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==Economy== [[File:Venue Building, Tyler, TX IMG 0469.JPG|right|thumb|[[People's National Bank Building (Tyler, Texas)|People's Petroleum building]] in downtown Tyler]] [[File:Tyler, TX, Chamber of Commerce office IMG 0543.JPG|thumb|right|Chamber of Commerce office in downtown Tyler]] In addition to the city's role in the rose-growing industry, Tyler is the headquarters for [[Brookshire Grocery Company]], which operates Brookshire's, Fresh, Super 1 Foods, and Spring Market supermarkets in the Ark-La-Tex and parts of [[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex|Dallas–Fort Worth]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-25 |title=About Us |url=https://www.brookshires.com/about-us |access-date=2020-12-16 |website=Brookshire's Food & Pharmacy |language=en-US}}</ref> The company's main distribution center is in south Tyler, while SouthWest Foods, a subsidiary that processes dairy products, is just northeast of the city. The city and metropolitan area also has a growing manufacturing sector including: Tyler Pipe, a subsidiary of [[McWane Inc.]] that produces soil and utility pipe products; [[Trane Technologies]], formerly a unit of [[American Standard Companies]], which manufactures [[air conditioning|air conditioners]] and [[heat pump]]s (this plant was originally built in 1955 by [[General Electric]]); [[Delek|Delek Refining]], an Israeli-owned [[oil refinery]] formerly La Gloria Oil and Gas Co (a [[Crown Central Petroleum]] [[subsidiary]]); PCSFerguson, an operating company of [[Dover Corporation]] that specializes in equipment for the measurement and production of [[natural gas]] using the plunger lift method; DYNAenergetics Tyler Distribution Center, part of DYNAenergetics USA, which manufactures perforating equipment and [[Explosive material|explosives]] for the [[Petroleum industry|oil and gas industry]]; and Vesuvius USA, a manufacturer of [[refractory]] [[Ceramic engineering|ceramics]] used in the [[Steel|steel industry]]. According to the city's 2022–2023 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref name="CAFR2023" /> the city's top ten employers were: {| class="wikitable" |- ! # ! Employer ! Employees |- | 1 |[[Christus Trinity Mother Frances Health System]] | 5,000 |- | 2 |[[UT Health East Texas]] | 3,500 |- | 3 |[[Tyler Independent School District]] | 2,550 |- | 4 |[[Sanderson Farms]] | 1,750 |- | 5 |[[Walmart]] | 1,500 |- | 6 (tie) |[[Trane Technologies]] | 1,450 |- | 6 (tie) |[[Brookshire Grocery Company]] |1,450 |- | 6 (tie) |[[The Health Science Center at UT Tyler]] |1,450 |- | 7 |[[University of Texas at Tyler]] | 1,200 |- | 8 |Optimum Communications | 1,150 |- | 9 (tie) |John Soules Foods | 1,000 |- | 9 (tie) |[[Tyler Junior College]] | 1,000 |- | 9 (tie) |[[Target Corporation|Target Distribution Center]] | 1,000 |- | 10 (tie) |City of Tyler | 850 |- | 10 (tie) |[[Smith County, Texas|Smith County]] | 850 |}
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