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; insurance (property, casualty, specialty, life), financial services, asset management; 2007 sales $110 billion
• American Exp: American Express Company; travel services, financial services, brokerage, asset management, charge cards, magazine publishing; 2007 sales $31.5 billion
• Assurant: insurance; 2007 sales $8.4 billion
• Bloomberg: financial information; news, market data, analysis, books, and magazines; via Bloomberg terminals, TV, radio, and the Internet; 2006 sales $4.7 billion
• CBS: CBS Corporation; Media and entertainment; CBS Television, Showtime, CBS Radio, CBS Records, Simon & Schuster; 2007 sales $14.0 billion
• CIT Group: financial services; 2007 sales $8.6 billion
• Citigroup: financial services; 2007 sales $159.2 billion
• ConEd: Consolidated Edison; utility holding company; electricity, natural gas, energy marketing, telecommunications; 2007 sales $13.1 billion
• Deloitte: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu accounting and services; units Deloitte & Touche, Deloitte Consulting; 2007 sales $23 billion
• Dreyfus: The Dreyfus Corporation; financial services; unit of Mellon Financial (Pittsburgh, PA); 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; 2006 sales $4.5 billion (est.)
• HSBC: HSBC USA Inc; banking; unit of HSBC Holdings (London); 2006 sales $10.5 billion
• IBM: International Business Machines Corporation; computers, software, semiconductors; Armonk, NY; 2007 sales $98.7 billion
• J&J: Johnson & Johnson; health care products; New Brunswick, NJ; 2007 sales $61 billion
• Macys: Macys East; flagship store is in Herald Square in Manhattan; stores across many eastern states; unit of Federated (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• McGraw-Hill: McGraw-Hill Companies; education, financial services, information and media services; 2007 sales $6.7 billion
• Morgan Stanley: financial services; 2007 sales $85.3 billion
• NBC: NBC Universal, Inc.; television (National Broadcasting Company, USA Network, Bravo, etc); Universal Studios; theme parks; unit of GE; 2006 sales $16.1 billion
• JPMorganChase: J.P. Morgan Chase and Co; financial services; 2007 sales $116.3 billion
• MetLife: insurance; 2007 sales $53 billion
• Merrill Lynch: Merrill Lynch and Company; financial services; 2007 sales $62.6 billion
• NY Life: New York Life Insurance Company; insurance, financial services; 2007 sales $21.1 billion
• Pfizer: pharmaceuticals; 2007 sales $48.4 billion
• PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited; Accounting and services; 2007 sales $25.1 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); 2007 sales $46.4 billion
• Verizon: Verizon Communications; telecommunications services; 2007 sales $93.4 billion
• Viacom: Viacom Inc; media and entertainment; Paramount Pictures, MTV, Famous Music, etc.; 2007 sales $13.4 billion

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