Nine Fairfield County businesses and four from Westchester County made the cut on this year”™s Fortune 500 list.
Topping the list in Fairfield was Stamford”™s Charter Communications, which with $43.6 billion in revenues placed 70th, up from last year”™s 74th. It was followed by Synchrony Financial, also of Stamford, which remained at 173 with $18.2 billion; Greenwich”™s XPO Logistics, which rose six slots to 180th with nearly $17.3 billion; and Norwalk”™s Booking Holdings, up 13 places to 216th with $14.5 billion.
Norwalk”™s Xerox fell from 291st to 318th with $9.8 billion, followed by Norwalk”™s Frontier Communications, down from 325th to 355th ($8.6 billion); Norwalk”™s Emcor Group, down from 368th to 365th ($8.1 billion); Stamford”™s United Rentals, up from 424th to 379th ($8 billion); and Greenwich”™s W.R. Berkley, down from 369th to 397th (nearly $7.7 billion).
The top-ranked Connecticut company was Farmington”™s United Technologies, which rose from 51st to 46th with $66.5 billion.
In Westchester, IBM in Armonk led the way, down from 34th to 38th with nearly $79.6 billion. It was followed by Purchase”™s PepsiCo, down from 45th to 48th with nearly $64.7 billion; Purchase”™s Mastercard, tied at 210th with New York City”™s Marsh & McLennan with $14.9 billion, was up from the previous year”™s 236th place; and Tarrytown”™s Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, up from 473rd to 450th with $6.7 billion.
New York state”™s top-ranked firm was Manhattan”™s JPMorgan Chase, up from 20th to 18th with $131.4 billion.
Leading the Fortune 500 was Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart, which stayed at No.1 with $514.4 billion, followed by Irving, Texas”™ ExxonMobil, repeating at No.2 with $290.2 billion, and Cupertino, California”™s Apple, up from No.4 to No.3 with nearly $265.6 billion.
