biggest companies in Lenexa, KS

In 1930, Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg opened a small general store in Beaconsfield, Iowa. That store grew to become Hy-Vee - a company known for excellent service and reasonable prices. As an employee-owned company, Hy-Vee encourages each of its more than 82,000 employees to help guide the company. Its 85 years of outstanding success is a testament to those employees' hard work and dedication to the vision of its founders. Today, Hy-Vee is synonymous with quality, variety, value and superior customer service. Its slogan, "A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle," expresses the foundation of the company's operating philosophy. Hy-Vee is a touchstone for its customers' desire for information on diet, nutrition and wellness topics. The company's commitment to healthy lifestyles is evidenced by ever-growing HealthMarket departments featuring natural and organic products, the consulting services of in-store dietitians and chefs, and consumer and employee wellness programs. The company also sponsors the annual Hy-Vee Road Races during Drake Relays weekend and five Hy-Vee Pinky Swear Kids Triathlons across the Midwest that raise money for children with cancer and their families. With sales of $9.3 billion annually, Hy-Vee ranks among the top 25 supermarket chains and the top 50 private companies in the United States. Its more than 240 stores are located in eight Midwestern states: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Distribution centers are in Chariton, Iowa, and Cherokee, Iowa, with a third perishable operation in Ankeny, Iowa. Hy-Vee's corporate office is located in West Des Moines, Iowa.

HanesBrands is a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel under some of the world's strongest apparel brands in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as in Australia and South Africa. Their iconic innerwear and activewear apparel brands found in the United States and elsewhere.

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is an American provider of human resources management software and services.

Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) is a leader in aviation and high-integrity solutions for commercial and military customers around the world. Every day we help pilots safely and reliably navigate to the far corners of the earth; keep warfighters aware and ...

Medfusion is a healthcare IT company obsessed with improving the patient experience simplifying patient-provider communications and driving financial and operational efficiencies for providers. Whether you choose to enable patient self-scheduling for all or just a portion of your open appointments, you'll be amazed at how much of your staff time, and cost, is reduced.

Acosta is a full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods industry. Acosta Foodservice provides integrated sales and marketing solutions for food and non-food manufacturers, distributors and operators across all away-from-home meal channels.

Kiewit Corporation is an employee-owned Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. Privately held, it is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3 project in Hawaii, and building the world's largest geodesic dome at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Along with significant mining and off-shore operations, the company also contracts small grading (dirt moving) projects for residential or commercial development.

FSA Food is a privately-held, family-owned company that provides foodservice solutions to clients in the mid-west, west, and Alaska areas. They have state-of-the-art distribution centers that offer quality services to public or private, independent or chain, as well as local on national businesses.

Discount Tire Company is an independent tire and wheel retailer.

Grundfos is a pump manufacturer, based in Denmark, with more than 19,000 employees globally. The annual production of more than 16 million pump units, circulator pumps, submersible pumps, and centrifugal pumps. Grundfos also produces electric motors for the pumps as well as electric motors for separate merchandising.

Oldcastle Materials is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready-mix concrete, and construction and paving services in the United States.

Since its founding in 1976, PRA has been conducting complex global clinical trials across all therapeutic areas and providing outsourced clinical services across all phases of pharmaceutical and biotech drug development. For over 30 years, PRA has been recognized as a reliable organization that provides niche treatments, therapies, and even blockbuster drugs. It has more than 15,000 employees working in over 80 countries.

Apria is a leading US provider of home healthcare equipment delivery and in-home clinical services for COPD, sleep apnea, diabetes, wound therapy, and more

VITAS Healthcare provides hospice care and palliative services to patients that suffer from terminal illnesses. Its workers can help patients to reduce anxiety and offer needed spiritual and emotional support at the end of their lives. The hospice provides services in the patient's home or in inpatient hospice units in 14 states. It offers a variety of service, from music therapy to pet visits. Founded in 1978, VITAS has its corporate headquarters in Miami, FL.

Improving America's health, one patient at a time.

B/E Aerospace is the worldwide leading manufacturer of aircraft passenger cabin interior products for the commercial and business jet aircraft markets. B/E Aerospace is also the leading global distributor of aerospace fasteners. B/E Aerospace has leading worldwide market shares in all of its major product lines and serves virtually all of the world's airlines, aircraft manufacturers and leasing companies through its direct global sales and customer support organizations.

Lincoln Electric is a global manufacturer of welding and cutting products, including arc welding power sources, consumable electrodes, fluxes, fume extraction equipment, robotic welding systems; etc. It serves the Heavy Fabrication; Automotive; Pipeline; Offshore; Maintenance and Repair; and other industries. Lincoln Electric operates in almost 20 countries located throughout North America, Asia/Pacific, and Europe.

Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO), headquartered in Thomasville, Ga., is a leading producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The company operates 47 highly efficient bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, and pastries, which are distributed fresh to retail and foodservice customers in the East, South, and Southwest through a network of independent distributors, and frozen to national retail and foodservice customers.

Westlake Chemical is an international manufacturer and supplier of petrochemicals and fabricated products that enhance the daily lives of people around the planet. The tires we ride on, the plastic wrap that keeps our meats and produce fresh, the pipes that are essential to ensuring clean water, the frames that secure our windows and doors, Westlake plays a vital role in supplying the building blocks for these products and many more.