Largest Privately Held Companies in NJ

Rank Company City Employees
1 Prudential Insurance Company of America Newark 77,483 Employees
2 Wakefern Food Elizabeth 52,465 Employees
3 Pathmark Stores Woodbridge 29,090 Employees
4 DialAmerica Marketing Mahwah 7,000 Employees
5 Formosa Plastics Livingston 6,000 Employees
6 Hunter Douglas Upper Saddle River 6,000 Employees
7 J.M. Huber Corporation Edison 5,000 Employees
8 Petrie Retail Secaucus 5,000 Employees
9 Control Services Group Secaucus 4,000 Employees
10 Inserra Supermarkets Mahwah 4,000 Employees
11 Professional Security Bureau Nutley 4,000 Employees
12 DB Kelly Associates Somerset 3,700 Employees
13 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey Newark 3,660 Employees
14 Merit Behavioral Care Park Ridge 3,400 Employees
15 Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Piscataway 3,000 Employees
16 Human Resource Alternatives Princeton 3,000 Employees
17 International Specialty Products Wayne 2,700 Employees
18 General Chemical Parsippany 2,500 Employees
19 Silver Line Building Products North Brunswick 2,500 Employees
20 JBA International Mount Laurel 2,400 Employees
21 Educational Testing Service Princeton 2,300 Employees
22 Sigma Plastics Group Lyndhurst 2,300 Employees
23 Burns and Roe Enterprises Oradell 2,000 Employees
24 Liberty Travel Ramsey 2,000 Employees
25 A-P-A Transport North Bergen 1,900 Employees
26 New Jersey Manufacturers' Insurance West Trenton 1,800 Employees
27 Schein Pharmaceutical Florham Park 1,800 Employees
28 Visiting Nurse Service System Runnemede 1,800 Employees
29 Macromedia Hackensack 1,622 Employees
30 Alpha Industries Lyndhurst 1,500 Employees
31 Anthem Health & Life Insurance Piscataway 1,500 Employees
32 Norton Performance Plastics Wayne 1,500 Employees
33 Okonite Ramsey 1,500 Employees
34 Benjamin Moore & Co. Montvale 1,400 Employees
35 Berlex Laboratories Wayne 1,400 Employees
36 Gemini Consulting Morristown 1,400 Employees
37 Allied Building Products East Rutherford 1,350 Employees
38 Bergen Record Hackensack 1,319 Employees
39 Marcal Paper Mills Elmwood Park 1,250 Employees
40 Aluminum Shapes Delair 1,200 Employees
41 Biflex International Moonachie 1,200 Employees
42 Children's Place Retail Stores West Caldwell 1,200 Employees
43 Dassault Falcon Jet So. Hackensack 1,200 Employees
44 GEC Marconi Hazeltine Wayne 1,200 Employees
45 KNM International Airlines Newark 1,200 Employees
46 Louis Berger International East Orange 1,200 Employees
47 Pazrow Companies Ramsey 1,200 Employees
48 DiGiorgio/White Rose Carteret 1,135 Employees
49 J-M Manufacturing Livingston 1,100 Employees
50 Norman Distributors Moonachie 1,100 Employees
Source: TopList, Business News New Jersey, 1998
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