Dallas Top Employers

AMR Corporation
22,077 employees
P.O. Box 619612
DFW Airport, TX 76021
800-433-7300 (general information)
877-692-2562 (employment hotline)
www.aa.com
The world’s largest airline is headquartered right here in Fort Worth. American, American Eagle, and American Connection serve 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than 3,900 daily flights. AMR Corporation employs nearly 26,000 and had revenues of more than $18 billion for 2005. For employment opportunities at American Airlines/American Eagle, visit www.aacareers.com.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
21,133 employees
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Bentonville, AR 72716-8611
1-800-925-6278 (general information)
www.walmart.com 
The huge discount retailer might be headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, but Wal-Mart employs nearly as many D/FW residents as American Airlines. Worldwide, Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million associates in more than 3,600 stores in the U.S. and in more than 1,500 international stores. About 76 percent of the company’s store management started in hourly positions.

Texas Health Resources Inc.
16,289 employees
Texas Health Resources
611 Ryan Plaza Dr, Suite 900
Arlington, TX 76011
817-462-7900
www.texashealth.org 
One of the largest faith-based, nonprofit U.S. health care systems, Texas Health Resources, Inc. was formed in 1997 with the merger of Fort Worth-based Harris Methodist Health System, and Dallas-based Presbyterian Healthcare Resources, and Arlington Memorial Hospital. The company now serves 6.2 million people in greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, and was named one of the “100 Most Wired Companies” in 2005.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
15,900 employees
Lockheed Boulevard
Fort-Worth, TX 76108
817-777-2000
www.lockheedmartin.com 
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin was formed in 1995 with the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., located in Fort Worth, builds military aircrafts including the F-16 Fighting Falcon; the C-130J Super Hercules airlifter; the F-117 Nighthawk (first operational stealth fighter); the F-22 Raptor and many others. The company has also been awarded the contract to build the multiservice, multimission F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Baylor Health Care System
15,200 employees
1-800-4BAYLOR
500 Gaston Avenue
Dallas, TX 75246
www.baylorhealth.com 
Baylor Health Care System is one of the largest private-sector employers in the D/FW area. Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas is the system’s flagship hospital, and is a leading center for patient care, teaching and medical research. U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” guide has ranked Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas among the nation’s top hospitals in several medical specialties for the last 12 years.

Citigroup, Inc.
9,500 employees
250 E John Carpenter Freeway
Irving, TX 75062
972-541-4100
www.citigroup.com 
Citigroup, based in New York, is a global financial service company with about 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, insurance, securities brokerage, and asset management.

AT&T/SBC Communications, Inc.
13,544 employees
308 S. Akard Street
Dallas, TX 75202-5304
214-268-7301
www.att.sbc.com 
Headquartered in San Antonio, the merger with AT&T has made SBC a part of the largest telecommunications company in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world. The company’s Dallas office employ close to 14,000 employees.

Verizon Communications, Inc.
(Verizon Information Services)
12,500 employees
2200 West Airfield Dr.
Dallas, TX 75261
www.verizon.com 
This national broadband/wireline/wireless communications company has chosen to locate its Verizon Information Services division in Dallas, a leading print and online directory publisher and content provider for communications products and services.

Texas Instruments Inc.
10,600 employees
12500 TI Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75243
800-336-5236
www.ti.com 
Founded more than 70 years ago and headquartered in Dallas, Texas Instruments is a designer and supplier of digital signal processing solutions and semiconductor products and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Albertsons Inc.
10,100 employees
7550 Oak Grove Road
Fort Worth, TX 76140
817-568-3700
www.albertsons.com 
Purchased in January 2006 by several large investors (including Supervalu Inc. and CVS Corp.), the  Albertsons supermarket chain also operates Jewel-Osco, Acme Markets, Savon and Osco Drug stores. The company’s Dallas/Fort Worth division employs about 12,000 at 109 stores and a distribution center.

Brinker
10,000 employees
6820 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75240
972-980-9917
www.brinker.com 
The operator of such popular restaurants as Chili’s Grill & Bar, Chili’s Too, Romano’s Macaroni Grill, On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, and Maggiano’s Little Italy, Brinker International has more than 1,500 restaurants. Brinker has received numerous awards and is widely recognized as one of the best managed, most innovative and progressive companies in the restaurant industry.

HCA Healthcare, Inc.
(HCA North Texas Division)
9,896 employees
HCA North Texas
6565 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 350
Irving, TX 75039
972-401-8750
www.hcanorthtexas.com 
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HCA operates hospitals throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth area, including Denton Regional Medical Center; Green Oaks Psychiatric Hospital; Las Colinas Medical Center; Medical Center of Arlington, Medical Center of Lewisville; Medical Center of McKinney; Medical Center of Plano; Medical City Children’s; Medical City Dallas Hospital; North Hills Hospital and Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth. The North Texas Division also includes several ambulatory care and imaging centers.

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
8,800 employees
2200 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75201
214-965-2340
www.chase.com 
With the acquisition of Bank One, JP Morgan Chase & Co. is the largest bank in Texas with $67 billion in deposits. Headquartered in New York, the leading global financial services firm has assets of $1.3 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. Its services include investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, assets and wealth management, and private equity. Its building, the JPMorgan Chase Tower, is a 55-story postmodern skyscraper – the fourth-tallest in Dallas.

J.C. Penny Co.
7,900 employees
6501 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
972-431-1000
www.jcpenney.net 
Headquartered in Plano, just north of Dallas, J.C. Penney Company, Inc. is a retailer, operating 1,017 JCPenney Department Stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, and 62 Renner Department Stores in Brazil. The company sells family apparel, jewelry, shoes, accessories and home furnishings to its customers through department stores, catalog and the internet.

Kroger Co.
7,600 employees
1014 Vine Street
Cincinattie, OH 45202-1100
513-762-4000
www.kroger.com 
Head Quartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kroger (NYSE:KR) is one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, with fiscal 2005 sales of $60.6 billion. The Kroger Co. spans many states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, convenience stores and mall jewelry stores.

Target Corp.
7,554 employees
1000 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403
612-304-6073
www.target.com 
Target’s first store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1962. Now, this well-known discount retailer operates more than 1,300 stores in 47 states, including more 140 SuperTarget stores that are designed to add an upscale grocery shopping experience. The Dallas area includes a distribution center and many stores.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS)
7,300 employees
5400 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
972-605-6000
www.eds.com 
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) is a global IT consulting company that defined the outsourcing business when Ross Perot established it in 1962. It is headquartered in Plano, Texas. General Motors acquired the company in 1984. EDS became an independent company again in 1996. In 2004, it employed 117,000 people located in 60 countries, and reported revenues of $20.7 billion. EDS is ranked as one of the largest services companies on the FORTUNE 500 list.

Bank of America Corp.
7,000 employees
Bank of America Corporate Center
100 North Tryon St.
Charlotte, NC 28255
www.bankofamerica.com 
Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.

Tom Thumb Food and Pharmacy
6,314 employees
Safeway, Inc.
20427 N. 27th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85027
www.tomthumb.com 
Owned and operated by Safeway Inc. – Safeway, Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. As of March 24, 2007, the company operated 1,755 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in western Canada. In support of its stores, Safeway has an extensive network of distribution, manufacturing and food processing facilities. Safeway also holds a 49% interest in Casa Ley, S.A. de C.V., a food and general merchandise retailer in western Mexico.

Southwest Airlines Co.
5,543 employees
PO Box 36611
Dallas, TX 75235-1611
214-792-4000
www.southwest.com 
Southwest Airlines was incorporated with lots of “luv” in 1967 in Dallas to offer its original vision of passenger airline service that would go from Dallas, Houston, and Austin. Southwest now operates 445 Boeing 737 aircrafts and provides service to 61 cities in 31 states. The Company also provides frequent flyer awards to business partners, including credit card companies, hotels, telecommunication companies and car rental agencies.

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
5,301 employees
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
P.O. Box 482
Fort Worth, TX 76101
817-280-2011
www.bellhelicopter.com 
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Bell Helicopter is owned by Textron and produces commercial and military manned and unmanned vertical lift aircraft and tilt rotor aircraft. Globally recognized for world-class customer service, innovation and superior quality, Bell’s global workforce serves customer flying Bell aircraft in more than 120 countries. Textron Inc., its parent company, is a $10 billion multi-industry company with 46,000 employees operating in 36 countries. Textron brands include Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO and Greenlee, among others.

Minyard Food Stores, Inc.
5,091 employees
777 Freeport Parkway
Coppell, TX 75019
972-393-8700
www.minyards.com 
After 72 years in business, the Minyard family sold Minyard Food Stores Inc. on October 29, 2004, to Acquisitioni Vehicle Texas II, LLC, a Texas-based investment company, which conducts business under the name Minyard Group. The Minyard Group is led by Mike Byars, President and CEO. Minyard Food Stores Inc. currently operates 61 supermarkets, 36 pharmacies and 15 fule stations in six surrounding counties of the Dallas Fort Worth metriplex including 23 minyard, 14 Sack’n Save and 24 Carnival Food Stores. Additionally, the company operates its own 722,000 squarefoot distribution center and 43,000 square-foot office on an 81 – acre corportate headquaters complex in Coppell, Texas.

Blockbuster Inc.
4,500 employees
1291 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75270
214-854-3000
www.blockbuster.com 
Blockbuster, Inc. was founded in Dallas in 1982. As of December 31, 2005, Blockbuster operated 9,042 stores, of which 7,158 are company operated stores and 1,884 are franchised stores in the U.S. and internationally. Together with its subsidiaries, Blockbuster, Inc., offers prerecorded videos, as well as video games for in-store rental, sale and trade, and also sells other entertainment related merchandise. The company’s business also includes home video and home video game industries, which include in-home movie, such as theatrical movie, television series, and direct-to-video product; and game entertainment offered by retail outlets, online retailers, and cable and satellite providers.

General Motors
4,030 employees
P.O. Box 33170
Detroit, MI 48232
www.gm.com 
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world’s largest automaker, has been the global industry sales leader for 76 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 284,000 people around the world. Over four thousand of those employees are in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries.

RadioShack Corp.
3,896 employees
Mail Stop CF3-203
300 Radioshack Circle
Fort Worth, TX 76102-1964
817-415-3011
www.radioshackcorporation.com 
Headquartered in Fort Worth, RadioShack Corporation was originally founded in 1899 as Tandy Corporation, making it one of the area’s oldest companies (the company changed its name in 2000). Its business is focused on retail sale of consumer electronic goods and services through its RadioShack store chain and non-RadioShack branded kiosk operations in the United States. As of December 31, 2005, the company operated 4,972 stores located throughout the U.S., as well as in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; 777 kiosks located throughout the United States; 7 RadioShack service centers in the United States and 1 in Puerto Rico; and a network of 1,686 RadioShack dealer outlets.
Source: Dallas Business Journal – Largest area private-sector employers, 2006
Written and Compiled By Amy E. Lemen