Great Lakes Region Leads U.S. in Plants With 1,000+ Employees

SUGAR LAND--January 20, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--While a great deal of time has been spent in the past year focusing on plant closures, the United States still has many large plants and facilities in operation. Currently, Industrial Info's North American Industrial Database contains almost 1,100 plants in the U.S. with 1,000 or more employees. Perhaps not surprisingly, the manufacturing hub of the Great Lakes region, with 263 such plants in operation, contains the most of any U.S. market region, followed by the Southwest market region, with 149 plants, and the Southeast region with 146 plants. By state, Texas leads the U.S., with 94 plants with more than 1,000 employees, followed by California with 70, and Michigan with 58 such plants.

Companies featured: Caterpillar Incorporated (NYSE:CAT), Union Pacific Corporation's (NYSE:UNP)