{"id":242401,"date":"2026-07-13T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:52:12","slug":"lehigh-valley-well-represented-on-time-list-of-americas-best-companies-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242401\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley well represented on TIME list of America’s best companies | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

TIME magazine has released its list of America’s Best Companies of 2026, and several of the entities being singled out have a presence in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding region.<\/p>\n

Below, 69 News unveils some of the highlights from the top 100. The full list goes all the way to 1,000 and can be found on TIME’s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, how is it decided which companies make the cut? TIME said it partnered with Statista to evaluate and rank businesses based on employee satisfaction, financial performance, and sustainability transparency. Both public companies and private companies that report their financial and sustainability data were considered. Companies could earn a top score of 100.<\/p>\n

The list differs from TIME’s World’s Best Companies compilation released in 2025.\u00a0America\u2019s Best Companies focuses more on the strength of financial performance over revenue growth, TIME said.<\/p>\n

Healthcare giants rising in the ranks<\/p>\n

TIME noted that, while tech companies continue to dominate in the U.S. (NVIDIA, Apple and Salesforce gobbled up the top three spots), healthcare companies are still a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, was ranked fifth on the list. As anyone who follows business news in the Lehigh Valley knows by now, Lilly does not yet have a hub here, but that will change with the completion of a massive new campus<\/a> in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, where the company will make its\u00a0injectable medicines and weight-loss therapies.<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly reported $19.8 billion in revenue in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal 2026, an increase of 56 percent.<\/p>\n

Another pharmaceutical giant- Merck- secured the ninth spot on the list. Merck is based in Rahway, New Jersey but has a massive campus in Montgomery County.\u00a0Merck reported Q1 2026 revenues of $16.3 billion, with sales of its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda accounting for nearly half of that total.<\/p>\n

Other Top 100 companies with a local workforce\u00a0<\/p>\n

McKesson (#20), a healthcare and pharmaceutical company, has a distribution center in Bethlehem that’s part of its\u00a0Medical-Surgical Solutions (MMS) segment. McKesson previously announced plans to separate its MMS arm into an independent, publicly traded company.<\/p>\n

The California-based tech giant Broadcom (#27)\u00a0operates a manufacturing facility in Lehigh County’s Tek Park campus in Upper Macungie Township. It also has an office outside Allentown on American Parkway in Hanover Township.<\/p>\n

Automatic Data Processing, or ADP (#37), has offices around the country, including in downtown Allentown.<\/p>\n

Coca-Cola (#38) has a syrup plant in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n

Amazon (#47) is such a large company that it technically has two headquarters in the U.S.: Puget Sound, Washington, and Arlington, Virginia. It also has dozens of fulfillment centers across the country, including in Palmer Township, Northampton County, and Upper Macungie Township.<\/p>\n

PepsiCo (#95) has a distribution center in Allentown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TIME magazine has released its list of America’s Best Companies of 2026, and several of the entities being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,60,805],"class_list":["post-242401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}