List of companies in Greater Cincinnati

This is a list of major companies and organizations in Greater Cincinnati, through corporate or subsidiary headquarters or through significant operational and employment presence near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Procter & Gamble headquarters

Altogether, six Fortune 500 companies and seven Fortune 1000 companies have headquarters in the Cincinnati area.

Banking and financial services

• Cincinnati Financial (Nasdaq: CINF), the 20th largest insurance company by market share in the U.S. (in Fairfield, OH)
• Fifth Third Bank (Nasdaq: FITB), 25th largest bank in the United States; employs 7,645. $13.5 BN local deposits
• First Financial Bank (Nasdaq: FFBC), a regional bank headquartered in Cincinnati; has client servicing operations in the Tri-County, northern Cincinnati metropolitan area; founded in 1863, it has the eighth oldest national bank charter and has locations in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and throughout Indiana; acquired Irwin Financial Corp and its subsidiaries through a government-assisted transaction on September 18, 2009

Commercial services

• Belcan, a global supplier of engineering, supply chain, technical recruiting and information technology (IT) services to customers in the aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial and government sectors.
• Champlin Architecture, architectural firm specializing in healthcare, corporate, higher education, religious and civic projects
• Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS), uniform supplier in Mason, Ohio
• Empower MediaMarketing, advertising agency that communicates to and with consumers through an integrated combination of media
• Omnicare (NYSE: OCR), provider of pharmaceuticals, related consulting and data management services
• Roto-Rooter

Food and beverage

• Grippo's, snack food company
• Skyline Chili, cheese coney restaurant
• Gold Star Chili, cheese coney restaurant
• Larosa's, regional pizza chain
• Penn Station (restaurant), regional sandwich restaurant

Government, education, and non-profit

• Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Roman Catholic diocese, includes parishes, schools, charitable organizations; employs 6,152
• Cincinnati Children's, provider of pediatric health care, research and education; employs 15,260
• Cincinnati Public Schools, school system; employs 5,055
• Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, Episcopal Church diocese, includes parishes, schools, covenants, community organizations
• Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, operates as a regional business center with seven districts that covers 335,000 sq. mi. in 17 states, utilizing about 5,000 team members
• Matthew 25: Ministries, humanitarian aid organization
• Mercy Health Partners, not-for-profit, integrated network of medical services and facilities; employs 6,948
• Miami University, public university of 16,000 students; employs 4,399
• University of Cincinnati, public research university of over 41,000 students, founded in 1819; employs 15,862
• Xavier University, founded in 1831, fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States; Over 6,500 students; employs 667.

Health and biotechnology

• CareStar, home health care company specializing in case management for consumers and providers of home and community-based services
• Ethicon Endo-Surgery, surgical instruments for minimally invasive surgery and surgical procedures; a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (in Blue Ash, Ohio)
• LCA-Vision (Nasdaq: LCAV), provides laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus brand
• Medpace (Nasdaq: MEDP), a contract research organization (CRO), bioanalytical laboratory, central laboratory, and clinical pharmacology unit
• Prasco Laboratories, pharmaceutical company specializing in manufacturing authorized generic products under private labels

Consumer goods

• Procter & Gamble, (NYSE: PG), the world's largest consumer products company; largest brands include Always, Ariel, Bounty, Bounce, Braun, Crest, Dawn, Downy, Fusion, Gain, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Ivory, Olay, Oral B, Pampers, Pantene, Puffs, Secret, Tide, Vicks, & Whisper
• Totes, marketer of umbrellas, gloves, raincoats, rubber overshoes, and other weather-related accessories
• The Gorilla Glue Company, a brand of polyurethane adhesives based in Sharonville, Ohio

Industrial goods and services

• AK Steel, steel producer (in West Chester, Ohio); acquired by Cleveland-Cliffs in 2020.
• CFM International, manufacturer of jet engines; joint venture between Snecma (SAFRAN Group) and the General Electric Company
• GE Aerospace, aircraft engine manufacturer;a subsidiary of the General Electric conglomerate (in Evendale, Ohio); employs 7,400
• GE Honda Aero Engines, engine designer and manufacturer for business aviation; 50% owned by GE, 50% owned by Honda
• Milacron (NYSE: MZ), a plastics machinery producer, formerly Cincinnati Milling Machine Company
• Total Quality Logistics, a third-party logistics provider (in Union Township, Ohio)

Insurance

• American Financial Group (NYSE: AFG), insurance and investment holding company; parent of Great American Insurance Co.
• Cincinnati Financial (Nasdaq: CINF), holding company with subsidiaries which underwrite fire, automobile, casualty and other related forms of insurance
• Ohio National Life Insurance Company, personal and business insurance sales and services
• Western & Southern Financial Group, the flagship sponsor of the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament, which is part of the ATP Tour

Law

• Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, largest law firm in Cincinnati with 625 attorneys in 21 cities throughout California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and West Virginia.
• Frost Brown Todd LLC, midwestern firm with offices in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and West Virginia.
• Taft Stettinius & Hollister, large corporate law firm with office in Ohio, Kentucky, and Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the sons of President William Howard Taft.

Media

Scripps Center in downtown Cincinnati

• E. W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP), a media company that owns many newspapers, cable channels and news stations; hosts the National Spelling Bee

Retail

• KOI Auto Parts, chain of auto parts stores
• Kroger (NYSE: KR), the largest company of supermarket chains in the United States (Fortune 500 #26);chains include Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry's, Kroger, Ralphs, Smith's Food and Drug, Dillons, Bakers, Gerbes, QFC, Lucky's and Turkey Hill
• United Dairy Farmers, regionally based convenience store and ice cream maker

Technology and telecom

Headquarters

• Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB), provides voice and data telecommunications products and services
• Cincom Systems, privately held, multinational, computer technology corporation founded in 1968; manufactures enterprise software, and provides information technology (IT) hosting services
• MeasureNet Technology Ltd., private LLP manufacturer of network-based electronic data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories

Transportation

• Total Quality Logistics, North America's second largest freight brokerage firm
• Ultimate Jet, a charter airline providing daily service to numerous destinations across the United States

Travel, leisure, and dining

• Frisch's Restaurants, Inc., owner of Frisch's Big Boy chain and ; employed 4,500 as of 2008.
• Gold Star Chili, Cincinnati style chili chain
• Graeter's, ice cream, bakery, and candy shops; the New York Times has called it "the ice cream most connoisseurs feel to be the best in the world"
• LaRosa's Pizzeria, regional pizza chain
• Penn Station East Coast Subs, regional sandwich chain
• Skyline Chili, Cincinnati style chili chain
• Winegardner and Hammons, full-service hotel management and development company established in 1961; one of the original franchisers of Holiday Inn

See also

• List of companies of the United States by state