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Largest Privately-Owned Companies
Based in Los Angeles County
Ranked by Sales, 2006

Company	Industry	Sales ($billion)	Location	Employees
Capital Group of Companies	Asset Management	9.25*	Los Angeles	8,000
Platinum Equity	Conglomerates	8.00	Beverly Hills	45,000
Murdock Holding Company	Farm Products	6.99	Los Angeles	75,000
JF Shea	Residential Construction	3.43	Walnut	3,290
Aecom Technology	General Contractors	3.30**	Los Angeles	26,000
Consolidated Electrical Distributors	Wholesale, Other	2.80*	Westlake Village	5,200
Parsons	Heavy Construction	2.73	Pasadena	10,300
Red Chamber Group	Food Wholesale	1.58	Vernon	1,600
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer	Entertainment	1.54*	Los Angeles	440
Roll International	Conglomerates	1.48**	Los Angeles	2,680
Latham & Watkins	Law Firm	1.41	Los Angeles	4,230
Newegg.com	Online Computer/Electronics Retail	1.26*	City of Industry	1,200
Topa Equities	Beverages - Wineries & Distillers	1.20	Los Angeles	2,300
ViewSonic	Computer Peripherals	1.20	Walnut	640

* Estimated by Forbes Magazine
** Company provided estimate
Source: Forbes Magazine

Capital Group Companies, Platinum Equity, and Murdock Holding Company are the 20th, 22nd, and 30th largest privately-owned companies respectively in America.

Latham & Watkins, founded in Los Angeles in 1937, is the largest and highest-grossing law firm on the West Coast. It fields 1,000 lawyers in offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New Jersey, New York, Northern Virginia, Orange County (California), San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

In 1924, Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions formed a partnership that launched Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 2005, an investor group including Sony Corporation of America and Comcast Corporation acquired the company, ending its period as one of Los Angeles County's largest public stock corporations.

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