Per a response to my previous blog about the Kansas City Investing Market, here is a list of major employers in the Kansas City area.
A great source of information regarding Kansas City is on wikipedia.com. Click here for a direct link.
The economy of Kansas City Metropolitan Area is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, which is the largest city in Missouri and 40th largest city in the United States. The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is the 27th largest in the United States based on the United States Census Bureau's 2004 population estimates. The Kansas City area is a large, influential, and important economy in its region. Historically, Kansas City, Missouri has been the third largest beef capital in the United States (behind Chicago and Cincinnati) and home to the second largest rail network. The Kansas City Metropolitan Area houses many factories, manufacturing plants, an official international trade zone, and more foreign trade zone space than anywhere else in the nation. As of 2006, although the Kansas City Metropolitan Area is home to ten of the Fortune 1000 companies, Kansas City, Missouri, itself is home to only six:
- H&R Block (tax preparation and personal finance; the only Fortune 500 company in Kansas City)
- Interstate Bakeries Corporation (international wholesale baker and distributor)
- Great Plains Energy (public utilities)
- Aquila, Inc. (public utilities)
- AMC Entertainment (national movie theatre chain)
- DST Systems Inc. (software developer specializing in information processing and management)
Other major companies and employers
Kansas City is also home to a number of other very large, national and international companies, some of which are:
- American Century Investments (mutual fund manager and broker)
- Black & Veatch Corporation
- Burns & McDonnell Engineering
- Commerce Bancshares (large bank operating in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois)
- Crayola (a division of Hallmark)
- Hallmark Cards (largest greeting card manufacturer in the world) (NOTE: although Hallmark's gross revenues would generally be more than sufficient for inclusion in the Fortune 500 and 1000, those lists only apply to public companies. Hallmark is privately held by the Hall family and is thus ineligible for the Fortune 500 or 1000.)
- HNTB (multinational infrastructure planning, engineering, and consulting firm).
- Interstate Bakeries (maker of Wonder Bread, Twinkies, and other assorted products)
- Kansas City Southern Industries (railway management)
- Kansas City Life Insurance (major national insurer)
- Russell Stover Candies
- Wish-Bone salad dressing
Other major regional and national non-corporate employers headquartered and/or located in Kansas City include:
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon (major national and international law firm)
- University of Missouri - Kansas City (full branch of the University of Missouri)
Sprint Nextel has its executive headquarters in Reston, Virginia and maintains an operational and engineering headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas (where the largest number of Sprint Nextel employees are based).
All information in this post is from wikipedia.com.
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