Denver’s Largest Employers

Here is a list of Colorado’s largest employers.

# Company name Colorado Employees Headquarters Description
1. King Soopers 15,928 Kroger, Cincinnati Retail food store
2. Qwest Communications 14,400 Denver, CO Telecommunication-broadband data
3. Centura Health 12,377 Englewood Health care systems
4. Safeway 12,000 Pleasanton, CA retail-grocery
5. HealthOne 9285 Denver Health care services
6. United Airlines 7700 Chicago, Il Airlines
7. Wells Fargo Bank West N.A. 6000 San Francisco Financial Services
8. WorldCom 6000 Clinton, MA Telecommunications
9. Coors Brewing Co. 5500 Golden, CO Brewers
10. Exempla Healthcare 5420 Denver, CO Health care services
11. EchoStar Communications 4500 Littleton, CO Telecommunications-cable TB, Satellite systems
12. Kaiser Permanente 4141 Oakland, CA Health care services
13. Xcel Energy 3712 Minneapolis, MI Electric utilities
14. Ball Corp 3200 Broomfield, IN Electric utilities
15. Great West Life and Annuity Insurance Co. 3035 Manitoba, Canada Multi-line insurance
16. University of Colorado Hospital 2985 Denver, Colorado Health care services
17. Avaya 2905 Basking Ridge, N.J Telecommunications communications processing
18. CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. 2725 Englewood, CO Engineering and architectural services
19. The Children’s Hospital 2042 Denver, Colorado Health services
20, Storage Technology Corp 2300 Louisville, Colorado Computer hardware
21. University of Denver 2016 Denver, Colorado University
22. Alpine Access 2000 Golden, CO Business services - call center
23. First Bank Holding Co. of Colorado 1940 Lakewood, CO Banking
24. U.S. Bank 1900 Minneapolis, MN Banking
25. Level 3 1850 Broomfield, CO. Telecommunication - wholesale serices

Source Denver Business Journal

November 2002

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