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Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies


Greater St. Louis is home to 21 Fortune 1000 companies, of which 10 are in the Fortune 500.

Company Rank Revenues
($ Millions)
Express Scripts, Inc. 55 44,989.7
Emerson Electric 120 21,866.0
Monsanto Company 234 10,502.0
Reinsurance Group of America 290 8,261.7
Ameren Corporation 313 7,638.0
Charter Communications 333 7,059.0
Peabody Energy 338 6,944.2
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.* 369 6,286.0
Graybar Electric 480 4,616.4
Centene Corp. 493 4,470.1
Energizer Holdings, Inc. 508 4,248.3
Jones Financial 516 4,163.1
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. 533 4,048.5
Arch Coal, Inc. 633 3,186.3
Brown Shoe Company, Inc. 747 2,504.1
Sigma-Aldrich 806 2,271.0
MEMC Electronic Materials 814 2,239.2
Patriot Coal 863 2,035.1
Solutia, Inc. 871 2,003.0
Laclede Group 959 1,735.0
Belden 981 1,674.4

Source: "Fortune 500," Fortune, 2011.
*Dual headquarters in St. Louis and Chicago.  


Forbes "America's Largest Private Companies"
Company Rank
Enterprise Rent-A-Car 15
Graybar Electric 69
Apex Oil 81
Edward Jones 83
World Wide Technology 140
Schnuck Markets Inc. 165
McCarthy Holdings 178

Source: Forbes, 2011.

 
Five St. Louis firms — Edward Jones, JM Family Enterprises, Scottrade, World Wide Technology, and Build-A-Bear Workshop — made Fortune magazine's 2012 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.  Among America's Best Small Companies, Forbes ranked FutureFuel seventeenth best company.

Additional ratings and rankings of companies in the St. Louis region can be viewed here.



 
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