Fortune 500: Walnut Creek Company Continues Climb

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Fortune Magazine has released its annual list of the 500 top companies in America, which represent two-thirds of the U.S. GDP and have a total of $13.7 trillion in revenue, the magazine says. Central Garden & Pet, headquartered in Walnut Creek, hasn't made it into the Top 500, but it's now ranked at 928, up from 947 last year.

Central Garden & Pet has more than 5,000 employees, selling garden and pet supplies.

The company currently has more than 100 jobs open nationwide, including human resources and marketing research positions in Walnut Creek.

Jobs at Central Garden & Pet

Fortune explains that it ranks companies by total revenue and Walmart topped the 2019 list, followed by Exxon Mobil and Apple. Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon ranked No.4 and No.5, rounding out the top five spots on the list.

To put the list in context, Fortune writes that just a tenth of the companies on the list are responsible for nearly half of the total $13.7 trillion in revenue. (You can read more in detail about the list via Fortune here.)

The top 10 companies on the list are:

Walmart
Exxon Mobil
Apple
Berkshire Hathaway
Amazon.com
UnitedHealth Group
McKesson
CVS Health
AT&T
AmerisourceBergen

There are more companies in the Bay Area. See the full Fortune 500 list here.

— Patch editors Feroze Dhanoa and Bea Karnes contributed to this story

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