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Kellogg is splitting up and its largest part by far, the snack division, is establishing a HQ in Chicago. I think this one might be significant for Chicago unlike Boeing which was always sort of odd since there wasn't a large collection of other such companies or industry in Chicago nor was there a particularly rooted history there. Kellogg (or its snack division successor) is interesting because it's joining a lot of other food products / agricultural products giants who also have headquarters in the city such as Archer Daniels Midland, Mondelez, Kraft Heinz, Conagra, and Ingredion among others
Houston city proper gets boosted from having many suburbs annexed. Today, as companies are moving to the suburbs more and more, Houston’s totals appear higher than many by annexing many suburbs. Particularly the I-10, corridor is like an endless stretch of suburban corporate campuses that go from Uptown HOU to Katy. The majority of those are in the city limits. These include Sysco, Crown Castle, ConocoPhillips, etc.
West Chase is also within the city limits and has a sizable amount and is a suburb.
Even without factoring that in, Houston is still third behind NYC and Chicago in metro F500s (and fourth if you count SF and SJ together), but this certainly plays into why Houston’s city proper companies look so high.
Spring, Texas is their "suburb" and they have 5 tied with LA....
Problem with seeing LA as only having 5 is that you need to look at other individual cities within LA proper and or the metro from the drop down menu that add to its total—such as Burbank, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, El Segundo, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, Rosemead, Santa Monica, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Woodland Hills. Do so and the number will be significantly higher. I’m not even including OC cities which are also part of the metro.
You could say the same about any city. (Woodland Hills is LA)
Spring, Texas is their "suburb" and they have 5 tied with LA....
Considering LA is the second largest city in US (by far), it falls back on being the home to large corporations, yes. This isn’t even a new thing. Makes you wonder.
Do it by Fortune 500 because the top 500 are much bigger than the second 500. Amazing to see Irving in the Top 12 when its under 300K residents. But of course it sits in Dallas County, next to Dallas and just east of DFW International Airport and just west of Dallas Love Field.
Houston is#3. I think it has 25 F500 companies. DFW is 4th.
Which is a reflection of Houston's boundaries at 650 square miles vs. Dallas at 360 sq. miles and why Irving at town of 300K has 11 Fortune 500 companies and is about to get Caterpillar.
Which is a reflection of Houston's boundaries at 650 square miles vs. Dallas at 360 sq. miles and why Irving at town of 300K has 11 Fortune 500 companies and is about to get Caterpillar.
It's good thing you can Google maps of the location of these companies in cities so you check people on their exaggeration. Ignoring boundaries DFW's companies are just as spread out.
Which is a reflection of Houston's boundaries at 650 square miles vs. Dallas at 360 sq. miles and why Irving at town of 300K has 11 Fortune 500 companies and is about to get Caterpillar.
He was talking metro. Houston is 3rd by Metro and 2nd by city. DFW is 4th by Metro.
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