Quiz: Do you know what some of Florida's largest public companies do for a living?
What do these companies do for a living?
A) SEACOR Holdings/Fort Lauderdale
(Public No. 32)
$2.1 billion revenue
B) Roper Industries/Sarasota
(Public No. 25)
$2.8 billion revenue
C) Interline Brands/Jacksonville
(Public No. 41)
$1.2 billion revenue
D) Lincare Holdings/Clearwater
(Public No. 36)
$1.8 billion revenue
E) Cryo-Cell International/Oldsmar
(Public No. 130)
$17.9 million revenue
Answers
A) SEACOR owns and operates bulk commodity barges. It also provides emergency preparedness and crisis services to governments and industry.
B) Roper, an S&P 500 company, operates in four categories: industrial technology; radio frequency technology; scientific and industrial imaging; and energy systems and controls. It has customers in more than 100 countries.
C) Interline, founded in 1978, sells supplies to the janitorial industry.
D) Lincare provides oxygen, respiratory and other chronic therapy services to patients in their homes. It also sells hospital beds, wheelchairs and other supplies.
E) Cryo-Cell stores about a quarter-million cord blood stem cell specimens.