Guitar Center in Monterey Park. Los Angeles Almanac Photo.
| Company | Location | Industry | Worldwide Sales ($billion) |
Employees | Year Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Group of Companies, Inc | Los Angeles | Asset Management | 8.0 (1) | 7,500 | 1931 |
| Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc | Westlake Village | Electrical Equipment Wholesaler | 4.6 (1) | 6,200 | 1957 |
| The Wonderful Company (2) | Los Angeles | Holding Company - Nut & Citrus Farms, Teleflora, Juice & Water, Freight, Vineyards & Winery, Pest Control, Etc. |
4.2 | 8,500 | 1979 |
| Forever 21, Inc | Los Angeles | Apparel Retail | 3.4 (1) | 30,000 | 1984 |
| Panda Restaurant Group | Rosemead | Restaurants | 3.1 (1) | 27,000 | 1973 |
| Newegg, Inc | City of Industry | Online Computer/Electronics Retailer | 2.3 (3) | 2,500 | 2001 |
| Guitar Center, Inc | Westlake Village | Musical Equipment Retail | 2.2 (1) | 10,000 | 1964 |
| Red Chamber Co. | Vernon | Food Exporter/Processor | 2.2 (1) | 1,700 | 1973 |
(1) Forbes Magazine Estimate
(2) The Wonderful Company was known as Roll Global prior to 2015 and Roll International prior to that.
(3) D&B Hoovers Estimate
Source: Forbes Magazine
Platinum Equity LLC of Beverly Hills, listed in Forbes' annual List of America's Largest Private Companies through 2015, was reclassified as a private equity firm in 2016 and determined to be no longer eligible for the list.
Parsons Corporation, long on the Los Angeles Almanac's list of the largest privately-owned companies based in Los Angeles County, ended this status after it announced on February 28, 2019, that, effectively immediately, its corporated headquarters was relocated from Pasadena (where it had been based since its founding in 1944) to Centreville, Virginia.
