2010 Fortune 500 Companies Per MSA (better, Boston, moving, south)

[theATLien]

Originally Posted by BlackOut

Last year I think the LA area had 19. Pretty impressive gain.

61. Northrop Grumman Corp., $35.3 billion
80. Ingram Micro, $29.5 billion
116. DirecTV, 116, $21.6 billion
146. Health Net Inc., $15.7 billion
150. Occidental Petroleum Corp., $15.5 billion
159. Amgen Inc., $14.6 billion
187. Edison International, $12.4 billion
203. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., $11.5 billion
304. Western Digital Corp., $7.5 billion
331. Dole Food Co., $6.8 billion
352. AECOM Technology, $6.2 billion
355. DaVita Inc., $6.1 billion
361. First American Corp., $6 billion
362. Avery Dennison Corp., $6 billion
387. Mattel Inc., $5.4 billion
394. Reliance Steel & Aluminum, $5.3 billion
401. Pacific Life, $5.2 billion
407. Tutor Perini, $5.2 billion
459. Allergan Inc., $4.5 billion
460. Broadcom Corp., $4.5 billion
480. Spectrum Group International, $4.3 billion
490. Live Nation, $4.2 billion
499. CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., $4.2 billion

I don't know about the rest, but 61. Northrop Grumman Corp moved to NoVa and divita moved to denver

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by theATLien

That's the crazy thing about NY... there aren't that many fortune 500 companies in the state of NY... there is only 53

I think the overall Metropolitan area has 71 like people have said ^ (up there). The metro does go into Connecticut and New Jersey as well.

[theATLien]

Originally Posted by Gordon Gekko.

No region in the world will ever produce the amount of wealth and prosperity which is New York. .

Toyko does. Toyko has a higher GDP that NYC... Also, New York has something the other cities don't have... that is the United States the source of its prosperity throughout history.

Also NYC isn't the only city that has an economy rivaled by most countries. The USA is a great country... I love NY, but don't limit the USA to an island

[CDGJFK]

Originally Posted by theATLien

That's the crazy thing about NY... there aren't that many fortune 500 companies in the state of NY... there is only 53

What does that have to do with anything?

Most of NYC's sprawl is in New Jersey and Connecticut. State lines are irrelevant because of NYCs unique location. That region doesn't think in terms of state, it's the "NYC region". NYC is in essence, much larger than the state. All the wealth in the region is generated from the NYC mega-economy.

Please tell me you knew all of this. Hello?! The NYC metro.

And Tokyo is nowhere near as powerful as NYC.

[BlackOut]

Originally Posted by theATLien

I don't know about the rest, but 61. Northrop Grumman Corp moved to NoVa and divita moved to denver

Companies do relocate or merge. I'm sure these moves will be represented in next year's rankings.

[gobucks86]

4 Ohio cities on the list is good to see!

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by gobucks86

4 Ohio cities on the list is good to see!

5 Akron is on there too

[MN55]

Business-wise, Minneapolis/St. Paul is easily in the top ten most important metro areas.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by MN55

Business-wise, Minneapolis/St. Paul is easily in the top ten most important metro areas.

That really came as a shock to me, I never expected Minneapolis/St. Paul to beat out larger cities/metro's than itself.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by flyingwriter

Does SC even count as part of the Charlotte area?

Charlotte's southern border abuts the SC state line. York County is in Charlotte's MSA, and Chester and Lancaster counties are in the CSA.