The Fortune 500 rankings are out and 18 companies in metro Atlanta made the list, compared to 16 last year.
Overall, there are 20 Georgia companies on the 2015 Top 500 list, up 18 from the year before. Thirty-three Georgia companies rank in the Fortune 1000.
Below are the Georgia companies on Fortune Magazine’s list along with their overall ranking.
Georgia’s Fortune 500 Companies
Ranking … Company … (2014 Ranking)
- Home Depot (unchanged)*
- UPS (up from 50th) *
- Coca-Cola (down from 58th)*
- Delta Air Lines (up from 81st)*
- Aflac (down from 125th)
- Southern Company (up from 170th)*
- Genuine Parts (up from 205th)*
- First Data (down from 261st)*
- Rock-Tenn (unchanged)*+
- AGCO (down from 262nd)*
- HD Supply Holdings (up from 317th)*
- SunTrust Banks (down from 314th)*
- Mohawk Industries (down from 357th)
- Coca-Cola Enterprises (down from 348th)*
- NCR (up from 423rd)*
- Asbury Automotive (up from 472nd)*
- PulteGroup (down from 446th)*
- Newell Rubbermaid (down from 436th)*
- AGL Resources (up from 532nd)*#
- ARRIS Group (up from 644th) *#
Georgia’s Fortune 1000 Companies
- Axiall (down from 524th)*
- Intercontinental Exchange (previously not on the list)*#
- Graphic Packaging (down from 547th)*
- Flowers Foods (down from 625th)
- Carter's (up from 798th)*
- Exide Technologies (down from 732nd)*
- Aaron's (up from 907th)*
- Global Payments (up from 867th)*
- Total System Services (up from 940th)
- Equifax (down from 883rd)*
- Acuity Brands (up from 951st)*
- RPC (previously not on the list)*#
- Ocwen Financial (up from 955th)*
Notes:
*Metro Atlanta company
#Not previously ranked in Fortune 500 or 1000
+Rock-Tenn recently merged with MeadWestvaco and will be known as WestRock and jointly based in Virginia
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