LF: The big business map of America: Richest company in each state revealed with Arkansas' Wal-Mart taking the country's top spot

Title: The big business map of America: Richest company in each state revealed with Arkansas' Wal-Mart taking the country's top spot
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ichest-company-state-year.html
Published: Jun 10, 2015
Author: Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com
Post Date: 2015-06-10 08:55:46 by cranky
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A new map has revealed the richest company in each state based on total revenue from the last year, and Wal-Mart has once again taken the top spot.

The mega retailer, whose headquarters are based in Arkansas, made $485.65billion in revenue this year, up $9billion from 2014.

A number of companies continued their reign in their respective home states, including Verizon in New York (up $7billion for a total of $120.55billion), General Motors in Michigan and FedEx in Tennessee.

A new map has revealed the richest company in each state based on total revenue from the last year, and Wal-Mart has once again taken the top spot

THE STATES WITH THIS YEAR'S TOP TOP 10 RICHEST COMPANIES

1. Arkansas (Wal-Mart, $485.6b)

2. Texas (Exxon Mobil, $411.93b)

3. California (Chevron, $211.97b)

4. Michigan (General Motors, $155.92b)

5. Connecticut (General Electric, $148.58b)

6. Minnesota (United Health Group, $130.47b)

7. Nebraska (Berkshire Hathaway, $194.67b)

8. Rhode Island (CVS Caremark, $139.36b)

9. New York (Verizon, $127.07b)

10. Pennsylvania (AmeriSourceBergen, $119.56b)

The map, created by Broadview Networks, also showed that the West Coast's richest companies stayed exactly the same.

Chevron in California, Nike in Oregon and Costco in Washington all held on to their top spots.

But both Chevron and fellow gas company Exxon Mobil in Texas both saw drops in their revenue.

Chevron fell from $228.84 to $211.97 and Exxon dropped a whopping $27billion to $411.93billion.

Sprint in Kansas was replaced by Koch Industries, who outdid the phone company's $34.56billion in revenue last year by $81billion more dollars in 2015.

And Sanderson Farms in Mississippi lost its spot to fellow chicken farm Koch Foods.

Some companies lost their mark on the map completely. Sprint in Kansas was replaced by Koch Industries, who outdid the phone company's $34.56billion in revenue last year by $81billion more dollars in 2015

Where is apple? I thought they were supposed to be the most valuable company on earth.

They used to be headquartered in Cupertino, Ca off of US280 back in the 70s, iirc.

I passed their building twice daily as part of my commute from Milpitas to Palo Alto and back. They were building Macs, Lisas and Apple IIs there, I think.

Lately though, they've been getting a lot of bad international press about the way they do their accounting to avoid taxes.

I suspect they may declare as little profits in the good ol' U of A as they possibly can.