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L.A. has never been known for its big corporate presence, but this is getting ridiculous. Computer Sciences, a very large and successful tech consulting company, is moving from El Segundo to Falls Church, Va., where it has a growing presence (lots of government work). Here's the LAT story. These days CSC has very little of its workforce in L.A. - only 200 or so employees - but the company goes back almost 50 years, just as data processing was becoming a big deal. A big contract from Honeywell got them going. With Computer Sciences leaving, L.A. County is down to 17 Fortune 500 companies - and that counts Countrywide, which is in the process of being taken over. Here are the survivors and their ranks (thank you, L.A. Economic Development Corp.):
64 Walt Disney
73 Northrop Grumman
91 Countrywide Financial
124 Occidental Petroleum
160 DIRECTV Group
163 Computer Sciences
189 Health Net
192 Edison International
228 KB Home
296 Hilton Hotels
322 Jacobs Engineering Group
367 Dole Food
402 Reliance Steel & Aluminum
406 Mattel
412 Avery Dennison
458 DaVita
467 Ryland Group
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.