Whois & Analysis for heb.com

HEB Grocery Company, LP (stylized as H-E-B), also known as H-E-B Grocery Stores, is an American privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico.

The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer.

As of 2013, the company has a total revenue surpassing $20 billion USD (2013).

H-E-B ranked No. 15 on Forbes' 2014 list of "America's Largest Private Companies." H-E-B was named Retailer of the Year in 2010 by Progressive Grocer.

Supermarket News ranked H-E-B No. 13 in the 2008 "Top 75 North American Food Retailers." Based on 2014 revenues, H-E-B is the twentieth largest retailer in the United States.

It donates 5 percent of pre-tax profits to charity.

It has been labeled a religious company; until 1976, it was closed on Sundays and did not sell alcohol.

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

Geographically located in the south central part of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.

A grocery store is a retail store that primarily sells food.

A grocer is a bulk seller of food.

Grocery stores often offer non-perishable food that is packaged in cans, bottles and boxes, with some also having fresh produce, butchers, delis, and bakeries.

Large grocery stores that stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as clothing and household items, are called supermarkets.

Some large supermarkets also include a pharmacy, and customer service, redemption and electronics sections.

Retail markets and shops have a very ancient history, dating back to antiquity.

Retailing involves the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

Retailers satisfy demand is identified through a supply chain.

Retailers typically make a variety of strategic level decisions including the type of store, the market to be served, the optimal product assortment, customer service, supporting services and the store's overall market positioning.

Once the strategic retail plan is in place, retailers devise the retail mix which includes product, price, place, promotion, personnel and presentation.

In the digital age, an increasing number of retailers are seeking to reach broader markets by selling through multiple channels, including both bricks and mortar and online retailing.

Digital technologies are also changing the way that consumers pay for goods and services.

Retailing support services may also include the provision of credit, delivery services and a range of supporting services.

Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination.

There are different delivery types.

Cargo (physical goods) are primarily delivered via roads and railroads on land, shipping lanes on the sea and airline networks in the air.

Certain specialized goods may be delivered via other networks, such as pipelines for liquid goods, power grids for electrical power and computer networks such as the Internet or broadcast networks for electronic information.