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I'll see what I can work on, didn't mean to be crass but if your objective was to organize them by Fortune 500 companies it just seemed odd to have places with 1 and leave off Cincy with 10 and St. Louis with 9.
I use population as a barometer. I didn't know how many Fortune 500s any cities exactly had prior to this year so I didn't know I missed some cities that have like 10 headquarters or the like.
That's why I am happy you volunteered to do some of the medium sized cities.
You'll need this, its tricky because some places sprawl into other states and you always have to check on those individually: Fortune 500 - Fortune
A noticeable loss for Minneapolis is Medtronic, Inc. They decided it was time to avoid paying U.S. taxes and open a small, "corporate" office in Ireland called Medtronic plc. All of Medtronic's executives, including the CEO, remain in Minneapolis though.
This list would be much more interesting looking at the Fortune 100 companies. 1 company in the top 10 is easily worth 50-100 smaller companies in the end of the top 500.
More sobering news for LA. The Bay Area is quickly becoming the economic engine of California; if you would've said this 10 years ago you would've been laughed out of a room.
LA is quickly transforming into a Third World city like Rio de Janeiro while the Bay Area/silicon Valley is becoming the epicenter for the global elite and the technocrats.
More sobering news for LA. The Bay Area is quickly becoming the economic engine of California; if you would've said this 10 years ago you would've been laughed out of a room.
LA is quickly transforming into a Third World city like Rio de Janeiro while the Bay Area/silicon Valley is becoming the epicenter for the global elite and the technocrats.
I wonder what the change from last year to this year for each was too.
Apparently MSP lost 2 or 3....sounds about right, since Medtronic is now part of Covidian, legally HQ'd in Ireland, and I can't remember if one of the local grain giants was merged with Archer Daniels Midland.
Ah well.....there'll be some replacements sprouting soon -- there always are.
Good luck with that. It's very weird to see GE anywhere but metro NYC (Jersey would make the most sense, but whatevs), but any city/state fighting for their HQ is feeding into their plans to let somebody else subsidize millionaires and their mega-billion-dollar company. I'm so sick and tired of greedy companies doing this to their hometowns and home countries (Medtronic!) -- it's a race to the bottom, if you ask me (for the subsidizer).
Not that it matters much but you under-counted Philadelphia by two. Philly has 10 this year which is +1 from last year.
AmerisourceBergen - 16
Comcast - 43
DuPont - 87
Aramark - 207
Lincoln National - 223
Crown Holdings - 318
Universal Health Services - 324
Campbell Soup - 342
UGI - 349
Navient - 463
And FMC, Airgas, UGI, AstraZeneca (Wilmington), GlaxoSmithKline
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