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| Emerson Electric |  | Emerson Electric
8000 W. Florrissant Ave.
St. Louis, Missouri 63136 | 2000 Sales: $15,554,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,422,000,000
www.emersonelectric.com |
A very big company, but probably not well known. They make thousands of industrial products such as motors, drives, compressors, electric motors, valves and thermostats. See Close-up... | | May Department Stores |  | May Department Stores
611 Olive Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63101 | 2000 Sales: $14,511,000,000
2000 Earnings: $858,000,000
www.mayco.com |
May has 395 department stores under 11 different names. Lord & Taylor, Hecht's, Strawbridge's, Foley's, Robinson May, Kaufmann's, Filene's, Famous-Barr, LS Ayres, The Jones Store and Meier & Frank. If you have been to one of these, then you have been to May. See Close-up... | | Anheuser-Busch |  | Anheuser-Busch
One Busch Place
St. Louis, Missouri 63118 | 2000 Sales: $12,261,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,551,000,000
www.anheuser-busch.com |
Located in downtown St.Louis, Anheuser-Busch truly is the King of Beers (that doesn’t mean it tastes good).. Their Budweiser and Bud Light are the number 1 and number 2 brands in the U.S. with 48% of the marketshare. Anheuser also owns Michelob, Busch as well as several Theme Parks. See Close-up... | | Monsanto |  | Monsanto
800 N. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis, Missouri 63167 | 2000 Sales: $5,493,000,000
2000 Earnings: $149,000,000
www.monsanto.com |
Monsanto is probably more responsible than anybody else for genetically altering America's supply of grains and corn. To top it off, they make artificial and destructive things such as Simplesse, Nutrasweet, Ortho and Round-Up. What ever happened to natural? See Close-up... | | Ralston Purina |  | Ralston Purina
Checkerboard Square
St. Louis, Missouri 63164 | 2000 Sales: $2,763,000,000
2000 Earnings: $530,000,000
www.ralstonpurina.com |
Yes these are the people with the checkered logo that sell dog chow and kitty food.They also happen to have the division that sells Energizer (Energizer Bunny) and Eveready batteries. See Close-up... | | Trans World Airlines |  | Trans World Airlines
515 N. 6th St.
St. Louis, Missouri 63101 | 2000 Sales: $3,538,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-387,000,000
www.twa.com |
Once a prestigious american airline. But they have been cursed by hijackings, major crashes (Flight 800) wer even almost bankrupt twice. But they never seem to give up. See Close-up... | | A.G. Edwards |  | A.G. Edwards
1 N. Jefferson Ave.
St. Louis, Missouri 63013 | 2000 Sales: $2,600,000,000
2000 Earnings: $287,000,000
www.agedwards.com |
A.G. Edwards is one of the few investment brokerage firms that is not located on Wall Street. Instead it is located on the outskirts of St. Louis. Weird. Nevertheless they are major retail brokerage, commodities trader, and asset management company. See Close-up... | | Jefferson Smurfit |  | Jefferson Smurfit
8182 Maryland Ave.
St. Louis, Missouri 63105 | 2000 Sales: $
2000 Earnings: $
www.smurfit-stone.com |
Major recycler of used newspaper and paper. Turns it into new newspaper. Also makes cardboard boxes. Recently merged with Stone Container. See Close-up... |
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