Ratings and Rankings - Area Companies
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Greater St. Louis is home to many companies ranked nationally as best places to work, fastest growing, most innovative, and more. Many recent ratings and rankings for Greater St. Louis companies are provided below.
Largest Corporations
- The 2011 IndustryWeek U.S. 500 report on the largest publicly traded manufacturers includes these 12 that are based in Greater St. Louis:
49. Emerson Electric
94. Monsanto
162. Smurfit-Stone Container
194. Engergizer Holdings
205. Ralcorp Holdings
299. Sigma-Aldrich
301. MEMC Electronic Materials
330. Solutia
365. Belden
375. Olin Corp.
441. Furniture Brands International
463. Spartech
- The 2012 Forbes "Global 2000: Biggest Companies" report ranks the biggest companies in the world by sales, market value, assets and profits; the report includes these 9 that are based in Greater St. Louis:
293. Emerson Electric
381. Express Scripts
396. Monsanto
740. Peabody Energy
859. Ameren
927. Reinsurance Group of America
1330. Charter Communications
1552. Sigma-Aldrich
1985. Commerce Bancshares
- The 2011 Forbes list of "America's Largest Private Companies" includes these 7 that are based in Greater St. Louis:
15. Enterprise Rent-A-Car
69. Graybar Electric
81. Apex Oil
83. Edward Jones
140. World Wide Technology
165. Schnuck Markets
178. McCarthy Holdings
- World Wide Technology, a distributor of information technology products and services in Maryland Heights, Mo. was ranked the nation's largest black-owned business by Black Enterprise in the magazine's industrial/service 100 list for the eighth consecutive year in 2011. Two other St. Louis-based companies, Roberts Brothers Properties L.L.C. and Roberts Hotels Group L.L.C. ranked No. 40 and No. 42 respectively.
- Fuse, based in St. Louis, has ranked among the top 10 largest black-owned advertising agencies on Black Enterprise's Top Ad Agencies list for seven consecutive years (2005-2011), including an 8th largest ranking in 2009.
Best Place to Work
- Five St. Louis-based companies are included in Fortune magazine's 2012 ranking of the 100 Best Companies to Work For; the list is produced for Fortune by the Great Places to Work Institute:
5. Edward Jones
17. JM Family Enterprises
31. Scottrade
50. World Wide Technology
62. Build-A-Bear Workshop
- Four St. Louis-based companies ranked highly on Fortune's 2011 "America's Most Admired Companies" list in their respective industries. Graybar Electric earned No. 2 in the Wholesalers: Diversified industry category. Other industry rankings included Express Scripts (No. 4 in Health Care: Pharmacy and Other Services), Bunge (No. 4 in Food Production), and Emerson Electric (No. 5 in the Electronics). Jones Financial and Energizer Holdings were also contenders ranking in the top 10 of their industry categories.
- Monsanto is recognized on The Scientist magazine's 2011 survey of "Best Places to Work in Industry." Monsanto ranked 15th overall and 4th among the "Top Large Companies." The survey asked respondents to rate their places of employment on job satisfaction, benefits, training, integrity, room for intellectual and career development, and more.
- The St. Louis-based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center was ranked as the 8th and Washington University the 40th Best Places to Work in Academia by The Scientist magazine in 2011. Rankings were tallied from a poll of 100,000 scientists and researchers working the field of life sciences. Washington University was also ranked as the 17th Best Place to Work for Postdocs.
Fastest Growing
- Inc. magazine's list of America's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies 2011 ranks include 40 companies based in the St. Louis metropolitan area; 13 St. Louis-based firms ranked in the top 2,000:
476. Veteran Corps of America
494. Stratus Building Solutions
613. FitnessRepairParts.com
854. Antennas Direct
861. Arizon Companies
1189. Cornerstone Mortgage
1300. Gonzalez Companies
1345. Veterans Home Care
1385. DAS Aquistition Company
1442. Herndon Products
1726. Rose International
1727. iTalent
1914. BEST Transportation of St. Louis
1938. Total Hockey
- St. Louis is home to one of the 100 fastest growing inner-city companies in America - Gonzalez Companies. (No. 16) - according to the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune magazine's 2012 Inner City 100.
Best Small Companies
Best Customer Service
- BusinessWeek's 2008 rank of the nation's Customer Service Champs features two St. Louis-based companies: Edward Jones at No. 8 and Enterprise Rent-A-Car at No. 14, the rankings are based on the perceived quality of the companies’ staff, as well as what customers think of the companies’ processes, such as return policies and reservation procedures.
Top Corporate Performers
- Three St. Louis-based companies, Express Scripts, Monsanto, and Peabody Energy, were named No. 6, No. 42, and No. 49 respectively on The BusinessWeek 50 list for 2010. These top performing companies were measured in 2010 by top-performing stocks in the S&P's 500-stock index over the past five years.
- Software Magazine's 2011 list of the World's Largest Software and Serivces Providers, based on total worldwide software and services revenues, ranks include four St. Louis companies:
33. Amdocs, Inc.
94. Emerson Electric
176. Rose International
190. Perficient, Inc.
Most Innovative
- The Information Week 500 ranks the most innovative users of business technology; the 2011 ranks include 12, 8 of which are in the top 250, St. Louis companies:
22. Centene Corp.
54. Scottrade
68. Maritz
108. Emerson
214. Peabody Energy
216. Solutia
229. Ameren
245. Arch Coal
Graybar Electric Company
Monsanto
Savvis
World Wide Technology
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