List of companies based in Omaha
This is a list of businesses in Omaha, comprising companies that are presently headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. This list also includes companies previously headquartered in Omaha.
Overview
Although Nebraska's economy is still primarily based on agriculture, Omaha's economy today has diversified to become a national leader in several industries, including banking, insurance, telecommunications, architecture/construction and transportation. Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the early 1990s. The city has five companies that rank in the Fortune 500. It also is the smallest city to have two major research hospitals, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center.
Omaha's most prominent businessman is Warren Buffett, nicknamed the "Oracle of Omaha", who was ranked by Forbes magazine as the fourth richest man in the world (in 2013).[1] He lives in a relatively modest home in the Dundee neighborhood west of downtown Omaha.
Businesses
A
- American Gramaphone [2] – record label for Chip Davis' Mannheim Steamroller group
- Aradius Group [3] – Commercial printing, business services and marketing agency
B
- Baker's Supermarkets [4]
- Berkshire Hathaway – a large Fortune 500 holding company controlled by investor Warren Buffett; holdings include GEICO, General Re, Dairy Queen and large shares of Coca-Cola
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska
- Borsheim's Fine Jewelry – the largest independent jewelry story in the country, owned by Berkshire Hathaway
- Bozell Worldwide – once one of the largest advertising agencies in the world
C
- Central States Indemnity Company – a wholly owned company of Berkshire Hathaway
- CHI Health
F
- Film Streams – a nonprofit arts organization that specializes in offering screenings and education on film
- First National of Nebraska
G
- G. D. Searle & Company
- The Gallup Organization – large polling and business consulting organization, has its headquarters and Gallup University campus on Omaha's Missouri River front
- Godfather's Pizza – pizza franchise chain
- Gordmans
H
- Hayneedle – operator of e-commerce websites
- HDR, Inc. – formerly Henningson, Durham and Richardson, this architecture, planning and engineering firm is the largest healthcare architecture firm in the country; also focuses on transportation, municipal architecture and other services, and is one of the 10 largest architecture firms in the country; global employee-owned
- Heartland REACT
I
L
- Lauritzen Corporation – parent company of the First National of Nebraska companies
M
- Nebraska Methodist Health System
- Midland Scientific – national, women-owned laboratory products distributor
- Mutual of Omaha – Fortune 500 insurance company, one of the country's largest, known for its "Wild Kingdom" television series
N
- National Indemnity Company
- Nebraska Furniture Mart – the country's largest home furnishings store, owned by Berkshire Hathaway
- Nebraska Medical Center
- No Frills Supermarkets
- NP Dodge Company
O
- Omaha Lancers – junior ice hockey team
- Omaha Public Power District
- Omaha Steaks
- Omaha World-Herald – the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska
- Oriental Trading Company
P
- Peter Kiewit and Sons, Inc. – a Fortune 500 company, it is one of the largest construction firms in the world; employee-owned
- Physicians Mutual Insurance Company – life and health insurance company, founded in 1902
R
- The Reader – newspaper
- Right at Home
- River City Star
S
T
- TD Ameritrade – a Fortune 1000 company, it is one of the pioneers of the online brokerage house; Ameritrade recently merged with Toronto Dominion Bank's online brokerage; is now TDAmeritrade and remains headquartered in Omaha
U
- Union Pacific Railroad – a Fortune 500 company, it is the country's largest railroad and its holding company, Union Pacific Corp., are based in Omaha
- Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha
V
- Valmont Industries – a Fortune 1000 company, it is the inventor of center-pivot irrigation systems, and now the largest manufacturer of light poles, street signs and other municipal hardware
W
- Werner Enterprises – one of the largest long-haul, over-the-road trucking companies
- West Corporation – a Fortune 1000 company
- Willow Springs Distilling Company
- Woodmen of the World
Y
- Yahoo! – datacenter (La Vista, Nebraska) and finance office (Omaha)
Unsorted
- Backwaters Press
- Bailey Lauerman
- Conagra Brands
- Data Transmission Network
- Dehner Company
- Dial Global Local
- Election Systems & Software
- FamilyNet
- Gorat's
- Green Plains Inc.
- InterNorth
- J.P. Cooke Company
- Kiewit Building Group Inc.
- Kiewit Construction Company
- Kiewit Engineering Co.
- Kiewit Mining Group Inc.
- Kiewit Western Co.
- Kutak Rock
- Leo A Daly
- Lindsay Manufacturing
- MultiMechanics
- National Property Inspections
- Phenomblue
- RFD-TV
- Rocheford & Gould
- Rural TV
- Saddle Creek Records
- SPEED! Nebraska Records
- Standard Bridge Company
- Western Bridge and Construction Company
- WoodmenLife
- Yesmail
Companies formerly based in Omaha
- Bekins Van Lines, Inc. – once the largest moving company in the country, no longer based in Omaha
- ConAgra Foods – a Fortune 500 company, it is one of the country's largest packaged foods makers; no longer headqurtered in Omaha
- Pacific Life Insurance Company – financial services company that domiciled in Omaha from Newport Beach, California in 2010
- Omaha Market House
See also
References
- ↑ "The World's Billionaires". Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- ↑ Billboard. August 1, 1992. p. 40.
- ↑ Printing & Marketing. est. 1856
- ↑ Bakery Production and Marketing. Volume 22, Issues 1-4. Gorman Publishing Company. 1987. p. 110.