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Article: Number of West Virginia-based companies on Top 100 list decreasing
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- The State Journal
- Article date:
- October 7, 2002
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Take away hospitals, and West Virginia-based businesses don't take up much space on this year's 100 Top Employers list - about 10 percent.
Over the years, that number has been decreasing. In 1996, the year the West Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs (BEP) started putting the list together, 15 percent of the businesses, not counting hospitals, were based in West Virginia.
The state's manufacturing sector has seen dramatic downsizing over the last two decades while the service-based sector has seen overall growth, said Tom Witt, associate dean for research and outreach at West Virginia University's College of Business and Economics. Hence, chains like Wal-Mart, Kroger and Bob Evans ...