The Industryweek 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers is IW's exclusive annual ranking of America's top-performing public manufacturers.
IW compiles the list by ranking the IW U.S. 500 companies based on their financial performance in six key areas over a three-year period. This includes inventory turns, profit margin, asset turns, return on assets, return on equity, and revenue growth. The most recent year accounts for 50% of the calculation, while 2007 is weighted at 30% and 2006 contributes 20%.
This list was published in the July 2009 issue of IndustryWeek.
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Rank |
Company Name | Industry | Revenue (Millions) | Revenue Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $466,278 | 17.85 |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $267,639 | 23.47 |
| 11 | Marathon Oil Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $77,804 | 20.32 |
| 14 | Philip Morris International Inc. | Tobacco | $63,640 | 15.51 |
| 15 | Dell Inc. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $61,101 | (0.05) |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $60,420 | 18.19 |
| 20 | Sunoco Inc. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $54,124 | 21.09 |
| 24 | PepsiCo Inc. | Beverages | $43,251 | 9.57 |
| 25 | Lockheed Martin Corp. | Aerospace & Defense | $42,731 | 2.08 |
| 27 | Hess Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $41,050 | 29.3 |
| 28 | Cisco Systems Inc. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $39,540 | 13.22 |
| 34 | Apple Inc. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $32,479 | 35.3 |
| 42 | Murphy Oil Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $27,513 | 49.21 |
| 47 | Emerson Electric Co. | Electrical Equipment & Appliances | $24,807 | 9.9 |
| 48 | Occidental Petroleum Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $24,480 | 22.32 |
| 50 | United States Steel Corp. | Fabricated Metal Products | $23,754 | 40.78 |
| 51 | Nucor Corp. | Primary Metals | $23,663 | 42.61 |
| 62 | Nike Inc. | Apparel | $18,627 | 14.09 |
| 73 | Colgate-Palmolive Co. | Chemicals | $15,330 | 11.17 |
| 91 | Kellogg Co. | Food | $12,822 | 8.88 |
| 100 | Baker Hughes Inc. | Machinery | $11,864 | 13.77 |
| 107 | Qualcomm Inc. | Communications Equipment | $11,142 | 25.6 |
| 110 | Western Refining Inc. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $10,726 | 46.82 |
| 113 | Commercial Metals Co. | Primary Metals | $10,427 | 25.19 |
| 124 | Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | Primary Metals | $8,719 | 20 |
| 131 | Steel Dynamics Inc. | Primary Metals | $8,081 | 84.3 |
| 152 | Foster Wheeler Ltd. | Machinery | $6,854 | 34.21 |
| 153 | Precision Castparts Corp. | Primary Metals | $6,852 | 27.81 |
| 164 | Frontier Oil Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $6,499 | 25.25 |
| 175 | Holly Corp. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $5,868 | 22.45 |
| 182 | Rockwell Automation Inc. | Electrical Equipment & Appliances | $5,698 | 13.87 |
| 188 | Harris Corp. | Communications Equipment | $5,311 | 25.17 |
| 193 | Alon USA Energy Inc. | Petroleum & Coal Products | $5,157 | 13.53 |
| 204 | Rockwell Collins Inc. | Communications Equipment | $4,769 | 8.02 |
| 219 | Alliant Techsystems Inc. | Miscellaneous | $4,172 | 17.02 |
| 234 | CF Industries Holdings Inc. | Chemicals | $3,921 | 42.24 |
| 248 | Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. | Primary Metals | $3,642 | 41.57 |
| 261 | Joy Global Inc. | Machinery | $3,419 | 34.22 |
| 271 | Coach Inc. | Apparel | $3,181 | 21.75 |
| 287 | Terra Industries Inc. | Chemicals | $2,891 | 22.52 |
| 311 | Calumet Specialty Product Partners LP | Petroleum & Coal Products | $2,489 | 51.97 |
| 314 | Lam Research Corp. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $2,475 | (3.57) |
| 336 | Donaldson Co. Inc. | Machinery | $2,233 | 16.35 |
| 355 | Varian Medical Systems Inc. | Machinery | $2,070 | 16.5 |
| 362 | Herman Miller Inc. | Furniture & Fixtures | $2,012 | 4.86 |
| 365 | MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. | Computers & Other Electronic Products | $2,005 | 4.3 |
| 373 | Polaris Industries Inc. | Railcars, Ships, & Other Trans. Equip. | $1,948 | 9.45 |
| 381 | Kinetic Concepts Inc. | Medical Instruments & Equipment | $1,878 | 16.64 |
| 491 | Knoll Inc. | Furniture & Fixtures | $1,120 | 6.09 |
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