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The 100 Largest Companies In Kentucky For 2023

By Chris Kolmar
Apr. 14, 2023

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. KFC (Jobs)

  2. Joseph’s Salon & Spa (Jobs)

  3. Sumitomo Corporation (Jobs)

  4. Texas Roadhouse (Jobs)

  5. Humana (Jobs)

  6. Kindred Healthcare (Jobs)

  7. A&W Restaurants (Jobs)

  8. Yum! Brands (Jobs)

  9. Fruit of the Loom (Jobs)

  10. Grupo Antolin (Jobs)

KFC comes in at the top, with more current employees than any other company in the state. 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 741 companies.

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

As it turns out, KFC looks to the be the biggest company in Kentucky clocking in with 820,000 employees.

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

Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Kentucky

Rank Company City Employees Jobs
1 KFC Louisville 820,000 Jobs
2 Joseph’s Salon & Spa Saint Matthews 100,000 Jobs
3 Sumitomo Corporation Scottsville 74,638 Jobs
4 Texas Roadhouse Louisville 64,900 Jobs
5 Humana Louisville 48,700 Jobs
6 Kindred Healthcare Louisville 38,300 Jobs
7 A&W Restaurants Lexington 35,160 Jobs
8 Yum! Brands Louisville 34,000 Jobs
9 Fruit of the Loom Bowling Green 32,400 Jobs
10 Grupo Antolin Hopkinsville 28,000 Jobs
11 University of Kentucky Lexington 19,761 Jobs
12 Papa John’s International Louisville 16,700 Jobs
13 GE Consumer & Industrial Louisville 15,000 Jobs
14 Houchens Industries Bowling Green 15,000 Jobs
15 Norton Healthcare Louisville 13,991 Jobs
16 Federal Prison Industries Lexington 10,896 Jobs
17 Meggitt PLC Erlanger 10,200 Jobs
18 Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky Georgetown 10,151 Jobs
19 Merchandise Direct: Sons of the American Revolution Louisville 10,001 Jobs
20 Russell Brands Bowling Green 10,000 Jobs
21 Pharmaron Louisville 10,000 Jobs
22 Akebono Brake Elizabethtown 9,238 Jobs
23 Lexmark Lexington 9,000 Jobs
24 Prysmian Group Highland Heights 8,500 Jobs
25 Bolder Healthcare Solutions Louisville 7,500 Jobs
26 Louisville Metro Louisville 7,500 Jobs
27 Tempur Sealy International Lexington 7,400 Jobs
28 Lion Apparel Beattyville 7,000 Jobs
29 University of Louisville Louisville 6,999 Jobs
30 Ashland Covington 6,500 Jobs
31 Valvoline Lexington 6,100 Jobs
32 GE Appliances Louisville 6,000 Jobs
33 PharMerica Louisville 5,700 Jobs
34 BATUS Holdings Inc Louisville 5,500 Jobs
35 Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services Inc Louisville 5,332 Jobs
36 Thomas & King Lexington 5,000 Jobs
37 GENLYTE GROUP INC Louisville 5,000 Jobs
38 Commonwealth Aluminum Lewisport, LLC Lewisport 5,000 Jobs
39 Alliance Coal, LLC Lexington 4,999 Jobs
40 Thorntons Louisville 4,700 Jobs
41 Fazoli’s Lexington 4,700 Jobs
42 Brown-Forman Louisville 4,570 Jobs
43 Churchill Downs Louisville 4,500 Jobs
44 Owensboro Health Owensboro 4,300 Jobs
45 Thomas and King of Arizona Inc Lexington 4,000 Jobs
46 Pomeroy IT Solutions Sales Company, Inc Hebron 4,000 Jobs
47 Trilogy Health Services Louisville 4,000 Jobs
48 California Square Limited Partnership Louisville 3,900 Jobs
49 Youth Performing Arts School Louisville 3,768 Jobs
50 Jefferson County Public School Louisville 3,768 Jobs
51 Apple Sauce Crestview Hills 3,558 Jobs
52 Fayette County Public Schools Lexington 3,504 Jobs
53 Bremner Food Group Princeton 3,500 Jobs
54 Eastern Kentucky University Richmond 3,364 Jobs
55 Drees Homes Fort Mitchell 3,280 Jobs
56 Alltech Nicholasville 3,001 Jobs
57 Genlyte Thomas Group Louisville 3,000 Jobs
58 Pikeville Medical Center Pikeville 3,000 Jobs
59 Vaughn & Melton Middlesborough 3,000 Jobs
60 Logan Aluminum Russellville 3,000 Jobs
61 UofL Hospital Louisville 3,000 Jobs
62 Zf Steering Systems, Llc Florence 3,000 Jobs
63 Med Center Health Bowling Green 3,000 Jobs
64 TurnPoint Services Louisville 3,000 Jobs
65 Methodist Hospital Of Henderson, Kentucky Henderson 3,000 Jobs
66 Griffin Industries Cold Spring 3,000 Jobs
67 Farm Credit Mid-America Louisville 3,000 Jobs
68 North American Stainless Ghent 3,000 Jobs
69 Springstone Louisville 3,000 Jobs
70 TG Kentucky, LLC Lebanon 3,000 Jobs
71 Saint Joseph Health System Inc Lexington 3,000 Jobs
72 corporate cleaning systems Erlanger 3,000 Jobs
73 Gibbs Die Casting Henderson 3,000 Jobs
74 Davis H. Elliot Company Lexington 3,000 Jobs
75 Road & Rail Services Louisville 3,000 Jobs
76 Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital Somerset 3,000 Jobs
77 Breakout Lexington 3,000 Jobs
78 Kona Ice Florence 3,000 Jobs
79 DailyPay Ashland 3,000 Jobs
80 COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS Louisville 3,000 Jobs
81 American Memory from the Library of Congress Louisville 3,000 Jobs
82 Vernon Home Health Care Agency LLC Louisville 3,000 Jobs
83 Bluestar Us Hebron 2,801 Jobs
84 Salem Telephone Company Salem 2,700 Jobs
85 Leslie County Telephone Co Hyden 2,700 Jobs
86 DirecTECH Holding Company Inc Maysville 2,600 Jobs
87 Renukadevi Louisville 2,600 Jobs
88 Central Baptist Hospital Foundation Inc Lexington 2,500 Jobs
89 WILD Flavors Erlanger 2,500 Jobs
90 Logo Holdings I Corporation Louisville 2,410 Jobs
91 Southern Graphics Inc Louisville 2,400 Jobs
92 KCTCS Versailles 2,376 Jobs
93 WKYU Bowling Green 2,347 Jobs
94 United Rehab Louisville 2,200 Jobs
95 Forcht Group of Kentucky Lexington 2,100 Jobs
96 Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Madisonville 2,100 Jobs
97 Stephen Scott Alexandria 2,089 Jobs
98 AFAM Acquisition LLC Louisville 2,013 Jobs
99 Ashland Hospital Corporation Ashland 2,000 Jobs
100 Lindsey Wilson College Columbia 2,000 Jobs

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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