Ingram's August 2022

DESTINATION MISSOURI BUSINESS CULTURE

Titans of Business at Home in Missouri

provide services to 6.12 million residents of the state and millions more from bordering states—BJC Healthcare, Ascension Health, Mercy Health, Cox Health, HCA Midwest Health, and Saint Luke’s Health System, among others. Military/Defense: In addition to the defense contracting for weaponry, the state is home to thousands of servicemen and women based at the Army’s Fort Leonard Wood in the south-central part of the state and Whiteman Air Force Base near Sedalia, home to the B-2 stealth bomber squadron. When it comes to name-dropping for significant organiza tions, it’s tough to come up with any that are bigger than the Department of Defense. Transportation/Logistics: An explosion in industrial-space demand and growth over the past decade has thrust Kansas City and St. Louis into national conversations with big-time logistics and distribution centers like Chicago and Dallas. We’re not quite there yet, but with dozens of fast-growth companies in the trucking and warehousing space and the merger to create Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the state becomes a bigger player in national distribution circles by the day. It boasts the sixth-most extensive highway system, largest waterway system, 99 airports, and two of the largest rail terminals in the U.S., providing access from coast to coast.

THE COMPANIES WITH THE BIGGEST WORK FORCES IN MISSOURI CHOSE THIS STATE FOR A LOT OF GOOD REASONS. Some are national power players, like Walmart, Ford, AT&T and Amazon. Some are Missouri-head quartered, with large parts of their work force here but many others stationed around the globe. In Missouri itself, the biggest jobs generators hail from virtually every vital business sector: retail sales, health care, higher education, aviation and vehicle production, home improvement, financial services, insurance and information technology. If you’re a business owner who’s not familiar with the Show-Me State, see which companiesmaking the biggest impact asMissouri employers, thenask your- self: What do they know that I should?

Employees in Missouri

Rank Company

FROM MISSOURI TO THE WORLD: THE SHOW-ME STATE’S LEADING EXPORT CATEGORIES IN 2020 (MOST RECENT AVAILABLE DATA)

$

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

WalMart

41,399 29,595 18,805 15,410 14,865 14,600 12,605 12,500 11,900 11,739 11,500 10,000

BJC HealthCare

Washington University

Mercy Health

SECTOR

EXPORT VALUE

Boeing

Motor Vehicles Basic Chemicals

$2.11B $1.17B $0.72B $0.51B $0.51B $0.43B $0.36B $0.34B $0.33B $0.33B $0.30B $0.26B $0.25B $0.24B $0.23B $0.22B $0.21B $0.20B $0.18B $0.17B $0.17B $0.16B $0.16B $0.16B $12.77B

SSM Healthcare System

CoxHealth

Pharmaceuticals and Medicines

Oilseeds and Grains

Oracle Cerner

Meat and Meat Packaging Products Other General Purpose Machinery Electrical Equipment & Components Grain and Oilseed Milling Products Other Fabricated Metal Products Soaps, Cleaning Compounds, Toilet Prep Ag Chemicals

Saint Luke’s Health System (KC)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Schnuck Markets

AT&T

Amazon.com

Hy-Vee

9,252 8,512 7,986 7,825 7,768 7,462 7,179 7,072 5,200 5,000 4,981 4,865

Children’s Mercy

Lowe’s Centene

Plastic Products

Electrical Equipment

Aerospace Products and Parts

Ford Motor Co.

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, Control Inst.

Home Depot

Motor Vehicle Parts

Target

Animal Foods

Saint Louis University

Metal Ores

Ameren

Semiconductors and Other Electronic Components Ventilation, Heating, AC, Commercial Refrigeration Equip.

Honeywell

Foods

Casey’s

Dairy Products

Edward Jones

Engines, Turbines & Power Transmission

St. Luke’s Hospital System (St. Louis)

4,701

Waste and Scrap

All Industries

Source: Missouri Economic Research & Information Center

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