We looked at over 7 million resumes to find the companies in Kentucky that have the most employees.
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 headquarted 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:
Taco Bell 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.
If you’re interested, you can read more about the Kentucky job scene here:
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 150 companies.
We then ranked each company from most to least current employees to determine the biggest companies in Kentucky.
As it turns out, Taco Bell looks to the be the biggest company in Kentucky clocking in with 175,000 employees.
Now, check out how the 100 biggest companies in Kentucky ranked.
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Rank | Company | City | Employees |
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1 | Taco Bell | Louisville | 175,000 |
2 | Yum! Brands | Louisville | 90,000 |
3 | Kindred Healthcare | Louisville | 53,200 |
4 | Kindred Hospitals Limited Partnership | Louisville | 53,200 |
5 | Kindred Hospital New Jersey – Rahway | Louisville | 53,200 |
6 | Texas Roadhouse | Louisville | 52,500 |
7 | Compbenefits | Louisville | 51,600 |
8 | Humana | Louisville | 51,600 |
9 | Ultimate Optical | Louisville | 51,600 |
10 | Pizza Hut | Louisville | 28,750 |
11 | Papa John’s International | Louisville | 20,700 |
12 | KFC | Louisville | 20,573 |
13 | Gentiva Health Services | Louisville | 14,600 |
14 | Lexmark | Lexington | 12,700 |
15 | GE Appliances | Louisville | 12,000 |
16 | Ashland | Lexington | 10,800 |
17 | Express Personnel Services | Louisville | 10,001 |
18 | General Cable | Highland Heights | 10,000 |
19 | Tempur Sealy International | Lexington | 7,100 |
20 | Rescare Management Services Inc | Louisville | 6,759 |
21 | Norton Healthcare | Louisville | 4,951 |
22 | Sealy | Lexington | 4,817 |
23 | Fazoli’s | Lexington | 4,700 |
24 | Brown-Forman | Louisville | 4,600 |
25 | Churchill Downs | Louisville | 4,500 |
26 | Eastern Kentucky University | Richmond | 3,000 |
27 | Pomeroy | Hebron | 3,000 |
28 | Tempur-Pedic | Lexington | 3,000 |
29 | Sypris Solutions | Louisville | 3,000 |
30 | Atria Senior Living | Louisville | 2,929 |
31 | PharMerica | Louisville | 2,327 |
32 | Alltech | Nicholasville | 2,247 |
33 | Elliott Group | Pikeville | 2,000 |
34 | Citizens Bancorp | Mount Vernon | 1,977 |
35 | Valvoline | Lexington | 1,971 |
36 | A&W Restaurants | Lexington | 1,750 |
37 | Paragon Rehabilitation | Louisville | 1,750 |
38 | Signature HealthCARE | Louisville | 1,750 |
39 | LG&E and KU | Louisville | 1,506 |
40 | Frost Brown Todd | Louisville | 1,500 |
41 | Owensboro Health | Owensboro | 1,500 |
42 | Hitachi Automotive | Harrodsburg | 1,500 |
43 | Thorntons | Louisville | 1,500 |
44 | Central Banc Inc | Lexington | 1,373 |
45 | KentuckyOne Health | Louisville | 1,330 |
46 | Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems | Bowling Green | 1,250 |
47 | Akebono Brake | Elizabethtown | 1,250 |
48 | Farm Credit Mid-America | Louisville | 1,250 |
49 | Trilogy Health Services | Louisville | 1,250 |
50 | Toyota Tsusho America | Georgetown | 1,250 |
51 | Almost Family | Louisville | 1,116 |
52 | Commonwealth Health | Bowling Green | 1,000 |
53 | Steel Technologies | Louisville | 1,000 |
54 | Gilt.com | Shepherdsville | 960 |
55 | Logan Aluminum | Russellville | 960 |
56 | North American Stainless | Ghent | 930 |
57 | Lexington Clinic | Lexington | 900 |
58 | Bluegrass.org | Lexington | 870 |
59 | Methodist Hospital | Henderson | 870 |
60 | St. Claire Regional Medical Center | Morehead | 840 |
61 | Babcock Power | Louisville | 840 |
62 | Transfreight | Erlanger | 840 |
63 | Ozarks Medical Center | West Plains | 840 |
64 | ZirMed | Louisville | 810 |
65 | R. J. Corman Railroad Group | Nicholasville | 810 |
66 | Marquette Transportation | Paducah | 810 |
67 | Peoples Bank | Taylorsville | 803 |
68 | TECT | Fort Mitchell | 780 |
69 | Specialty Products & Insulation | Elizabethtown | 750 |
70 | Taylor Regional Sleep Medicine | Campbellsville | 750 |
71 | Disabled American Veterans | Cold Spring | 750 |
72 | Jones Plastic and Engineering | Jeffersontown | 750 |
73 | Verst Group Logistics | Walton | 720 |
74 | Sam Swope Auto Group | Louisville | 720 |
75 | Crispers | Lakeland | 710 |
76 | Big Ass Fans | Lexington | 699 |
77 | AssuredPartners NL | Louisville | 690 |
78 | Republic Bank | Louisville | 678 |
79 | Louisville Ladder | Louisville | 660 |
80 | Pro Mach | Covington | 660 |
81 | CafePress | Louisville | 563 |
82 | Gray Construction | Lexington | 556 |
83 | Drees Homes | Fort Mitchell | 540 |
84 | MPD | Owensboro | 540 |
85 | WILD Flavors | Erlanger | 480 |
86 | Jeff Wyler Automotive Family | Florence | 480 |
87 | The Jockey Club | Lexington | 450 |
88 | Metal Sales Manufacturing | Louisville | 450 |
89 | Link-Belt Cranes | Lexington | 420 |
90 | Galls | Lexington | 405 |
91 | The Courier-Journal | Louisville | 390 |
92 | LifeSkills | Bowling Green | 390 |
93 | RA Jones Group Ltd | Covington | 390 |
94 | Stock Yards Bancorp | Louisville | 379 |
95 | King Fish Restaurants | Louisville | 375 |
96 | First Southern National Bank | Lexington | 375 |
97 | Zumbiel Packaging | Hebron | 375 |
98 | Worldwide Equipment | Prestonsburg | 360 |
99 | MIDFLORIDA Credit Union | Lakeland | 360 |
100 | Community Trust Bank | Pikeville | 303 |
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