What is the largest single-site employer in the US with more than 66,000 employees, a manifold increase from the 5,500 it employed when it opened in 1971?
"the last Walt Disney received). The Disney empire was rocked to its core when Walt died from lung cancer on December 15, 1966. While the studio tried to remain true to his vision (a common catchphrase of the time was ""What would Walt do?""), the level of popularity and acclaim the studio received in earlier years eluded it in the 1970s. The theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World (the latter having opened in 1971) ended up contributing more to the bottom line than the film division. Additionally, many veteran animators either retired or died, so the studio had to"
"""AmLaw 100"" list of top law firms in 2011. Jackson Lewis Jackson Lewis P.C. is an American workplace law firm. , it employs around 785 attorneys in 57 offices and is one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States. The firm is also a charter member of L&E Global Employers’ Counsel Worldwide, an alliance of workplace law firms in 20 countries. The firm was founded in New York City in 1958. It opened its second office in Los Angeles in 1977. Jackson Lewis grew from 120 lawyers in 1990 to 350 in 2006. Between 2006 and 2015,"
"Equifax Workforce Solutions Equifax Workforce Solutions, formerly known as TALX (pronounced ""talks""), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax. It is based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was originally founded in 1972 under the name Interface Technology Inc. The company maintains a database named ""The Work Number"" that holds and maintains employment and payroll information on 54 million American people. The company is the largest source of employment information in the United States, and collects information from over 7,000 employers. Based out St. Louis, TALX was founded in 1972 as Interface Technology Inc. by several individuals including H. Richard"
"Street NW in Cleveland in the location of a former shopping mall. Life Care Centers of America Life Care Centers of America is the largest privately held long-term elderly care company in the US, with facilities across 28 states, and the third largest in the US. It is headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was founded by Forrest Preston in 1970, and he remains the sole owner, chairman and CEO. As of 2015, Life Care Centers has been the subject of a seven-year probe and federal lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud. As of 2015, the company employs 42,000 people. Since 1995, the"
"first year. Despite this turnover rate, the company is still able to affect unemployment rates. This was found in a study by Oklahoma State University which states, ""Walmart is found to have substantially lowered the relative unemployment rates of blacks in those counties where it is present, but to have had only a limited impact on relative incomes after the influences of other socio-economic variables were taken into account."" Walmart is the largest private employer in the United States, employing almost five times as many people as [[IBM]], the second-largest employer. Walmart employs more [[African Americans]] than any other private"
"The State of New York, with over 15,000 employees, is the city's largest employer. Other major employers include the United States government, Kaleida Health, M&T Bank (which is headquartered in Buffalo), the University at Buffalo, General Motors, Time Warner Cable and Tops Friendly Markets. Buffalo is home to Rich Products, Canadian brewer Labatt, cheese company Sorrento Lactalis, Delaware North Companies and New Era Cap Company. More recently, the Tesla Gigafactory 2 opened in South Buffalo in summer 2017, as a result of the Buffalo Billion program. The loss of traditional jobs in manufacturing, rapid suburbanization and high labor costs have"
"of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over. The Bluegrass Commerce Park (formerly known as The Bluegrass Research & Industrial Park) opened on in 1966. Created with an attractive, park-like setting, it was the first such development in the United States. Today, Bluegrass Commerce Park takes in over and is home to approximately 850 businesses. The park is the largest in the state of Kentucky, and the 38,000 employees make the park and Jeffersontown the third-largest city of employment in the state. The park's seven units include: Papa John's Pizza has its headquarters in Jeffersontown."
"Jackson Lewis Jackson Lewis P.C. is an American workplace law firm. , it employs around 785 attorneys in 57 offices and is one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States. The firm is also a charter member of L&E Global Employers’ Counsel Worldwide, an alliance of workplace law firms in 20 countries. The firm was founded in New York City in 1958. It opened its second office in Los Angeles in 1977. Jackson Lewis grew from 120 lawyers in 1990 to 350 in 2006. Between 2006 and 2015, the firm opened 34 new offices. It joined the"
"Wake Up Wal-Mart Wake Up Wal-Mart was a campaign founded by United Food and Commercial Workers Union. It is based in Washington, D.C. and is often critical of the business practices of Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and the largest private employer in the United States. The group claims Walmart is currently offering its employees substandard wages and health care benefits, and has called on the retailer to improve both. Wake Up Wal-Mart was founded April 5, 2005 and maintains the web site WakeupWalMart.com, the centerpiece of the organization. The organization is now defunct. Its website is no longer active"
"whole. Deere, however, is the largest single employer, employing 7,200 workers in the Quad Cities and 948 on its north side Davenport plant. John Deere World Headquarters is located in Moline. Other large employers in Davenport and the Quad Cities include, Genesis Health System with 5,125 employees and 4,900 in Davenport, Trinity Regional Health System with 3,333, regional grocery store Hy-Vee with 3,138 and the Davenport Community School District with 2,237 employees. Davenport is the headquarters for department store Von Maur, which has 24 stores. Davenport is also the headquarters of Lee Enterprises, which publishes fifty daily newspapers and more"
"Life Care Centers of America Life Care Centers of America is the largest privately held long-term elderly care company in the US, with facilities across 28 states, and the third largest in the US. It is headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was founded by Forrest Preston in 1970, and he remains the sole owner, chairman and CEO. As of 2015, Life Care Centers has been the subject of a seven-year probe and federal lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud. As of 2015, the company employs 42,000 people. Since 1995, the company's headquarters have been located at the Campbell Center at 3001 Keith"
"Six Flags Six Flags, officially Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, is an amusement park corporation based in the United States, with properties in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It is the largest amusement park company in the world, based on the number of properties owned, and is ranked seventh in terms of attendance. The company maintains twenty five properties throughout North America including theme parks, amusement parks, water parks, and family entertainment centers. In 2017, Six Flags properties hosted 30.4 million guests. Six Flags was founded in Texas on August 5, 1961 and derived its name from its first property, Six"
"in 1971, and 410 stores in the western U.S. and $1.6 billion in annual sales by 2007. The company he built was based on the loyalty of the employees that was earned by giving them generous shares of the profit (half of a store’s profit went to employees of that store), lucrative benefits, and only promoting from within the company. In the communities served by these stores, the company became known for their advertising featuring employees running out to meet customers, an annual free beef promotion, and the company slogan: """"If we can't guarantee it, we won't sell it."""". Despite"
"the law firms of Schiff Hardin and Seyfarth Shaw. Morgan Stanley plans to move to the building in 2019, and to become the building's fourth-largest tenant by 2020. In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with about 350,000 employees. Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one building on the western edge of Chicago's Loop. Sears asked its outside counsel, Arnstein, Gluck, Weitzenfeld & Minow (now known as Arnstein & Lehr, LLP) to suggest a location. The firm consulted with local and federal authorities"
"operation, but added that ""Even one incident is too many"". Massage Envy Massage Envy is the largest chain of franchised massage spas in the United States. It was founded in 2002 with a single location in Scottsdale, Arizona. As of 2017, it has 1,170 franchised locations, employs 25,000 massage therapists and estheticians, and has over 1.65 million members in the United States. In November 2017, BuzzFeed reported that over 180 women had ""filed sexual assault lawsuits, police reports, and state board complaints against Massage Envy spas, their employees, and the national company"" over allegations of sexual misconduct. The women also"
"in Spanish: The Kansas City metropolitan area's largest private employer is Cerner Corporation. Cerner, a global healthcare IT company which is headquartered in North Kansas City, employs nearly 10,000 people in the area with a total workforce of nearly 20,000 people including global employees. In August 2014, the company announced its acquisition of competitor Siemens Healthcare, which, if approved, will further increase Cerner's total number of employees. Cerner has several campuses across the area with its World Headquarters building in North Kansas City, Innovations Campus in South Kansas City, and Continuous Campus in the Kansas City, Kansas area. Other major"
"implemented in 2006 and are located in Canada, Honduras and the Philippines. Charter-owned call centers are located in St. Louis, Missouri (telephone service support center); Billings, Montana; Greenville, South Carolina; Vancouver, Washington; Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Walker, Michigan; Rochester, Minnesota; Worcester, Massachusetts, and Louisville, Kentucky (the largest call center across the company), with Heathrow, Florida, handling the bulk of video, high-speed data, and telephone billing and customer service contacts. In 2016, Charter announced that it would be adding 20,000 United States-based jobs, with many of these jobs being call center jobs. On March 27, 2006, Charter announced that it would"
"By 1915, Davey Tree was growing and expanding; during the period from 1915 to 1920, the company expanded more than fivefold. Today, its sales are closer to a billion USD. Forbes named Davey 294 out of 500 large companies with more than 5,000 U.S. employees in May 2018. The Davey Tree Expert Company has been employee owned since 1979 and is the 13th largest employee-owned company in the U.S., according to data from the National Center for Employee Ownership. (The 2015 Employee Ownership 100 list includes the nation’s largest companies that are at least 50 percent owned by an employee"
"Exelon Exelon Corporation is an American Fortune 100 energy company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It generates revenues of approximately $33.5 billion and employs approximately 34,000 people. Exelon is the largest electric parent company in the United States by revenue, the largest regulated utility in the United States with approximately 10 million customers, and also the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States. It was created in October 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company of Philadelphia and Unicom Corp of Chicago, which owned Commonwealth Edison. Exelon operates regulated utilities in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey,"
"than 9,400 customer locations, and services its large enterprise customers with a corporate sales force called Global Solutions. Fiscal 2017 revenue was $406 million. The company began as a $9 million stand-alone reprographics provider in Southern California in the late 1980s. It has grown to its present size and geographic coverage through the acquisition of more than 140 other companies. It remains the largest company of its kind in the U.S. with more than 2,500 employees. The company has received recognition from Forbes magazine (as one of its “Best 200 Small Companies”), Gartner, MPSA, BERTL, and Océ. The company began"
"Cargill Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2015, number 15 on the Fortune 500, behind McKesson and ahead of AT&T. Some of Cargill's major businesses are trading, purchasing and distributing grain and other agricultural commodities, such as palm oil; trading in energy, steel and transport; the raising of livestock and production of feed; and producing food ingredients such as"
"had acquired NurseFinders Home Care, expanding their services with 16 locations in nine states. Later that year, on the company's 37th anniversary, Bayada Nurses rebranded as Bayada Home Health Care in order to better encompass the organization's services and the work performed by the staff of nursing professionals. , Bayada Home Health Care operates more than 360 offices in 26 states, as well as India. The company employs more than 26,000 nurses, home health aides, therapists, medical social workers, and other health care professionals. The company ranks as #14 on the list of largest employers in Philadelphia. The privately held"
"Office Depot Office Depot, Inc. is an American office supply retailing company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. The company has combined annual sales of approximately $11 billion, and employs about 38,000 associates with businesses in the United States. The company operates 1,400 retail stores, e-commerce sites and a business-to-business sales organization. The company's portfolio of brands includes Office Depot, OfficeMax, Grand & Toy, Ativa, TUL, Foray, Realspace, and DiVOGA. Office Depot was founded in October 1986 by F. Patrick Sher, Stephen Doughtery, and Jack Kopkin, who became the company's chairman and chief executive officer, the president, and executive"
"dispositions, development and financing teams. The Company is focused exclusively on “investing in grocery-anchored shopping centers.” Phillips Edison & Company Phillips Edison & Company is an American owner, operator, acquirer and developer of shopping centers throughout the US. Founded in 1991, the Company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and has offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, New York City, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. In 2017, Phillips Edison & Company was ranked as one of the fastest growing private companies in Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier. Phillips Edison & Company has doubled in size every three years for the"
"John W. Tyson in 1935, and benefitted during World War II when chicken was not included in foods that were rationed. As of 2014, the company employs 115,000 people, who work at more than 300 facilities, over 100 of which are in the US. Tyson had about 97,000 employees in 27 states; locations are concentrated in the Midwest, with 16 locations in Arkansas, 11 in Texas, 9 in Iowa, and the remainder of the mostly eastern US with less than 3-4 locations. Tyson also works with 6,729 independent contract chicken growers. Tyson is one of the largest U.S. marketers of"
"Massage Envy Massage Envy is the largest chain of franchised massage spas in the United States. It was founded in 2002 with a single location in Scottsdale, Arizona. As of 2017, it has 1,170 franchised locations, employs 25,000 massage therapists and estheticians, and has over 1.65 million members in the United States. In November 2017, BuzzFeed reported that over 180 women had ""filed sexual assault lawsuits, police reports, and state board complaints against Massage Envy spas, their employees, and the national company"" over allegations of sexual misconduct. The women also accused Massage Envy of ignoring or mishandling most of the"
"average 10 employees each. Even in the face of competition from large chain stores (commonly referred to as big-box or destination hardware stores, e.g., The Home Depot, Lowe's and Menards) new hardware stores in the U.S. are still opening all the time. In the U.S. there are four major nationwide wholesale suppliers to hardware stores. All four report more than $1 billion (US dollars) in sales annually. Three of them operate as retailers' cooperatives: Do It Best Corp, from Fort Wayne Indiana, True Value Company from Chicago Illinois and Ace Hardware from Oakbrook Illinois. Hardware store owners purchase stock in"
"company and Jim Reid-Anderson had re-assumed the roles of chairman, president, and CEO.<ref> Six Flags Six Flags, officially Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, is an amusement park corporation based in the United States, with properties in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It is the largest amusement park company in the world, based on the number of properties owned, and is ranked seventh in terms of attendance. The company maintains twenty five properties throughout North America including theme parks, amusement parks, water parks, and family entertainment centers. In 2017, Six Flags properties hosted 30.4 million guests. Six Flags was founded in Texas"
"of $6.7billion. It has remained there every year except 2006, 2009, and 2012. In 2005, Walmart reported in sales, more than 6,200 facilities around the world—including 3,800 stores in the United States and 2,800 elsewhere, employing more than 1.6million associates. Its U.S. presence grew so rapidly that only small pockets of the country remained more than from the nearest store. As Walmart rapidly expanded into the world's largest corporation, many critics worried about its effect on local communities, particularly small towns with many ""mom and pop"" stores. There have been several studies on the economic impact of Walmart on small"
"had 30,000 full-time employees in the USA, and by the end of 2016, it had 180,000 employees. In June 2017, Amazon announced that it would acquire Whole Foods, a high-end supermarket chain with over 400 stores, for $13.4 billion. The acquisition was seen by media experts as a move to strengthen its physical holdings and challenge Walmart's supremacy as a brick and mortar retailer. This sentiment was heightened by the fact that the announcement coincided with Walmart's purchase of men's apparel company Bonobos. On August 23, 2017, Whole Foods shareholders, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, approved the deal."
"and the Whippany site was purchased by Bayer). The largest grouping of people in the company was in Illinois, at Naperville-Lisle, in the Chicago area, which had the largest concentration of employees (about 11,000) prior to 2001. There also were groups of employees in Indianapolis, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; North Andover, Massachusetts; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Reading, Pennsylvania; and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania; Burlington, North Carolina (1950s–1970s, moved to Greensboro 1980s) and Westminster, Colorado. Since 2001, many of the former locations have been scaled down or closed. The Holmdel site, a 1.9 million square foot structure set on 473 acres, was closed in 2007. The"
"Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. As of January 27, 2018, the company operates 630 retail stores in 50 U.S. states. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company's headquarters are at 122 Fifth Avenue in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble stands alone as the United States'"
"Shane Company Shane Company or Shane Co. is the largest privately owned jeweler in the United States. The company is a direct diamond, ruby, and sapphire importer that operates 20 retail stores across the United States and their website ShaneCo.com. The company was founded in 1971, and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The company promotes their retail locations and website through radio commercials that prominently feature the company’s CEO Tom Shane and the tagline ""Now you have a friend in the diamond business."" Tom Shane graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970 with a degree in business administration."