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  H-E-B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles, the youngest son of Howard E. Butt, became president of the H.E. Butt Grocery Company in 1971.
Today, Charles Butt is chairman and CEO of H-E-B, having grown the business from sales of $250 million in 1971 to $11 billion in 2003.
Butt, whose fortune is estimated to be over $2 billion, is the richest man in San Antonio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/H-E-B   (962 words)

  
 Butt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butt (unit), a cask of wine of about 477 litres (126 gallons)
Butt (sailing), a joint between planks of wood on a ship
a butt of currants is from fifteen to twenty-two hundred weight
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butt   (146 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Howard Edward Butt, businessman, was born April 9, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Charles Clarence and Florence (Thornton) Butt.
Butt's son, Charles C. Butt, succeeded him as president in 1971 and as chairman in 1984.
Butt was a thirty-third-degree Mason and a Baptist deacon.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbu85.html   (716 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Prince Charles reveals anguish with media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The butt of Charles' royal irritation was BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell, who asked the 56-year-old prince whether he was looking forward to his April 8 wedding.
Charles has never had such protection, and the last few weeks have seen the details of his forthcoming wedding dissected in minute and sometimes biting detail.
Charles and Diana's extramarital affairs, her tragic death in a car crash in 1997, the collapsed marriages of Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, the underage drinking, pot-smoking, and swastika-wearing escapades of Harry — all have been played out in detail on TV screens and front pages around the world.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-03-31-prince-outburst_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (799 words)

  
 Israel L. Butt (Israel La Fayette), b. 1848. History of African Methodism in Virginia, or Four Decades in the Old ...
Doctor Butt has made what there is of his life on the very field and amid the very men and scenes that enter into his story, having to take comparatively little at second hand.
Butt's father was at once put to work in the government service, unloading and loading cargoes of coal, bombshells and various kinds of war implements and ammunition that were being sent to the front for fighting.
Young Butt was given a position as water boy, supplying the hands that worked there; this service he performed well until about the middle of 1863, when his father sent him to the U. government school which was taught by Yankee teachers in the Bute Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, remaining there three weeks.
docsouth.unc.edu /church/butt/butt.html   (11927 words)

  
 Distinctions - December 2002 - H-E-B Joins in the Fight Against Disease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Today, under the leadership of Chairman Charles C. Butt, the company has grown to be one of the largest independently owned companies in the nation, with over 300 stores across Texas, Louisiana and Mexico, including seven Central Market locations.
Butt recently joined the Health Science Center's Development Board and has quickly become an active proponent of the university.
Charles Butt is a lifelong sailor, and his other personal enthusiasms include historic preservation and photography.
www.uthouston.edu /distinctions/archive/2002/dec/heb.html   (823 words)

  
 MySA.com: Business
Florence Butt swept the floor with a sense of urgency.
Charles Butt had started working at H-E-B at age 8, wearing a tiny apron someone had fashioned from a full-size one.
Charles lives in a Victorian-era mansion in the King William District, which is right across the San Antonio River from H-E-B's office campus.
www.mysanantonio.com /business/stories/MYSA112005.1R.HEBmain.1b9c8838.html   (4353 words)

  
 NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - Comcast.net
LONDON - On the ski slopes of Switzerland, Prince Charles revealed a degree of awkwardness with the media that seemed, in one uncomfortable moment Thursday, to capture the essence of his failure to win British hearts.
A week before his second wedding, gaffes by Charles - sitting alongside his much more poised son, Prince William - underscored doubts about whether the heir to the throne has the media savvy to be an effective king.
Charles and Diana's extramarital affairs, her tragic death in a car crash in 1997, the collapsed marriages of Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, the underage drinking, pot-smoking, and swastika-wearing escapades of Harry - all have been played out in detail on TV screens and front pages around the world.
www.comcast.net /news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2005/03/31/95335.html   (745 words)

  
 wcco.com - Prince Charles Caught In Mic Flap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Some Britons have suggested the line of succession should skip Charles and go directly to William—who at age 22 handles public appearances with greater panache and shares some of the charisma of his mother, the late Princess Diana.
Charles and Diana’s extramarital affairs, her tragic death in a car crash in 1997, the collapsed marriages of Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, the underage drinking, pot-smoking, and swastika-wearing escapades of Harry—all have been played out in detail on TV screens and front pages around the world.
Prince Charles with sons Harry and William answering questions from the media on the slopes of Switzerland.
wcco.com /topstories/topstories_story_090103534.html   (787 words)

  
 Cortez Journal Obituaries - March - April 2004
Charles was born Aug. 6, 1952, in Milford, Conn., to Charles Anthony and Florentine (Caprio) Durnin.
Charles worked for 12 years as a substance abuse counselor in Ignacio and at Southwest Mental Health in Durango.
Charles was an avid reader, and loved the traditional ways of the grandfathers.
www.cortezjournal.com /obituaries/obitmayjuly04.htm   (4769 words)

  
 Ray Charles
Jackson plays his usual speedy, pristine blues runs, and Charles plays some tasty stuff (title track) when he's playing, but for some reason guitarist Kenny Burrell takes most of the solo space, and his fleet, predictable playing is so cool it's ice-cold.
Throughout, Charles' shouting and piano and organ playing are in top form, and he throws in plenty of wry offhand comments.
Charles saved the best for first with a wonderful, wistful performance of Meredith Willson's "Till There Was You," a throwback to his Modern Sounds approach with an arrangement that's slow but strong, and sparely used backup singers.
www.warr.org /charles.html   (4982 words)

  
 Media give prince royal pain
Fortunately for Charles, succession to the British throne isn't decided by auditions, or by opinion polls that indicate strong public sentiment in favor of Charles standing aside to let William be the next monarch.
But just a week before his second wedding, the gaffes by Charles underscored doubts about whether he has the media savvy to be an effective king.
The butt of Charles' royal irritation was BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell, who asked the prince whether he was looking forward to his wedding.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0401charles01.html   (383 words)

  
 Corporate Friends of the Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Charles Butt still wines and dines the court; on October 21, 1997, he contributed $5,000 to the San Antonio campaign kick-off for Justice Craig Enoch, an event that Butt graciously hosted in his home.
Altogether the Butt family gave the justices $53,098 (90 percent from Charles Butt), in amounts ranging from $2,000 to Justice Owen up to $13,600 to Justice Gonzalez.
The Butt family gave the justices $53,098, with 90 percent coming from HEB grocery chain Chairman Charles Butt.
www.tpj.org /docs/1998/02/reports/payola/corporate.html   (1279 words)

  
 Charley Butt
His young son Charles is the fourth of that name, and perhaps will attain national prominence like his father and grandfather before him.
Charley's father, Charles Butt, Jr., the head coach for 41 years at Washington and Lee High School, is widely regarded as the father of rowing in the Washington DC area.
The senior Butt's progeny include our coach, 19 scholastic national titles, and one of the nation's fastest growing high school leagues.
hcs.harvard.edu /~hltcrew/charlie.html   (282 words)

  
 TIME.com Print Page: Inside Business -- A Texas Grocer Thrives Down in Old Mexico
The H. Butt Grocery Co., based in San Antonio, Texas, had no doubt that customers at its 20 stores in northern Mexico would gobble up the tortillas, because Hispanic customers at its 280 stores in Texas and Louisiana had already taken to their chewy texture and toasty flavor.
Founded in 1905 in Kerrville, Texas, by the late Florence Butt, H-E-B, named for the initials of her son, is still family owned and today is run by Florence's grandson, chairman and CEO Charles Butt, 65.
Charles Butt says 2002 companywide sales were $9.8 billion, up from $8.9 billion in 2001; sales in Mexico were $571 million in 2002, up from $429 million.
www.time.com /time/insidebiz/printout/0,8816,428040,00.html   (473 words)

  
 reveries - cool news of the day
Butt even installed "live tanks of fish and shellfish" in a southwest Houston store that caters to Asians.
Butt's fixation on understanding how his shoppers think ultimately takes square aim at Wal-Mart's claim to fame -- low prices.
Butt is down with that, his goal being "to keep prices low enough so that HEB can keep gaining market share." Against Wal-Mart.
www.reveries.com /cool_news/2004/december/dec_1a.html   (260 words)

  
 74(R) SR 530 Enrolled version - Bill Text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Butt was a dedicated homemaker who considered her 1-12 primary lifework to be that of wife, mother, and grandmother; 1-13 Mr.
Butt was 2-15 designated as Member Emeritus of the Texas Board of Mental Health 2-16 and Mental Retardation; and 2-17 WHEREAS, Mrs.
Butt, H. Butt 3-20 Grocery Company made a major contribution to the new central 3-21 library in Corpus Christi in 1985; now, Mrs.
www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/74R/billtext/SR00530F.HTM   (143 words)

  
 WallSt.net - Better Tools For Better Investors
Charles Butt, President and CEO of Forbes Medi-Tech, Inc.
Unlike many other bio-tech companies who are focused on the future, Forbes Medi-Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq: FMTI Quotes, News, Charts) has developed its business model for the here-and-now, as well as for the long-haul.
According to Butt, investors should keep a close eye on new contracts for the “inclusion of our proprietary ingredient Reducol, which is a non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) ingredient.
www.wallst.net /editorials/article.asp?id=197   (477 words)

  
 Politics
The contempt shown by Parliament to Isaac Butt was not lost on the younger members of the Irish Party who formulated a different tactic that would force the House to listen.
Isaac Butt weakened by personal gambling debts and ill health yielded the leadership to Charles Stuart Parnell in 1878, the year when he was given the Freedom of Limerick.
- Isaac Butt at the Limerick Athenaeum 1872.
www.limerick.com /theroyal/thebook/politics.html   (4310 words)

  
 Britain's Charles again shows less-royal side | www.azstarnet.com ®
LONDON - On the ski slopes of Switzerland, Prince Charles revealed a degree of awkwardness with the media that seemed Thursday, to capture the essence of his failure to win British hearts.
Since announcing he was marrying longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, Charles has been embroiled in a series of embarrassments, including being forced to change the site of his wedding from Windsor Castle to a more plebeian town hall and the revelation that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, won't be at the nuptials.
The butt of Charles' irritation was BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell, who asked the prince whether he was looking forward to his April 8 wedding.
www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printDS/68315.php   (308 words)

  
 Friends of Texas Public Schools
Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO of H-E-B, gives “thumbs up” to Scott and Leslie Milder, founders of Friends of Texas Public Schools.
Presenting the Friend of the Year award to Charles Butt are Leslie Milder, Friends cofounder, Southwest Airlines President Colleen Barrett, and Friends President and Cofounder Scott Milder.
Southwest Airlines President Colleen Barrett admires the Friend of the Year award with recipient Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO, H-E-B. Charles Butt listening to Dr. Shirley Neeley at the podium, with his Friend of the Year award sitting in front of him.
www.fotps.org /swa_reception_0805.html   (363 words)

  
 CSIRO Australia - Media Release 98/28
Speaking at the 1998 Outlook Conference in Canberra, Dr Charles Butt from CSIRO said the increasing capability of new mineral exploration techniques will make it likely that more mineral discoveries will be made.
Dr Butt is also Deputy Director of the CRC for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration in Perth, where much of the pioneering research is taking place.
Dr Butt and his team were instrumental in developing the techniques used in the recent discovery of a major new gold province vast gold deposits in the Gawler Craton area of South Australia.
www.csiro.au /news/mediarel/mr1998/mr9828.html   (344 words)

  
 SpecialtyFood.com
“Charles Butt is known for his restless dissatisfaction with the supermarket industry,” says Stephen Butt, a family member.
Butt wanted to create an enjoyable shopping experience through providing incredible products and spectacular customer service.
The biggest challenge in the Metroplex was the hiring of the right people or, in Central Market terms, “partners.” The company puts an aggressive effort into recruiting and hiring personnel, from the general manager to apprentice cooks.
www.specialtyfood.com /do/news/ViewNewsArticle?id=743   (1544 words)

  
 Dickens, Charles - Biography and Online Books
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories of Karl Marx.
His mind was essentially methodical, and in his long walks, in his recreations, in his labour, he was governed by rules laid down for himself - rules well studied beforehand, and rarely departed from.
The plot circles around the look-alikes Charles Darnay, a nephews of a marquis, and Sydney Carton, a lawyer, who both love the same woman, Lucy.
www.literaturepost.com /authors/Dickens.html   (2039 words)

  
 Ray Charles MP3 Downloads - Ray Charles Music Downloads - Ray Charles Music Videos
This LP came seemingly out of the blue as a showcase for the Ray Charles big band, spawning two little-known sequels later on in the '70s.
The sole exception to the pattern -- and a hit single in its own right -- is a catchy, funky Charles gospel/blues called "Booty Butt," where Charles adds multi-tracked gospel moans for his sole vocal contribution, and the band chimes in only on the very last chord.
Clearly, the title and the appalling lack of credits say volumes about Charles' reputation as a control freak; this is his kind of jazz and nobody else's.
www.mp3.com /albums/26564/summary.html   (308 words)

  
 Beautiful Atrocities: PROFILES IN COURAGE: SALMAN BUTT
Butt on religion: "We are Muslims and we believe in Allah.
Butt on cricket: "It is a natural passion for the game since I was a child.
Posted by: Ashley Butt at August 29, 2005 06:26 AM this is ayesha..i was ur fan but after seeing sum of ur pics of india with some actresses,now i hate u......
beautifulatrocities.com /archives/2005/05/profiles_in_cou.html   (1901 words)

  
 Samuel Swyer, England to Sandy Point, Bay St. George, Newfoundland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CHARLES ALBERT5 DENNIS (SELINA4 SWYER, WILLIAM3, SAMUEL2, UNKNOWN1) was born March 3, 1877, and died March 11, 1929 in Crow Gulch, Newfoundland.
CHARLES FORD6 HULAN (CHARLES HENRY5, LOUISA ELLEN4 SWYER, WILLIAM3, SAMUEL2, UNKNOWN1) was born December 2, 1912 in Jeffrey's, Newfoundland, and died January 30, 1990.
CHARLES BERTRAM6 SWYER (BENNETT5, BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, UNKNOWN1) was born November 23, 1915 in Sandy Point, Newfoundland, and died October 21, 1976 in Stephenville, Newfoundland.
www.angelfire.com /nf/paynetree/swyer.html   (11090 words)

  
 RetailWire Print Pages
Charles Butt, chief executive of the family-owned company, told Bloomberg H-E-B wants to double the number of stores it has operating in the northern part of Mexico to 20.
It should be noted that H.E. Butt not only competes well in the same market as Wal-Mart, they do so in a market that has more Supercenters than any other in the country.
The most telling part of the article was that Charles Butt's nephew, Howard, took Spanish lessons for several years before leading the company's efforts in Mexico.
www.retailwire.com /Print/PrintDocument.cfm?DOC_ID=9920   (662 words)

  
 Texas Association of School Administrators - Honors and Awards - H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards
Since its inception, more than $2 million has been given to 773 educators and 155 schools and districts across the state, making it the largest monetary awards program for educators in Texas and one of the largest in the nation.
Charles Butt, H-E-B Chairman and CEO, launched the program in cooperation with TASA in 2002 as a positive way to support public education in Texas.
Butt and H-E-B for their efforts to reward excellence in professionals who have chosen to dedicate themselves to the hearts and minds of the young people of Texas.
www.tasanet.org /awards/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1108&snItemNumber=619   (639 words)

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