Richmond, VA is home to six Fortune 500 companies:
MeadWestvaco; and
Other Fortune
500 companies, while not headquartered in the area, do have a
major presence:
Capital One and Altria company's Philip Morris USA are two of the
largest private Richmond-area employers.
DuPont maintains a production facility
in South Richmond known as the Spruance Plant.
UPS Freight has its corporate headquarters in Richmond .
Other companies based in Richmond include:
Universal
Corporation, a tobacco merchant;
Cavalier
Telephone, a telephone, internet, and digital television provider
formed in Richmond in 1998; and
Cherry
Bekaert & Holland, a top 30 accounting firm serving the Southeast.
Information
obtained from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia