By Todd Short, COO – YTEXAS
May 23, 2018
The 5th annual YTEXAS Relo Awards Gala is set for Friday, Sept 28th at the Ritz Carlton-Dallas. Tickets and corporate tables will be available for purchase on Tuesday, May 29th at reloawards.com.
Today, YTEXAS announced that over 100 companies were nominated to be named to the “2018 YTEXAS Featured 50,” the prestigious list recognizing and ranking 50 Texas corporate headquarters relocations that have made significant impact to the community, commerce and culture in the state.
The featured 50 is inclusive of companies who have made a headquarters relocation into Texas over the previous 5 years. The companies named to the 2018 YTEXAS Featured 50 will be announced on September 1, 2018. The ranking of the Featured 50 will be revealed at the 2018 YTEXAS RēLO AWARDS Gala.
In addition, YTEXAS will bestow individual corporate awards for Innovation, All-In for Texas, and Gamechanger.
The black-tie event is attended by chief executives and guests from the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio regions. Prior year attendees included prominent Texas executives such as Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota, Harry LaRosiliere, Mayor of Plano, Ralph Hawkins, Chairman Emeritus of HKS, Joel Allison (former CEO of Baylor Scott & White), Robbie Briggs, CEO of Briggs Freeman Sothebys, David Pace, CEO of Jamba Juice, Masato Yoshikawa, CEO of Kubota, Hugh Forrest, Director of SXSW Interactive and Nancy Richardson, CEO of SAS Shoes.
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2018 YTEXAS Featured 50 Nominees
| Company | From | To |
| Accudyne | Windsor Locks | Dallas |
| Active Network | San Diego | Dallas |
| American Midstream Partners | Denver | Houston |
| Ameriflight | Burbank | Dallas |
| Anthem Vault | Las Vegas | Austin |
| Aquilon Energy Services | Chicago | Houston |
| Aravive Biologics Inc (rebranded from Ruga Corp) | San Francisco | Houston |
| Army Futures Command | *New | Austin |
| Basis Technologies | Vancouver | Addison |
| BioSig Technologies | Los Angeles | Austin |
| Blucora | Bellevue | Irving |
| Boeing Global Services | *New | Plano |
| Calcomp Inc | Sante Fe Springs | Fort Worth |
| Channell Commercial Corp. | Temecula | Temecula |
| Chemi Nutra | White Bear Lake | Austin |
| Cipherloc | Las Vegas | Buda |
| Cinepolis | Los Angeles | Addison |
| Comparex USA | Raleigh | Dallas |
| CST Brands | Allentown | San Antonio |
| Curtana Pharmaceuticals | San Diego | Austin |
| CVE Technology Group | Riverdale | Allen |
| CytoBioScience (formerly Cytocentrics) | Germany | San Antonio |
| Digital Turbine | Los Angeles | Austin |
| Direct Energy | Toronto | Houston |
| DoubleA | Los Angeles | Austin |
| East West Furniture | Boston | Houston |
| Emerald Transformer | DeFuniak Springs | McKinney |
| Engineered Filtration | Manchester | San Marcos |
| Epicor Software Corp. | Dublin | Austin |
| FalconStor Software | New York | Austin |
| Farmer Bros. Coffee | Torrance | Northlake |
| Fashion Forms | Ventura | Austin |
| Firefly Space Systems | Hawthorne | Cedar Park |
| Forcepoint (formerly Websense) | San Diego | Austin |
| Freebirds World Burrito | Emeryville | Austin |
| GridLiance | Chicago | Irving |
| Grunt Style | Chicago | San Antonio |
| Healthcare Growth Partners | Chicago | Houston |
| Hilti | Tulsa | Plano |
| Hisun Motors | China | McKinney |
| Hyliion | Pittsburgh | Cedar Park |
| Imagine Communications | New York | Frisco |
| InsidersReferral.com | Santa Clara | Austin |
| ITW Global Brands | *New | Houston |
| Jacobs Engineering | Pasadena | Dallas |
| Jamba Juice | San Francisco | Frisco |
| JetSuite | Irvine | Dallas |
| Kaco New Energy | *New | San Antonio |
| KeenCorp | *New | Houston |
| Kubota Tractor Corporation | Torrance | Grapevine |
| La Moderna | *New | Cleburne |
| Lifelast | Vancouver (WA) | Pflugerville |
| LiveOps | Redwood City | Cedar Park |
| Lonza Houston | *New | Houston |
| Lu lu’s Desserts | Anaheim | San Antonio |
| MedeAnalytics | Emeryville | Richardson |
| Monkey Sports | Corona | Allen |
| Monolith Semiconductor | Ithaca | Round Rock |
| Neovia Logistics Services | Downers Grove | Las Colinas |
| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | New York | Houston |
| NGC Transmission | *New | Fort Worth |
| NTT Data | *New | Plano |
| Occidental Petroleum | Los Angeles | Houston |
| Oculus Health | Portsmouth | Irving |
| OKI Data Americas | Mount Laurel | Irving |
| Omnitracs | San Diego | Dallas |
| OpTic Gaming | Chicago | Dallas |
| Ottobock Healthcare | Minneapolis | Austin |
| Outdoorsy | San Francisco | Austin |
| Pei Wei | Scottsdale | Irving |
| PGA | Palm Beach Gardens | Frisco |
| PowerbyProxi | Auckland | Austin |
| PowerSecure Lighting | Stamford | Frisco |
| ProjectManager.com | Auckland | Austin |
| Pyrrho Capital Management Group (Acquired) | New York | Dallas |
| Quantum Materials Corp. | Kingston | San Marcos |
| R2 Sonic | Santa Barbara | Austin |
| Radiation Detection Co. | Gilroy | Georgetown |
| Rank & Style | New York | Austin |
| Resignation Media | Los Angeles | Austin |
| Rev-Ignition | Ontario | San Antonio |
| Ricebran Technologie | Scottsdale | The Woodlands |
| Rochester Rattlers | Rochester | Frisco |
| SafeGuard World International | Cheshire | Austin |
| Saudi Basic Industries Corp | Pittsfield | Houston |
| Shopgate | CA | Austin |
| Signature Systems Group | New York | Flower Mound |
| Smoothie King | Metairie | Dallas |
| SoftServe | Fort Myers | Austin |
| Softtek | Atlanta | Addison |
| SoLiD Americas | Sunnyvale | Plano |
| Speachme Inc | France | Austin |
| Speed Commerce (fka Navarre) | New Hope | Richardson |
| Steward Healthcare | Boston | Dallas |
| Taleris | *New | Irving |
| TapImmune | Jacksonville | Houston |
| Thermasol | Simi Valley | Round Rock |
| Tomkins Tomcar | Andrews | Dripping Springs |
| Toyota | Torrance | Plano |
| Trend Micro | Cupertino | Irving |
| United Scientific Group | US HQ | Plano |
| Viridis Learning | New York | Austin |
| Veridia Diagonostics | CA | Round Rock |
| ViZn Energy Systems | Columbia Falls | Austin |
| Volex | Santa Clara | Austin |
| Voltabox of Texas | Germany | Cedar Park |
| Waste Connections | Sacramento | Woodlands |
