What are the top ten United States cities that are home to the most
corporate headquarters and how many are in each one.  This is all
corporations not just fortune 500.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 08 Sep 2005 20:15 PDT

Diostebendiga,

I can provide a lisitng with the top metro areas which are home to the
most corporate headquarters, with the number of headquarters in each
one.

For example:

New York?Northern New Jersey?Long Island,
239 headquarters

Chicago?Gary?Kenosha 
109 headquarters

San Francisco?Oakland?San Jose, 
91 headquarters


If this listing meets your needs, please let me know and I will provide
a link to the complete list. 

Thanks

Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by diostebendiga-ga on 09 Sep 2005 22:13 PDT

Actually no, I need to know city by city rather than metro areas.  I
will raise the price higher if further research time is needed.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 09 Sep 2005 23:29 PDT

Hello again Diostebendiga,

This is all I have been able to find.

See figure 2 on page 2.
Ranking of headquarters in 20 largest metro areas.
http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/fedletter/2001/cfljuly2001_167a.pdf

Please take a look at figure 4. 
There is a map with locations of corporate headquarters across the nation.
http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/economicperspectives/2002/2qepart2.pdf

Does any of the above help?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 10 Sep 2005 05:07 PDT

If bobbie7's links don't do it for you, I have an alternative to offer.

I have a file of all publicly traded corporations in the US, and I can
rank these by corporate headquarters and tick off the numbers of
companies in the ten cities with the most HQs.

There are two important caveats to this, though:

1.  These are public companies!  Private companies don't appear on the list.


2.  Since these are traded stocks, many companies have multiple
presences, depending on how they are structured>  For instance,
instead of there being one Smith-Barney, the list includes:


SMITH BARNEY AAA ENERGY FUND LP /NY
SMITH BARNEY DIVERSIFIED FUTURES FUND L P II
SMITH BARNEY DIVERSIFIED FUTURES FUND LP
SMITH BARNEY MID WEST FUTURES FUND LP II
SMITH BARNEY WESTPORT FUTURES FUND LP


Other companies have even longer lists.  

Still, the city rankings are pretty clear.  New York City tops the
list with more than 1,100 publicly-traded companies making it their
home.

Let me know if this is of interest.  

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by diostebendiga-ga on 10 Sep 2005 07:58 PDT

The information offered by pafalafa-ga is in the line of information
that I was looking for.  While it would be the most helpful if it
included private companies it will do.  I had no idea this question
was so hard to find an danswer too but I could not find it and I am
usually successful.
I would like the more detailed information pafalafa-ga has.  Thanks.

diostebendiga-ga,

Yeah, this one was a toughie!

Fortuately, I have a file that I obtained from the SEC in 2004 that
has the names and addresses of all the listed public companies (about
12,000 in all).  I examined this list to identify the number of
companies in indiviual cities.

Of course, New York tops the list.  But there were quite a few surprises as well.

Here's the list:


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Number of Public Company Headquarters by City


1.  New York.....................1,057

2.  Houston........................271

3.  Chicago........................196

4.  Dallas.........................192

5.  Las Vegas......................172

6.  Charlotte, NC..................163

7.  San Diego......................123

8.  Salt Lake City.................114

9.  Irvine, CA.....................108

10. Denver.........................107

11. Los Angeles....................103

12. Atlanta........................102



That's it for the over-100 crowd.  Even cities like Miami, San
Francisco and Boston had considerably less than 100 on my list.

I trust this is the information you needed.  But before rating this
answer, please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. 
Just post a Request for Clarification, and I'm at your service.

Cheers,

pafalafa-ga

Thanks, this was much harder to find the answer than it first appeared.