Business & Industry in Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas-Fort Worth's business profile carries real institutional and corporate weight — a regional Federal Reserve Bank headquarters, a Fortune 500 airline claiming the title of world's largest, and the North American headquarters of two global consumer brands that relocated here.

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One of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks (Eleventh District)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Established May 18, 1914, the Dallas Fed is one of only twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in the United States and oversees the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, covering Texas, northern Louisiana, and southern New Mexico. Its headquarters sits in Uptown Dallas, just north of downtown and the Dallas Arts District.

Source: Wikipedia - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

World's largest airline by passengers carried and daily flights

American Airlines

Headquartered in Fort Worth within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, American Airlines is the largest airline in the world by passengers carried and daily flights, reporting $49.6 billion in 2024 revenue and more than 103,000 employees.

Source: Wikipedia - American Airlines

North American corporate headquarters (relocated from California, 2017)

Toyota Motor North America

Toyota consolidated its U.S. sales, marketing, manufacturing, and corporate operations into a new headquarters at 6565 Headquarters Drive in Plano, moving its North American base from Torrance, California — one of the highest-profile corporate relocations to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the past decade.

Source: Wikipedia - Toyota Motor North America

Global headquarters of the world's largest snack-food maker (PepsiCo subsidiary)

Frito-Lay North America

Frito-Lay, the snack-food company behind Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Fritos, and Tostitos, is headquartered in Plano and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo since their 1965 merger, generating billions in annual revenue from a business that traces to the 1932 founding of the Frito Company in San Antonio.

Source: Wikipedia - Frito-Lay