Commerce - Notable - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Large or well-known companies with headquarters or major operations in the Boston area; sales figures, where shown, are from hoovers.com

• Ahold: Ahold USA; food retailer; Quincy; unit of Royal Ahold, an international food provider based in the Netherlands
• Analog: Analog Devices; integrated circuits and signal processing; 2006 sales $2.5 billion; Norwood
• Analogic: health and security systems; 2006 sales $351 million; Peabody
• Biopure: oxygen therapeutics; 2005 sales $2.1 million; Cambridge
• BJ's: BJ's Wholesale Club; membership warehouse club; 2006 sales $7.9 billion; Natick
• Bose: radios, speakers; 2005 sales $1.8 billion; Framingham
• Boston Scientific: medical devices; 2005 sales $6.2 billion; Natick
• CDM: Camp Dresser and McKee; consulting, engineering, construction, and operations; Cambridge
• Charles River: Charles River Laboratories International; biomedical research products and support services; 2005 sales $1.1 billion; Wilmington
• CMGI: Supply chain management services; 2006 sales 1.1 billion; Waltham
• EMC: Data storage systems; 2005 sales $9.6 billion; Hopkinton
• Fidelity: Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Company; financial services; 2005 sales $11.1 billion; Boston
• Gillette: Global Gillette; shaving products, batteries; Boston; unit of Procter & Gamble
• Hanover: Hanover Insurance Group; insurance and financial; 2005 sales $2.6 billion; Worcester
• HMCO: Houghton Mifflin Company; textbooks, media; 2005 sales $1.2 billion; Boston
• John Hancock: John Hancock Financial Services; insurance, financial products; unit of Manulife Financial (Toronto, Canada); Boston
• Liberty Mutual: Liberty Mutual Holding Company; insurance; 2005 sales $21.1 billion; Boston
• Ocean Spray: cranberries; 2005 sales $1.4 billion; Lakeville-Middleboro
• Parametric: software; 2005 sales $720 million; Needham
• Raytheon: defense; 2005 sales $21.8 billion; Waltham
• State Street: State Street Corporation; financial processing services; 2005 sales $7.4 billion; Boston

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