The 100 Largest (by annual revenue) Closely Held Corporations in America

[MohRokTah]

I see a lot of companies with a history of wingnutty crap in there:

1 Cargill
2 Koch Industries
3 Dell
4 Bechtel
5 Mars
6 PricewaterhouseCoopers
7 Pilot Flying J
8 Publix Super Markets
9 Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores
10 Ernst & Young
11 Reyes Holdings
12 C&S Wholesale Grocers
13 US Foods
14 HE Butt Grocery
15 Enterprise Holdings
16 TransMontaigne
17 Cox Enterprises
18 Cumberland Farms
19 Meijer
20 Aramark
21 Toys 'R' Us
22 Performance Food Group
23 Fidelity Investments
24 Transammonia
25 Platinum Equity
26 HJ Heinz
27 JM Family Enterprises
28 Amway
29 Kiewit Corporation
30 QuikTrip
31 First Data
32 Southern Wine & Spirits
33 Giant Eagle
34 Gordon Food Service
35 BI-LO Holding 3
36 SC Johnson & Son
37 Allegis Group
38 Hilton Worldwide
39 RaceTrac Petroleum
40 Wawa
41 Mansfield Oil
42 Bloomberg
43 Menard
44 McKinsey & Company
45 Sinclair Oil
46 Hy-Vee
47 Tenaska Energy
48 Lansing Trade Group
49 Momentive Performance Materials Holdings
50 Capital Group Cos
51 Gulf States Toyota
52 Wegmans Food Markets
53 Advance Publications
54 Scoular
55 Brightstar
56 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
57 CH2M Hill Cos
58 Sheetz
59 Colonial Group
60 Perdue
61 JR Simplot
62 OSI Group
63 Energy Future Holdings
64 Guardian Industries
65 Graybar Electric
66 WinCo Foods
67 Eby-Brown
68 Golden State Foods
69 Medline Industries
70 Tauber Oil
71 World Wide Technology
72 Edward Jones
73 Apex Oil
74 HCR ManorCare
75 JD Heiskell & Co
76 Kohler
77 Renco Group
78 Southwire
79 Republic National Distributing Company
80 Charmer Sunbelt Group
81 Avaya
82 Neiman Marcus Group
83 Levi Strauss & Co
84 ABC Supply
85 Dot Foods
86 Genesis HealthCare
87 Save Mart Supermarkets
88 Schreiber Foods
89 SHI International
90 Aleris International
91 Michaels Stores
92 Clark Enterprises
93 Carlson
94 Kingston Technology Company
95 SunGard Data Systems
96 Dole Food
97 Consolidated Elec Distributors
98 Red Apple Group
99 Burlington Coat Factory
100 VWR Funding

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. That's a very important list,

And goes to show just how not-'narrow' this decision really is. That's a huge workforce that is now open to being affected by this 'narrow' ruling.

[MohRokTah]

4. Go to the link to see the other 144 on the Forbes list

Not all of them are going to want to have the bad PR such a move would bring them, but really, do you think Koch Industries won't decide it's Catholic to drop some coverage?

[Takket]

2. Is #14 a typo? that isn't really their name is it? LOL

[MohRokTah]

3. The Butts are big in Texas

Yes, that is the real name.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. They want to take advantage of a lower corporate tax rate

as a corporation than if we taxed all the profits as though they were made by the owners as individuals, by whom these entities are closely held. These corporations are taking advantage of every tax-payer government funded service they can, from police and fire services, to the public roads, to the court system. If they pay less as corporations, it means the people have to make up for it through higher taxes. Why should I have to subsidize some corporate private ownership's weird religious views? If the owners want to worship the sun god Ra, let them do it as individuals on their own time and not through the corporation, or give up the rights and privileges of the corporate entity.

[mathematic]

6. That's a list of private businesses not closely held corps

It seems like people around here are eager to expand the scope of yesterday's decision.

From your top 10:
Koch, Mars, Love's, and probably Cargill and Bechtel are closely held corps ("family owned" is usually a good indicator)

Dell is owned by a private capital investment firm
Pilot is owned by it's parent company
Publix is employee owned

PwC and Ernst & Young are both limited partnerships

Big businesses are not the problem with this ruling. It's small businesses. The mom & pops. The local landscaper. The car dealership. These are the closely held corps.