Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies

Fortune 1000 Companies and Forbes Largest Private Companies

Greater St. Louis is home to 21 Fortune 1000 companies, of which nine are in the Fortune 500.
Emerson Electric	(111)
Express Scripts, Inc.	(135)
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.	(149)
Monsanto Company	(305)
Ameren Corporation	(329)
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (1)	(334)
Charter Communications	(409)
Peabody Energy	(432)
Graybar Electric	(455)
Solutia, Inc.	(593)
Energizer Holdings, Inc.	(617)
Olin Corp.	(649)
Centene Corp.	(685)
Arch Coal, Inc.	(790)
Brown Shoe Company, Inc.	(799)
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.	(830)
Furniture Brands International, Inc.	(854)
Sigma-Aldrich	(882)
Belden Inc.	(884)
Laclede Group	(892)
MEMC Electronic Materials	(913)
Source: "Fortune 500," Fortune, May 5, 2008. Note: (1) Dual headquarters in St. Louis and Chicago.

Forbes "America's Largest Private Companies"
Enterprise Rent-A-Car	(18)
Graybar Electric	(55)
Edward Jones	(94)
Schnuck Markets Inc.	(162)
McCarthy Building Cos.	(167)
UniGroup	(172)
World Wide Technology Inc.	(199)
Maritz Inc.	(305)
Apex Oil Co.	(313)
Source: Forbes, November 26, 2007.

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 magazine’s 2006 list of the top 100 fastest-growing small public companies. Four St. Louis-based companies - Reliv International, Panera Bread, Talx, and Cass Information Systems - made Forbes' list of "The 200 Best Small Companies" in the United States for 2006.