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• AAA Cooper Transportation
  AAA Cooper
  AAA Cooper Transportation, headquartered in Dothan, Alabama. is a family owned, non-union, transportation company servicing customers through Less-Than-Truckload, Dedicated, Port, International and other related transportation services. The company was founded in 1955 by John H. Dove after he...
  
   (Dothan)
• ADTRAN
  Adtran
  ADTRAN, Inc. is a provider of telecommunications networking equipment and internetworking products.Its headquarters are in Huntsville, Alabama.The company is ISO 9001 and TL9000 certified.ADTRAN was a NASDAQ-100 Index stock from 1996 to 1998....
  
   (Huntsville)
• Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
  Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
  The Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company located in Mobile, Alabama, was one of the largest marine production facilities in the United States of America during the 20th century. Beginning operation in 1917, the shipyard is presently owned by The Lehman Group The Alabama Drydock and...
  
   (Mobile)
• Alabama National BanCorporation
  Alabama National BanCorporation
  Alabama National BanCorporation based in Birmingham, Alabama, was a bank holding company which was purchased by RBC Bank in 2008 for $1.6 billion. Prior to the RBC deal, the bank was the no. 3 banking company in Alabama with over $7 billion assets.-History:...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Alabama Power Company
  Alabama Power Company
  Alabama Power Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a company in the southern United States that provides electricity service to 1.3 million homes, businesses, and industries in the southern two-thirds of Alabama. It is one of four U.S...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Alagasco
  Alagasco
  Alabama Gas Corporation, Alagasco, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the largest natural gas utility in north and central Alabama that provides energy to 460,000 homes and businesses. Its history dates back more than 150 years. It has operating divisions in Anniston, Birmingham, Gadsden,...
  
   (Birmingham)
• ALFA Corporation (Montgomery)
• Altec Industries (Birmingham)
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company
  American Cast Iron Pipe Company
  American Cast Iron Pipe Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a manufacturer of ductile iron pipe, fire hydrants and valves for the waterworks industry and electric-resistance steel pipe for the oil and natural gas industry...
  
   (Birmingham)
• AmSouth Bancorporation
  AmSouth Bancorporation
  AmSouth Bancorporation was a banking company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and operated for its final year in existence as a bank holding company of Regions Financial Corporation after a merger between the two banks. AmSouth was previously known as First National Bank of Birmingham, which...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Associated Grocers of the South
  Associated Grocers of the South
  Associated Grocers of the South was founded in 1927 by 13 local grocery store owners from Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. Led by Larry Grimes, they chose to establish a retailers' cooperative to compete against the emerging chain stores. The organization has expanded from of public...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Atlantic Marine
  Atlantic Marine (company)
  Atlantic Marine is an American shipbuilding and construction company. It operates two shipyards, one in Mobile, Alabama and the original corporate location, a smaller one in Jacksonville, Florida where its headquarters is located...
  
   (Mobile)
• Austal USA
  Austal USA
  Austal USA is the American branch of operations for Australia-based shipbuilder Austal. The facility is based in Mobile, Alabama and employs more than 1000 workers with expansions currently underway.-History:...
  
   (Mobile)
• Avocent Corporation (Huntsville)

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• BE&K, Inc. (Birmingham)
• Balch & Bingham
  Balch & Bingham
  Balch & Bingham, LLP is a regional law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1920, Balch & Bingham also has offices in Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Gulfport, Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi and in Washington, D.C....
  
   (Birmingham)
• Big B Drugs
  Big B Drugs
  Big B, Inc. was a Birmingham, Alabama-based drugstore chain. The company began operation in 1968 as division of Birmingham based Bruno's Supermarkets. Most of its stores were located next to a Bruno's, Food World or FoodMax. Big B also operated a discount drugstore chain called Drugs For Less...
  
   (Birmingham)
• BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
  BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
  BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company focuses on cancer, autoimmune diseases, and viral infections...
  
   (Birmingham)
• BioHorizons (Birmingham)
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama is a health insurance company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company, which was founded in 1936, provides coverage to more than 3 million people and is a member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association....
  
   (Birmingham)
• Books-A-Million
  Books-A-Million
  Books-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!, is a company that owns the second largest U.S. bookstore chain and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company operates over 200 stores in the South, Midwest, Northeast...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Brasfield & Gorrie
  Brasfield & Gorrie
  Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC is a privately held construction management, general contractor|general contracting, and design-build service provider. Founded in 1921 by Thomas C. Brasfield as the Thomas C...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Bruno's Supermarkets
  Bruno's Supermarkets
  Bruno's Supermarkets, LLC is an American chain of grocery stores founded in 1932 by Joe Bruno in Birmingham, Alabama. It previously operated over 230 stores under the names Bruno’s, Food World, Foodmax, Food Fair, Fresh Value, Vincent's Markets, Piggly Wiggly, Consumer Foods, and American Fare in...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Buffalo Rock Company (Birmingham)

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• Camber Corporation
  Camber Corporation
  Camber Corporation is a defense contractor headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2006, it recorded $110 million dollars in revenue and ranked among the top 100 federal prime contractors. In 2008, Camber grew to over $240 million in revenue. In 2009, Camber is targeted to grow to over $400...
  
   (Huntsville)
• Chester's International
  Chester's International
  Chester’s International, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the fifth-largest fried chicken quick-service restaurant in the U.S. with more than 1,800 locations and operations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and Canada.W.O...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Clarage
  Clarage
  Clarage is the oldest fan company that is still in operation in the United States.Thomas Clarage and Charles Bird founded Clarage in 1874. The company manufactured industrial fan equipment, horizontal steam engines and gray iron castings. In 1912 the company changed its name to Clarage Fan Company....
  
  
• Citation Corporation (Birmingham)
• Colonial BancGroup (Montgomery)
• Colonial Properties Trust (Birmingham)
• Conversant Healthcare Systems
  Conversant Healthcare Systems
  Conversant Healthcare Systems provides cancer blood specimens to academic and commercial researchers. The company's biospecimens are gathered throughout disease progression and correlated with clinical and diagnostic data....
  
   (Huntsville)
• Community Newspaper Holdings
  Community Newspaper Holdings
  Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. is a publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the eastern part of the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama. The company is financed by the Retirement Systems of...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Compass Bancshares
  Compass Bancshares
  BBVA Compass is a United States financial holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with US$65 billion in assets and primarily located in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. Compass Bancshares is one of the U.S.’s 25 largest banks, and was previously...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Confederate Motor Company
  Confederate Motor Company
  Confederate Motors, Inc. is a manufacturer of exotic street motorcycles in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1991 by trial lawyer H. Matthew Chambers, as an initiative seeking “enlightened design through true American inspiration.”-History:...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Continental Motors, part of Teledyne
  Teledyne
  Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is an industrial conglomerate primarily based in the United States but with global operations. It was founded in 1960, as Teledyne, Inc., by Henry Singleton and George Kozmetsky....
  
   (Mobile)

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• Dallas Mill
  Dallas Mill
  Dallas Mills was a manufacturer of cotton sheeting. The company was chartered in 1890 by T.B. Dallas, and began operation in 1892 as Alabama's largest cotton mill, manufacturing sheeting. In 1891 the company announced that the Dallas Cotton Mill was to be located in Huntsville, Alabama...
  
   (Huntsville)
• DeciBel Research Inc.
  DeciBel Research Inc.
  deciBel Research, Inc. is a small high-technology business with emphasis on advancements in radar systems and sensor technologies, currently supporting U.S. Army and Missile Defense Agency customers. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, the staff of deciBel Research, Inc...
  
   (Huntsville)
• Delchamps
  Delchamps
  Delchamps was a chain of American grocery stores, based in Mobile, Alabama.The chain was founded by Alfred Frederick Delchamps in November 1921 at the corner of Lawrence and Canal streets in Mobile, which he operated along with his brother, Oliver...
  
   (Mobile)
• Deltacom
  Deltacom
  Deltacom, Inc. is a regional CLEC operating in the southern United States. Deltacom provides voice , Internet service and wide area network connectivity via frame relay, ATM, or dedicated point-to-point circuits...
  
   (Huntsville)
• Diagnostic Health Corporation
  Diagnostic Health Corporation
  Diagnostic Health Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the nation's largest independent diagnostic imaging companies. The company is the former diagnostic division of HealthSouth Corporation. The company has network of 53 free standing diagnostic imaging centers located in 19 states...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Digium
  Digium
  Digium, Inc. is a privately held communications technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. Digium specializes in developing and manufacturing communications hardware and telephony software, most notably the open-source telephony platform Asterisk....
  
   (Huntsville)
• Dreamland Bar-B-Que
  Dreamland Bar-B-Que
  Dreamland Bar-B-Que is a barbecue restaurant chain based in Alabama. It was founded by "Big Daddy" John Bishop in the Jerusalem Heights neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1958, but has since franchised, opening restaurants in Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Mobile, Northport, and opened...
  
   (Tuscaloosa)
• Drummond Company
  Drummond Company
  Drummond Company, Inc. is a privately owned company based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, involved in the mining and processing of coal and coal products. The company was founded in Jasper, Alabama in 1935 by H. E...
  
   (Birmingham)
• DST Health Solutions (Birmingham)

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• EBSCO Industries
  EBSCO Industries
  EBSCO Industries, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a privately held, widely diversified corporation and the largest subscription agency in the world. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Energen Corporation (Birmingham)
• Energen Resources Corporation
  Energen Resources Corporation
  Energen Resources Corporation is the largest subsidiary of Energen Corporation, a diversified energy company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a growing oil and gas acquisition and development company that has approximately equivalent of proved reserves in the continental United...
  
   (Birmingham)

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• Harbert Management Corporation
  Harbert Management Corporation
  Harbert Management Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a U.S. investment management company founded in 1993 by Raymond J. Harbert.The company has investment funds in 12 alternative asset classes in three areas of concentration: real estate, private capital, and absolute return strategies....
  
   (Birmingham)
• HealthSouth Corporation (Birmingham)
• Hibbett Sporting Goods (Birmingham)
• Hoar Construction, LLC (Birmingham)
• Hunt Refining Company
  Hunt Refining Company
  Hunt Refining Company was founded by oilman H.L. Hunt as an asphalt refining company in 1946. Today it owns and operates a petroleum refinery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The plant also includes a coker and a diesel hydrotreater. In 2006, they announced plans for a $500 million expansion to the...
  
   (Tuscaloosa)

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• Infinity Property & Casualty Corporation (Birmingham)
• Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville)

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• McWane, Inc. (Birmingham)
• Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
  Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
  Mercedes-Benz U.S. International is a Mercedes-Benz automobile manufacturing plant near Vance, Alabama. It is located about miles west of Birmingham and about miles east of downtown Tuscaloosa. The factory was announced in 1993 and produced its first vehicle, a ML320, in February 1997.From...
  
   (Vance)
• Milo's Hamburgers
  Milo's Hamburgers
  Milo's Hamburgers is a regional fast-food restaurant chain based in Alabama, United States. As of 2007, Milo's has 16 restaurants, 14 in the Birmingham metro area, one in Southside, and one in Tuscaloosa. Milo's is known for its secret hamburger sauce and sweet tea, both included with a pie in the...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Motion Industries
  Motion Industries
  Motion Industries, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation's largest distributor of industrial parts. The company was founded in 1972 and has been a subsidiary of Genuine Parts since 1976. Motion Industries provides parts for many companies including Black & Decker, Ford, and GM...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Movie Gallery
  Movie Gallery
  Movie Gallery, Inc. was the second largest movie and game rental company in the United States, behind Blockbuster Video. The company rented and sold Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and video games...
  
   (Dothan)

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• O'Neal Steel, Inc. (Birmingham)
• Olde Towne Brewing Company
  Olde Towne Brewing Company
  Olde Towne Brewing Company was a brewery located in Huntsville, AL. Founded in 2004, the Olde Towne Brewing Company was the first microbrewery in Huntsville, AL, since the repeal of Prohibition. The brewery debuted August 12, 2004, at Humphrey's Bar & Grill, a local establishment...
  
   (Huntsville)
• Orthopaedic Specialists of Alabama (Birmingham & Surrounding Areas)

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• Press-Register
  Press-Register
  The Press-Register is a daily newspaper serving the southwest Alabama counties of Mobile and Baldwin. The newspaper is a descendant of one founded in 1813, making the Press-Register Alabama's oldest newspaper...
  
   (Mobile)
• ProAssurance Corporation
  ProAssurance Corporation
  ProAssurance Corporation, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a property and casualty company that sells professional liability insurance to doctors. The company was founded in 1975 as Medical Assurance. The name ProAssurance was created in 2001 when Medical Assurance merged with Professionals...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Progress Rail Services Corporation
  Progress Rail Services Corporation
  Progress Rail Services Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. since 2006, is a supplier of railroad and transit system products and services headquartered in Albertville, Alabama, United States...
  
   (Albertville)
• Protective Life Corporation (Birmingham)
• Provenance Digital Media (Birmingham)

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• Raycom Media
  Raycom Media
  - History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....
  
   (Montgomery)
• Redstone Federal Credit Union
  Redstone Federal Credit Union
  Redstone Federal Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union based in Huntsville, Alabama. RFCU is Alabama’s largest credit union and is regulated and insured through the National Credit Union Administration RFCU serves more than 320,000 members through 20 branches across North Alabama and...
  
   (Huntsville)
• Regions Financial Corporation (Birmingham)
• Retirement Systems of Alabama
  Retirement Systems of Alabama
  Retirement Systems of Alabama is the administrator of the pension fund for employees of the state of Alabama. It is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. David G. Bronner is the chief executive officer....
  
    (Montgomery)
• Russell Corporation
  Russell Corporation
  Russell Brands, LLC, headquartered in Bowling Green, KY, is a manufacturer of sports equipment, which markets its products under many brands and subsidiaries, including Russell Athletic , Spalding, Huffy, and Brooks, amongst others....
  
   (Alexander City)

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• Saks Incorporated
  Saks Incorporated
  Saks Incorporated , founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1998, is headquartered in New York City, New York, and is a Fortune 1000 operator of high-end department stores in the United States under the nameplate Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks evolved from Proffitt's Inc. after Proffitt's changed its name in...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Savage Innovations, Inc. (company) (Huntsville)
• SCI Systems (Huntsville)
• Sneaky Pete's
  Sneaky Pete's
  Sneaky Pete's is a Birmingham, Alabama-based chain of hot-dog restaurants founded by Pete Graphos in 1966 and sold to the present-owner Bernard D'Amico in 1986. Sneaky Pete's corporate offices are located in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. As part of its franchise plan, many Sneaky Pete's stores are...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Sonat
  Sonat
  Sonat, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, was a large Fortune 500 American energy holding company. The company was founded in 1928 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "SNT". Sonat was primarily involved in transmission and marketing natural gas and oil and...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Southern Company Services
  Southern Company Services
  Southern Company Services, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the shared services division of Southern Company. Formed in 1963, as Southern Services, the company provides administrative and operational services to all of Southern Company's operating divisions...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Southern Family Markets
  Southern Family Markets
  Southern Family Markets, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a chain of American supermarkets owned and operated by C&S Wholesale Grocers, a distributor based in Keene, New Hampshire. The chain is operated as an affiliate of C&S...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Southern Natural Gas Company (Birmingham)
• Southern Nuclear
  Southern Nuclear
  Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., also known as Southern Nuclear, is a nuclear power company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company operates six nuclear power units at three plants: the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant and the Alvin W. Vogtle...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Southern Progress Corporation
  Southern Progress Corporation
  Southern Progress Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a publisher of lifestyle magazines and books. The company publishes such magazines as Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Sunset. Today, its magazines have a combined readership of over 50 million...
  
   (Birmingham)
• SouthTrust Corporation (Birmingham)
• ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering
  ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering
  ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering provides commercial aircraft maintenance to the North and South American aerospace markets. It is located within the Brookley Complex in Mobile, Alabama and is the largest employer in Mobile County, Alabama. The work force includes technical, engineering and...
  
   (Mobile)
• Superior Bank
  Superior Bank (Alabama)
  Superior Bancorp, and its principal subsidiary Superior Bank, is a southeastern community thrift with approximately $3.2 billion in assets. The company is publicly held and has its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Superior was founded in 1997 as The Banc Corporation...
  
   (Birmingham)
• Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc. (Birmingham)

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• Takehold Records
• Teledyne Brown Engineering (Huntsville)
• Torchmark Corporation (Birmingham)
• ThyssenKrupp Steel USA (Mobile)

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• Walter Energy, Inc. (Birmingham)
• Waterman Steamship Corporation
  Waterman Steamship Corporation
  Waterman Steamship Corporation is an American deep sea ocean carrier, specializing in liner services and time charter contracts. It is owned by International Shipholding Corporation, based in Mobile, Alabama....
  
   (Mobile)
• Wolverine Tube (Huntsville)