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18 unusual facts about Fortune 500


Anna Escobedo Cabral

A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit coalition of 16 of the largest Hispanic organizations in the nation, HACR worked with Fortune 500 companies to increase Hispanic representation in employment, procurement, philanthropy, and governance.

Carolyn Peck

She passed up on an opportunity to play professionally in Spain to work as a marketing consultant at a Nashville television station, as well as sell pharmaceutical products for a Fortune 500 company for two years.

Fortune 500

Although the Fortune 500 list is the most familiar one, similar gross revenue lists of the top firms range from the highest ranking Fortune 100 including the top one hundred to the broader ranking Fortune 1000 that includes the top thousand firms.

Grainger Engineering Library

He made his riches by launching a small mail-order electrical supplies and components business that eventually grew into a Fortune 500 industrial supply company named after himself, W. W. Grainger.

Illinois Business Consulting

As of 2013, IBC conducts between 60 and 70 annual projects for companies including Fortune 500 companies and start‐up companies (profits and non-profits).

John Molson School of Business

According to a worldwide ranking by the École des Mines de Paris, Concordia ranks first among Canadian and 33rd among world universities in terms of graduates occupying the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 companies.

Klaus Johann Jacobs

Mr. Jacobs became also involved with the human resource services industry in 1991 with the acquisition of Adia Personnel Services where he led the company to a Global Fortune 500 Company following the merger with Ecco in 1996 to form Adecco.

Megan Beyer

She went on to anchor The Business Channel, a PBS satellite news service featuring best-selling authors and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Nicollet Mall

In addition to Target Corporation, Fortune 500 companies U.S. Bancorp and Xcel Energy also have their headquarters on Nicollet, while WCCO-TV (Channel 4) broadcasts from studios on the south end of the Mall, including a 'window to the world' news studio on the first floor of their facility.

Oragadam

With over 22 Fortune 500 companies (of which six are global car manufacturers), the Sriperumbudur–Oragadam belt has seen tremendous industrial growth in less than 4 years.

Progress Software

Progress products and technology are used at over 60,000 organizations in 140 countries including 90% of the Fortune 500.

Service economy

The current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manufacturers than in previous decades.

Shinan District

Shinan is a center for political, business and finance activities, and is home to investment from an increasing number of Fortune 500 companies.

Soldiersocks

Fundraising efforts have been made by Elementary and High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Cub Scout groups, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of the USA, nursing homes, Police and Fire Departments and Fortune 500 companies.

Sugar Land Regional Airport

The airport, the fourth largest airport in Greater Houston as of 2009, receives yearly usage from over 100 Fortune 500 companies.

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2004

Both attacks had basis in reality: Burr's campaign raised funds from numerous political action committees and at least 72 of the 100 largest Fortune 500 companies, while Bowles departed from the Clinton administration in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Video game publisher

At present, Electronic Arts is the only third-party publisher present in the S&P 500 diversified list of large U.S. corporations; in April 2010, it entered the Fortune 500 for the first time.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Suzhou Industrial Park is the location for more than 2100 international companies, more than 100 of which are Fortune 500 companies, including Siemens, L'Oréal and Nokia.


David Wecker

For 16 years, has been chief concept writer at The Eureka Ranch, where he played a key role in inventing and articulating some 5,000 new business concepts for a long list of Fortune 500 clients – including Nike, Disney, American Express, Chrysler, Frito-Lay, Bank of America and dozens of others.

Edward I. Schalon

Edward Irvin Schalon (February 27, 1920 – December 27, 2008) was a corporate executive who served as the chairman of board and chief executive officer of SPX Corporation, a Fortune 500 global company.

Jerrold Hercenberg

He then left the government to become a Partner with the national law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, where he co-chaired that firm’s Employer Health Benefits Work Group serving numerous Fortune 500 companies and state budgets.

Jim McColl

In September 2008, McColl led a team which enabled Clyde Blowers to acquire the entire Fluid & Power Division of Fortune 500 multi-industry company Textron, in a deal worth over $1 billion.

John C. Maxwell

Every year Maxwell speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point and the National Football League.

Lacie Lybrand

Lybrand graduated from Lexington High School in 2000 and was already working for SCANA, a Fortune 500 company before she graduated.

Las Colinas

During the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations—including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as Exxon Mobil Corporation, GTE Telephone (now Verizon), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp.

Media conglomerate

According to the 2013 Fortune 500 list, The Walt Disney Company is America's largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, with News Corporation (now News Corp & 21st Century Fox), Time Warner, CBS Corporation, and Viacom completing the top five.

Meettheboss

Covering eight channels, including Leadership, Sales, Innovation, Technology, Marketing, Strategy, Human Capital and Governance, the channel features a mixture of one-on-one interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs, business leaders and entrepreneurs, talking-heads programmes and a Meet The Ninja leadership training portal.

PacifiCare Health Systems

PacifiCare Health Systems (former NYSE symbol PHS) was a Fortune 500 healthcare company based in Cypress, California.

Presidio Graduate School

Presidio faculty includes recognized, award-winning sustainability thought leaders such as Peter Warshall, and Andrew Hoffman, as well as academics, business practitioners, and published authors who have worked for and advised Fortune 500 companies, leading NGOs, and governments from around the world.

Ravi Gomatam

He then moved to the USA and worked as a freelance consultant for a number of Fortune-500 companies including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Burroughs and IBM in the areas of operating system design, data communications and very-large database design.

Smithfield, Virginia

Currently, Smithfield Foods, a Fortune 500 Company that owns Smithfield Packing Company and others, is the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.

South Jersey Industries

SJRG provides natural gas commodity, storage, and wholesale and transportation services to more than 83 customers throughout the southern, eastern and mid-western portions of the country, including Fortune 500 companies, energy marketers, natural gas and electric utilities and natural gas producers.

Tideway Systems

Tideway's customers included Dresdner Kleinwort, Linklaters, Wachovia, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies who use Foundation to automate and remove risk from their IT infrastructure.

Washington County, Oregon

Nike, one of two Fortune 500 corporations based in Oregon, has its headquarters in Washington County.

Welspun Group

Its clients include Fortune 500 Companies operating in Oil & Gas and retail sector such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, WalMart, and Target.