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Largest Publicly-Owned Companies
Based in Los Angeles County
Ranked by Sales, 2009
Previous Years: 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
| Company |
Sales
($million)
|
Industry
|
Employees
|
Location
|
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Walt Disney
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37,843
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Entertainment
|
144,000
|
Burbank
|
|
Northrop
Grumman
|
33,940
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Aerospace
|
123,600
|
Los Angeles
|
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Occidental
Petroleum
|
24,480
|
Energy
|
10,400
|
Los Angeles
|
|
DIRECTV
Group
|
19,693
|
Entertainment
|
19,600
|
El Segundo
|
|
Health Net
|
15,367
|
Health Care
|
9,600
|
Woodland Hills
|
|
Edison
International
|
14,112
|
Utilities
|
18,300
|
Rosemead
|
|
Jacobs Engineering
Group
|
11,252
|
Construction
|
38,900
|
Pasadena
|
|
Reliance Steel &
Aluminum
|
8,719
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Metals/Mining
|
10,200
|
Los Angeles
|
|
Dole Food
|
7,732
|
Food Processing
|
75,800
|
Westlake Village
|
|
Avery
Dennison
|
6,710
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Packaging
|
35,700
|
Pasadena
|
|
Mattel
|
5,918
|
Toys
|
29,000
|
El Segundo
|
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AECOM
Technology
|
5,216
|
Engineering/Construction
|
43,200
|
Los Angeles
|
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CB Richard Ellis
Group
|
5,130
|
Real Estate
|
30,000
|
El Segundo
|
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Live Nation
Entertainment
|
4,327
|
Entertainment
|
4,700
|
Beverly Hills
|
|
Unified
Grocers
|
4,105
|
Food Wholesale
|
3,400
|
Commerce
|
|
Molina
Healthcare
|
3,112
|
Health Care
|
2,500
|
Long Beach
|
|
KB Home
|
3,034
|
Engineering/Construction
|
1,600
|
Los Angeles
|
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Activision
Blizzard
|
2,898
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Computer Software
|
7,000
|
Santa Monica
|
|
Mercury
General
|
2,414
|
Insurance
|
5,000
|
Los Angeles
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Guess
|
2,093
|
Apparel
|
10,800
|
Los Angeles
|
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Ryland Group
|
1,976
|
Construction
|
1,300
|
Calabasas
|
|
Public
Storage
|
1,746
|
Storage Facilities
|
5,200
|
Glendale
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Source: Fortune
Magazine, Hoovers Online
Walt Disney ranks 60th among
America's largest public corporations and 7th among California companies.
Mattel, Inc. is the world’s
largest toy maker, followed by HASBRO Inc. There are more Barbie Dolls,
Mattel’s
most successful product, in the United States than there are people. The name
Mattel was derived from combining
the first names of partners Elliot Handler and "Matt" Matson. Ruth Handler, wife of
Elliot, co-founder of the company
and creator of the Barbie Doll, did not contribute her first name to the company name
due to "the times."
Hilton Hotels, an $8 billion
company that had been headquartered in Beverly Hills since 1969, moved to in 2009
to
Virginia. A year later, Computer Sciences Corporation, a $15 billion company,
founded and headquartered in
California since 1959, also moved to Virginia.
IndyMac Bank, owned by parent
IndyMac Bancorp of Pasadena, collapsed in July 2008, becoming the fourth
largest bank failure in U.S. history and the second largest failure of a regulated
thrift. IndyMac Bancorp filed for
bankruptcy. OneWestBank formed in 2009 from the remains of the failed
bank.
DaVita Inc., a $5.7 billion
health care company and the largest kidney dialysis/care companies in the nation,
moved
its corporate headquarters in 2009 from El Segundo to Denver, Colorado.
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