Greenwich is headquarters of 10 of Connecticut’s 100 largest industrial and services companies, held publicly or privately (source, Connecticut magazine Jan.06). The fifth largest Connecticut bank, U.S. Trust Company with $3,545,000,000 in assets, is also Greenwich-based.

The Connecticut 10, with state ranking and gross sales, are:

• 13. W. R. Berkley, property and casualty insurance, $4,513,000,000.
• 16. United Rentals, heavy equipment rentals, 3,110,000,000.
• 28. UST Inc., tobacco, wine and other productions, $1,789,000,000.
• 30. Blyth Industries, housewares, scented candles, $1,586,000,000.
• 49. PanAmSat Corp, satellites, $827,000,000.
• 51. *Interactive Brokers Group, brokerage, $700,000,000
• 58. *North Castle Partners, food and health products, $519,000,000.
• 72. Genesee & Wyoming, freight rail operator, $303,000,000.
• 77. * Heartland Industrial Partners, aerospace and auto parts, $277,000,000.
• 82. * Brant-Allen Industries Inc., paper mills, management, $240,000,000.
• *Privately held.

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Greenwich is also the location of offices of global business leaders such as Unilever and Nestle Waters North America, while Old Greenwich-based Premcor, petroleum refineries, a member of the Fortune 500, was sold in 2005 to Valero of San Antonio, TX.

Nearby-Connecticut

Four Fortune 500 companies - International Paper, MeadWestvaco, Pitney Bowes and Xerox, are headquartered in nearby Stamford. In addition, two other members of the 500 list, are in nearby communities, GE in Fairfield and Terex Corp. in Westport.