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Old 04-26-2011, 12:24 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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The World's Biggest Public Companies - Forbes

California: 66 Companies

Los Angeles Area: 20
110 Walt Disney
158 Occidental Petroleum
201 Amgen
272 Northrop Grumman
314 Directv
423 Edison International
736 Broadcom
840 Western Digital
983 Public Storage
1141 Ingram Micro
1150 HCP
1280 Allergan
1315 Life Technologies
1446 Jacobs Engineering
1687 CB Richard Ellis
1698 Avery Dennison
1756 Health Net
1925 Edwards Lifesciences
1958 City National
1987 East West Bankcorp

San Diego Area: 3
252 Qualcomm
538 Sempra Energy
1051 SAIC

San Francisco Bay Area: 43
11 Wells Fargo
16 Chevron
42 Hewlett Packard
87 Cisco Systems
93 Intel
107 Oracle
120 Google
279 McKesson
318 Visa
365 PG&E
408 Ebay
498 Gilead Sciences
548 Applied Materials
584 Yahoo
590 Franklin Resources
622 Safeway
626 Charles Schwab
699 Gap
788 Symantec
851 Agilent Technologies
895 Sandisk
936 Juniper Networks
940 NetApp
971 Adobe Systems
1050 Ross Stores
1158 Clorox
1216 Altera
1232 Intuit
1261 VMWare
1324 Advanced Micro Devices
1419 Xilinix
1436 Intuitive Surgical
1517 Lam Research
1537 KLA-Tencor
1551 Linear Technology
1572 URS
1649 Varian Medical Systems
1670 First Republic Bank
1687 Nvidia
1733 Salesforce.com
1865 Atmel
1969 Netflix
2000 Synnex
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Old 04-26-2011, 08:31 AM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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I thought that it would be more. California has more than 10% of the US population. It has the largest economy of any state (and larger than most countries). It produces about 13% of the US GDP. I thought that it would have closer to 10% of the top 2000 companies. I wonder why that is?

Apparently lots of smaller companies locate in California, but comparatively few huge ones.

That is probably better for the CA economy. That helps avoid dependence on a single industry like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with cars and steel.

Maybe California businesses are more service and finance oriented and therfore tend to be smaller.
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Old 04-26-2011, 08:39 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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San Diego really needs to increase the number of large corporate HQs it has. Probably the best way to do that is to subsidize start ups and hope that a few of them eventually hit the big times. I honestly think locally grown companies have more loyalty to an area then offices of larger companies which relocate to an area just for tax breaks or low wage workers; the locally grown companies are more likely to stick around through good times or bad. Qualcomm started when a few engineers working at General Dynamics decided to strike out on their own and now GD (formerly the largest private employer in the county) is now gone but Qualcomm is still here and has become a major employer.
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Old 04-26-2011, 08:48 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Originally Posted by Coldjensens View Post
I thought that it would be more. California has more than 10% of the US population. It has the largest economy of any state (and larger than most countries). It produces about 13% of the US GDP. I thought that it would have closer to 10% of the top 2000 companies. I wonder why that is?

Apparently lots of smaller companies locate in California, but comparatively few huge ones.

That is probably better for the CA economy. That helps avoid dependence on a single industry like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with cars and steel.

Maybe California businesses are more service and finance oriented and therfore tend to be smaller.
You figure most of the big industrial firms are 100-150 years old so they started out when California's economy was relatively undeveloped compared to back east. That means most of the giant industrial firms are headquarted back east with the exception of some oil companies and chemical companies which sprang up here due to the oil business.
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Old 04-26-2011, 09:25 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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You figure most of the big industrial firms are 100-150 years old so they started out when California's economy was relatively undeveloped compared to back east. That means most of the giant industrial firms are headquarted back east with the exception of some oil companies and chemical companies which sprang up here due to the oil business.
Exactly! One cannot include manufacturing companies as California's economy largely grew after those companies were formed.
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Old 04-26-2011, 12:17 PM
 
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U.S' biggest companies .. worst schools.. declining standard of living. Best natural beauty.
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Old 04-26-2011, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Originally Posted by Coldjensens View Post
I thought that it would be more. California has more than 10% of the US population. It has the largest economy of any state (and larger than most countries). It produces about 13% of the US GDP. I thought that it would have closer to 10% of the top 2000 companies. I wonder why that is?
These are the Top 2000 Companies IN THE WORLD, NOT JUST THE US.

And I made a mistake, California has 67, not 66(Forgot Apple)

California: 67 Companies

Los Angeles Area: 20
110 Walt Disney
158 Occidental Petroleum
201 Amgen
272 Northrop Grumman
314 Directv
423 Edison International
736 Broadcom
840 Western Digital
983 Public Storage
1141 Ingram Micro
1150 HCP
1280 Allergan
1315 Life Technologies
1446 Jacobs Engineering
1687 CB Richard Ellis
1698 Avery Dennison
1756 Health Net
1925 Edwards Lifesciences
1958 City National
1987 East West Bankcorp

San Diego Area: 3
252 Qualcomm
538 Sempra Energy
1051 SAIC

San Francisco Bay Area: 44
11 Wells Fargo
16 Chevron
42 Hewlett Packard
47 Apple
87 Cisco Systems
93 Intel
107 Oracle
120 Google
279 McKesson
318 Visa
365 PG&E
408 Ebay
498 Gilead Sciences
548 Applied Materials
584 Yahoo
590 Franklin Resources
622 Safeway
626 Charles Schwab
699 Gap
788 Symantec
851 Agilent Technologies
895 Sandisk
936 Juniper Networks
940 NetApp
971 Adobe Systems
1050 Ross Stores
1158 Clorox
1216 Altera
1232 Intuit
1261 VMWare
1324 Advanced Micro Devices
1419 Xilinix
1436 Intuitive Surgical
1517 Lam Research
1537 KLA-Tencor
1551 Linear Technology
1572 URS
1649 Varian Medical Systems
1670 First Republic Bank
1687 Nvidia
1733 Salesforce.com
1865 Atmel
1969 Netflix
2000 Synnex
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Old 04-26-2011, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Folks, the title of the thread does say GLOBAL, not just the US.
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Old 04-26-2011, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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United States 536
Japan 260
China 121
United Kingdom 86
CALIFORNIA 67
Canada 67
South Korea 61
India 57
Germany 54
Switzerland 47
Hong Kong 46
Australia 41
South Korea 40
Brazil 37
Italy 36
Sweden 28
Netherlands 27
Spain 27
Russia 26
Malaysia 19
Singapore 19
Mexico 18
South Africa 17
Thailand 17
Ireland 16
Saudi Arabia 15
Belgium 14
Bermuda 13
Finland 12
Greeece 12
Israel 12
Turkey 12
United Arab Emirates 12
Austria 11
Indonesia 11
Denmark 10
Norway 10
Chile 9
Qatar 9
Luxembourg 8
Portugal 8
Colombia 6
Poland 6
Kuwait 5
Egypt 4
Philippines 4
Venezuela 4
Morocco 3
Bahrain 2
Lebanon 2
Pakistan 2
Peru 2
Croatia 1
Czech Republic 1
Jordan 1
Kazakhstan 1
Liberia 1
Liechtenstein 1
Nigeria 1
Oman 1
Panama 1
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Old 04-26-2011, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Missed 2 more LA companies. Sorry. Here's the correction:

California: 69 Companies

Los Angeles Area: 22
110 Walt Disney
158 Occidental Petroleum
201 Amgen
272 Northrop Grumman
314 Directv
423 Edison International
736 Broadcom
840 Western Digital
983 Public Storage
1085 Mattel
1141 Ingram Micro
1150 HCP
1280 Allergan
1315 Life Technologies
1446 Jacobs Engineering
1687 CB Richard Ellis
1698 Avery Dennison
1756 Health Net
1907 AECom
1925 Edwards Lifesciences
1958 City National
1987 East West Bankcorp

San Diego Area: 3
252 Qualcomm
538 Sempra Energy
1051 SAIC

San Francisco Bay Area: 44
11 Wells Fargo
16 Chevron
42 Hewlett Packard
47 Apple
87 Cisco Systems
93 Intel
107 Oracle
120 Google
279 McKesson
318 Visa
365 PG&E
408 Ebay
498 Gilead Sciences
548 Applied Materials
584 Yahoo
590 Franklin Resources
622 Safeway
626 Charles Schwab
699 Gap
788 Symantec
851 Agilent Technologies
895 Sandisk
936 Juniper Networks
940 NetApp
971 Adobe Systems
1050 Ross Stores
1158 Clorox
1216 Altera
1232 Intuit
1261 VMWare
1324 Advanced Micro Devices
1419 Xilinix
1436 Intuitive Surgical
1517 Lam Research
1537 KLA-Tencor
1551 Linear Technology
1572 URS
1649 Varian Medical Systems
1670 First Republic Bank
1687 Nvidia
1733 Salesforce.com
1865 Atmel
1969 Netflix
2000 Synnex

So 69 out of 536 US companies on the Global 2000 are California-based.
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