H-E-B is among the top 10 largest private companies in the United States, according to a new list from Forbes that includes a total of 20 Texas businesses.
The San Antonio-based grocery chain was Texas鈥� sole top-10 entry on , ranking at No. 6 with $38.9 billion in revenue for the fiscal year.
H-E-B is also the third-largest employer on the list, with 145,000 employees. Based in San Antonio, the supermarket chain opened two new North Texas locations this year 鈥� one in Frisco and one in Plano.
The chain dropped one spot from the 2021 list, .
Eleven of the top companies are in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Grand Prairie鈥檚 follows H-E-B at No. 34 with $12.1 billion in revenue. Other notable entries include the 鈥� headquartered in Irving 鈥� at 93, and Dallas-based at 107.
Outside of North Texas, The Friedkin Group, based in Houston, came it at No. 42 with $10.7 billion.
This is the largest Forbes Private Companies list since 2008, according to the company, with 246 entries. Since then, Forbes has raised the minimum revenue requirement to $2 billion.
