Four Hampton Roads companies make Fortune 500 list

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By Christopher Dinsmore
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 6, 2011

Four companies headquartered in Hampton Roads made the 2011 Fortune 500 list released Thursday. Smithfield Foods Inc. ranked at No. 216 with $11.2 billion in annual revenue. The world's largest pork processor, based in Smithfield, was followed by railroad Norfolk Southern Corp. at 261st with $9.5 billion in revenue.

Dollar Tree Inc. and Amerigroup Corp. were ranked 390th and 396th, respectively. The Chesapeake-based retailer reported $5.88 billion in revenue to the Virginia Beach-based health insurer's $5.8 billion. Wal-Mart Stores topped the list with nearly $422 billion in annual revenue followed by Exxon Mobil with nearly $355 billion. Freddie Mac, the government mortgage company, topped Virginia companies and ranked 20th nationwide with $98.4 billion in revenue.

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Smithfield?

Submitted by boblakeman on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 6:54 am.

I didn't even know Smithfield was part of Hampton Roads.

The Census Bureau says it is.

Submitted by dasderf on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 11:25 am.

Smithfield is in Isle of Wight county which is part of Hampton Roads MSA. MSA's are based on how inter-dependent the economies and travel patterns of localities in a given metro area are.

What about HII?

Submitted by BeachBoy2 on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 12:29 am.

What about Huntington Ingals Industries (formerly NN Shipbuilding)? It's revenues ($6.7 Billion) are higher than Amerigroup and Dollar Tree.

What about HII?

Submitted by BeachBoy2 on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 12:28 am.

What about Huntington Ingals Industries (formerly NN Shipbuilding)? It's revenues ($6.7 Billion) are higher than Amerigroup and Dollar Tree.

NN Shipbuilding

Submitted by gunguy67 on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 10:50 am.

That company has its headquarters elsewhere.

Not true

Submitted by sparky317 on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 11:58 am.

Huntington Ingalls is headquartered in Newport News, making 5 Fortune 500 companies in Hampton Roads (next year).

Its HQ is in Newport News

Submitted by dasderf on Fri, 05/06/2011 at 11:20 am.

Huntington Ingalls was spun off by Northrup Grumman this year. As lemapp stated, the F-500 list is for 2010, so Huntington Ingalls didn't make the cut. But it should be on the list next year, making it 5 F-500 companies in HR as long as other things don't change.