These Are The 100 Largest Companies In Kentucky

We looked at over 7 million resumes to find the companies in Kentucky that have the most employees.

by Chris KolmarBiggest Companies, Rankings - 3 months ago

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:

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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 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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Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Kentucky

Rank	Company	City	Employees
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