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Feb 23, 2023 · Scrappy Florence Butt changed tactics. Stories about the original H-E-B suggest she opened the store with around $60 in grocery stock—equivalent to about $2,000 today.
C.C. Butt Grocery Store (1905–1927) Company type: Private: Industry: Grocery retail: Founded: November 26, 1905 (118 years ago) () as C.C. Butt Grocery Store in Kerrville, Texas, United States: Founder: Florence Butt: Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Feb 8, 2024 · The Butt family owns an estimated 90% Texas-based grocery chain H-E-B. The company has over 400 locations in Texas and Mexico and reported $43.6 billion of revenue for fiscal 2023. Florence...
May 1, 1995 · Butt, Florence Thornton (1864–1954). Florence Thornton Butt, whose grocery store was the first link in the H-E-B chain founded by her son Howard Edward Butt, was born in Buena Vista, Mississippi, on September 19, 1864, the daughter of John and Mary (Kimbrough) Thornton. She spent her youth in Buena Vista, where she often assisted her two ...
Nov 4, 2019 · If anyone knows the story of how H-E-B began, it’s Florence Butt; she was its founder. The story appeared in a special section of that week’s issue, celebrating the opening of a new store by ...
Mar 10, 2015 · With a nest egg of exactly $60 — a tidy sum in 1905 — Florence Thornton Butt made a big bet on a small grocery store that she opened near downtown Kerrville. The C.C. Butt Grocery Store...
Jun 9, 2023 · Jun 9, 2023. 0. A few years ago, I happened across a remarkable newspaper story titled “True Fairy Story,” published in The Kerrville Times of July 30, 1936, on page 4, and written by Mrs....
