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Our
Top Ten Employers:
Helping
Make Warren County Recession Resistant
Vicksburg-Warren
County is blessed with great partners in business and
industry who provide a stable basis for our economy
and our families, helping to make Vicksburg resistant
to the ups and downs of national economic issues and
downturns.
These
employers form a critical, reliable foundation of
industry, business, education, Federal public works,
and health care that fire our local economic engines
and serve as examples of corporate excellence in our
region and nationally as well.
| Industry |
Team
Members |
| USA
Engineer Research & Development Center |
1600 |
| River
Region Health Systems |
1500 |
| Vicksburg-Warren
School District |
1300 |
USACE,
Division/District
and Mississippi River Commission |
1100 |
| Ameristar
Casino |
900 |
| LeTourneau
Technologies |
750 |
| Tyson
Foods |
680 |
| DiamondJacks
Casino Hotel |
588 |
| City
of Vicksburg |
586 |
| Walmart
Supercenter |
550 |
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The
Oldest Business in Vicksburg?
Fisher Funeral Home |
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Our
Industry Profile
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1st
nationally in PhD's per capita
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1st
nationally in engineers per capita
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1st
nationally in United Way Giving per capita
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One of
the world's largest supercomputing centers
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Home of
the 5th largest producer of
US protein
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"Most progressive town in
Mississippi," Leland Speed
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Top inland port in the United States
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Home of the
Mississippi River Commission
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Home of the Army's 412th Engineer
Command
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Home of Anderson Tully, world's largest
hardwood mill
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"Best Mississippi Day
Trip," Mississippi Magazine
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