Rob Heidrick

July 11, 2014

Texas Business Report: Dallas Is Always the Bridesmaid

The city lost its bid for the GOP convention and a chance to bring in millions in revenue.

June 27, 2014

Texas Business Report: The Stock Market Got a Bit Craftier

Finance-minded crafters, take note: Michaels has gone public. This and other business news from around the state.

June 6, 2014

Texas Business Report: Moto Ex

Barely a year after opening the nation’s first smartphone manufacturing factory in Fort Worth, Motorola has announced plans to close the plant by the end of this year.

May 30, 2014

Texas Business Report: One Giant Leap for SpaceX

The FAA signed off on an environmental review that found the proposed spaceport wouldn't adversely affect protected wildlife.

May 23, 2014

Texas Business Report: Bryan-College Station, We Have a Problem

Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but NASA is considering relocating its backup mission control from Alabama to Bryan-College Station.

May 16, 2014

Texas Business Report: J.C. Penney Seeing Signs of Growth

A stock spike signals to investors that the beleagured retail chain is finally starting to see the ship turn.

May 9, 2014

Texas Business Report: Going Offshore

Two energy exploration giants are shifting the focus of their Texas operations.

May 2, 2014

Texas Business Report: Toyota Motors Over to Plano

And they might pick up some local talent.

April 11, 2014

Texas Business Report: In Low Cotton

Nationwide cotton crop inventories are at a 23-year-low, and the shortfall is especially pronounced in Texas, America's number-one grower.

April 4, 2014

Texas Business Report: Anadarko Petroleum Pays $5.1 Billion to Settle Pollution Case

The award—a record high for a Justice Department environmental settlement—will go toward restoring sites harmed by uranium mining, chemical manufacturing, waste dumps, and other operations overseen by Anadarko’s subsidiary Kerr-McGee.

March 28, 2014

Texas Business Report: A High-Speed Rail Network Gets Fast-tracked

Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth are working with the private transportation company Texas Central High-Speed Railway to pursue its goal of transporting riders between the Houston and DFW metro areas in about ninety minutes.

March 21, 2014

Texas Business Report: Fossil is a Smart One to Watch

The Richardson-based accessories maker will partner with Google as part of the tech company's play to get into wearable technology.

February 28, 2014

Texas Business Report: What Is the Future of the Houston Ship Channel?

Hundreds of ships navigate the 52-mile channel each day, requiring pilots to engage in a maneuver they have dubbed “the Texas Chicken,” in which “two ships to chart a course for a head-on collision, then swerve right, and use each other’s wave pressure to move safely past.”

February 14, 2014

Texas Business Report: Dr Pepper Weathers the Soda Slump

Trinity East Energy sues Dallas, Whole Foods' stock takes a dip, and more from the week in business.

February 7, 2014

Texas Business Report: RadioShack Gets Back in the Game

A winning Super Bowl ad boosts the aging electronics equipment's stock.

January 31, 2014

Texas Business Report: Texas A&M Gets Supercomputing Powers

The university partnered with IBM to provide advanced supercomputing systems that can crunch data and solve problems loads faster than the school's current equipment.

January 24, 2014

Texas Business Report: Neiman Marcus Spending Spree

The Dallas-based retailer alerted customers that hackers stole as many as 1.1 million credit and debit card numbers, a much larger figure than previous thought.

January 17, 2014

Texas Business Report: Don’t Mess With (the University of) Texas

UT, which is notoriously protective of its Longhorns brand, is cracking down on retailers selling merchandise that riffs on the name of its new head football coach, Charlie Strong.

January 10, 2014

Texas Business Report: Pro-Business Republicans Scooping Up Campaign Money

Some of Texas's biggest corporations are pushing back against tea party Republicans who oppose spending taxpayer money on infrastructure and public education.

December 13, 2013

Texas Business Report: Texas Closes the Year Strong

Texas is emerging from the 2012-2013 budget cycle with a surplus of $2.6 billion—more than twice as much as state officials had projected.

December 6, 2013

Texas Business Report: Pulling the Thread in J.C. Penney’s Stock Offering

The Plano-based retailer is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission for its recent stock sale, a move that surprised investors.

November 22, 2013

Texas Business Report: Will GameStop Get Its Christmas Wish of Better-Than-Expected Sales?

The Game is Up … and DownDespite a strong performance this summer, GameStop is bracing itself for below-average sales this holiday season. The Grapevine-based video game retailer reported its third-quarter results on Thursday, announcing that profits powered up by 45 percent over the same period last year. One might

November 18, 2013

Texas Business Report: American Airlines’s Merger Looks More Likely Than an On-Time Flight

The Texas-based airlines and U.S. Airways reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, making the long-awaited merger "all but certain."

November 1, 2013

Texas Business Report: Lance Armstrong Might Have to Return $12 Million in Bonuses

A Texas court ruled that the cyclist might have to give back the money he received from Dallas-based SCA Promotions.

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October 18, 2013

Texas Business Report: You Can Now Buy Stock in Arian Foster

This week the Texans running back became the first professional athlete to go public in a new financial exchange that allows investors to buy and trade shares tied to an athlete’s future earnings.

October 11, 2013

Texas Business Report: Boom Goes the Housing Market

Home prices in Houston and Dallas are “up more than at any time since the oil boom of the 1980s." And with every rise...

October 4, 2013

Texas Business Report: Cuban’s Insider Trading Crisis

Cuban ConfidentialDallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank panelist Mark Cuban is back in court this week to defend himself against a federal insider-trading lawsuit that has spanned nearly a decade. The Securities and Exchange Commission claims Cuban “broke a promise of confidentiality and traded on private information that gave him an advantage over

September 27, 2013

Texas Business Report: Gannet Got It Good

The Love BeloShareholders of Dallas-based TV broadcasting company Belo Corp. voted this week to approve the company’s sale to Gannett in a deal worth $1.5 billion. If the deal closes by the end of the year as expected, Gannett will be one of the nation’s largest TV-station owners, the

September 9, 2013

Texas Business Report: Save the Buffalo

A new bill that went into effect making it illegal to shoot stray bison could save ranchers thousands of dollars.

August 30, 2013

Texas Business Report: Tan Ban Begins

A new law goes into effect on Sunday prohibiting Texans under the age of eighteen from tanning. Salons oppose the new legislation, and one scientific advisors says, “If you’re going to tell people sunshine is bad for them, you may as well tell them air is harmful.”

August 16, 2013

Texas Business Report: A New Wind Farm for Amarillo

Construction is underway on a new wind farm at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex Plant near Amarillo. When completed the plant will be the largest federally owned wind farm in the U.S.

July 12, 2013

Texas Business Report: Funding the Most Expensive College Stadium Ever

While Houston boasts the nation's leading export market and one particularly pesky debt collection agency incurs its own $3.2 million fine.

June 28, 2013

Texas Business Report: West Foot Forward

The city of West filed a lawsuit against the fertilizer plant that exploded there in April, Neiman Marcus plans to go public, Rick Santorum's Christian movie career, and more.

June 21, 2013

Texas Business Report: Men’s Warehouse Ousts Its Founder, “I Guarantee It” George Zimmer

The Houston-based says it has dismissed George Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. The company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to a men's retail empire.

June 14, 2013

Texas Business Report: The Merger Will Be Televised

Gannett Company bought Belo Corporation, the Dallas-based television media company, for $1.5 billion. This makes Gannett the third-largest local station owners in America, behind CBS and News Corp.

June 7, 2013

Texas Business Report: A Big Gulp For 7-Eleven

The convenience store chain, which has its U.S. headquarters in Dallas, plans to double the number of North American locations.

May 19, 2013

Texas Business Report: Texas May “Dominate the Drone Economy”

Texas is likely to become a top state for unmanned drone aircraft production in the next two decades, according to a new analysis by Fortune.

May 10, 2013

Texas Business Report: Now Boarding For Mars

South Texas inches closer to becoming the home of the world’s first “commercial Cape Canaveral” after legislators pushed forward a bill that helps clear the way for construction of a spaceport on the Gulf Coast.

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May 3, 2013

Texas Business Report: Transformers to Invade Texas

Scenes for Transformers 4 will be filmed in Central Texas, bringing millions to the local economy.

April 26, 2013

Texas Business Report: The Quick Death and Revival of the Lottery

Did you know lawmakers killed the state lottery this week? But no need to rush out and buy a roll of scratch-offs; legislators reconvened and approved a measure to keep the Texas Lottery Commission another decade.

April 12, 2013

Texas Business Report: It’s Expensive to Die in Houston

Houston has some of highest funeral costs, Tesla Motors wants to sell electric cars directly to customers, J.C. Penney's embattled CEO was fired, and more.

April 5, 2013

Texas Business Report: Cable Companies v. Satellite Providers

Could new legislation make cable more appealing than satellite television?

March 29, 2013

Texas Business Report: Lege Your Bets

Some think the state should lessen its 14 percent tax on mixed drinks for bars that present live music more than four times a week.

March 22, 2013

Texas Business Report: Beer Brewers Bristle Over Bills

Proposed legislation would limit microbreweries' ability to distribute their product.

March 8, 2013

Texas Business Report: Is Martha Stewart Cheating on Macy’s with J.C. Penney?

Macy's thought they were exclusive.

March 1, 2013

Texas Business Report: Four Texas Cities Considered for 2024 Olympics

Plus, floundering J.C. Penney hired Sergio Zyman, the man who introduced one of Coca-Cola's most successful products (Diet Coke)—and one of its least successful (New Coke).

February 15, 2013

Texas Business Report: What the American-US Airways Merger Means

Some analysts predict the deal could be bad news for leisure travelers, especially those in smaller markets.

February 8, 2013

Texas Business Report: Film Fund May Be Slashed

Tightening the budget means the Lege may reduce film incentive spending by nearly $30 million, a decision that could end up costing millions in economic impact.