METRO TOP EMPLOYERS (2014)

Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 1 , Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 81) 31,237 2 Emory University/Emory Healthcare 29,937 3 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 20,532 4 , Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 33) 20,000 5 AT&T Inc. 17,882 6 The Co. 14,753 7 WellStar Health System 13,500 8 Publix Super Markets, Inc. 9,494 9 United States Postal Service - Atlanta District 9,385 10 Northside Hospital 9,016 11 The Coca-Cola Company (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 58) 8,761 12 , Inc. (UPS) (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 50) 8,727 13 Piedmont Healthcare 8,707 14 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 8,539 15 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc. 7,452 16 Inc. 7,255 17 of America, N.A. 6,800 tie SunTrust , Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 314) 6,800 18 Institute of Technology () 6,386 19 Southern Company1 (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 170) 6,247 20 Georgia State University 5,875 21 Lockheed Martin Corp. 5,823 22 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS) 5,500 23 Grady Health System 5,450 24 State Farm 5,000 tie & Company 5,000 25 Georgia Power2 4,769 26 Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transportation Authority (MARTA) 4,559 27 Georgia-Pacific LLC 4,100 28 Verizon Wireless 3,974 29 Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) 3,402

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 30 McKesson Corp. 3,289 31 ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. 3,100 32 Southwire Company, LLC 2,960 33 NCR Corp. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 423) 2,915 34 DeKalb Medical 2,866 35 FedEx Corp. 2,802 36 Norfolk Southern Corp. 2,618 37 Kennesaw State University 2,600 tie Siemens Industry, Inc. 2,600 38 Goodwill of North Georgia 2,552 39 Tanner Health System 2,525 40 Kaiser Permanente Georgia 2,475 41 Genuine Parts Company (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 205) 2,375 42 Branch Banking & Trust Company (BB&T) 2,350 43 Deloitte LLP 2,320 44 Comcast Corp. 2,319 45 General Electric Company (GE) 2,200 46 InterContinental Hotels Group, PLC (IHG) 2,160 47 Accenture PLC 2,100 48 Atlanta Medical Center 2,097 49 Assurant, Inc. 1,992 50 EY (Ernst & Young) 1,973 51 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia 1,950 52 Fiserv, Inc. 1,932 53 Aramark 1,928 54 Shaw Industries Group, Inc. 1,708 55 American International Group, Inc. (AIG) 1,700 tie Carter's, Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 798) 1,700 tie Georgia Perimeter College 1,700 56 , Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 883) 1,678 57 Ricoh Americas Corp. 1,640

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 58 PetSmart, Inc. 1,611 59 Cisco Systems, Inc. 1,600 60 Primerica, Inc. 1,546 61 Rock-Tenn Company (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 293) 1,536 62 Pilgrim's Pride Corp. 1,535 63 YMCA of Metro Atlanta 1,522 64 AGL Resources Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 532) 1,520 65 First Data Corp. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 261) 1,500 tie Sprint Corp. 1,500 tie Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corp. of America 1,500 66 Gate Gourmet 1,472 67 PruittHealth 1,457 68 Aaron's, Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 907) 1,453 69 Manheim 1,420 70 Kimberly-Clark Corp. 1,413 71 Koch Foods, Inc. 1,400 72 Ryder System, Inc. 1,398 73 PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC) 1,390 74 CarMax, Inc. 1,374 75 HMSHost North America 1,372 76 Macy's Systems & Technology, Inc. 1,316 77 Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) 1,300 78 Office Depot, Inc. 1,294 79 RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc. 1,270 80 LexisNexis Risk Solutions3 1,260 81 Exel 1,259 82 University of West Georgia 1,254 83 Rollins, Inc.4 1,222 84 Oldcastle Materials, Inc. 1,200 85 Alorica 1,183 86 Tyson Foods, Inc. 1,170

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 87 AirWatch by VMware 1,150 tie Manhattan Associates 1,150 88 Shepherd Center 1,148 89 Alcon 1,100 tie AMEC 1,100 tie Scientific Games Corp. 1,100 90 Aon Hewitt 1,090 91 KPMG LLP 1,058 92 SAP America Inc. 1,026 93 Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 436) 1,017 94 Fidelity Bank 1,000 95 PepsiCo Inc. 997 96 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 990 97 Clayton State University 983 98 US Foods, Inc. 980 99 The Travelers Companies, Inc. 975 100 General Services Administration (GSA) 963 101 OFS Fitel, LLC 962 102 Acuity Brands, Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 951) 952 103 Birch Communications, Inc.(Cbeyond) 937 104 Caterpillar Inc. 932 105 Gwinnett Technical College 930 tie Harrison Poultry Inc. 930 tie Hillphoenix 930 106 Pactiv LLC 925 107 Chick-fil-A, Inc. 908 108 AutoTrader.com, Inc. 900 tie Greenway Health, LLC 900 tie HL-A Co., Inc. (Honda Lock) 900 109 InComm 894 110 Morehouse School of Medicine 873

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 111 Georgia Gwinnett College 841 112 Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. 829 113 () 825 114 Americold 815 115 The Cleveland Group (Cleveland Electric) 811 116 Printpack, Inc. 807 117 CBRE, Inc. 800 tie Cooper Lighting by Eaton 800 tie Fresh Express (Chiquita Brands International, Inc.) 800 118 Decostar Industries (Magna International Inc.) 794 119 Alere Health LLC 777 120 Alston & Bird LLP 775 121 King & Spalding LLP 765 122 Dart Container Corp. 755 123 Cancer Treatment Centers of America 750 tie JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) 750 tie Visiting Nurse Health System 750 124 Oracle Corp. 732 125 Southwest Airlines Co. 721 126 United Distributors, Inc. 719 127 E*TRADE Financial Corp. 709 128 YP 704 129 Convergent Resources Holdings, LLC 700 tie Hyatt Regency Atlanta 700 tie IBM Corp. 700 tie Southern Polytechnic State University 700 tie WIKA Instrument, LP 700 tie Wipro Technologies 700 130 Sysco Atlanta LLC 698 131 Jackson Healthcare, LLC 689 132 American Cancer Society, Inc. 664

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* 133 Randstad US 661 134 CH2M HILL 650 tie Dell SecureWorks, Inc. 650 135 Quest Diagnostics Inc. 646 136 Delta Community Credit Union 645 137 RelayHealth 635 138 Woodward Academy 630 139 Spelman College 625 140 Clark Atlanta University 620 141 AGCO Corp. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 262) 619 142 Sage Software, Inc. 615 City of Atlanta Department of Aviation 143 (includes Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport) 614 144 Access Insurance Company 609 145 TOTO USA, Inc. 602 146 Agora Inc. 600 tie Mondelez International, Inc. 600 tie Omni Hotel at CNN Center 600 tie Royal Philips 600 tie SecurAmerica LLC 600 tie Tip Top Poultry, Inc. 600 147 SITA 593 148 ARRIS Group, Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 644) 590 149 WorldPay US, Inc. 584 150 R+L Carriers, Inc. 580 151 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) 570 152 Elavon Inc. 565 153 American Red Cross 562 154 Graphic Packaging Holding Company (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 547) 554 155 Atlanta Journal-Constitution 550 tie Briggs & Stratton Corp. 550

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Top employers based on 500 minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount plus all FORTUNE 500/1000 headquarters in metro Atlanta The Metro Atlanta Chamber's Economic Development Research Team conducted the 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers survey to determine which employers (both public and private) have the largest total full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts based on facilities within the 29-county metro Atlanta area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, Walton). The survey efforts included direct outreach to organizations by an email survey, a direct mail survey from the Metro Atlanta Chamber's President & CEO, follow-up emails, phone calls and data from third party sources. Final results totaled 205 organizations that qualify as metro Atlanta's top employers. 60 percent of organizations provided direct survey responses with their full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts. Full-time equivalent (FTE) headcounts for the remaining 40 percent of organizations listed, who did not respond, were sourced through either BusinessWise or the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Full-Time Equivalent Rank Employer (FTE) Headcount* tie Gold Creek Foods, LLC 550 tie Golden State Foods 550 tie MarketSource Inc. 550 tie Troutman Sanders LLP 550 156 Merial Ltd. 540 157 Delta Dental Insurance Company 535 158 BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 931) 510 159 Carestream Dental LLC 500 tie CSM Bakery Products 500 tie Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 500 tie Novelis Inc. 500 tie Corp. 500 160 HD Supply Holdings, Inc.5 (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 317) 465 161 Global Payments Inc. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 867) 411 162 PulteGroup, Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 446) 320 163 Exide Technologies (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 732) 240 164 Axiall Corporation (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 524) 150 165 Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 472) 120 166 Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. (FORTUNE 500 - Rank 348) 100 167 Ocwen Financial Corp. (FORTUNE 1000 - Rank 955) TBD *Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Headcount is the total employment for all organization facilities within the metro Atlanta area (29-county MSA). 1Southern Company includes and all other subsidiaries. 2Georgia Power is a subsidiary of . 3LexisNexis Risk Solutions headcount includes all employees in Georgia. 4Rollins Inc. includes Orkin. 5HD Supply Holdings, Inc. includes HD Supply, HD Supply Waterwoks, HD Supply Power Solutions, HD Supply Utilities, and HD Supply Distribution.

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Primary Source: 2014 Metro Atlanta Top Employers Survey, Metro Atlanta Chamber Economic Development Research Team. Secondary Source: BusinessWise, Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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