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Centex Corporation
Centex found in 1950 is a Dallas based company. It is one of the country's leading home construction companies. Centex has its operations in most of the major U.S. markets in about twenty five states and has till now constructed more than thirty five homes in United States in the most recent financial year that ended on March 31, 2007.
Apart from its home construction operations, Centex's related business work also includes providing mortgage, title as well as insurance services along with integrated pest defense system providing services. These side businesses help in providing financial as well as operational support to the company's main home building process and they are leaders in their own industries. Centex is ranked as No. 1 in its industry on FORTUNE magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies."
Operations
Home Building
Centex's Home construction operation has been consistently ranking amongst the top and biggest single family, multi-market home builders in the US. In fact according to Professional Builder magazine, Centex is the one and only company that has ranked amongst the Top Ten United States home builders for more than forty consecutive years.
Mortgage
CTX Mortgage Company, which is one of the country’s major retail mortgage instigators, has more than two hundred offices and has license to carry on its business in forty-six states along with the District of Columbia. CTX Mortgage offers a variety of loans including the conventional loan, FHA/VA, conforming loan, jumbo loan and specialty loan. CTX Mortgage is responsible for almost 14 billion dollar worth of loans in financial year 2007.
Title and Insurance
The company’s Title and Insurance operations are providing countrywide residential as well as commercial title insurance plus settlement services that includes low-priced property reports and evaluation products. Centex Insurance has offered homeowners’ insurance to more than about 100,000 customers all over the nation.
Apart from homeowners insurance and auto insurance it provides some other policies like the Condominium Insurance for the coverage which you can buy to protect your property like furniture, appliances, clothing, audio and visual equipment, etc. from the risk of loss due to Fire, water, Smoke, or Theft. Other policies include flood insurance for homes in Flood Hazard Areas for low-cost coverage, Renters Insurance, Earthquake Insurance, Jewelry, Furs, and Fine Arts that provides adequate coverage for high cost personal property goods like jewelry, fine arts, furs, silverware, etc. and Umbrella Coverage
Home Services
The Home Team Pest Defense of the company is the nation's largest pest management service to new home builders. Apart from the usual termite treatment and pest control services, the Home Team also offers the modern Taexx which is a built-in pest control system that gets installed during your new home building.
Community Services
Centex provides both financial as well as volunteer support to a wide range of causes by through many nonprofit organizations all over the country. This also includes the company’s national relationships with The Conservation Fund and the Habitat for Humanity, as well as monetary and voluntary support for many local organizations amongst those communities where Centex has its business. The national relationships are managed by the company’s corporate staff, whereas the local aids are managed by the local operations leaders. Centex donates greater than 5 million dollar overall, per year apart from thousands hours of volunteer time to several nonprofit organizations. Its various programs for community services include, Habitat for Humanity, Land Legacy Fund, Giving in Dallas and Hearts & Hammers.
Awards and Recognition
Centex ranks No. 153 on the FORTUNE 500 list of America’s largest corporations, according to revenue generated. It was also named as "America’s most admired company" in the industry of home building by Fortune magazine in more or less all of 65 categories like innovative, management, talent of employees, social responsibility etc. According to Chief Executive Magazine, Centex Corporation was amongst the top 20 companies ranked for developing leaders. It was on 14th position besides companies like Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Citigroup and Pfizer. It bagged the ‘Distinguished Service Award by the National Association of Home Builders’ for contributing towards advancement of construction education in 2001, the ‘Habitat for Humanity "Cornerstone" Award’ for being one of HHI's most noteworthy supporters, in the year 2003, ‘Leader in Conservation Award’ by the Nature Conservancy, in 2002, ‘Conservation Leadership Award’, awarded by The Nature Conservancy of Texas' Conservation Council in 2000. It was also ranked as the ‘Professional Builder magazine's Top 10 Home Builders’ among the nation's top 10 home builders, each year since 1968.
Languages
English
Address
- 2728 N. Harwood, PO Box 199000
- Dallas TX 75219 US
Additional Information
Related Domains
External Links
- Stock: CTX
- Alexa: CentEx.com
