The Shaw Group and Albemarle were the only two Baton Rouge-based companies to make the Fortune 1000 list of America’s largest corporations. Shaw moved up 69 spots from last year, to finish 357th. The engineering and construction firm had nearly $7 billion in revenue last year. Albemarle moved up 18 spots, to 788th. The chemical company, which moved its headquarters to Baton Rouge last year, had $2.46 billion in revenue. Four other Louisiana-based companies made the Fortune 1000: Entergy (No. 205), CenturyTel (No. 753), Superior Energy Services (No. 933) and Pool (No. 966). For more information about the Louisiana companies or a look at the full list, click here. Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country’s largest publicly traded companies.
Shaw, Albemarle make Fortune list
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