Ratings and Rankings - Area Companies
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St. Louis is home to a wide array of companies from the nation's largest privately held companies, like Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Edward Jones, to some of the nation's best small companies, like Reliv International Inc. and Cass Information Systems Inc. St. Louis-based companies are noticed on national ranking lists as being among the best places to work, the fastest growing, the most innovative, and more. Some of the recent ratings and rankings for St. Louis area companies are highlighted here: Largest Corporations - Ten St. Louis-based companies were named on Forbes "World's 2,000 Largest Public Companies" list, which ranked the biggest companies in the world by sales, market value, assets and profits. The 2007 Global 2000 list included Emerson Electric (283), Anheuser-Busch (314), Ameren Corp. (673), Monsanto (674), Express Scripts (833), Peabody Energy (834), MEMC Electronic (1414), A.G. Edwards* (1695), Commerce Bancshares (1697) and Sigma-Aldrich (1905).
- Fortune magazine named three St. Louis-based companies among the "World's 500 Largest Corporations" for 2007. The list included Emerson Electric (No. 350), Express Scripts (No. 411), and Anheuser-Busch (No. 478).
- Forbes magazine released "American's Largest Private Companies" for 2007, which included the following nine St. Louis-based companies: Apex Oil, Edward Jones, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Graybar Electric, Maritz Inc., McCarthy Building Cos., Schnuck Markets Inc., UniGroup, and World Wide Technologies Inc.
- Eleven St. Louis-based companies made the Forbes' list of America's Best Big Companies in the January 2007 issue. The companies include Brown Shoe, Bunge, Emerson Electric, Express Scripts, MEMC Electronic Mats, Monsanto, Peabody Energy, Ralcorp Holdings, Sigma-Aldrich, Spartech, and The Laclede Group.
- World Wide Technology, a distributor of information technology products and services in Maryland Heights, Mo. was ranked the nation's largest black-owned business by Black Enterprise in the magazine's industrial/service 100 list for the fifth consecutive year in 2008. Three other St. Louis-based companies, Roberts Hotels Group L.L.C., Roberts Brothers Properties L.L.C. and Legacy Building Group L.L.C. ranked No. 54, No. 61 and No. 97 respectively.
- Fuse, based in St. Louis, ranked the 10th largest black-owned advertising agency on Black Enterprise's Top 15 Ad Agencies list for 2008, for the third consecutive year.
Best Place to Work - The two St. Louis-based financial services companies, Edward Jones and Scottrade, are included in Fortune magazine's 2008 ranking of its "100 Best Companies to Work For in America". Edward Jones has made the list for the ninth consecutive year, up from No. 29 last year. Scottrade, noted for its internship program and job growth, made the list for the first time in the company's history.
- Six St. Louis-based companies ranked highly on Fortune's 2008 "America's Most Admired Companies" list in their respective industries. Anheuser-Busch, Graybar, and Peabody Energy each earned No. 1 in their industries of beverages, wholesalers/diversified, and mining, crude oil production respectively. Emerson earned the No. 2 position in the electronics industry. Energizer Holdings and Express Scripts ranked No. 4 for household products and health care: pharmacy respectively.
- Four St. Louis area firms ranked on Computerworld's annual "100 Best Places to Work in IT" for 2007. Anheuser-Busch (9), Monsanto (27), National Information Solutions Cooperative (41), and Edward Jones (52) were ranked by diversity of employees, training available, career development, retention, and benefits.
- Two St. Louis law firms, Armstrong Teasdale LLP and Bryan Cave LLP, were named on the top 50 "Best Law Firms for Women" list released by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC in the August/September 2007 issue. Firms were selected based responses to an application measuring workforce profile, benefits and compensation, parental leave, child care, flexibility and retention and advancement of women.
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car, headquartered in St. Louis, was named No. 26 as top employer in the nation for new college graduates on BusinessWeek's "Best Places to Launch a Career" list for 2007.
- Working Mother magazine named 13 companies with a significant St. Louis presence to its 2006 list of best companies for working mothers. The companies that made the list include Accenture, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc., Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, DaimlerChrysler AG, Ernst & Young LLP, Ford Motor Co., GlaxoSmithKline plc, Northern Trust Corp., Pfizer Inc., IBM Corp., RSM McGladrey Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.
- In 2005, Edward Jones was among the nation’s 100 best information technology employers, according to ComputerWorld magazine. Also making the list were MasterCard International, whose Global Information Systems unit is based here; and Harrah’s Entertainment, which has a casino and hotel in the St. Louis area.
- In 2004 Monsanto was named as one of the top 20 employers among biotech and pharmaceutical companies by Science magazine readers.
Fastest Growing - Two St. Louis technology companies, MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., and TALX Corp., ranked Nos. 16 and 71, respectively, on Business 2.0 magazine's 2006 list of 100 fastest-growing public tech companies in June 2006.
- Inc. magazine's 2007 list of American's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies included 56 St. Louis-area firms, with two companies, Jayco International (No. 55) and Highland Homes (No. 293), in the top 500. Inc. magazine expanded this year's list from the 2006 list, which ranked only the top 500 companies.
- St. Louis is home to three of the 100 fastest growing inner-city companies in America - Asynchrony Solutions Inc. (No. 17), Afram Corp. (No. 51), and ABNA Engineering Inc. (No. 93) according to the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Inc. magazine's 2007 Inner City 100.
- Three St. Louis-based companies made the cut on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list released in December 2005. The Newberry Group ranked No. 225, World Wide Technology ranked No. 248 and TALX Corp. ranked No. 383. The list was based on five-year percentage growth.
Best Small Companies - St. Louis-based Build-A-Bear Workshop made Forbes' list of "The 200 Best Small Companies" in the United States in October 2007, ranking No. 23 in the nation.
Top Corporate Performers - MEMC Electronic Materials was named No. 10 on BusinessWeek's Top 50 for 2008 list. This year companies were measured by return on capital and growth, as well as being compared to other companies in their sectors. Last year two St. Louis-based companies, Emerson Electric and Express Scripts, were named to BusinessWeek's Top Corporate Performers 2007 for rewriting the rules of engagement in their industries and making changes to lead their companies into the 21st century.
- Seven St. Louis-based firms made the Barron's 500 list for 2008, which ranks the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. and Canada measured on sales factors such as stock-price performance and median cash flow return on investment. The companies include Emerson (No. 24), Monsanto Co. (No. 45), Express Scripts (No. 57), Anheuser-Busch (No. 254), Ameren Corp. (No. 346), Charter Communications Inc. (No. 376), and Reinsurance Group of America (No. 424).
- St. Louis-based UniGroup Inc. and Monsanto were named to CIO magazine's "2008 CIO 100" list, which honors organizations around the globe for displaying the highest level of excellence in information technology.
Most Green - Monsanto Company was named on IDG's Computerworld top 12 Green-IT Companies for 2008 list, which ranked companies working to reduce energy consumption in IT equipment and using technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. Monsanto was the only agriculture company on the list.
Highest Customer Satisfaction - Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the largest privately held company in St. Louis, ranked highest in customer satisfaction among rental car companies in the nation for the third consecutive year, according to the "J.D. Power and Associates Rental Car Satisfaction Study" released in November 2006.
Most Innovative - Fifteen local St. Louis companies made the 2007 InformationWeek 500, a listing of the most innovative users of information technology in the nation. The companies include A.G. Edwards*, Ameren Corp., Amdocs Ltd., Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., Arch Coal, Charter Communications, Emerson, Enterprise-Rent-A-Car, Graybar Electric, Maritz, Monsanto Co., Savvis Inc., Scottrade, Solutia, and UniGroup.
Most Productive - The DaimlerChrysler South plant in Fenton, Mo., has been recognized by the Harbour Report for two consecutive years (2005 and 2006) as the most productive minivan plant in North America.
- General Motors Wentzville, Mo., assembly plant has been recognized by the Harbour Report as the most productive large-size van plant for three consecutive years (2004, 2005, 2006).
- St. Louis is home to Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., the No. 1 and No. 2 coal producers in the world for 2005.
Most Diverse - Monsanto ranked No. 25 on DiversityInc's "2008 Top 50 Companies for Diversity" list for high human capital and corporate and organizational communications marks. Monsanto was the only St. Louis-based company to rank on this list.
*A.G. Edwards now operates as Wachovia Securities, effective October 2007.
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