H-E-B Background

H-E-B History

Florence .E .Butt. opens the “C.C.Butt Grocery Store” which was located in Kerrville and in 1905 and she invested sixty dollars so the business could start and when the business started to work the first grocery store was only 750 square feet,they made deliveries to houses and sold bulk food,they delivered goods in wagons.During 1919 when florence youngest son took over the business when he came back from World War l,then Howard E.Butt tried,but failed to open a second store six times.Within the 1920 Florence, youngest son Howard .E .Butt gets to be in business and opens a new store in Del Rio in Laredo,and in the first month Florance made fifty dollars and sixty cents of the sales of the month which is almost the amount of money she invested to start the business. In 1940 H-E-B opens its first air condition

Within 2003 H-E-B ranked tenth in the nation among the private companies on eleven billion dollars in annual sales.In 2004 H-E-B introduces a new version of H-E-B which is H-E-B plus it just adds a little twist to it it has for example:couches,tv’s,larger baby departments,grill and grilling supplies and expanded party supplies this store was located in San Juan,texas in the same year H-E-B opens a new bakery in Houston and produces fresh breads and produces 153 loaves and 750 buns per minute.

During 2005 H-E-B celebrated 100 years of serving Texans,in the same year H-E-B plus opens in three new locations which feature a Texas Backyard garden center.H-E-B with their funds they give five-percent to contribute to charity,public programs.Within this moment H-E-B has around 85,000 Employees and an estimated amount of 2.2 billion in annual