Company
Type
Rank
Altria Group
Tobacco products
61
Dominion Resources
Electric and gas utility
161
Circuit City Stores
Specialty retailer
215
Genworth Financial
Insurance
233
CarMax
Automotive retailer
333
MeadWestvaco
Packaging
356
Owens and Minor
Health care wholesaler
360
Performance Food Group
Food wholesaler
384
LandAmerica Financial
Insurance
582
Brink's
Security services
636
Universal
Tobacco wholesaler
683
Markel
Insurance
780
Massey Energy
Mining
791
Albemarle
Chemicals
806
Note: Companies in bold are Fortune 500 companies. Source: www.fortune.com, April 21, 2008
Rank Company Type
Number of Employees
1 Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Health care
7,082
2 HCA Inc. Health care
6,941
3 Capital One Financial Corp. Credit cards
6,474
4 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Discount retail
6,173
5 Philip Morris USA (incl. HQ & RD; parent company Altria Group inc.) Cigarettes
5,630
6 Dominion Resources Inc. (incl. HQ) Energy
5,362
7 Wachovia Corp. Financial services
5,345
8 Bon Secours Richmond Health System Health care
5,292
9 SunTrust Banks Inc. Banking
3,596
10 Ukrop's Super Markets Inc.(incl. HQ) Grocery stores
3,545
11 DuPont Chemicals/fibers
3,198
12 Bank of America Corp. Banking
3,100
13 WellPoint Inc. Health insurance
3,091
14 Food Lion LLC Grocery stores
2,795
15 Verizon Virginia Inc. Telecommunications
2,697
16 Circuit City Stores Inc.(incl. HQ) Retail electronics
2,689
17 Qimonda Richmond Semiconductors
2,500
18 United Parcel Service Inc. Package distribution
2,498
19 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Inc. Reserve bank
1,717
20 Genworth Financial Inc. (incl. HQ) Insurance
1,640
20 The Kroger Co. Grocery stores
1,640
22 University of Richmond Private university
1,464
23 Honeywell International Inc. Polymers
1,302
24 Reynolds Packaging Group (incl. HQ) Packaging and consumer products
1,300
25 Media General Inc. (incl. HQ) Communications
1,247
26 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
1,200
27 Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Paper products
1,190
28 Southside Regional Medical Center Health care
1,177
29 CarMax Inc. (incl. HQ) Auto sales
1,165
30 Lowe's Cos. Inc. Home-improvement stores
1,100
31 Supervalu Inc. Eastern Region Wholesale food
1,053
32 BB&T Corp. Banking
1,039
33 Northop Grumman Global defense and technology
1,038
34 The Home Depot Inc. Home-improvement stores
1,022
35 LandAmerica Financial (incl. HQ) Insurance
930
36 ColonialWebb Contractors (incl. HQ) Contracting
914
37 MeadWestvaco Corp. (incl. HQ) Packaging
900
38 Target Corp. Department stores
890
39 Tyson Foods Inc. Poultry products
800
39 Comcast Metro Richmond Cable television
800
41 Markel Corp. (incl. HQ) Insurance
790
42 Coventry Health Care Managed health care
786
43 Estes Express Lines (incl. HQ) Trucking, air freight
776
44 7-Eleven Inc. Convenience stores
754
45 Hunton & Williams LLP (incl. HQ) Legal services
749
46 World Access (incl. HQ) Travel insurance
709
47 Southern States (incl. HQ) Agribusiness cooperative for the farmer, gardener and homeowner
643
48 Westminster Canterbury Retirement community
632
49 Performance Food Group (incl. HQ) Foodservice distributor
627
50 YMCA of Greater Richmond Health and human services programs
623
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 20, 2008, and Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc.
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