These Are The 100 Largest Companies In Kentucky

If you live in Kentucky and you’re looking for a job, you have come to the right place.

Because, sure, you can google things like ‘biggest companies in Kentucky’ and get a fairly long list of companies with a lot of employees, or perhaps that have the biggest names — but here, we bring you the companies with the most current employees that are actually headquartered in Kentucky.

Below, we’ll give you a complete list of Kentucky’s 100 largest companies, but first, here’s a look at the top 10:

1. Yum! Brands
2. Kindred Healthcare
3. Texas Roadhouse
4. Humana
5. Papa John’s International
6. INOAC USA Inc
7. Iga Express
8. Almost Family
9. Lexmark
10. Harrodsburg Health & Rehabilitation Center

Yum! Brands comes in at the top, with more current employees than any other company in the . We’ll get to specifics in a moment; first, here’s a look at our methodology.

How we identified the biggest companies in Kentucky

Here at Zippia we have developed a database of over 250,000 companies that spans the entire country.

For this report, we looked at the companies headquartered in Kentucky with at least 100 employees. That left us with 376 companies.

We then ranked each company from most to least current employees to determine the biggest companies in Kentucky.

As it turns out, Yum! Brands looks to the be the biggest company in Kentucky clocking in with 90,000 employees.

Now, check out how the 100 biggest companies in Kentucky ranked.

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Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Kentucky

Rank	Company	City	Employees
1	Yum! Brands	Louisville	90,000
2	Kindred Healthcare	Louisville	76,650
3	Texas Roadhouse	Louisville	52,500
4	Humana	Louisville	51,600
5	Papa John’s International	Louisville	23,100
6	INOAC USA Inc	Bardstown	20,000
7	Iga Express	Bowling Green	16,000
8	Almost Family	Louisville	15,500
9	Lexmark	Lexington	14,000
10	Harrodsburg Health & Rehabilitation Center	Harrodsburg	13,957
11	Norton Healthcare	Louisville	12,910
12	GE Appliances	Louisville	12,000
13	Trilogy Health Services	Louisville	11,603
14	Columbia Sussex	Crestview Hills	10,000
15	Atria Senior Living	Louisville	9,327
16	St. Elizabeth Healthcare	Edgewood	7,800
17	University of Louisville	Louisville	7,600
18	Tempur Sealy International	Lexington	7,300
19	Ashland	Covington	7,000
20	Toyota Visitor Center – Kentucky	Georgetown	6,500
21	Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems	Bowling Green	6,000
22	Fazoli’s	Lexington	5,500
23	Valvoline	Lexington	5,150
24	PharMerica	Louisville	5,100
25	Brown-Forman	Louisville	4,570
26	Signature HealthCARE	Louisville	4,037
27	Churchill Downs	Louisville	4,000
28	Pikeville Medical Center	Pikeville	3,600
29	Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas	Harrodsburg	3,532
30	LG&E and KU	Louisville	3,507
31	Commonwealth Health	Bowling Green	3,313
32	Saint Joseph Hospital	Lexington	3,000
33	Caritas Health Services	Louisville	3,000
34	MedAssist	Louisville	3,000
35	WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIV CREDIT UNION	Bowling Green	3,000
36	School Bus Garage	Shepherdsville	3,000
37	Corporex	Covington	3,000
38	Eastern Kentucky University	Richmond	2,940
39	Thorntons	Louisville	2,500
40	Northern Kentucky University	Newport	2,430
41	Fruit of the Loom	Bowling Green	2,330
42	Thomas Industries Inc	Louisville	2,250
43	Crump William J Jr MD	Providence	2,100
44	Interlock Industries	Louisville	2,000
45	Management Cleaning Controls	Louisville	2,000
46	Excel Services	Paducah	1,947
47	Toyotetsu America Inc	Somerset	1,943
48	Diagnostic Imaging Center – The Medical Centre	Bowling Green	1,900
49	Presbyterian Church	Louisville	1,800
50	Griffin Industries	Cold Spring	1,800
51	Transfreight	Erlanger	1,700
52	Toyota Tsusho America	Georgetown	1,695
53	Castellini	Newport	1,609
54	R.J. Corman Railroad	Nicholasville	1,600
55	King’s Daughters Medical Center	Ashland	1,581
56	DAV	Newport	1,577
57	ProMach	Covington	1,534
58	Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co Inc	Hopkinsville	1,500
59	A&W Restaurants	Lexington	1,500
60	Southern Graphic Systems Inc	Louisville	1,479
61	Springstone	Louisville	1,477
62	SSW Holding Company Inc	Elizabethtown	1,476
63	Outdoor Venture	Stearns	1,439
64	Evergreen Rehabilitation	Louisville	1,400
65	UofL Physicians	Louisville	1,380
66	Owensboro Health	Owensboro	1,380
67	Marquette Transportation	Paducah	1,375
68	North American Stainless	Ghent	1,362
69	WNA	Covington	1,346
70	Davis H Elliot Company Inc	Lexington	1,329
71	Jones Plastic and Engineering	Jeffersontown	1,310
72	MUBEA USA	Florence	1,301
73	Methodist Hospital	Henderson	1,300
74	Verst Logistics	Walton	1,300
75	TECT	Fort Mitchell	1,300
76	Landmark Community Newspapers	Shelbyville	1,280
77	Norton Audubon Hospital	Louisville	1,242
78	GIBBS DIE CASTING	Henderson	1,234
79	The Courier-Journal	Louisville	1,201
80	Bluegrass.org	Lexington	1,200
81	Farm Credit Mid-America	Louisville	1,150
82	Paschall Truck Lines	Murray	1,150
83	Hilliard Lyons	Louisville	1,150
84	Branscum Construction Company/Robins & Morton A Joint Venture	Russell Springs	1,127
85	Murray Hospital	Murray	1,110
86	Family Roots	Watterson Park	1,099
87	Data Control Group	Shelbyville	1,091
88	HINKLE CONTRACTING	Paris	1,053
89	Catlettsburg Refining LLC	Catlettsburg	1,042
90	Sam Swope Auto Group	Louisville	1,027
91	James Marine Inc	Paducah	1,007
92	Road & Rail Services	Louisville	1,005
93	Paragon Rehabilitation	Louisville	1,000
94	SITEX	Henderson	1,000
95	Stephens Pipe & Steel	Russell Springs	1,000
96	KOI Auto Parts	Bellevue	1,000
97	Taco Tico	Lexington	1,000
98	Commonwealth Hotels	Florence	1,000
99	Steel Technologies	Louisville	1,000
100	Community Trust Bank	Pikeville	996

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