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=== Major businesses === The Dallas–Fort Worth area has one of the largest concentrations of corporate headquarters for publicly traded companies in the United States. ''Fortune Magazine''{{'s}} 2022 annual list of the Fortune 500 in America indicates the city of Dallas had 11 Fortune 500 companies,.<ref name="Fortune-2022" /> and the DFW region as a whole had 23.<ref name="Fortune-2022a" /> As of 2022, Dallas–Fort Worth represents the second-largest concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters in Texas and fourth-largest in the United States, behind the metropolitan areas of [[Greater Houston|Houston]] (24), [[Chicago metropolitan area|Chicago]] (35) and [[New York metropolitan area|New York]] (62).<ref name="Fortune-2022a" /> In 2008, [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]] relocated their headquarters to Downtown Dallas;<ref>{{cite news|title=AT&T Making a Move|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/technology/30phone.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 30, 2008 |access-date=June 30, 2008}}</ref> AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world and was the ninth largest company in the nation by revenue for 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2017/05/24/the-worlds-largest-telecom-companies-att-and-verizon-top-china-mobile/#f0a9a30a4523|title=The World's Largest Telecom Companies: AT&T And Verizon Top China Mobile|website=Forbes|access-date=May 24, 2017 |date=May 24, 2017 |first=Antoine |last=Gara}}</ref> Additional [[Fortune 500]] companies headquartered in Dallas in order of ranking include [[Energy Transfer Equity]], [[CBRE Group|CBRE]] (which moved its headquarters from Los Angeles to Dallas in 2020),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/10/28/cbre-headquarters-relocation.html|title=CBRE relocating headquarters to Dallas from Los Angeles, sources say|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=Dallas Business Journal |date=Oct 28, 2020 |first1=Ryan |last1=Salchert |first2=Taylor |last2=Tompkins |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201028181308/https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/10/28/cbre-headquarters-relocation.html |archive-date=October 28, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Real estate brokerage CBRE moves headquarters from Los Angeles to Dallas|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-estate-brokerage-cbre-moves-193907122.html|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=Yahoo Finance |date=October 29, 2020 |language=en-US |first=Roger |last=Vincent}}</ref> [[Tenet Healthcare]], [[Southwest Airlines]], Texas Instruments, [[Jacobs Engineering]], [[HollyFrontier]], [[Dean Foods]], and Builders FirstSource. In October 2016, Jacobs Engineering, one of the world's largest engineering companies, relocated from [[Pasadena, California]] to Downtown Dallas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2016/10/24/jacobs-engineering-global-hq-dallas-california.html|title=Global engineering firm to relocate headquarters from California to Dallas|website=Bizjournals.com|access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref> Nearby Irving is home to six Fortune 500 companies of its own, including [[McKesson Corporation|McKesson]], the country's largest pharmaceutical distributor and listed at number seven overall on the 2021 Fortune 500 list,<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 1, 2018|title=Largest Pharmaceutical Company in U.S. Moving its HQ from California to DFW|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-real-estate/2018/11/largest-pharmaceutical-company-in-u-s-moving-headquarters-from-california-to-dfw/|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=D Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/11/30/mckesson-relocates-headquarters-to-north-texas.html|title=Fortune 500 company to move headquarters from California to DFW|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Fortune 500|url=https://fortune.com/fortune500/2021/|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=Fortune|language=en}}</ref> [[Fluor Corporation|Fluor]] (engineering), [[Kimberly-Clark]], [[Celanese]], [[The Michaels Companies|Michaels Companies]], and [[TXU Energy|Vistra Energy]].<ref name="Fortune 500">{{cite magazine|title=Fortune 500|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/|magazine=Fortune Magazine|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> [[Plano, Texas|Plano]] is home to an additional four Fortune 500 companies, including [[J.C. Penney]], [[Alliance Data Systems]], [[Yum China]], and [[Keurig Dr Pepper|Dr. Pepper Snapple]].<ref name="Fortune 500" /> Fort Worth is home to two [[Fortune 500]] companies, including [[American Airlines]], the largest airline in the world by revenue, fleet size, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile and [[D.R. Horton]], the largest homebuilder in America.<ref name="Fortune 500" /> Westlake, TX, north of Fort Worth, now has two Fortune 500 companies: Financial services giant, [[Charles Schwab Corporation|Charles Schwab]], and convenience store distributor, [[Core-Mark]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 29, 2019|title=Charles Schwab's move to DFW shakes up leaderboard in region already undergoing changes|url=https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/charles-schwabs-move-to-dfw-shakes-up-leaderboard-in-region-already-undergoing-changes/287-36f72c12-37ae-4f7c-bce0-7d6eed949316|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=wfaa.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=September 6, 2018|title=Fortune 500 Company Relocating From California to DFW|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-real-estate/2018/09/fortune-500-company-relocating-to-dfw/|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=D Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> One Fortune 500 company, [[GameStop]], is based in [[Grapevine, Texas|Grapevine]]. [[File:NorthPark Center March 2017 4.jpg|thumb|left|[[NorthPark Center]]]] Additional major companies headquartered in Dallas and its metro area include [[Comerica]], which relocated its national headquarters to Downtown Dallas from [[Detroit]] in 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toledoblade.com/business/2007/03/06/Comerica-Inc-to-relocate-headquarters-from-Detroit-to-Dallas.html|title=Comerica Inc. to relocate headquarters from Detroit to Dallas|website=toledoblade.com|access-date=March 6, 2007}}</ref> NTT DATA Services, Regency Energy Partners, [[Atmos Energy]], [[Neiman Marcus]], [[AECOM]], [[Think Finance]], [[7-Eleven]], [[Brinker International]], Primoris Services, [[AMS Pictures]], [[id Software]], [[Mary Kay Cosmetics]], [[Chuck E. Cheese's]], [[Zale Corporation]], and [[Fossil, Inc.|Fossil, Inc]]. Many of these companies—and others throughout the DFW metroplex—comprise the [[Dallas Regional Chamber]]. [[Susan G. Komen for the Cure]], the world's largest breast cancer organization, was founded and is headquartered in Dallas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/pr-03272007b.html |title=Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder of the World's Largest (March 27, 2007) |publisher=Jerusalem.usconsulate.gov |date=March 27, 2007 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817145240/http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/pr-03272007b.html |archive-date=August 17, 2009}}</ref> In addition to its large number of businesses, Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other city in the United States and is also home to the second shopping center ever built in the United States, [[Highland Park Village]], which opened in 1931.<ref name="VisitDallas_Shopping">{{cite web |url=https://www.visitdallas.com/things-to-do/shopping/index.html|title=Shopping |access-date=June 27, 2021 |url-status=live |website=VisitDallas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404181001/http://www.visitdallas.com:80/things-to-do/shopping/index.html |archive-date=April 4, 2016 }}</ref> Dallas is home of the two other major malls in North Texas, the [[Dallas Galleria]] and [[NorthPark Center]], which is the second largest mall in Texas. Both malls feature high-end stores and are major tourist draws for the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northparkcenter.com/pages/northpark-history|title=NorthPark Center History – Luxury Shopping in Dallas|website=Northparkcenter.com|access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galleriadallas.com/shopping/|title=Shopping|website=Galleriadallas.com|access-date=August 27, 2017|archive-date=November 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122072055/http://www.galleriadallas.com/shopping/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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