METRO ATLANTA FORTUNE 500 & FORTUNE 1000 HEADQUARTERS (2016)
• Twenty-five metro Atlanta headquartered companies are among America’s largest corporations qualifying as the 2016 FORTUNE 1000, of which 16 metro Atlanta headquartered companies rank among the 2016 FORTUNE 500.
• Metro Atlanta’s headquartered FORTUNE 1000 companies generated aggregate revenues of $371.2 billion in the last fiscal year (2015).
• One metro Atlanta-based company was new to qualify as a FORTUNE 500 in 2016. Veritiv Corporation, a business-to-business distributor of print, publishing, packaging and facility solutions, generated $8.7 billion in revenue in 2015. The company was established in 2014 as result of the merger of International Paper Company’s xpedx business and Unisource Worldwide.
METRO ATLANTA HEADQUARTERED FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES – 16* (Revenue in millions; last fiscal year)
1. THE HOME DEPOT 2. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE (UPS) 3. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 4. DELTA AIR LINES, INC. 5 Revenue: $88,519 5 Revenue: $58,363 6 Revenue: $44,294 5 Revenue: $40,704 5 Rank: 28 5 Rank: 48 5 Rank: 62 5 Rank: 68
5. THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 6. GENUINE PARTS COMPANY 7. FIRST DATA CORPORATION 8. HD SUPPLY HOLDINGS, INC. 6 Revenue: $17,489 6 Revenue: $15,280 5 Revenue: $11,451 6 Revenue: $8,779 5 Rank: 162 5 Rank: 183 5 Rank: 249 6 Rank: 320
9. VERITIV 1 10. SUNTRUST BANKS, INC. 11. AGCO CORPORATION 12. ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE Revenue: $8,718 6 Revenue: $8,533 6 Revenue: $7,467 GROUP, INC. Rank: 323 6 Rank: 329 6 Rank: 360 5 Revenue: $6,588 5 Rank: 393
13. COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS 14. NCR CORPORATION 15. PULTEGROUP, INC. 16. NEWELL BRANDS 6 Revenue: $6,540 6 Revenue: $6,373 5 Revenue: $5,982 5 Revenue: $5,972 6 Rank: 397 5 Rank: 409 5 Rank: 433 5 Rank: 434
GEORGIA HEADQUARTERED FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES – 2 AFLAC INCORPORATED MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC. 6 Revenue: $20,872 5 Revenue: $8,072 (outside of metro Atlanta) 6 Rank: 135 5 Rank: 338
Source: 2016 FORTUNE 500/1000, Fortune magazine, June 6, 2016 * 13 represents the number of FORTUNE 500 Headquarters with a city of “Atlanta” address as reported for the 2016 FORTUNE 500; 16 represents the number of FORTUNE 500 Headquarters located within the entire metro Atlanta area (29-county MSA) | 56 higher or lower revenue or rank compared to 2015 FORTUNE standing | 1 newly qualified company on the 2016 FORTUNE 500 list Updated 01.25.2017
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METRO ATLANTA HEADQUARTERED FORTUNE 1000 COMPANIES – 9 (Revenue in millions; last fiscal year)
1. INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE 2. GRAPHIC PACKAGING HOLDING 3. AGL RESOURCES INC. 5 Revenue: $4,682 COMPANY 6 Revenue: $3,941 5 Rank: 529 6 Revenue: $4,160 6 Rank: 600 5 Rank: 577
4. AXIALL CORPORATION 5. AARON’S, INC. 6. CARTER’S, INC. 6 Revenue: $3,787 5 Revenue: $3,180 5 Revenue: $3,014 6 Rank: 613 5 Rank: 689 5 Rank: 726
7. GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC. 8. ACUITY BRANDS, INC. 9. EQUIFAX, INC. 5 Revenue: $2,774 5 Revenue: $2,707 5 Revenue: 2,664 5 Rank: 777 5 Rank: 789 5 Rank: 801
GEORGIA HEADQUARTERED FORTUNE 1000 COMPANIES – 2 (outside of metro Atlanta)
FLOWERS FOODS, INC. TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES, INC. (TSYS) 5 Revenue: $3,779 5 Revenue: $2,780 5 Rank: 615 5 Rank: 776
Source: 2016 FORTUNE 500/1000, Fortune magazine, June 6, 2016 * 13 represents the number of FORTUNE 500 Headquarters with a city of “Atlanta” address as reported for the 2016 FORTUNE 500; 16 represents the number of FORTUNE 500 Headquarters located within the entire metro Atlanta area (29-county MSA) | 56 higher or lower revenue or rank compared to 2015 FORTUNE standing Updated 01.25.2017
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CITIES WITH THE MOST FORTUNE 500 HEADQUARTERS1
RANK CITY #HQ 1 New York, NY 47 2 Houston, TX 22 3 ATLANTA, GA 13* 4 (tie) Chicago, IL 9 Dallas, TX 5 St. Louis, MO 7 6 (tie) Cincinnati, OH 6 Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN Richmond, VA San Francisco, CA 7 (tie) Charlotte, NC 5 Irving, TX Omaha, NE Pittsburgh, PA San Antonio, TX Seattle, WA
1 Rank represents the number of FORTUNE 500 headquarters in a city as published by FORTUNE according to financial statements and company submissions (follows FORTUNE’s previous methodology of their city ranking). * There are 13 FORTUNE 500 Headquarters with a city of Atlanta mailing address as published on the 2016 FORTUNE 500 list. There are 16 FORTUNE 500 Headquarters located within the entire metro Atlanta area (29-county MSA). Source: Metro Atlanta Chamber/Georgia Power analysis of 2016 FORTUNE 500 list as published in FORTUNE magazine, June 15, 2016, print edition
Updated 01.25.2017
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