Fortune 500 - 2007 City Update

[c4smok]

*Metro numbers not in yet..
Cities:

City - State - *number of Forturne 500 Companies

New York New York - 45 +1
Houston Texas - 22 -1
Atlanta Georgia - 12 -2
Chicago Illinois - 11 +1
Dallas Texas - 11 0
Minneapolis Minnesota - 8 +1
Philadelphia Pennsylvania - 8 +1
Charlotte North Carolina - 7 0
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - 7 +1
St. Louis Missouri - 7 0
Cincinnati Ohio - 6 -1
Milwaukee Wisconsin - 6 0
Seattle Washington - 6 +1
Cleveland Ohio - 5 0
Columbus Ohio - 5 0
Fort Worth Texas - 5 +1
Los Angeles California - 5 +1
Omaha Nebraska - 5 0
Richmond Virginia - 5 -2
San Antonio Texas - 5 0
San Francisco California - 5 -1

States:
New York - 57
Texas - 56
California - 52
Illinois - 34
Ohio - 28
Pennsylvania - 25
New Jersey - 24
Michigan - 22
Minnesota - 20
Virginia - 17
Georgia - 15
North Carolina - 13
Florida - 12
Colorado - 12
Connecticut - 11
Massachusetts - 10
Washington - 10
Missouri - 10
Wisconsin - 9
Tennessee - 9
Kentucky - 6
Maryland - 6
Arkansas - 5
Indiana - 5
Nebraska - 5
Arizona - 4
Oklahoma - 4
Louisiana - 3
Idaho - 2
Nevada - 2
District of Columbia - 2
Rhode Island - 2
Utah - 1
Oregon - 1
South Carolina - 1
Alabama - 1
Maine - 1
Delaware - 1
Iowa - 1
Kansas - 1
Alaska - 0
Wyoming - 0
Vermont - 0
West Virginia - 0
South Dakota - 0
New Mexico - 0
Hawaii - 0
North Dakota - 0
Montana - 0
Mississippi - 0
New Hampshire - 0

[c4smok]

2006 cities list

New York New York 44
Houston Texas 23
Atlanta Georgia 14
Dallas Texas 11
Chicago Illinois 10
Charlotte North Carolina 7
Cincinnati Ohio 7
Minneapolis Minnesota 7
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 7
Richmond Virginia 7
St. Louis Missouri 7
Milwaukee Wisconsin 6
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 6
San Francisco California 6
Cleveland Ohio 5
Columbus Ohio 5
Denver Colorado 5
Omaha Nebraska 5
San Antonio Texas 5
Seattle Washington 5


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/maps/geocode.html?jump=3 <-- interactive Map

[Peanuthead]

I am really suprised that Texas has more Fortune 500 companies than California and are about to surpass New York!

[EuphoricOctopus]

Detroit - 2 | Metro - 15 (-1 Comerica. You should +1 Dallas, though)

All but something like 2 or 3 in Houston are oil or energy related companies. I smell Detroit 2.0 in a few decades. Take that as you will, I'm not trying to start an argument about anything.

[Crawford]

I am really suprised that Texas has more Fortune 500 companies than California and are about to surpass New York!

I am surprised that you would be able to predict the future.

Note that Houston lost a F500 last year.

[c4smok]

ConocoPhillips 5 172,451.0 Houston
Marathon Oil 30 60,643.0 Houston
Sysco 65 32,628.4 Houston (Not Energy)
Halliburton 100 22,576.0 Houston
Plains All Amer. Pipeline 103 22,444.4 Houston
* Enterprise GP Holdings 177 13,991.0 Houston
Waste Management 181 13,363.0 Houston (Not Energy)
Continental Airlines 186 13,128.0 Houston (Not Energy)
* Kinder Morgan 201 12,208.0 Houston
Reliant Energy 229 10,985.4 Houston
TEPPCO Partners 259 9,612.2 Houston
CenterPoint Energy 270 9,319.0 Houston
Baker Hughes 278 9,034.1 Houston
Apache 293 8,288.8 Houston
Smith International 324 7,333.6 Houston
National Oilwell Varco 333 7,025.8 Houston
Enbridge Energy Partners 351 6,509.0 Houston
Group 1 Automotive 377 6,083.5 Houston (Not Energy)
El Paso 449 5,011.0 Houston
Frontier Oil 462 4,796.0 Houston
* BJ Services 495 4,367.9 Houston (Not Energy)

Houston F500... not sure the one we lost off the list =X

* are first year F500... I figure it was energy mergers..

[ColDayMan]

Metro numbers for Ohio:

Cincinnati - 10
Cleveland-Akron - 9
Columbus - 6
Toledo - 3
Dayton - 1
Canton - 1

[Reverberation]

Detroit - 2 | Metro - 15 (-1 Comerica. You should +1 Dallas, though)

All but something like 2 or 3 in Houston are oil or energy related companies. I smell Detroit 2.0 in a few decades. Take that as you will, I'm not trying to start an argument about anything.

While we use mostly fossil fuels now thus "energy" to many means "oil", many of these companies realize that future of oil is grim and are investing in other energy sources. IE Shell-Wind, Shell-Hydrogen, Solar Power, Ethanol, Carbon Capturing, etc. Also, as long as we use plastic, rubber, paint, make up, etc. we will always need to refine oil.

Unlike the auto industry losing customers to Japanese and European cars, Houston will be necessary not only as a major port and medicine center, but also as a major hub of the global energy industry. So I disagree that Houston will become Detroit part two.

[PhillyRising]

Woo Hoo to Philly and Pittsburgh both picking up one apiece! We ain't dead!
:upload_71700:

[Trae]

Detroit - 2 | Metro - 15 (-1 Comerica. You should +1 Dallas, though)

All but something like 2 or 3 in Houston are oil or energy related companies. I smell Detroit 2.0 in a few decades. Take that as you will, I'm not trying to start an argument about anything.

Houston will never become that. Oil may leave, but energy will always be there. Detroit is in a class of its own in the U.S., and always will be. Houston has the Port of Houston (sixth largest in the world), as well as the world's largest medical center.

[rds70]

Denver = 4, Denver Metro Area = All 12 of Colorado's F 500s.

[Avian001]

I realize your list does NOT currently include the metro rankings, which is odd because no one here honestly believes any single city ranking in nearly any category makes sense without the context of its metro area.

So I'll start with this. The Twin Cities ranks either 4 or 5 nationally. It's #2 in the Midwest after Chicago.

Minneapolis AND St. Paul are the headquarters of 19 F500 companies. MSP is one metro area by every standard, not two. And here are the companies:

Target
General Mills
Northwest Airlines
Best Buy
3M
Ameriprise
US Bancorp
Medtronic
Land O' Lakes
Mosaic
United Health Group
SuperValu
C.H. Robinson
Nash Finch
CHS
Travelers Co (St. Paul Travelers Insurance)
Ecolab
Xcel Energy
Thrivent Financial

[austin356]

While we use mostly fossil fuels now thus "energy" to many means "oil", many of these companies realize that future of oil is grim and are investing in other energy sources. IE Shell-Wind, Shell-Hydrogen, Solar Power, Ethanol, Carbon Capturing, etc. Also, as long as we use plastic, rubber, paint, make up, etc. we will always need to refine oil.

Unlike the auto industry losing customers to Japanese and European cars, Houston will be necessary not only as a major port and medicine center, but also as a major hub of the global energy industry. So I disagree that Houston will become Detroit part two.



Yes agree 100%. Houston is a world leader in biotech and medical research, and industries other than energy are providing most of the growth. Energy as % of Houston's economy has been steadily declining since the 80s boom/bust, and even weathered the late nineties energy prices quite well.

[austin356]

^^ Yes MN/SP is the most impressive out of all the metro areas. For just a few million people the metro is home to a bunch of top notch businesses.

I wish freakin Medtronic's stock will get off its ass though...... that :hell: :hell: me.

[Avian001]

^ I'm with you, brother.:) From my experience with employees at Medtronic, they are healthy, wealthy, and - best of all - wise. They won't give up their dominance in the medical devices field anytime soon.

[Hot Rod]

I wonder what are Seattle's?

Washington Mutual - downtown
Amazon.com - Beacon Hill
Starbucks - SODO
Nordstrom - downtown

are the only three I can think of.

Paccar and Costco are in Bellevue, Microsoft is in Redmond, Wayerhauser is in Federal Way. Boeing is in Downtown Chicago.

Does anybody know the other two? is Tully's a F500 company? Is Real.com?

Would those be the other two?

[Evergrey]

Woo Hoo to Philly and Pittsburgh both picking up one apiece! We ain't dead!
:upload_71700:

Pittsburgh will be dropping back down to 6 here in a couple months once Bank of New York devours Mellon Bank... our 2nd Fortune 500 loss to NYC in 2 years... Alcoa moved its HQ there last year because the new CEO didn't like my city. Our Fortune 500 gain came from Allegheny Technologies... which used to be a Fortune 500 awhile back... and was at 536 last year... but has now broken back into the elite 500.

[Geaux Tigers]

I am really suprised that Texas has more Fortune 500 companies than California and are about to surpass New York!

Texas has a much better business environment and a MUCH, MUCH lower cost of living. Couple that with no state income tax and there you have it.

Texas was actually #1 last year for all states.

[Avian001]

Texas has a much better business environment and a MUCH, MUCH lower cost of living. Couple that with no state income tax and there you have it.

Texas was actually #1 last year for all states.

Maybe a good business climate. But it's not a very good social one.

[NDtexan]

Maybe a good business climate. But it's not a very good social one.

You really need to expand on that social comment. That's way too vague of a statement to attach to a state of 25 million people. But you're probably from the North, so that makes sense.

And by the way, DFW has 25 F500 cos. including Dallas-bound Comerica.

[sprtsluvr8]

I heard Delta is the worst house on campus

"Vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous."



Maybe a good business climate. But it's not a very good social one.

Their finances are in the black but they can't throw a decent mixer.:cheers:

[Avian001]

You really need to expand on that social comment. That's way too vague of a statement to attach to a state of 25 million people. But you're probably from the North, so that makes sense.

And by the way, DFW has 25 F500 cos. including Dallas-bound Comerica.

I don't want to get into an argument. All I'm saying is that while Texas is a good place for business, the state still ranks at or near the bottom in many, many categories that compromise quality of life, in spite of the presence of some of the world's largest corporations. And it's due in part to the fact that there is no state income tax. Yes it works for business, but it affects quality of life issues. Believe me, I don't hate Texas at all. You wanted me to expand on the comment and I hesitate because I don't want to come across as a basher. This info comes from several studies, including a study commissioned by the state itself which found these serious problems:

* Texas flunks environmental protection standards

* Contents itself with educational mediocrity

* Spent billions on a huge penal system that has not delivered low crime rates

* Percentage of Uninsured Children: Ranks 1st

* Income Inequality Between the Rich and the Poor: Ranks 2nd

* Percentage of Population without Health Insurance: Ranks 1st

* Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores: 47th in US

* Percentage of Population over 25 with a High School Diploma: 50th in US

* Women's Voter Registration: 43rd in US

* Women's Voter Turnout: 49th in US

* Percentage of Eligible Voters that Vote: 44th in US

Additional conclusions state: "If Texas was a country, the Lone Star state would rank sixth dirtiest nation in the world when it comes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It’s a bigger emitter than the UK or Canada or Italy or France. Texas houses some of the nation’s dirtiest utilities and it emits more greenhouse gases from power production sources than any other state....Nearly two thirds of Texans live in areas that fail to meet federal air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

[sprtsluvr8]

No Texan left behind!

[Geaux Tigers]

^^That may all be true or an exageration, but in the immortal words of Dave Chapell, "I'm rich bitch".

[dimondpark]

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to 28 F500 companies.

4 Chevron
14 Hewlett Packard
18 McKesson
41 Wells Fargo
56 Safeway
62 Intel
77 Cisco Systems
121 Apple
144 Gap
167 Oracle
187 Sun Microsystems
196 PG&E
230 Sanmina-SCI
241 Google
243 Solectron
274 Applied Materials
289 First American Corp
344 Calpine
357 Yahoo
360 Synnex
383 eBay
387 Agilent Technologies
389 Charles Schwab
407 Advanced Micro Devices
415 Ross Stores
443 Longs Drugs
445 Franklin Resources
475 Clorox

[dimondpark]

Also,
The SF Bay Area is home to 74 publically traded companies with annual revenues of $1 billion+, 2nd only to The NYC Area.

[plinko]

Santa Barbara had 10 in 1990. Not a single one today. How's that for sustaining a healthy business climate? :koko:

[Paul in S.A TX]

San Antonio has 6 now with the addition of Nustar oil-Gas company.It use to have 7 I believe before a merger of two F500.

AT&T
Clear Channel Comunications
Valero Energy
Tesoro Energy
USAA
Nustar

[weatherguru18]

I don't want to get into an argument. All I'm saying is that while Texas is a good place for business, the state still ranks at or near the bottom in many, many categories that compromise quality of life, in spite of the presence of some of the world's largest corporations. And it's due in part to the fact that there is no state income tax. Yes it works for business, but it affects quality of life issues. Believe me, I don't hate Texas at all. You wanted me to expand on the comment and I hesitate because I don't want to come across as a basher. This info comes from several studies, including a study commissioned by the state itself which found these serious problems:

* Texas flunks environmental protection standards

* Contents itself with educational mediocrity

* Spent billions on a huge penal system that has not delivered low crime rates

* Percentage of Uninsured Children: Ranks 1st

* Income Inequality Between the Rich and the Poor: Ranks 2nd

* Percentage of Population without Health Insurance: Ranks 1st

* Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores: 47th in US

* Percentage of Population over 25 with a High School Diploma: 50th in US

* Women's Voter Registration: 43rd in US

* Women's Voter Turnout: 49th in US

* Percentage of Eligible Voters that Vote: 44th in US

Additional conclusions state: "If Texas was a country, the Lone Star state would rank sixth dirtiest nation in the world when it comes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It’s a bigger emitter than the UK or Canada or Italy or France. Texas houses some of the nation’s dirtiest utilities and it emits more greenhouse gases from power production sources than any other state....Nearly two thirds of Texans live in areas that fail to meet federal air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."


That's my Texas! By the way, we just recently passed California as the number one in wind generated energy in the country. Plus, Houston is building a several new skyscrapers downtown and one of them has a wind turbines at the top of it! Yes, plural. Not to mention that Houston has fallen out of the number one ranking as the dirtiest city in America. Not to mention, as far as the other standards that we flunked at, we also had 200,000+ people from New Orleans arrive overnight...and they won't leave! There is a direct correlation between them and our statistics.

[ChiSoxRox]

The Chicago companies:


If a location is not given, the company is downtown

Rank Company Name Location Revenue, $Millions

28 Boeing 61,530
38 Sears Holding Hoffman Estates 53,012
44 Walgreen Deerfield 47,409
52 Motorola Schaumburg 43,739
61 Allstate Northbrook 35,796
102 Abbott Laboratories Abbott Park 22,476
108 McDonald's Oak Brook 21,587
120 UAL Elk Grove Village 19,340
125 Sara Lee Downers Grove 18,539
150 Exelon 15,654
175 Illinois Tool Works Glenview 14,055
245 Baxter International Deerfield 10,378
247 Aon 10,311
271 R.R. Donnelly 9,317
280 OfficeMax Naperville 8,965
294 Fortune Brands Deerfield 8,255
303 Smurfit-Stone Container 7,944
320 NiSource Merrillville, IN 7,496
334 Integrys Energy Group 6,979
342 CDW Vernon Hills 6,786
382 Brunswick Lake Forest 5,971
385 Ryerson Chicago (West Side) 5,909
388 W. W. Grainger Lake Forest 5,884
396 USG 5,810
413 Tribune 5,583
454 Anixter International 4,939
472 Wm. Wrigley 4,686
473 Tenneco Lake Forest 4,685
485 United Stationers Deerfield 4,547
490 Northern Trust 4,473

[sirkingwilliam]

Texas is the second largest state in the USA, these companies aren't scattered throughout the entire state so why are you using an entire states data?

I don't want to get into an argument. All I'm saying is that while Texas is a good place for business, the state still ranks at or near the bottom in many, many categories that compromise quality of life, in spite of the presence of some of the world's largest corporations. And it's due in part to the fact that there is no state income tax. Yes it works for business, but it affects quality of life issues. Believe me, I don't hate Texas at all. You wanted me to expand on the comment and I hesitate because I don't want to come across as a basher. This info comes from several studies, including a study commissioned by the state itself which found these serious problems:

* Texas flunks environmental protection standards

* Contents itself with educational mediocrity

* Spent billions on a huge penal system that has not delivered low crime rates

* Percentage of Uninsured Children: Ranks 1st

* Income Inequality Between the Rich and the Poor: Ranks 2nd

* Percentage of Population without Health Insurance: Ranks 1st

* Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores: 47th in US

* Percentage of Population over 25 with a High School Diploma: 50th in US

* Women's Voter Registration: 43rd in US

* Women's Voter Turnout: 49th in US

* Percentage of Eligible Voters that Vote: 44th in US

Additional conclusions state: "If Texas was a country, the Lone Star state would rank sixth dirtiest nation in the world when it comes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It’s a bigger emitter than the UK or Canada or Italy or France. Texas houses some of the nation’s dirtiest utilities and it emits more greenhouse gases from power production sources than any other state....Nearly two thirds of Texans live in areas that fail to meet federal air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."