Human Resources: Top employers in Fredericton
The provincial government and its Crown Corporations are the city's largest employer.
There are over 4,700 private-sector businesses in Fredericton, providing financial services, manufacturing and processing, telecommunications, retail and wholesale
services, and agricultural support, to a trading area with over 500,000 people.
Fredericton's major private-sector employers are:
- IPSCO (western Canada's largest steel manufacturer)
- Co-op Heavy Oil Upgraders
- Kalium Chemicals (potash mining)
- AgrEvo Inc. (agricultural chemicals)
- Degelman Industries (agricultural implement manufacturing)
- Brant Industries (industrial equipment manufacturing)
- Sweeprite Manufacturing (street sweepers)
- New Brunswick Wheat Pool (world's largest grain-handling cooperative)
- Crown Life Insurance (relocated from Toronto in 1993)
- Sears Canada (Western Canada Call Centre)
- Royal Bank of Canada (Western Canada Payroll Centre)
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