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wbrnsJul 30, 2010
Never knew there was anything in Atlanta except CNN and Coke.
tyg10Jul 30, 2010
Nothing in Wisconsin?
Wait. They do beer and cheese. :)
eh123Jul 31, 2010
but neither of them well.
hu99Jul 31, 2010
You got that right. Pabst and American Processed Slices aren't exactly the epitome gustatory experience.
dietcoke597Jul 31, 2010
Pabst is a real Wisconsin beer just as much as Pizza Hut pasta is real Italian food.
lunchbox37Jul 31, 2010
Hey, we have 1-9 Fortune 500s! I assume one is Oscar Meyer. Or Miller.
dietcoke597Jul 31, 2010
Oscar Mayer was based in Chicago, and Miller is owned by a company from South Africa. However, this list is inaccurate...Milwaukee has 6 companies in the Fortune 500 (Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual, Manpower, Harley-Davidson, M&I Bank, and Rockwell Automation) so I'm not sure why we got snuffed.
tyg10Jul 31, 2010
Oscar Meyer's still there? I've driven past that place for years.
ComplexMagazineJul 31, 2010
New York, New York!
changedmindJul 31, 2010
Texas, Texas!
Just doesn't sound the same. But we're bigger.
strfxJul 31, 2010
And I bet that if you were to only count the companies that didn't depend on federal bailouts to survive, Houston might kick New York's ass!
Texas, f**k yeah!!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
changedmindJul 31, 2010
How dare these companies make a profit and employ people. They need to be taxed taxed taxed.
fremontgroupJul 31, 2010
So Monsanto only makes profits and employ people? Are there any consequences to using genetically modified seeds? OH RIGHT. I'M SORRY. THEY MUST BE ANGELS OF GOD IN YOUR EYES.
changedmindJul 31, 2010
wHAT THE HELL DUDE? wHAT IS A MONSANTO?
fifteenstepperJul 31, 2010
changedmind will be sorry when Monsanto has a monopoly on the food supply.
zzzblazJul 31, 2010
taike me uh huh
syntaxgsJul 31, 2010
WOW They rear lee big =-Xd
dietcoke597Jul 31, 2010
well the REAL question is has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
trythinking1stJul 31, 2010
Good Point syntaxgs!
banserJul 31, 2010
Chicago is better than New York. Friendlier people and a cleaner city. Digg me up or Digg me down.
hu99Jul 31, 2010
I choose down.
joest23Jul 31, 2010
Is this a circle jerk about cities, now? I live in New York. I love it, but I'm not going to argue with someone that it's better than another city. That's inane.
dolandolandolanJul 31, 2010
I love being from Texas.
sonofabeJul 31, 2010
Meh, it's nice enough.
Though, for a place I feel mostly ambivalent about, I have to spend so much time defending the place! Having to fight back all the misinformation out there makes my relative contentedness look like fanaticism sometimes... argh.
dolandolandolanJul 31, 2010
Haha I know exactly what you mean. I just like the way this article skewers the "steers and queers" stereotype.
cockofdoodieJul 31, 2010
Kind of unrelated, but as a Canadian, I never understood the term "midwest". Those states look mid-east more than anything...
hivoltage815Jul 31, 2010
Because it is based on their orientation to the original colonies on the east coast. Every purchase and expansion of the country was considered moving west.
islander2137Jul 31, 2010
American geographic perspective
cockofdoodieJul 31, 2010
ahh...the more you know :) thanks fellow diggers.
danwgreJul 31, 2010
because Middle East is already taken.
hivoltage815Jul 31, 2010
It looks they only counted city limits rather than entire metropolitan areas. For example, most in Virginia state are in the DC Metro area, which would make it a top city. But it's not. And what about combining Dallas with Fort Worth? San Francisco with Oakland and San Jose? It seems flawed to not do that considering the work force commute from all over the region.
islander2137Jul 31, 2010
Wow.... a cute little pie chart
fireboatJul 31, 2010
I would like to see "top regions by growth." I suspect te southern region is growing most quickly.
cristinamkJul 31, 2010
Wait a minute.. nothing in Seattle? WTF?
Microsoft?
Amazon?
Starbucks?
Boeing?
hu99Jul 31, 2010
Fortune 500 not niche monopolies. Boeing has moved to Texas by the way.
lbxac20Jul 31, 2010
Boeing moved to Chicago, it's on the god damn chart.
bapwaJul 31, 2010
I was kinda thinking the same thing. But according to the graphic, WA has between 1-9 fortune 500 companies. Boeing moved it's headquarters to Chicago a few years back, of course that was right before they told our state they were going to move away unless the people of WA gave them massive tax cuts. So we gave them huge tax cuts, and then they moved their headquarters. Boeing also has operations somewhere in the mid-west. (MO?)
lbxac20Jul 31, 2010
If you had actually read the graphic you would have seen that Boeing is on on the list for Chicago.
manovaJul 31, 2010
MS is listed in Redmond. Seattle has Amazon, Starbucks, Nordstrom, and Expeditors.
feverhostJul 31, 2010
With the world growing more flat each day... eventually there won't be Fortune Companies in a "single country"... they'll be world-wide companies.
binaryclockJul 31, 2010
This just in... Fortune 500 companies like rich states over trailer parks.. News at 11.
zerohelixJul 31, 2010
by "internet services" you mean porn?
Closed AccountJul 31, 2010
At least in Minnesota they forgot:
Supervalu, Best Buy, Travelers Cos., 3M, CHS, General Mills, C&H Robinson, Hormel, Thrivent Financial, Mosaic, Ecolab, Nash Finch, PepsiAmericas, St. Jude Medical, Alliant, Pentair, Valspar, Securian Financial, Patterson, Regis, Imation, Fastenal, Donaldson, Toro, and Ploaris.
Buried for not being a complete and well though out infographic and instead being slapped together in probably about 6 hours.
manovaJul 31, 2010
They are using 2009 data when MN had only 19 in the top 500.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/states/MN.html
dietcoke597Jul 31, 2010
Milwaukee has 6 companies in the Fortune 500 (Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual, Manpower, Harley-Davidson, M&I Bank, and Rockwell Automation) and 8 if you include immediate, bordering suburbs (Kohl's, Fiserv).
We got snuffed apparently...so for others of you who ALSO got your city ignored (From my recollection, Seattle should definitely be on here too but isn't), rest assured this map is quite inaccurate.
manovaJul 31, 2010
In 2009, Marshall & IIsley was ranked 550, so only 5, but still tied with Cincinnati and Columbus.
icyguyusJul 31, 2010
no love for Alaska or Hawaii
benroyJul 31, 2010
This is heavy on the graphic part and light on the info.
cain2198Jul 31, 2010
Kudos to Digg for bringing a 2009 Fortune 500 infographic to my attention well after the 2010 rankings have been released.
idontevenJul 31, 2010
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/index.html
If anyone's curious.
diggadiggaJul 31, 2010
California is #1 when it comes to anything related to do with tech (computers, biotech, nanotech, etc.). We got Google and Blizzard.
idontevenJul 31, 2010
Buried for being outdated.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/index.html
ralphbotJul 31, 2010
I'm pretty sure Delaware has a pretty large number of fortune 500 companies....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware#Economy
inactiveuserJul 31, 2010
So Energy and the energy sector are the top earning companies in the US and they keep rejecting innovation in the renewable market?
I guess that is why the solar panels come from Japan, Germany and Asia while the best inverters on the market come from Germany and Japan.
Total Solar Panel production worldwide will be 8gw this year.
So average panel size is 140 watts @ $850ea
8,000,000,000
/ 140
= 57,142,857 panels
= Retail value $49,165,833,450
Average system size is 2kw
so that would be
4,000,000 installations this year assuming each panel is for a home system
Yep America loves its oil...
essarJul 31, 2010
It's more impressive that almost one out of three companies are located in just 3 states.
superkendallJul 31, 2010
If ever there was a time to add these new-fangled things called "hyperlinks", this was it.
Frustrating static image with no way to drill down. It doesn't have to be that way...
fungowskiJul 31, 2010
the next infographic I want to see: the baltic dry goods shipping index explained
friedjellyfishAug 1, 2010
"WOW They that rear lee big =-Xd"
That's what she said.