Harbor Freight Tools headquarters in Calabasas. Photo by David Stargell, CC by SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Privately-owned companies are those not offering ownership of stock in the company to the public.
| Company | Location | Industry | Global Sales ($billion)* |
Employees | Year Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Group of Companies, Inc | Los Angeles | Financial Services & Asset Management | $8.0 | 7,500 | 1931 |
| Harbor Freight Tools | Calabasas | Retailing | $6.5 | 25,000 | 1977 |
| Panda Restaurant Group | Rosemead | Restaurants | $5.4 | 30,000 | 1973 |
| The Wonderful Company | Los Angeles | Holding Company - Nut & Citrus Farms, Teleflora, Juice & Water, Freight, Vineyards & Winery, Pest Control, Etc. |
$5.0 | 10,000 | 1979 |
| SpaceX † | Hawthorne | Aerospace & Defense | $4.6 | 12,000 | 2002 |
| Company | Location | Industry | Global Sales ($billion)* |
Employees | Year Founded |
| 99 Cents Only Stores ‡ | Commerce | Retailing | $2.9 | 17,000 | 1982 |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | Los Angeles | Law Firm | $2.7 | 2,600 | 1890 |
| Guitar Center | Westlake Village | Leisure | $2.3 | 10,000 | 1959 |
| Red Chamber Co. | Vernon | Seafood Exporter/Processor | $2.0 | 1,700 | 1973 |
* Sales numbers are Forbes Magazine estimates.
† In July 2024, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, offended by California legislation protecting the privacy of LGBTQ+ school kids, announced that the company's headquarters would be relocated from California to Texas.
‡ In April 2024, 99 Cents Only Stores announced that, due to financial hardship, all it stores would be closed by June 2024.
Source: Forbes Magazine
The Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm has 20 offices worldwide, including offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Paris, Sao Paulo, Dubai, and throughout the US. The firm employs more than 1,700 lawyers.
The Wonderful Company was known as Roll Global prior to 2015 and Roll International even before that.
