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Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies


Greater St. Louis is home to 21 Fortune 1000 companies, of which 9 are in the Fortune 500.

Company Rank Revenues
($ Millions)
Express Scripts Holding 60 46,128.3
Emerson Electric 120 24,234.0
Monsanto Company 224 11,822.0
Reinsurance Group of America 289 8,829.5
Peabody Energy 316 8,096.0
Ameren 340 7,531.0
Charter Communications 351 7,204.0
Graybar Electric 451 5,374.8
Centene 453 5,340.6
Ralcorp Holdings 506 4,741.0
Energizer Holdings 510 4,645.7
Jones Financial 516 4,577.5
Arch Coal 545 4,285.9
MEMC Electronic Materials 753 2,715.5
Brown Shoe Company, Inc. 772 2,602.5
Sigma-Aldrich 792 2,505.0
Patriot Coal 812 2,402.5
Solutia 896 2,097.0
Belden 929 1,982.0
Olin 936 1,961.1
Panera Bread 971 1,822.0

Source: "Fortune 500," Fortune, 2012.  


Forbes "America's Largest Private Companies"
Company Rank
Enterprise Rent-A-Car 15
Graybar Electric 69
Apex Oil 81
Edward Jones 83
World Wide Technology 140
Schnuck Markets Inc. 165
McCarthy Holdings 178

Source: Forbes, 2011.

 
Five St. Louis firms — Edward Jones, JM Family Enterprises, Scottrade, World Wide Technology, and Build-A-Bear Workshop — made Fortune magazine's 2012 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.  Among America's Best Small Companies, Forbes ranked FutureFuel seventeenth best company.

Additional ratings and rankings of companies in the St. Louis region can be viewed here.



 
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