21 GA Companies Make Fortune 500 List For 2018

ATLANTA, GA — A total of 21 Georgia-based companies were named to the Fortune 500 2018 list. The 64th iteration of the famous list ranks the largest companies by revenue with the top 500 representing two-thirds of the U.S. gross domestic product with $12.8 trillion in revenues.

Walmart remained the top company on the list with more than $500 billion in revenue. Coming in a distant second was Exxon Mobil with more than $244 billion in revenue. Berkshire Hathaway, Apple and UnitedHealth Group rounded out the top 5. Amazon managed to climb to 8th place after previously placing 12th on the list.

Home improvement giant Home Depot, headquartered in Atlanta, was the top Georgia-based company to make the list at 23rd place. Here's what Fortune says about the chain: "Even after ten years of strong financial results, Home Depot is not sitting on its laurels and is instead doubling its investment in its stores and e-commerce to $11.1 billion over the next three years. That will include investing in things like faster check-out for customers, better inventory management, flexible scheduling and competitive wages for store workers, while turning over merchandise more quickly to keep things fresh and introducing more new brands and expanding its appliance business. It is also investing in more mundane things like buffing floors to make stores more inviting. But whatever it’s doing is working."

Other Georgia firms making the prestigious list include shipping firm UPS, Delta Air Lines, soft drink king Coca-Cola, and more. And although the list is the Fortune 500, the publication ranks beyond that cut-off point.

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Below are all the Georgia companies that made the list:

• Home Depot (23)
• UPS (44)
• Delta Air Lines (75)
• Coca-Cola (87)
• Southern (126)
• Aflac (137)
• Genuine Parts (177)
• WestRock (194)
• SunTrust Banks (303)
• Mohawk Industries (315)
• PulteGroup (341)
• Veritiv (346)
• AGCO (347)
• HD Supply Holdings (430)
• NCR (432)
• Asbury Automotive Group (434)
• Intercontinental Exchange (477)
• Total System Services (529)
• Graphic Packaging Holding (565)
• Global Payments (605)

Check out the full Fortune list here.

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