This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Private firms rival Fortune 500 in size and scope
Private companies may reach Fortune 500 scale with over 50 firms as large as many public giants. Gould's Data Base for American Enterprises covers trading, retail, and financial sectors led by firms like Cargill and Continental Grain. Non manufacturing dominates but few private players hold more than 3 percent of their industry. Bell System remains the major exception with 64 percent of telephone markets.
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New York
UPI
United States
Jay Gould
Economic Information Systems, Inc
Standard & Poor's
Securi
Gould
Deering Milliken
Hughes Aircraft Corp
Cargill
Continental Grain
New England Petroleum Corp
Koch Industries
Ingram Corp
New Orleans
Bell Telephone System