This is a list of businesses in Omaha, comprising companies that are presently headquartered in

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest ...

. This list also includes companies previously headquartered in Omaha.

Overview

Although Nebraska's economy is still primarily based on agriculture, Omaha's economy today has diversified to become a national leader in several industries, including

banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...

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, architecture/construction and

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipelin ...

ation. Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the early 1990s. The city has five companies that rank in the

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. It also is the smallest city to have two major research hospitals, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center. Omaha's most prominent businessman is

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, nicknamed the "Oracle of Omaha", who was ranked by ''

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'' magazine as the fourth richest man in the world (in 2013). He lives in a relatively modest home in the Dundee neighborhood west of downtown Omaha.

Businesses

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American Gramaphone American Gramaphone is an American record company based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is best known for releasing Chip Davis' new age solo and Mannheim Steamroller albums. History American Gramaphone was formed in 1974 by Chip Davis. American Gra ...

– record label for Chip Davis' Mannheim Steamroller group

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* Baker's Supermarkets *

Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from which it invests the float (the retained premiu ...

– large

holding company controlled by investor

Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBS, BCBSA) is a federation, or supraorganization, of, in 2022, 34 independent and locally operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people. It was ...

of Nebraska *

Borsheim's Fine Jewelry Borsheims ( ) is a luxury jewelry store that sells fine jewelry, timepieces, engagement rings and home decór in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1870, Norwegian immigrant and silversmith Louis Borsheims founded his independent jewelry business that would ...

– the largest independent jewelry store in the country, owned by Berkshire Hathaway * Bozell Worldwide – once one of the largest advertising agencies in the world

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Central States Indemnity Company Central States Indemnity Company (CSI) is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquart ...

– wholly owned company of Berkshire Hathaway *

CHI Health CHI Health (formerly Alegent Health) is a regional healthcare network headquartered in Omaha. The combined organization consists of 28 hospitals, two stand-alone behavioral health facilities, and more than 150 employed physician practices in Iowa ...

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DLR Group DLR Group is an employee-owned integrated design firm providing architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design. Their brand promise is to elevate the human experience through design. A self-described advocate for sustainable design, the ...

- Architectural firm

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Film Streams Film Streams is a nonprofit arts organization in Omaha, Nebraska which oversees two cinemas: the Ruth Sokolof Theater, in North Downtown Omaha, and the historic Dundee Theater, Omaha's longest surviving neighborhood cinema. It receives funding f ...

– nonprofit arts organization that specializes in offering screenings and education on film *

First Data First Data Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company's STAR Network provided nationwide domestic debit acceptance at more than 2 million retail POS, ATM, and Online outlets for nea ...

First National of Nebraska First National of Nebraska is an interstate bank holding company based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its largest banking subsidiary is First National Bank of Omaha. First National of Nebraska ranks as one of the 50 largest banks in the ...

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* G. D. Searle & Company * Godfather's Pizza – pizza franchise chain * Gordmans

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Hayneedle Hayneedle is an online retail company based in Omaha, Nebraska with a focus on furnishings and decor. In 2016, Hayneedle was acquired by Jet.com, which later became a subsidiary of Walmart. History Hayneedle began in 2002 when Doug Nielsen, J ...

– operator of e-commerce websites * HDR, Inc. – formerly Henningson, Durham and Richardson, large healthcare architecture

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Infofree Infofree.com is a subscription-based, software as a service system company based in Omaha, Nebraska that provides sales leads, email lists and CRM to businesses. The company also offers a mobile application with mapping features. The company wa ...

* Intrado Corporation formerly West Corporation – Fortune 1000 company

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Lauritzen Corporation Lauritzen Corporation is a financial and interstate bank holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Lauritzen Corporation currently has bank branches in Nebraska and Iowa, and has total assets of approximately $1.36 billion. In addition ...

– parent company of the First National of Nebraska companies * Lawson Kroeker Investment Management * Lindsay Corporation – manufacturer of irrigation systems *

Leo A Daly LEO A DALY, established by Leo A. Daly, Sr. in 1915, is an American architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm. The firm's portfolio includes projects in 91 countries, all 50 U.S. states and the District of C ...

- Engineering firm

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Nebraska Methodist Health System The Nebraska Methodist Health System, also known as Bestcare, is a nonprofit Nebraskan healthcare organization that was founded in 1982. Its headquarters are located at 825 S. 169th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. The three major facilities in the syste ...

* Midland Scientific – national, women-owned laboratory products distributor * Mutual of Omaha – Fortune 500 insurance company, one of the country's largest, known for its "Wild Kingdom" television series

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National Indemnity Company National Indemnity Company is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, and founded in 1940 by Jack Dabney Ringwalt. It is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which bought the company in 1967. It is Berkshire's oldest operating ...

Nebraska Furniture Mart Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) is a home furnishing store in North America that sells furniture, flooring, appliances and electronics. It is the largest of its kind in North America. NFM was founded in 1937 by Belarus-born Rose Blumkin, who was ...

– country's largest home furnishings store, owned by Berkshire Hathaway * Nebraska Medical Center *

No Frills Supermarkets SpartanNash (formerly Spartan Stores, Nash Finch) is an American food distributor and grocery store retailer headquartered in Byron Center, Michigan. The company's core businesses include distributing food to independent grocers, military c ...

* NP Dodge Company

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* Omaha Lancers – junior ice hockey team *

Omaha Public Power District Omaha Public Power District, or OPPD, is a public electric utility in the state of Nebraska. It is a publicly owned electric utility in the United States, serving more than 855,000 people in Omaha and 13 surrounding counties in southeast Nebrask ...

Omaha Steaks Omaha Steaks International, Inc., known as Omaha Steaks, is a food retailer. The company is named after the city it was founded in, and its headquarters location, Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha Steaks manufactures, markets, and distributes a variety of s ...

* ''

Omaha World-Herald The ''Omaha World-Herald'' is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper ch ...

'' – primary daily newspaper of Nebraska * Oriental Trading Company

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* Peter Kiewit and Sons, Inc. – Fortune 500 company, it is one of the largest construction firms in the world; employee-owned * Physicians Mutual Insurance Company – life and health insurance company, founded in 1902

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*''

The Reader ''The Reader'' (german: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. The story is a parable, dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations ...

'' – newspaper * Right at Home

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* Sojern

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Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

– Fortune 500 company, railroad *

Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to Sout ...

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* Valmont Industries – Fortune 1000 company, manufacturer of light poles, street signs and other municipal hardware

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Werner Enterprises Werner Enterprises, Inc. is an American transportation and logistics company, serving the United States, Mexico and Canada. Werner Enterprises stated that it had 2021 revenues of $2.7 billion and over 13,500 employees and contractors. Histo ...

– one of the largest long-haul, over-the-road

trucking Road transport or road transportation is a type of transport using roads. Transport on roads can be roughly grouped into the transportation of goods and transportation of people. In many countries licensing requirements and safety regulations e ...

companies * Willow Springs Distilling Company *

Woodmen of the World WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) is a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society founded in 1890, based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that operates a large privately held insurance company for its members. ...

File:Woodmen Tower from FNB Tower.jpg, The WoodmenLife Tower

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Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...

– datacenter (La Vista, Nebraska) and finance office (Omaha)

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* Backwaters Press * Bailey Lauerman *

Conagra Brands Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Conagra makes and sells products under various brand names that are available in supermarkets, restaurants, ...

Data Transmission Network DTN, previously known as Telvent DTN, Data Transmission Network and Dataline, is a private company based in Burnsville, Minnesota that specializes in subscription-based services for the analysis and delivery of real-time weather, agricultural, en ...

* Dehner Company * Dial Global Local * Election Systems & Software * FamilyNet *

Gorat's Gorat's Steak House is a restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, at 4917 Center Street. It is best known as billionaire Warren Buffett's favorite steakhouse, where he annually holds dinners for the largest investors in his company, Berkshire Hathaway, ...

* Green Plains Inc. *

InterNorth InterNorth Inc. was a large energy company headquartered at the Northern Natural Gas Building in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States, specializing in natural gas pipelines but also a force in the plastics industry, coal and petroleum exploration ...

* J.P. Cooke Company * Kiewit Building Group Inc. * Kiewit Construction Company * Kiewit Engineering Co. * Kiewit Mining Group Inc. * Kiewit Western Co. *

Kutak Rock Kutak Rock LLP is a US law firm, founded in 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska. it had more than 500 attorneys in 19 offices across the U.S. In 2020, Kutak Rock LLP was ranked as the 94th largest law firm in the U.S. based on number of attorneys and 124th ...

Lindsay Manufacturing Lindsay Corporation (), formerly known as Lindsay Manufacturing Co., is a manufacturer of ''Zimmatic'' brand center pivot irrigation systems, based in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It also manufactures farm and construction machinery, as well as ro ...

* MultiMechanics * National Property Inspections * RFD-TV *

Rocheford & Gould Rocheford & Gould were brickworks, brick manufacturers and General contractor, construction contractors in early Omaha, Nebraska. The firm built numerous brick structures during Omaha's transition from the wooden buildings of Nebraska's territor ...

Rural TV Rural TV was a rural lifestyle and culture television channel, broadcast internationally. It was launched on March 2, 2009, replacing Pulse +45mins. It merged with FamilyNet in 2013. Background Rural TV, known as "The World's Rural Channel", w ...

Saddle Creek Records Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over hi ...

* SPEED! Nebraska Records * Standard Bridge Company *

Western Bridge and Construction Company The Western Bridge and Construction Company, located in Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the foremost bridge engineering and manufacture, manufacturing companies in the Midwestern United States. Several of their bridges are now listed on the National Reg ...

WoodmenLife WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) is a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society founded in 1890, based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that operates a large privately held insurance company for its member ...

Yesmail Yesmail Interactive, is now known as Data Axle. The email marketing provider was previously headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Data Axle is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, ...

Companies formerly based in Omaha

* Bekins Van Lines, Inc. – once the largest moving company in the country, no longer based in Omaha *

ConAgra Foods Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Conagra makes and sells products under various brand names that are available in supermarkets, restauran ...

– Fortune 500 company, it is one of the country's largest packaged foods makers; no longer headquartered in Omaha *

Enron Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional compani ...

– former Fortune 500 company, declared bankruptcy amid corruption scandal. Former by merger between

and Houston Natural Gas *

– Fortune 500 company specializing in global payment technology solutions that moved its headquarters to

Hackensack, NJ Hackensack is a City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.Pacific Life Insurance Company – financial services company that domiciled in Omaha from

Newport Beach, California Newport Beach is a coastal city in South Orange County, California. Newport Beach is known for swimming and sandy beaches. Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries however today, it is used mostly for recreation. Balboa Island draws v ...

in 2010 * Omaha Market House

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