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The 2009 Fortune 500 list was released this past April. I'm always interested in seeing how metro areas stack up. Here are the totals for a few metropolitan areas. Feel free to add your metro area or make corrections as I may have made a few mistakes.
New York City (NY only) – 54
Bay Area – 29
Chicago – 28
Houston – 27
Los Angeles - 19
Minneapolis – 18
Dallas – 18
Detroit – 16
Philadelphia (PA only) – 12
Atlanta – 11
Boston - 11
Cleveland – 11
Denver – 11
Charlotte – 8
Pittsburgh – 8
St. Louis – 8
Seattle - 8
Milwaukee – 7
Richmond – 7
Washington, D.C. – 7
Columbus – 6
Cincinnati – 5
Phoenix – 5
San Antonio – 4
Omaha – 4
Baltimore – 3
Kansas City – 3
Orlando – 3
San Diego – 3
Las Vegas – 2
I count 53 for the Bay Area. 56 if you include 3 in Monterey, Watsonville and Sacramento, but 53 in the immediate Bay Area.
Hercules, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Fremont, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Foster City, Concord, San Rafael, Milpitas, Mountain View, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Oakland, Cupertino, Pleasanton, and San Ramon are all definitely part of the Bay Area.
Surprisingly, SF has 10 while San Jose only has 6. I would have thought the capitol of Silicon Valley would have had more Fortune 500's than SF does. Or more than most other places for that matter. I guess the wealth is really spread throughout the entirety of SV.
Geico is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD about a mile or so from the DC border, but it is owned by Berkshire-Hathway (which is based in Omaha, Nebraska). If it was independent it would be in the top 200 of the F500.
No, Chicago has 28 unless Decatur (ARcher Daniels Midland), Bloomington (State Farm Insurance Cos.), Peoria (Caterpillar), and Moline (Deere) all of a sudden became part of the Chicagoland area.
You're including Fortune 1000 companies. The list I put together is Fortune 500 only and CA has 51 Fortune 500.
Ahh I see. Thanks for pointing that out. The top of the page says Fortune 500 but the column says 1000 and I didn't pay attention to that. I now concur, the Bay Area does have 29.
1. Valero Energy
2. Tesoro Energy
3. Clear Channel
4. Nustar Energy
5. USAA Worldwide
6. AT&T moved in 2008.
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