The Business Rankings directory contains over 25,000 listings of public, private and foreign-owned companies in the United States ranked from highest to lowest by sales volume and employee number within a range of different categories.

Listings for companies in each ranking section have been determined by the percentage they represent within D&B’s information database. Companies with the following primary SIC Codes are not listed in the Business Rankings directory:

43 U.S. Postal Service
76 Miscellaneous Repair Services
82 Educational Services
83 Social Services
84 Museums, Botanicals, Zoos
86 Membership Organizations
88 Private Households
89 Services, not elsewhere classified
91-97 Public Administration
99 Nonclassifiable Establishments

The Business Rankings directory is organized into the following sections:

• Alphabetic Cross Reference
• Section I — Rank by Sales Volume within the U.S.
• Section II — Rank by Total Number of Employees within the U.S.
• Section III — Rank by Sales Volume within Individual States
• Section IV — Rank by Number of Employees at this Location within Individual States
• Section V — Rank by Sales Volume within SIC Code
• Section VI — Rank by Total Number of Employees within SIC Code
• Section VII — Rank by Sales Volume among Public Companies
• Section VIII — Rank by Total Number of Employees among Public Companies
• Section IX — Rank by Sales Volume among Private/Foreign-owned Companies
• Section X — Rank by Total Number of Employees among Private/Foreign-owned Companies