The 100 Largest Companies In Kentucky For 2020

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

What’s The Largest Company In Kentucky?

Yum! Brands is the largest company headquartered in Kentucky based on our database of 10 million resumes. It has 90,000 employees. See the full table or the methodology below.

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:

Yum! Brands 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 369 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.

If you’re interested, you can read more about the Kentucky job scene here:

Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Kentucky

Rank	Company	City	Employees
1	Yum! Brands	Louisville	90,000
2	Texas Roadhouse	Louisville	56,300
3	Humana	Louisville	41,146
4	Kindred Healthcare	Louisville	38,300
5	Grupo Antolin	Hopkinsville	28,000
6	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America	Erlanger	23,307
7	Papa John’s International	Louisville	23,100
8	INOAC USA	Bardstown	20,000
9	Houchens Industries	Bowling Green	16,000
10	Almost Family	Louisville	15,500
11	Lexmark International	Lexington	14,000
12	Harrodsburg Health & Rehabilitation Center	Harrodsburg	13,957
13	Norton Healthcare	Louisville	12,910
14	Atria Senior Living	Louisville	9,327
15	General Cable	Highland Heights	8,500
16	University of Louisville	Louisville	7,700
17	Tempur Sealy International	Lexington	7,100
18	Ashland	Covington	7,000
19	Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky	Georgetown	6,500
20	Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems	Bowling Green	6,000
21	Valvoline	Lexington	5,150
22	PharMerica	Louisville	5,100
23	Fazoli’s	Lexington	4,700
24	Brown-Forman	Louisville	4,570
25	Churchill Downs	Louisville	4,500
26	Signature HealthCARE	Louisville	4,037
27	Pikeville Medical Center	Pikeville	3,600
28	LG&E and KU Energy	Louisville	3,507
29	Commonwealth Health	Bowling Green	3,313
30	St. Elizabeth Healthcare	Edgewood	3,240
31	Fayette County Public Schools	Lexington	3,220
32	Thorntons	Louisville	3,130
33	Western Kentucky University Credit Union	Bowling Green	3,000
34	Saint Joseph Hospital	Lexington	3,000
35	Corporex Co	Covington	3,000
36	Bullitt Central High School	Shepherdsville	3,000
37	Northern Kentucky University	Highland Heights	2,550
38	WILD Flavors	Erlanger	2,500
39	SGS	Louisville	2,343
40	Thomas Industries	Louisville	2,250
41	Crump William J Jr MD	Providence	2,100
42	Fruit of the Loom	Bowling Green	2,070
43	Management Cleaning Controls	Louisville	2,000
44	Interlock Industries	Louisville	2,000
45	Toyotetsu America	Somerset	1,943
46	Diagnostic Imaging Center – The Medical Centre	Bowling Green	1,900
47	Tempur-Pedic	Lexington	1,820
48	Griffin Industries	Cold Spring	1,800
49	Owensboro Health	Owensboro	1,750
50	Transfreight	Erlanger	1,700
51	Castellini	Newport	1,609
52	Hendricks Regional Health	Danville	1,600
53	R. J. Corman Railroad Group	Nicholasville	1,600
54	King’s Daughters Medical Center	Ashland	1,581
55	Disabled American Veterans	Cold Spring	1,577
56	A&W Restaurants	Lexington	1,500
57	Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co	Hopkinsville	1,500
58	Springstone	Louisville	1,477
59	SSW Holding Company	Elizabethtown	1,476
60	Outdoor Venture	Stearns	1,439
61	Evergreen Rehabilitation	Louisville	1,400
62	Alcan Primary Products	Robards	1,398
63	University of Louisville Physicians	Louisville	1,380
64	Marquette Transportation Company	Paducah	1,375
65	North American Stainless	Ghent	1,362
66	Jones Plastic and Engineering	Jeffersontown	1,310
67	Brenntag Mid-South	Henderson	1,305
68	Mubea Co	Florence	1,301
69	TECT	Fort Mitchell	1,300
70	Verst Group Logistics	Walton	1,300
71	Methodist Hospital	Henderson	1,300
72	The Hines Group	Owensboro	1,283
73	Landmark Community Newspapers	Shelbyville	1,280
74	Norton Audubon Hospital	Louisville	1,242
75	Gibbs Die Casting	Henderson	1,234
76	The Courier-Journal	Louisville	1,201
77	Brazeway	Hopkinsville	1,200
78	St. Claire Regional Medical Center	Morehead	1,200
79	Corporate Cleaning Systems	Erlanger	1,200
80	JJB Hilliard WL Lyons	Louisville	1,150
81	Farm Credit Mid-America	Louisville	1,150
82	Paschall Truck Lines	Murray	1,150
83	Branscum Construction Company/Robins & Morton A Joint Venture	Russell Springs	1,127
84	Murray Hospital	Murray	1,110
85	Family Roots	Watterson Park	1,099
86	Data Control Group	Shelbyville	1,091
87	HINKLE CONTRACTING	Paris	1,053
88	Whayne Supply Company	Louisville	1,050
89	Catlettsburg Refining	Catlettsburg	1,042
90	Tolt Solutions	Hebron	1,025
91	James Marine	Paducah	1,007
92	Steel Technologies	Louisville	1,000
93	SITEX	Henderson	1,000
94	Commonwealth Hotels	Covington	1,000
95	Stephens Pipe & Steel	Russell Springs	1,000
96	Paragon Rehabilitation	Louisville	1,000
97	Community Trust Bank	Pikeville	996
98	Holley Performance Products	Bowling Green	988
99	Lexington Clinic	Lexington	974
100	Logan Aluminum	Russellville	960

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