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    Profiles of Innovation

    The entrepreneurs of Community Cloth are knitting a better future

    Clifford Pugh
    Aug 29, 2011 | 10:45 pm
    The entrepreneurs of Community Cloth are knitting a better future
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    Entrepreneurship in Houston takes all on sorts of dimensions. At The Community Cloth, a nonprofit micro-enterprise program, refugees from Burma, Sudan, Iraq and other countries strive to become self-supporting by making and selling hand-crafted items.

    "I consider myself a social entrepreneur, meaning I'm trying to utilize entrepreneurship skills, concepts and spirit to be able to help the greater community," says co-founder Quynh-Anh McMahan. "So although there's not a profit at the end of the day for pursing work like The Community Cloth, there's definitely a social profit."

    About two years ago, McMahan and a group of volunteers spearheaded a meeting of refugees and service providers that came up with the idea of the micro-enterprise to help them become self-sufficient.

    "The ladies are taught basic business skills as well as product development," says co-founder Roxanne McCauley Paiva. "We do this by taking them shopping to the Galleria where they are able to see the latest trends and styles that are coming up for this season. We invite volunteers who know how to knit and crochet to teach different techniques. We have a year-and-a-half worth of sales under our belt to see what the market is looking for."

    Handmade indigenous items like woven bags, knitted scarves and embroidered linens are sold at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Kuhl-Linscomb, Brazos Bookstore and at in-home Tupperware-style parties where the artisans tell their stories, which has a special resonance to McMahan, whose family fled Vietnam and settled in America.

    "We personally knew and experienced the struggles of escaping a war, coming to a new land and starting over. That's why I have developed such a heart for working with this community. I like sharing my story with the women that we work with," she says.

    In this continuing series, Profiles of Innovation, Paiva and McMahan tell videographers Douglas Newman and John Carrithers about their passion for the work of The Community Cloth and why it is making a difference.

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    Houston company ranks No. 13 worldwide on new Forbes Global 2000 list

    John Egan
    Jun 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm
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    More than 60 Texas-based companies appear on Forbes’ 2025 list of the world’s 2,000 biggest publicly traded companies, and nearly half come from Houston.

    Among Texas companies whose stock is publicly traded, Spring-based ExxonMobil is the highest-ranked at No. 13 globally.

    Rounding out Texas’ top five are Houston-based Chevron (No. 30 globally), Dallas-based AT&T (No. 35 globally), Austin-based Oracle (No. 66 globally), and Austin-based Tesla (No. 69 globally).

    Ranking first in the world is New York City-based J.P. Morgan Chase.

    Forbes compiled this year’s Global 2000 list using data from FactSet Research to analyze the biggest public companies based on four metrics: sales, profit, assets, and market value.

    “The annual Forbes Global 2000 list features the companies shaping today’s global markets and moving them worldwide,” said Hank Tucker, a staff writer at Forbes. “This year’s list showcases how despite a complex geopolitical landscape, globalization has continued to fuel decades of economic growth, with the world’s largest companies more than tripling in size across multiple measures in the past 20 years.”

    The U.S. topped the list with 612 companies, followed by China with 317 and Japan with 180.

    Here are the rest of the Texas-based companies in the Forbes 2000, grouped by the location of their headquarters and followed by their global ranking.

    Houston area

    • ConocoPhillips (No. 105)
    • Phillips 66 (No. 276)
    • SLB (No. 296)
    • EOG Resources (No. 297)
    • Occidental Petroleum (No. 302)
    • Waste Management (No. 351)
    • Kinder Morgan (No. 370)
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (No. 379)
    • Baker Hughes (No. 403)
    • Cheniere Energy (No. 415)
    • Corebridge Financial (No. 424)
    • Sysco (No. 448)
    • Halliburton (No. 641)
    • Targa Resources (No. 651)
    • NRG Energy (No. 667)
    • Quanta Services (No. 722)
    • CenterPoint Energy (No. 783)
    • Coterra Energy (No. 1,138)
    • Crown Castle International (No. 1,146)
    • Westlake Corp. (No. 1,199)
    • APA Corp. (No. 1,467)
    • Comfort Systems USA (No. 1,629)
    • Group 1 Automotive (No. 1,653)
    • Talen Energy (No. 1,854)
    • Prosperity Bancshares (No. 1,855)
    • NOV (No. 1,980)

    Austin area

    • Dell Technologies (No. 183)
    • Flex (No. 887)
    • Digital Realty Trust (No. 1,063)
    • CrowdStrike (No. 1,490)

    Dallas-Fort Worth

    • Caterpillar (No. 118)
    • Charles Schwab (No. 124)
    • McKesson (No. 195)
    • D.R. Horton (No. 365)
    • Texas Instruments (No. 374)
    • Vistra Energy (No. 437)
    • CBRE (No. 582)
    • Kimberly-Clark (No. 639)
    • Tenet Healthcare (No. 691)
    • American Airlines (No. 834)
    • Southwest Airlines (No. 844)
    • Atmos Energy (No. 1,025)
    • Builders FirstSource (No. 1,039)
    • Copart (No. 1,062)
    • Fluor (No. 1,153)
    • Jacobs Solutions (1,232)
    • Globe Life (1,285)
    • AECOM (No. 1,371)
    • Lennox International (No. 1,486)
    • HF Sinclair (No. 1,532)
    • Invitation Homes (No. 1,603)
    • Celanese (No. 1,845)
    • Tyler Technologies (No. 1,942)

    San Antonio

    • Valero Energy (No. 397)
    • Cullen/Frost Bankers (No. 1,560)

    Midland

    • Diamondback Energy (No. 471)
    • Permian Resources (No. 1,762)
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