Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies
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Greater St. Louis is home to 21 Fortune 1000 companies, of which eight are in the Fortune 500. | | Company | Rank | Revenues ($ Millions) | | Emerson Electric | 94 | 25,281.0 | | Express Scripts, Inc. | 115 | 22,022.7 | | Monsanto Company | 235 | 11,579.0 | | Ameren Corporation | 327 | 7,839.0 | | Peabody Energy | 353 | 7,074.0 | | Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (1) | 356 | 7,042.0 | | Charter Communications | 385 | 6,479.0 | | Graybar Electric | 439 | 5,400.2 | | Energizer Holdings, Inc. | 522 | 4,331.0 | | Solutia, Inc. | 565 | 3,890.0 | | Jones Financial | 568 | 3,859.0 | | Centene Corp. | 609 | 3,515.2 | | Arch Coal, Inc. | 692 | 2,983.8 | | Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. | 713 | 2,824.4 | | Brown Shoe Company, Inc. | 828 | 2,276.4 | | Laclede Group | 829 | 2,274.4 | | Sigma-Aldrich | 842 | 2,200.7 | | Belden Inc. | 898 | 2,005.9 | | MEMC Electronic Materials | 899 | 2,004.5 | | Olin Corp. | 976 | 1764.5 | | Furniture Brands International, Inc. | 982 | 1,758.5 | Source: "Fortune 500," Fortune, May 4, 2009. Notes: (1) Dual headquarters in St. Louis and Chicago. |
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| Forbes "America's Largest Private Companies" | | Company | Rank | | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | 21 | | Graybar Electric | 63 | | Edward Jones | 94 | | McCarthy Building Cos. | 143 | | Schnuck Markets Inc. | 170 | | World Wide Technology Inc. | 173 | | UniGroup | 209 | | Apex Oil Co. | 256 | | Maritz Inc. | 314 | | Barry-Wehmiller Companies | 385 | | Alberici | 400 | | Kellwood | 437 | Source: Forbes, Nov. 3, 2008. |
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Additional top privately-held companies based in the St. Louis region include Center Oil Co., Harbour Group, CCA Global Partners and Prairie Farms, Inc. And more are on the way: Three St. Louis firms — LaBarge Inc., TALX Corp., and Reliv International Inc. — made Fortune Small Business magazine’s 2006 list of the top 100 fastest-growing small public companies. Two St. Louis-based companies - Cass Information Systems and ESCO Technologies - made Forbes' list of "The 200 Best Small Companies" in the United States for 2008.
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