These Are the Capital Region’s Fortune 500 Companies
Recent years have seen several Fortune 500 companies enter or expand their presence in the Capital Region market, either through acquisitions (BD, Fluor, Activision, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.) or new developments (Applied Materials, Amazon).
Here is a list of 29 Fortune 500 companies with significant ties1 to the Capital Region’s economy.
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Fortune Rank |
Company |
Local Connection |
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2 |
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Opened a $100 million, 1-million-square-foot in Schodack and a last-mile delivery center in Colonie in 2020 |
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25 |
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Has a large presence in the region |
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29 |
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Owns Empire BlueCross, which in 2020 completed a $25 million, 150,000-square-foot office complex in Latham |
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33 |
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GE Power is headquartered in Schenectady, GE Healthcare in Rensselaer and GE Research in Niskayuna |
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37 |
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In 1998, opened a Wilton distribution center that is 1.5 million square feet |
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38 |
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Has been an investor of the Center for Semiconductor Research at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Albany NanoTech Complex since its inception in 2005, and in 2019 opened the IBM Research AI Hardware Center, also at Albany NanoTech. |
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43 |
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Distribution center in Latham |
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47 |
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In 2012, opened a $65 million, 260,000-square-foot distribution center in East Greenbush |
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51 |
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Has a bottling facility on Latham |
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60 |
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Goldman Sachs Ayco Personal Financial Management developed a new $55.million, 150,000-square-foot headquarters in Latham |
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73 |
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Sizable office in Latham |
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103 |
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3M Health Information Systems (formerly Treo Solutions) in Troy |
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116 |
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Clifton Park distribution center |
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128 |
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Commercial real estate office in Albany |
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158 |
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Staffing service in Albany |
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181 |
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Operates the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, which includes the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna and Kenneth A. Kesselring Site in West Milton |
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187 |
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Owns a catheter production facility in Glens Falls (formerly C.R. Bard) |
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218 |
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In 2019, opened the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute |
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267 |
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Owns the 1,250-acre Selkirk Yard |
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331 |
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Has had a long R&D presence at SUNY Polytechnic’s Albany NanoTech Complex |
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355 |
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Operates an industrial gas production facility in Glenmont |
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395 |
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Has a large presence in the region |
|
405 |
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Has 950,000 square feet of office, lab and manufacturing space in Rensselaer County |
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411 |
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Has a large presence in the region |
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429 |
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Has a Latham office and in 2020 acquired the Cool Insuring Agency in Latham and Queensbury |
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431 |
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Operates a fiberglass insulation manufacturing facility in Feura Bush |
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438 |
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Has a large presence in the region |
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463 |
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Owns the region’s largest game development studio, Vicarious Visions, in Colonie |
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Notes
1 Excludes Fortune 500 companies with basic retail/services operations in the eight-county region.
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