11 Fairfield County companies crack Fortune 500
This year 11 companies in Fairfield County made the Fortune 500 list, which is compiled annually by Fortune magazine.
General Electric Co., a mainstay on the list as the largest company in Connecticut and the largest industrial company in the U.S., ranked eight with $146.9 billion in revenues last year. GE is based in Fairfield.
Notably, Northeast Utilities, which has a dual headquarters in Boston and Hartford, made the list at No. 402 but was counted as a Massachusetts company.
A total of 16 companies in Connecticut made the list (revenue and profit data are for 2012):
| Rank | Company | Location | Revenue($b) | Profit($mm) |
| 8 | General Electric | Fairfield | 146.9 | 13,641 |
| 50 | United Technologies | Hartford | 59.8 | 5,130 |
| 84 | Aetna | Hartford | 36.6 | 1,657.90 |
| 103 | Cigna | Bloomfield | 29.1 | 1,623 |
| 112 | The Hartford Financial Services Group | Hartford | 26.4 | 38 |
| 131 | Xerox | Norwalk | 22.4 | 1,195 |
| 241 | Praxair | Danbury | 11.2 | 1,692 |
| 245 | Stanley Black & Decker | New Britain | 11.1 | 883.8 |
| 340 | Charter Communications | Stamford | 7.5 | 304 |
| 351 | Terex | Westport | 7.3 | 105.8 |
| 399 | EMCOR Group | Norwalk | 6.3 | 146.6 |
| 400 | Starwood Hotels & Resorts | Stamford | 6.3 | 562 |
| 438 | W.R. Berkley | Greenwich | 5.8 | 510.6 |
| 473 | Priceline.com | Norwalk | 5.3 | 1,419.60 |
| 489 | Pitney Bowes | Stamford | 5 | 445.2 |
| 492 | Frontier Communications | Stamford | 5 | 136.6 |