Missouri Fortune 1000 Companies

arch city · PostApr 03, 2006#12006-04-03T23:15+00:00

1 Emerson Electric 126 17,305.0 St. Louis

2 Express Scripts 134 16,266.0 Maryland Heights

3 Anheuser-Busch 146 15,035.7 St. Louis

4 Ameren 324 6,780.0 St. Louis

5 Monsanto 336 6,439.0 St. Louis

6 Leggett & Platt 404 5,299.3 Carthage

7 Charter Communications 413 5,254.0 St. Louis

8 Peabody Energy 453 4,644.5 St. Louis

9 H&R Block 467 4,420.0 Kansas City

10 Graybar Electric 476 4,288.0 St. Louis

11 Energizer Holdings 619 2,989.8 St. Louis

12 Solutia 637 2,825.0 St. Louis

13 A.G. Edwards 665 2,611.8 St. Louis

14 Great Plains Energy 667 2,604.9 Kansas City

15 DST Systems 688 2,515.1 Kansas City

16 Arch Coal 691 2,508.8 St. Louis

17 Furniture Brands Intl. 713 2,386.8 St. Louis

18 Olin 723 2,357.7 Clayton

19 Kellwood 725 2,351.4 St. Louis

20 Brown Shoe 741 2,292.1 St. Louis

21 Aquila 760 2,194.0 Kansas City

22 O'Reilly Automotive 796 2,045.3 Springfield

23 Maverick Tube 844 1,868.2 Chesterfield

24 AMC Entertainment 857 1,806.6 Kansas City

25 Ralcorp Holdings 906 1,675.1 St. Louis

26 Sigma-Aldrich 909 1,666.5 St. Louis

27 Laclede Group 930 1,597.0 St. Louis

28 Centene 967 1,505.9 St. Louis

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PostApr 03, 2006#22006-04-03T23:17+00:00

Interestingly enough, St. Louis lost May Company from the F500 list, but gained Clayton-based Centene Corporation at #967 on the F1000 list.

St. Louis still has 21 firms on the F1000 list - the same amount it had last year.

MattnSTL · PostApr 03, 2006#32006-04-03T23:27+00:00

And we're kicking KC's ass.

matguy70 · PostApr 04, 2006#42006-04-04T02:37+00:00

Oh please don't start that!

STL ranks high in the F500 Companies top 10 cities:

TOP 2006 CITIES:

1) New York New York 44

2) Houston Texas 23

3) Atlanta Georgia 14

4) Dallas Texas 11

5) Chicago Illinois 10

6) St. Louis Missouri 7

Charlotte North Carolina 7 T

Cincinnati Ohio 7 T

Minneapolis Minnesota 7 T

Philadelphia Pennsylvania 7 T

Richmond Virginia 7 T

courtland · PostApr 04, 2006#52006-04-04T02:59+00:00

Arch City wrote:

1 Emerson Electric 126 17,305.0 St. Louis

2 Express Scripts 134 16,266.0 Maryland Heights

3 Anheuser-Busch 146 15,035.7 St. Louis

4 Ameren 324 6,780.0 St. Louis

5 Monsanto 336 6,439.0 St. Louis

6 Leggett & Platt 404 5,299.3 Carthage

7 Charter Communications 413 5,254.0 St. Louis

8 Peabody Energy 453 4,644.5 St. Louis

9 H&R Block 467 4,420.0 Kansas City

10 Graybar Electric 476 4,288.0 St. Louis

11 Energizer Holdings 619 2,989.8 St. Louis

12 Solutia 637 2,825.0 St. Louis

13 A.G. Edwards 665 2,611.8 St. Louis

14 Great Plains Energy 667 2,604.9 Kansas City

15 DST Systems 688 2,515.1 Kansas City

16 Arch Coal 691 2,508.8 St. Louis

17 Furniture Brands Intl. 713 2,386.8 St. Louis

18 Olin 723 2,357.7 Clayton

19 Kellwood 725 2,351.4 St. Louis

20 Brown Shoe 741 2,292.1 St. Louis

21 Aquila 760 2,194.0 Kansas City

22 O'Reilly Automotive 796 2,045.3 Springfield

23 Maverick Tube 844 1,868.2 Chesterfield

24 AMC Entertainment 857 1,806.6 Kansas City

25 Ralcorp Holdings 906 1,675.1 St. Louis

26 Sigma-Aldrich 909 1,666.5 St. Louis

27 Laclede Group 930 1,597.0 St. Louis

28 Centene 967 1,505.9 St. Louis

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where's Enterprise? or they do not count private companies.

jmedwick · PostApr 04, 2006#62006-04-04T03:44+00:00

No, they do not count private companies.

It is good to see a few younger ones on the list. Maybe the growth of Pulaski Bank will get them onto this list in the near future, as I think banking is a hole right now for the area.

I don't know if i care so much about those city rankings, as I am willing to bet MPLS dominates St. Louis when we are talking about metro areas. Also remember company size... Target and General Mills and 3M are huge.

arch city · PostApr 04, 2006#72006-04-04T04:27+00:00

JMedwick wrote:
I don't know if i care so much about those city rankings, as I am willing to bet MPLS dominates St. Louis when we are talking about metro areas. Also remember company size... Target and General Mills and 3M are huge.

MPL-SP does have more large public firms - I believe 28. They have 18 F500 and 10 F1000 - if my numbers are accurate.

St. Louis has 8 F500 and 13 F1000. Keep in mind though that St. Louis has several large Forbes Private companies. Enterprise, Schnucks, World Wide Technology, UniGroup, Maritz, etc. MPL-SP, I don't think, has as many as St. Louis.

http://images.forbes.com/lists/2005/21/ ... tml?sort=2

MPL-SP area is slightly more of company town than St. Louis, but they haven't taken as much of a hit (TWA, General Dynamics, May, McDonnell-Douglas, Ralston, Edison, etc. ) as St. Louis has over the last decade either.

Regardless, I think St. Louis has recovered well. It'll be interesting to see where companies like Cebridge Connections and Build-A-Bear are in the next four or five years. I believe Cebridge is going to go public eventually.

MattnSTL · PostApr 04, 2006#82006-04-04T05:42+00:00

matguy70 wrote:Oh please don't start that!

I said it on purpose as a joke because sooner or later someone will say it, and then a huge stupid argument will ensue, and everyone will make themselves look stupid.

debaliviere · PostApr 04, 2006#92006-04-04T13:49+00:00

Wouldn't surprise me to see Stifel Nicolaus added to the list at some point in the future - they basically doubled in size in 2005.

arch city · PostApr 04, 2006#102006-04-04T14:57+00:00

^True. And next year, Isle of Capri will be added.

MattnSTL · PostApr 04, 2006#112006-04-04T16:26+00:00

^We should get Pinnacle to move their corporate offices here down onto the landing with their casino.

What other corporations would be a good fit to move to St. louis? We seem to be very good at growing Fortune 500's, but at a certain point, all of our children like to get married and move out of the house. The region really needs to work at becoming the place that our cities and other cities corporations want to move to.

jmedwick · PostApr 04, 2006#122006-04-04T16:58+00:00

I don't know, clearly the list above has a good grouping of newer companies on the bottom of the list, but other than Express Scripts, it seems like alot of St. Louis's problem has been that our big companies were developed years ago and are in mature industries where consolidation is the key to growth. Thats been the case in moved like Boatmans, Mercantiel, MacDonald Douglas, and May. That is a list right there of 4 good sized F500 companies. The really sad part is that the St. Louis based firm is always the one aquired and therefore we don't get the benefits of consolidation.

Hopfuly some young firms will move up and fill the spots those ones once held and maybe , even better, the new firms will grow the the top 50 or 100 size that seems nessisary to be the winning firm when consolidation comes.

debaliviere · PostApr 04, 2006#132006-04-04T17:12+00:00

One local example of a company that has been an acquirer instead of an acquireree is First Banks. It wouldn't shock me to see them sneak onto one of these lists some day.

It would be great to see more of the former May employees pool their collective retail knowledge and start their own stores, a la Maxine Clark of Build-A-Bear.

doug · PostApr 04, 2006#142006-04-04T17:38+00:00

Small Businesses are bigger drivers of economic growth. It would be more impressive to have a larger mount of small businesses, as opposed to being number 1 on the F500 list.

arch city · PostApr 04, 2006#152006-04-04T17:46+00:00

JMedwick wrote:I don't know, clearly the list above has a good grouping of newer companies on the bottom of the list, but other than Express Scripts, it seems like alot of St. Louis's problem has been that our big companies were developed years ago and are in mature industries where consolidation is the key to growth. Thats been the case in moved like Boatmans, Mercantiel, MacDonald Douglas, and May. That is a list right there of 4 good sized F500 companies. The really sad part is that the St. Louis based firm is always the one aquired and therefore we don't get the benefits of consolidation.

^I disagree to an extent. I think that St. Louis firms do a lot of acquiring. It's just that the some of the larger firms have been swallowed by out-of-towners and that's happening all around the country. We have this discussion every year around this time.

St. Louis companies pluck firms from other cities all of the time. Also, after Nestle acquired Ralston they moved jobs to St. Louis from California and recently made STL its international HQ for its Pet Care division. Boeing opened about two new subsidiaries in St. Louis, consolidated jobs, and added new ones in St. Louis. Federated is making St. Louis a regional HQ.

There have been many benefits.

I also agree with Doug. Large corporations are great to have, but they are more about prestige for some city/regions. Between Feb. 2005 and Feb. 2006, St. Louis added 18,500 jobs (if the number is accurate) and most of those likely came from small businesses.

st. louis texan · PostApr 04, 2006#162006-04-04T17:47+00:00

Isle Of capri is coming to St. Louis? I heard that they wanted more tax money than they could have.

tbspqr · PostApr 04, 2006#172006-04-04T21:17+00:00

MattnSTL wrote:And we're kicking KC's ass.

I dont disagree - but remember KC and STL are both multi state MSAs - so to get a true list of whats happening in KC area and STL area - one would need to get Illinois and Kansas data as well and add the ones from the other state.

Kansas City area:

1 YRC Worldwide 263 8,741.6 Overland Park

2 Seaboard 652 2,688.9 Shawnee Mission

4 Ferrellgas Partners 853 1,843.5 Overland Park

I didn't see any i recognized from ILL side of the river in STL MSA. So even though in Missouri KC seems to be getting a massive blow - KCK is helping their region more than IL part of our region <as far as big companies>

appraisalman · PostApr 04, 2006#182006-04-04T21:33+00:00

Two other big companies that are major employers in the KC are that didn't appear on the list are Sprint, and Hallmark. Hallmark is of course private, and I'm not quite sure where Sprint is ranked, but I would imagine they would have to be in the top 1,000.

tbspqr · PostApr 04, 2006#192006-04-04T22:20+00:00

sprint and nextel are now one company based in VA.... but yes - they have a huge presence in KCK area - the new combined company is ranked #59 on the Fortune 500 list. Halmark is based on Missouri side.... and yes it is private - had sales last year of 4.4 billion or so.

by comparison some of the other companies that were mentioned on here - acording to hoovers:

Schnucks - 2.2 billion

UniGroup - 1.8 billion

Maritz - 1.2 billion

Isle of Capri 1.1 billion

World Wide Technology - 1.1 billion

Dierbergs - 575 million

first bank 478 million

Build a bear - 361 million

Stifel Nicolaus - 270 million

Cebridge - 177 million

Pulaski bank - 48 million

so when you look at Centene at #967 out of 1000 - at 1.5 billion -- not to at all disagree with Arch City - that a lot of the growth comes from small companies - but though i thought i would throw that out

urban elitist · PostApr 04, 2006#202006-04-04T22:26+00:00

^Enough KC talk for about a year there. Now back to STL business.

St. Louis Texan wrote:Isle Of capri is coming to St. Louis? I heard that they wanted more tax money than they could have.

I think I remember reading somewhere that they picked a suburb, but I can't quite remember the whole story.

[EDIT] It's moving to Creve Coeur.

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stlmike · PostApr 05, 2006#212006-04-05T00:14+00:00

KC's got AMC.

tbspqr · PostApr 05, 2006#222006-04-05T02:03+00:00

stlmike wrote:KC's got AMC.

yes - look at the first post by Arch City. They are number 24 on the Missouri list. Hence i didn't mention them again.

MattnSTL · PostApr 05, 2006#232006-04-05T03:56+00:00

It was a joke. Some of you have probably not been around long enough to understand the constant comparisons and arguments between the two cities on other forums.

debaliviere · PostApr 05, 2006#242006-04-05T14:12+00:00

^Enough KC talk for about a year there. Now back to STL business.

Agreed.

What other corporations would be a good fit to move to St. louis? We seem to be very good at growing Fortune 500's, but at a certain point, all of our children like to get married and move out of the house. The region really needs to work at becoming the place that our cities and other cities corporations want to move to.

Forgive me for using an annoying buzzword, but one sector where St. Louis could develop more "synergies" is financial services. We're home to three outstanding brokerage companies (A.G. Edwards, Edward Jones and Stifel Nicolaus) as well as one of the top online brokerage companies (Scottrade) and a few up-and-coming banks (First Banks, Pulaski, Commerce - sort of), and with all the bank consolidations of the past 10 years, there is still a lot of banking talent here, including many graduates of Mark Twain's famous training program. Financial services is an area in which we can leverage our resources as a community to develop new companies and attract branch offices/support centers from other national firms.