Commerce - Notable - New York, New York, USA

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

• AIG: American International Group; state-owned insurance company (US taxpayers own 80% of it); (property, casualty, specialty, life), financial services, asset "management"; 2008 sales $11 billion
• AmEx: American Express Company; travel services, financial services, brokerage, asset management, charge cards, magazine publishing; 2008 sales $31.9 billion
• Assurant: insurance; 2008 sales $8.6 billion
• Bloomberg: financial information; news, market data, analysis, books, and magazines; via Bloomberg terminals, TV, radio, and the Internet; 2007 sales $5.4 billion
• BNYMellon: Bank of New York Mellon; financial services; 2008 sales $16.3 billion
• CBS: CBS Corporation; Media and entertainment; CBS Television, Showtime, CBS Radio, CBS Records, Simon & Schuster; 2008 sales $13.9 billion
• CIT Group: financial services; 2008 sales $6 billion
• Citigroup: financial services; 2008 sales $130 billion
• ConEd: Consolidated Edison; utility holding company; electricity, natural gas, energy marketing, telecommunications; 2008 sales $13.5 billion
• Deloitte: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; accounting and services; units Deloitte & Touche, Deloitte Consulting; 2008 sales $27.4 billion
• Dreyfus: The Dreyfus Corporation; financial services; unit of Bank of New York Mellon; 2007 sales $137 million
• Hearst: Hearst Corporation; newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, entertainment, interactive, business; owns a wide range of brands including San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire; stakes in A & E, Lifetime, ESPN; 2007 sales $4.3 billion (est.)
• HSBC: HSBC USA Inc; banking; unit of HSBC Holdings (London); 2007 sales $11.1 billion
• IBM: International Business Machines Corporation; computers, software, semiconductors; Armonk, NY; 2008 sales $103.6 billion
• J&J: Johnson & Johnson; health care products; New Brunswick, NJ; 2008 sales $63.7 billion
• Macys: flagship store in Herald Square, Manhattan; stores across the USA; unit of Federated (Cincinnati, Ohio); Macy's East headquarters in NYC; unit Bloomingdale's headquarters in NYC
• McGraw-Hill: McGraw-Hill Companies; education, financial services, information and media services; 2008 sales $6.3 billion
• Morgan Stanley: financial services; 2008 sales $62.2 billion
• NBC Uni: NBC Universal, Inc.; television (National Broadcasting Company, USA Network, Bravo, etc); Universal Studios; theme parks; unit of GE and Vivendi; 2007 sales $15.4 billion
• Philip Morris: Philip Morris International; tobacco products; formerly unit of Altria; 2008 sales $63 billion
• JPMorganChase: J.P. Morgan Chase and Co; financial services; 2008 sales $112.1 billion
• MetLife: insurance; 2008 sales $50.9 billion
• Merrill Lynch: Merrill Lynch and Company; financial services; 2008 sales $54.0 billion; unit of Bank of America (Charlotte, NC)
• NY Life: New York Life Insurance Company; insurance, financial services; 2008 sales $21.1 billion
• Pfizer: pharmaceuticals; 2008 sales $48.2 billion
• PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited; Accounting and services; 2008 sales $28.1 billion
• Sony: Sony Corporation of America; media and entertainment; unit of Sony (Tokyo, Japan)
• Time Warner: Time Warner Inc; online, magazines, books, cable, movies, television, broadcasting, music; owns AOL, Time Inc, Warner Bros, HBO, Turner Broadcasting (CNN, etc); 2008 sales $46.9 billion
• Verizon: Verizon Communications; telecommunications services; 2008 sales $97.3 billion
• Viacom: Viacom Inc; media and entertainment; Paramount Pictures, MTV; 2008 sales $14.6 billion

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