune 500 companies, the 3rd most in the United States while DFW as a whole has 25.. New
additions to the list include AT&T, which announced plans in June 2008 to relocate its
corporate headquarters to Downtown Dallas from San Antonio, and Comerica Bank, which relocated
in 2007 from Detroit.
Irving is
home to four Fortune 500 companies of its own, including ExxonMobil, the most profitable company
in the world and the second largest by revenue, Kimberly-Clark, Fluor (engineering), and
Commercial Metals.
Additional
companies internationally headquartered in the Metroplex include Southwest Airlines, American
Airlines, RadioShack, Neiman Marcus, 7-Eleven, Brinker International, AMS Pictures, id Software,
ENSCO Offshore Drilling, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Chuck E. Cheese's, Zales and Fossil. Corporate
headquarters in the northern suburb of Plano include Electronic Data Systems, Frito Lay, Dr
Pepper Snapple Group, and JCPenney."
-- Dallas. (2009, October 27). In
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:38, October 27, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dallas&oldid=322330422
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