A Walt Disney Company product, Disneyland and the Disneyland parades. Los Angeles Almanac Photo.
Previous Years: 2015 | 2011 | 2005 | 2001
Of the 118 publicly-owned companies headquartered in California in the 2019 Fortune 500 List, 26 are headquarted in Los Angeles County. Total revenue for these 26 companies in 2018 came to $235 billion and total market value was $375 billion. They employed nearly 600,000 people. The Walt Disney Company continues to be Los Angeles County's most valuable locally-based company with more than half the market value of all 26 companies combined. It ranked 53rd in the Fortune 500 list and 6th in California.
Edison International is the oldest public corporation headquartered in Los Angeles County. It traces its roots back to 1886.
| Company | Sales 2018 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Walt Disney Co.* | $59,434 | Entertainment | 201,000 | Burbank | 1923 |
| CBRE Group, Inc.* | $21,340 | Real estate | 90,000 | Los Angeles | 1906 |
| AECOM Technology Corp. | $20,156 | Construction Engineering | 87,000 | Los Angeles | 1990 |
| Molina Healthcare, Inc. | $18,890 | Health Care | 11,000 | Long Beach | 1980 |
| Edison International* | $12,657 | Utilities | 12,500 | Rosemead | 1886 |
| Farmers Insurance Exchange** | $11,650 | Insurance | 12,700 | Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) | 1928 |
| Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | $11,535 | Metals | 15,600 | Los Angeles | 1939 |
| Company | Sales, 2018 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.* | $10,708 | Entertainment | 16,000 | Beverly Hills | 2010 |
| A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. | $7,606 | Precious Metals | 180 | El Segundo | 1965 |
| Activision Blizzard, Inc.* | $7,500 | Computer Gaming Software | 9,900 | Santa Monica | 1979 |
| Avery Dennison Corp.* | $7,159 | Chemicals | 30,000 | Glendale | 1935 |
| Smart & Final | $4,742 | Food & Drug Stores | 7,900 | City of Commerce | 1871 |
| Skechers U.S.A., Inc. | $4,663 | Apparel | 9,000 | Manhattan Beach | 1992 |
| KB Home | $4,547 | Homebuilders | 2,000 | Los Angeles | 1957 |
| Company | Sales, 2018 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Mattel, Inc.* | $4,511 | Toy Manufacturing | 27,000 | El Segundo | 1945 |
| Tutor Perini Corp. | $4,455 | Construction Engineering | 8,200 | Sylmar (Los Angeles) | 1894 |
| ASGN Inc. (formerly On Assignment) |
$3,400 | Temporary Help | 4,300 | Calabasas | 1985 |
| Mercury General Corp. | $3,380 | Insurance | 4,400 | Los Angeles | 1961 |
| California Resources Corp. | $3,064 | Petroleum & Natural Gas | 1,500 | Santa Clarita | 2014 |
| Tetra Tech, Inc. | $2,964 | Construction Engineering | 17,000 | Pasadena | 1966 |
| Public Storage* | $2,754 | Storage Facilities | 5,600 | Glendale | 1972 |
| Company | Sales, 2018 ($million) |
Industry | Employees | Corporate HQ | Year Founded |
| Colony Capital, Inc. | $2,667 | Private Equity Real Estate | 400 | Los Angeles | 1991 |
| Guess?, Inc. | $2,610 | Apparel | 15,700 | Los Angeles | 1981 |
| The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. | $2,332 | Restaurants | 38,700 | Calabasas | 1972 |
| 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC | $2,194 | Discount Retail Stores | 17,200 | City of Commerce | 1969 |
| PCM, Inc. | $2,164 | Technology Retailers | 3,900 | El Segundo | 1987 |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. | $1,982 | Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles | 5,100 | El Segundo | 1942 |
| Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.* | $1,327 | Real Estate Investment | 330 | Pasadena | 1994 |
* Listed among S&P 500 companies.
** Parent company is Zurich Insurance Group.
Sources: Fortune Magazine and D&B Hoovers
Some of the large public companies that either relocated their headquarters out of Los Angeles County or were acquired or merged into a company not locally-headquartered: Oaktree Capital Group, Los Angeles (merged 2019), VCA, Los Angeles (acquired 2017), Unified Grocers, Inc., City of Commerce (acquired 2017), Healthnet, Woodland Hills (acquired 2016), Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Pasadena (relocated 2016), DirecTV (merged 2014), Occidental Petroleum, Los Angeles (relocated 2014).
Mattel, Inc. is the world’s largest toy maker. 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."
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.
