Private Companies

Companies ranked by number of employees.

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Rank Company Sector City 1 Levi Strauss & Co. Clothing San Francisco 2 Ralphs Grocery Supermkts Los Angeles 3 Bechtel Construction San Francisco 4 Family Rests. Restaurants Irvine 5 Science Applics. Intl Technology R&D; San Diego 6 Raley’s Supermkts W. Sacramento 7 Parsons Corp. Engineering Pasadena 8 Stater Bros. Mkts Supermkts Colton 9 DHL Airways Inc. Air freight Redwood City 10 Am. Restaurant Gr.(2) Restaurants Newport Beach 11 Foster Farms Poultry processing Livingston 12 Freedom Comm. Newspapers Irvine 13 Save Mart Spmkts Supermarkets Modesto 14 MTS (3) Retail W. Sacramento 15 Del Monte Foods(4) Canned food San Francisco 16 Del Taco (5) Restaurants Orange 17 Roll Intl Produce grower Los Angeles

No. of Rank employees(1) 1 37,600 2 31,600 3 30,000 4 21,400 5 21,000 6 11,000 7 10,000 8 10,000 9 8,100 10 7,400 11 6,800 12 6,800 13 6,300 14 5,500 15 5,300 16 4,800 17 4,700

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(1) Companywide(2) privately held company, publicly traded debt (3) approximate number of employees globally; 5,148 employees nationally

(4) seasonally adjusted

(5) company stores only--does not include franchise stores

Sources: American Business Information and company sources