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Charles Butt: H-E-B
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The Wharton — and Harvard — trained Charles Butt, head since 1971, carries on his family’s tradition of innovation. H-E-B introduced air conditioned stores in balmy south Texas in the 1940s, a frozen food section and its own brands. Later it opened “supermarkets” that brought together a fish market, butcher shop, pharmacy and bakery.
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Charles C. Butt serves food on Christmas Eve 1998 at H-E-B's Feast of Sharing. The annual effort provides more than 200,000 meals at dozens of dinners throughout Texas and Mexico. H-E-B has been committed to helping the needy since it opened its doors.
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Texans for Advancement of Medical Research (TAMR) on Wednesday praised the generous gift of $1 million by Charles Butt, President of H-E-B, to the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM). Butt's gift, combined with H-E-B's $1 million contribution in 2002, was earmarked to help create a new Research Center for Metabolic Diseases at IMM.
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Charles, Howard Sr.’s youngest son, is a modern art collector who in 2006 gave $1 million to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Under his leadership, H-E-B contributes five percent of its pre-tax earnings to charity, a practice the family started in the 1930s.
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