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Medline Industries, LP is an American private healthcare company headquartered in Northfield, Illinois. In June 2021 it was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms Blackstone , Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman valuing the company at $34 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts of all time.
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .
Medline Industries: 13.9 (2019) [39] United States 1966 96 Trader Joe's: 13.7 (2019) [47] United States 1958 97 Allegis Group: 13.6 (2019) [39] United States 1984 98 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America: 13.56 (2020) [30] United States 1860 99 American Family Insurance Group: 13.07 (2020) [30] United States 1927 100 Wawa: 13 (2019 ...
This is a list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago , Illinois , and its suburbs. [ 2 ]
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Mills has been CEO of Medline Industries since 1997, the fourth generation to run the company, founded in 1910. [4] His cousin, Andy Mills is president, and Andy's brother-in-law Jim Abrams is COO. [4] Alongside his cousin and brother-in-law, Mills took over when the company had around half a billion sales.
Baxter International was founded in 1931 by Donald Baxter, a Los Angeles-based medical doctor, as a manufacturer and distributor of intravenous therapy solutions. [3] Seeing a need for products closer to the Midwest, the company opened a manufacturing plant in Glenview, Illinois, in 1933. [3]
The American Tobacco Company was founded in 1890. In the late 1960s, with health concerns seen as posing an increasing threat to the tobacco business, management decided to diversify into other fields and changed the corporate name to American Brands, Inc. Brown & Williamson acquired the tobacco division in 1994.