Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies
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Greater St. Louis is home to 21 Fortune 1000 companies, of which eight are in the Fortune 500.
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| Company |
Rank |
Revenues
($ Millions) |
| Emerson Electric |
94 |
25,281.0 |
| Express Scripts, Inc. |
115 |
22,022.7 |
| Monsanto Company |
235 |
11,579.0 |
| Ameren Corporation |
327 |
7,839.0 |
| Peabody Energy |
353 |
7,074.0 |
| Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (1) |
356 |
7,042.0 |
| Charter Communications |
385 |
6,479.0 |
| Graybar Electric |
439 |
5,400.2 |
| Energizer Holdings, Inc. |
522 |
4,331.0 |
| Solutia, Inc. |
565 |
3,890.0 |
| Jones Financial |
568 |
3,859.0 |
| Centene Corp. |
609 |
3,515.2 |
| Arch Coal, Inc. |
692 |
2,983.8 |
| Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. |
713 |
2,824.4 |
| Brown Shoe Company, Inc. |
828 |
2,276.4 |
| Laclede Group |
829 |
2,274.4 |
| Sigma-Aldrich |
842 |
2,200.7 |
| Belden Inc. |
898 |
2,005.9 |
| MEMC Electronic Materials |
899 |
2,004.5 |
| Olin Corp. |
976 |
1764.5 |
| Furniture Brands International, Inc. |
982 |
1,758.5 |
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Source: "Fortune 500," Fortune, May 4, 2009.
Notes: (1) Dual headquarters in St. Louis and Chicago.
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| Forbes "America's Largest Private Companies" |
| Company |
Rank |
| Enterprise Rent-A-Car |
24 |
| Graybar Electric |
64 |
| Edward Jones |
102 |
| McCarthy Building Cos. |
119 |
| Apex Oil Co. |
172 |
| World Wide Technology Inc. |
183 |
| Schnuck Markets Inc. |
191 |
| UniGroup |
240 |
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Source: Forbes, Oct. 28, 2009.
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Additional top privately-held companies based in the St. Louis region include Center Oil Co., Harbour Group, CCA Global Partners and Prairie Farms, Inc. And more are on the way: Three St. Louis firms — LaBarge Inc., TALX Corp., and Reliv International Inc. — made Fortune Small Business magazine’s 2006 list of the top 100 fastest-growing small public companies. Two St. Louis-based companies - Cass Information Systems and ESCO Technologies - made Forbes' list of "The 200 Best Small Companies" in the United States for 2008.
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