The John Paul Mitchell Systems headquarters and product distribution center will be coming to a small Texas town.

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WILMER, Texas — California-based John Paul Mitchell Systems (JPMS) – the parent company for Paul Mitchell, Tea Tree, and Neuro – is expanding to North Texas with a new corporate headquarters and product distribution center in southern Dallas County, according to a press release from Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.

JPMS is one of the world’s leading professional hair care brands, distributing its products to over 30 countries. This project will create 80 new jobs and more than $12 million in capital investment, according to Abbott’s office. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $654,000 has been extended to JPMS, and the company has been offered an $8,000 Veteran Created Job Bonus.

“Texas is the headquarters of headquarters,” said Gov. Abbott. “This $12 million investment by John Paul Mitchell Systems to expand their corporate headquarters to Texas and establish a new global product distribution center in Wilmer will create 80 new good-paying jobs for hardworking Texans. With our skilled and growing workforce, leading position in U.S. and global markets, and the strongest pro-growth economic policies in America, we will continue to attract more headquarters and create more jobs across our great state.”

The corporate headquarters for JPMS will be located in Wilmer, a small Texas town of 6,385 in southern Dallas County.

“The City of Wilmer is proud to welcome John Paul Mitchell Systems to our growing business community,” said Wilmer Mayor Sheila Petta. “This investment brings not only new jobs and economic development but also increased visibility to Wilmer as a destination for major industry. We are excited about the opportunities this partnership creates for our residents and look forward to the positive impact it will have on our local economy and future growth.”

John Paul Mitchell Systems co-founder John Paul DeJoria, who has been a resident of Austin for 25 years, thanked Abbott for their “warm welcome and support.”

G raze Robotics recently celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters in Plano, Texas. The move is milestone in the autonomous commercial landscaping solutions company’s growth as it continues to expand its presence and support its rapidly growing customer base across Texas and beyond.

Graze Robotics will be housed in the new L2 Companies facility, which has been built to accommodate L2 Companies’ expanding portfolio of businesses. L2 Companies, led by Logan Fahey Franz and Luke Franz, invests in and manages a diverse group of companies, including green industry service-based businesses and cutting-edge technology enterprises. The facility will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration, reinforcing L2’s commitment to fostering advancements in automation and sustainable solutions.

“Texas has been at the heart of our growth story, and we are thrilled to officially establish our headquarters in Plano,” said Logan Fahey, CEO of Graze Robotics. “With the largest share of our customer base located in Texas — spanning solar farms, airports, municipalities, and golf courses — this move allows us to be closer to the industries we serve and continue driving innovation in autonomous commercial landscaping. Being part of the L2 Companies facility also aligns with our vision of collaboration and industry advancement.”

Graze Robotics has rapidly become a leader in sustainable, AI-driven robotic mowing and landscaping solutions, revolutionizing the way large-scale properties maintain their grounds. The new headquarters will serve as the central hub for innovation, customer support, and operational excellence, strengthening the company’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge automation solutions that enhance efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability. It will also host training sessions and hands-on showcases for customers looking to integrate autonomous solutions into their operations.

“We are excited to deepen our roots in Texas and continue our mission to transform the commercial landscaping industry,” added Fahey. “This is just the beginning of a new chapter for Graze Robotics, and we look forward to building a strong future alongside our customers, partners, and the Plano community.”

Paris Baguette Brings First North American Manufacturing Plant To Texas

Bakery café franchise Paris Baguette has announced a major milestone in its North American expansion with the construction of its first-ever bakery manufacturing plant in Burleson, TX. The investment is a key step in strengthening Paris Baguette’s supply chain as the brand continues its aggressive growth across the U.S. and Canada. The facility is set to break ground this summer, with completion expected in 2027.

The 260,000-square-foot plant will serve as a vital hub for supplying Paris Baguette’s growing network of cafés across North and Central America. With an investment of $160 million from Paris Baguette North America, the project is also receiving $14 million in support from local and state authorities, including $10 million from Burleson and Johnson County governments and tax benefits from Texas state officials. The plant will create 450 new jobs, making Paris Baguette North America one of the top five employers in the county.

Paris Baguette recently unveiled a collection of handcrafted cakes and chocolate-covered strawberry treats for Valentine’s Day.

“This expansion marks a significant step forward in our mission to bring the Paris Baguette experience to even more communities,” said Darren Tipton, CEO of Paris Baguette. “With this new facility, we are not only reinforcing our supply chain but also ensuring that we can continue offering the best in class, high-quality baked goods to our growing base of loyal guests. We are incredibly grateful for the support of Burleson, Johnson County and the state of Texas in making this vision a reality.”

Paris Baguette is poised for a groundbreaking 2025, with plans to award 200 more franchises and open over 100 new cafés, including new markets like Connecticut, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Indiana, Idaho, Delaware, Guam and Puerto Rico. The brand aims to surpass 300 cafés in North America this year.

Coast Packing Breaks Ground In Amarillo

Coast Packing Company, a 103-year-old, fourth-generation family-owned and operated business based in Vernon, California, recently broke ground for its state-of-the-art Edible Fats and Oils Refinery and Packaging Facility in Amarillo, TX. This expansion project will allow the company to produce high quality animal fat shortenings, including lard and beef tallow, in the U.S.

“This groundbreaking marks not just the start of construction, but the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Coast Packing Company and the Amarillo community,” said Eric R. Gustafson, CEO of Coast Packing Company. “For over a century, Coast has been committed to quality, innovation, and tradition in the food industry. Our new state-of-the-art facility in Amarillo will allow us to continue leading the industry in animal fat shortenings while creating new opportunities for local families, supporting economic growth, and reinforcing our commitment to sustainability. We are honored to partner with this vibrant community and look forward to many successful years ahead.”

Digital rendering of Coast Packing Company’s new Edible Oils Refinery and Packaging Facility. (PRNewsfoto/Coast Packing Company)

Coast Packing Company breaks ground on its new Amarillo facility. (PRNewsfoto/Coast Packing Company)

“Coast’s new facility will create new opportunities for our workforce, contribute to economic growth and further solidify Amarillo’s reputation as a prime location for business expansion,” said Mayor Cole Stanley, City of Amarillo. “We are thrilled to welcome Coast Packing Company to Amarillo. Their commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability aligns perfectly with the values of our community.”

Coast Packing Company’s new facility is slated to open in Summer 2026, and the project is expected to create 30 new jobs initially, with plans to expand to 60 people in the coming years. Additionally, the facility will modernize operations, enhance efficiency, and reinforce Coast Packing’s position as the leading supplier of animal fat shortenings in the U.S. The company is committed to sustainability, and the new facility will integrate advanced technology to ensure efficient operations and environmentally responsible practices.

The facility, designed and built in partnership with Food Tech, Inc., a Boston-based leader in food and beverage facility construction, will include several cutting-edge components. The Refinery Building will be a 10,000-square-foot, four-level steel structure with insulated panels reaching 80 feet in height, dedicated to refining edible fats and oils. The Boiler House will be constructed of CMU Block and the Tank Farm will feature twelve 30-foot-tall carbon steel tanks for storing raw materials delivered via a new rail siding. The Packaging and Warehouse Building will span 36,000 square feet and house packing operations, a warehouse, and office space. This building will be constructed with tilt-up concrete walls and designed to meet the highest safety and sanitary standards.

Realtor.com® Picks Austin For New HQ

Online real estate services provider Realtor.com® will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, TX from Santa Clara, CA. With the move, the company has made Austin its top hiring location and has committed to the long-term growth of its team and office footprint in Texas.

Over the last few years, Realtor.com has invested in its Austin location through hiring, supporting the local community through numerous charitable events, and developing new talent through its Austin-based internship program. The company plans to invest in further talent development in its headquarters.

Realtor.com’s new headquarters located in East Austin. (Photo: Realtor.com)

Robert Thomson, CEO, News Corp.; Texas Governor Abbott; and Damian Eales, CEO, Realtor.com® celebrated the announcement of Realtor.com®’s headquarters in Austin over dinner at the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo: Realtor.com)

“Austin and Texas offer a strong and growing talent pool, a powerhouse economy with unparalleled housing growth, affordability of living only matched by its aspirational lifestyle, expansive tech and academic communities, and a dynamic and vibrant city at the heart of the thriving state of Texas. There is no better place for us to call home,” said Damian Eales, CEO, Realtor.com. “Over the coming years we are committed to growing our presence by hiring great local talent and by bringing new recruits to Texas.”

“Basing Realtor.com in Texas puts our company at the heart of innovation and inspiration at a moment of national economic renaissance for America,” remarked Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp, parent company of Realtor.com. “We are proud to be housed in a state which understands the crucial role played by business in providing opportunities for personal growth, professional success and community achievement. Our investment in Austin is a downpayment on The American Dream.”

“We are proud to welcome Realtor.com®’s corporate headquarters to Austin as they expand their presence in Texas, along with our state’s growing housing market,” said Governor Greg Abbott. “Thanks to our unmatched business environment, no corporate or personal income taxes, and our highly skilled, young, and diverse workforce, Texas is the right place for Realtor.com. Companies like Realtor.com found a home where they have the freedom to grow their business and better serve their employees and customers. Working together, we will provide Realtor.com and their employees the freedom to thrive in our great state.”

February 24, 2025

PRESS RELEASE

Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years

Teams and facilities to expand in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington

Plans include a new factory in Texas, doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a manufacturing academy, and accelerated investments in AI and silicon engineering

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. This new pledge builds on Apple’s long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing, and will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country.

“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing. And we’ll keep working with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”

As part of this package of U.S. investments, Apple and partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps users write, express themselves, and get things done. Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, create an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers, and grow its research and development investments in the U.S. to support cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering.

The $500 billion commitment includes Apple’s work with thousands of suppliers across all 50 states, direct employment, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ productions in 20 states. Apple remains one of the largest U.S. taxpayers, having paid more than $75 billion in U.S. taxes over the past five years, including $19 billion in 2024 alone.

Today, Apple supports more than 2.9 million jobs across the country through direct employment, work with U.S.-based suppliers and manufacturers, and developer jobs in the thriving iOS app economy.

Opening a New Manufacturing Facility in Houston

As part of its new U.S. investments, Apple will work with manufacturing partners to begin production of servers in Houston later this year. A 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility, slated to open in 2026, will create thousands of jobs.

Previously manufactured outside the U.S., the servers that will soon be assembled in Houston play a key role in powering Apple Intelligence, and are the foundation of Private Cloud Compute, which combines powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture ever deployed at scale for AI cloud computing. The servers bring together years of R&D by Apple engineers, and deliver the industry-leading security and performance of Apple silicon to the data center.

Teams at Apple designed the servers to be incredibly energy efficient, reducing the energy demands of Apple data centers — which already run on 100 percent renewable energy. As Apple brings Apple Intelligence to customers across the U.S., it also plans to continue expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.

Doubling Apple’s U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund

As part of this new investment, Apple is doubling its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which was created in 2017 to support world-class innovation and high-skilled manufacturing jobs across America. The growing commitment will increase the fund from $5 billion to $10 billion, focused on promoting advanced manufacturing and skills development throughout the country.

The fund’s expansion includes a multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple to produce advanced silicon in TSMC’s Fab 21 facility in Arizona. Apple is the largest customer at this state-of-the-art facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers to manufacture the chips in the United States. Mass production of Apple chips began last month.

Silicon used by Apple is designed to bring Apple users incredible features, performance, and power efficiency across their devices. Apple’s suppliers already manufacture silicon in 24 factories across 12 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah. The company’s investments in the sector help create thousands of high-paying jobs across the country at U.S. companies like Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Skyworks, and Qorvo.

To date, Apple’s U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund has supported projects in 13 states — including Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Indiana — that have helped build local businesses, train workers, and create a wide range of innovative manufacturing processes and materials for Apple products.

Growing R&D Investments Across the U.S.

Apple continues to expand its R&D across the U.S. In the past five years, Apple has nearly doubled its U.S.-based advanced R&D spend, and it will continue to accelerate its growth.

Recently, Apple announced the newest addition to its iPhone lineup, iPhone 16e. iPhone 16e delivers fast, smooth performance and breakthrough battery life, thanks to the industry-leading efficiency of the A18 chip and the new Apple C1 — the first cellular modem designed by Apple, and the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone. Apple C1 adds a new chapter to the story of Apple silicon and is the result of years of R&D investment, bringing together the work of thousands of engineers. Apple C1 is the start of a long-term strategy that will allow Apple to innovate and optimize the modem system for additional Apple products.

In the next four years, Apple plans to hire around 20,000 people, of which the vast majority will be focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning. The expanded commitment includes significant investment in Apple’s R&D hubs across the country. This includes growing teams across the U.S. focused on areas including custom silicon, hardware engineering, software development, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Supporting American Businesses with a New Manufacturing Academy in Detroit

To help companies transition to advanced manufacturing, Apple will open the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit. Apple engineers, along with experts from top universities such as Michigan State, will consult with small- and medium-sized businesses on implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques. The academy will also offer free in-person and online courses, with a skills development curriculum that teaches workers vital skills like project management and manufacturing process optimization. The courses will help drive productivity, efficiency, and quality in companies’ supply chains.

Apple has long been committed to investing in education and skills development for American workers and students. That includes ongoing and expanding grant programs for organizations like 4-H, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and FIRST, which work closely with Apple in communities across the country to create free programming that helps young people learn vital skills like coding.

Apple’s support for the next generation of innovators also includes efforts like the company’s New Silicon Initiative, which prepares students for careers in hardware engineering and silicon chip design. Last year, this program expanded to students at Georgia Tech, and it now reaches students at eight schools across the country. Apple is continuing to expand the initiative, including a new collaboration with UCLA’s Center for Education of Microchip Designers (CEMiD) beginning this year.

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s more than 150,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth and to leaving the world better than we found it.

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North Texas keeps winning big on companies either moving from or expanding out of California.

Governor Greg Abbott has announced North Texas will be the new home of John Paul Mitchell Systems, a distributor of popular hair care products.

The company is expanding their corporate headquarters to a new site in Wilmer in southern Dallas County.

“Texas is the headquarters of headquarters,” Governor Abbott said in a statement Thursday. “This $12 million investment by John Paul Mitchell Systems to expand their corporate headquarters to Texas and establish a new global product distribution center in Wilmer will create 80 new good-paying jobs for hardworking Texans.”

A part of the deal is a grant from the Texas Enterprise Fund. The Fund is a grant made available to businesses that want to relocate or expand to Texas.

The company distributes products like Paul Mitchell, Tea Tree, and Neuro to over 30 countries.

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Dive Brief:

Tesla plans to invest nearly $200 million in a site near Houston where it will open a plant similar to its Lathrop, California megafactory, a company representative said to Waller County, Texas officials last week .

The county commissioners court approved two tax abatement agreements for Tesla on March 5. The automaker plans to spend $194 million on electrical and HVAC upgrades at the facility in a business park in Brookshire, Texas.

The automaker plans to spend $194 million on electrical and HVAC upgrades at the facility in a business park in Brookshire, Texas. “We’re really excited about this new facility,” Shiv Mysore, senior manager, engineering programs for Tesla said during the meeting , adding that the project planned for the Brookshire, Texas site “will be a replication of the same factory” the company operates in California.

Dive Insight:

Although Tesla is facing growing completion in the EV segment, the company remains focused on expanding its stationary energy storage business and expanding its domestic manufacturing footprint for batteries.

Through the second tax abatement awarded by county officials, Tesla intends to lease additional property in Brookshire where it plans to invest a total of $33 million for building improvements, a new heating and cooling system and to cover installation costs of distribution equipment.

Waller County officials did not disclose a timeline for Tesla’s expansion and the company did not respond to requests for comment from Automotive Dive. But county officials said the plant will employ as many 1,500 people, with at least 50 jobs paying more than $150,000 annually and the other positions offering salaries ranging between $50,000 and $100,000.

Tesla’s Brookshire operation is expected to mirror its Lathrop, California plant, which has capacity to produce 10,000 megapack battery units annually.

Expanding domestic production has become priority for automakers to mitigate tariffs by the Trump administration on imports from China, a major source of EV batteries.

Tesla and its competitors seek to capitlize on growing consumer demand for EVs. Cox Automotive in January projected EV sales will represent 10% of all U.S. vehicle sales in 2025.

Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 were the top selling EVs in the U.S. in 2024.