These Are The 100 Largest Companies In North Carolina

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

Because, sure, you can google things like ‘biggest companies in North Carolina’ 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 North Carolina.

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

1. Lowe’s Companies
2. Bank of America
3. Compass Group
4. Tyson Foods
5. Total
6. VF
7. Hanesbrands
8. Lab
9. Quintiles Transnational Corp
10. Family Dollar

Lowe’s Companies 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 North Carolina

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 North Carolina with at least 100 employees. That left us with 1,035 companies.

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

As it turns out, Lowe’s Companies looks to the be the biggest company in North Carolina clocking in with 290,000 employees.

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

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Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In North Carolina

Rank	Company	City	Employees
1	Lowe’s Companies	Mooresville	290,000
2	Bank of America	Charlotte	211,000
3	Compass Group	Charlotte	181,632
4	Tyson Foods	Kings Mountain	114,000
5	Total	Raleigh	98,280
6	VF	Greensboro	69,000
7	Hanesbrands	Winston-Salem	67,800
8	Lab	Burlington	52,000
9	Quintiles Transnational Corp	Durham	50,000
10	Family Dollar	Matthews	47,500
11	BB&T	Winston-Salem	37,500
12	Duke Energy	Charlotte	28,798
13	CommScope	Hickory	25,000
14	Novant Health	Charlotte	25,000
15	Belk	Charlotte	24,350
16	Nucor	Charlotte	23,900
17	Sealed Air	Charlotte	23,000
18	JELD-WEN	Charlotte	20,600
19	Harris Teeter	Matthews	18,500
20	Ingles Markets	Black Mountain	18,020
21	Food Lion	Salisbury	17,880
22	Old Dominion Freight Line	Thomasville	17,543
23	Carquest Auto Parts	Raleigh	17,000
24	Carolinas HealthCare System	Charlotte	14,930
25	SAS	Cary	13,147
26	PRA Health Sciences	Raleigh	13,000
27	Covance	Burlington	12,800
28	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	12,690
29	Duke University	Durham	12,620
30	Wake Forest Baptist Health	Winston-Salem	12,563
31	Husqvarna Group	Charlotte	12,179
32	Mission Health	Asheville	12,016
33	UNC Health Care	Chapel Hill	12,010
34	Universal Furniture	High Point	12,000
35	Pharmaceutical Product Development	Wilmington	11,000
36	Progress Energy	Raleigh	11,000
37	The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital	Greensboro	11,000
38	Hanson Aggregates East	Morrisville	10,600
39	Red Hat	Raleigh	10,500
40	The Fresh Market	Greensboro	10,300
41	Cato Fashions	Charlotte	10,200
42	Diversey	Charlotte	10,170
43	Bojangles’	Charlotte	10,100
44	Wake County Public School System	Cary	10,080
45	Milkco Inc	Asheville	10,001
46	ThomasvilleFurniture	High Point	10,001
47	Laneventure Inc	Conover	10,001
48	Boddie-Noell Ent.	Rocky Mount	10,000
49	Alex Lee	Hickory	10,000
50	Sonic Automotive	Charlotte	9,800
51	WakeMed	Raleigh	9,000
52	Hillco	Kinston	9,000
53	Debbie’s Staffing	Winston-Salem	9,000
54	Investors Management	Raleigh	9,000
55	Lowes Foods	Winston-Salem	9,000
56	Ply Gem Holdings	Cary	8,975
57	Civitas Media	Davidson	8,860
58	Qorvo	Greensboro	8,700
59	Vidant Health	Greenville	8,373
60	Martin Marietta	Raleigh	8,111
61	Hendrick Automotive Group	Charlotte	8,086
62	Curtiss-Wright	Charlotte	8,000
63	SSI Schaefer Systems International North America	Charlotte	8,000
64	Sagraves Scott G MD	Greenville	7,500
65	Butterball	Garner	7,418
66	Variety Wholesalers	Henderson	6,800
67	Guilford County Schools	Greensboro	6,500
68	Vrush Industries Inc	High Point	6,500
69	Extended Stay America	Charlotte	6,150
70	SECU	Raleigh	6,135
71	Snyder’s-Lance	Charlotte	6,100
72	First Citizens Bank	Raleigh	6,076
73	Cree	Durham	6,039
74	SHOE SHOW	Concord	6,000
75	Nash Johnson & Sons’ Farms Inc	Rose Hill	6,000
76	House of Raeford	Rose Hill	6,000
77	East Carolina University	Greenville	5,610
78	Reynolds American	Winston-Salem	5,525
79	Renfro	Mount Airy	5,500
80	UNC REX Healthcare	Raleigh	5,500
81	Elior North America	Charlotte	5,168
82	Patheon	Durham	5,075
83	R.J. Reynolds	Winston-Salem	5,050
84	Bosch Tools	Lincolnton	5,007
85	Babcock & Wilcox	Charlotte	5,000
86	SPX	Charlotte	5,000
87	Rack Room Shoes	Charlotte	5,000
88	EnPro Industries	Charlotte	5,000
89	Syngenta Crop Protection USA	Greensboro	5,000
90	Blue Cross Blue Shield Association	Durham	4,793
91	International Textile Group	Greensboro	4,750
92	Cardinal Logistics Management	Concord	4,525
93	Mack Trucks	Greensboro	4,500
94	American Tire Distributors Inc	Huntersville	4,423
95	Heritage Home Group	High Point	4,324
96	Market America	Greensboro	4,210
97	SGL Carbon SE	Charlotte	4,193
98	Pike	Mount Airy	4,143
99	FHI 360	Durham	4,000
100	UNC Charlotte	Chapel Hill	3,750

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