page_title: Stamford, Connecticut
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Stamford, Connecticut / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: NBC Sports Group's world headquarters at 1 Blachley Road in Stamford, Connecticut The building is also home to the only Chelsea Piers location outside of New York City.
context_page_description: Stamford is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is the second-most populous city in Fairfield County with a population of 122,643 at the 2010 census, and 129,638 in 2019. Stamford is the third-largest city by population in Connecticut. Approximately halfway between Manhattan and New Haven at approximately 38 miles from each, Stamford is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area which is a part of the New York City metropolitan area.
  Stamford is home to nine Fortune 500 companies as of 2019, as well as numerous divisions of large corporations. This gives Stamford the largest financial district in the New York metropolitan region outside New York City itself and one of the largest concentrations of corporations in the United States. Dominant sectors of its economy include financial services, tourism, information technology, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and retail. Its metropolitan division is home to colleges and universities including UConn Stamford and Norwalk Community College.
context_section_description: Stamford's cluster of corporate headquarters includes a number of Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, and Forbes Global 2000 companies. In 2017, Stamford had four Fortune 500, nine Fortune 1000, three Forbes Global 2000, and one Fortune Global 500 company.
  Among the larger companies with headquarters in Stamford are Charter Communications, Synchrony Financial, Indeed.com, United Rentals, Conair, Gartner, Henkel North American Consumer Goods, WWE, XFL, Pitney Bowes, Gen Re, NBC Sports Group, Nestle Waters North America, Crane Co. and Vineyard Vines. UBS's Stamford trading floor holds the Guinness World Record as the largest column-less trading floor in the world. The Royal Bank of Scotland moved its North American operations into Stamford in 2009, including its RBS Greenwich Capital subsidiary.
  The Harbor Point development, located in the South End, is one of the largest private-sector development projects in the United States. Many large retail stores, such as Design within Reach (which is also headquartered in Stamford) and Fairway Market have moved in, along with multiple companies including ITV America, McKinsey & Company, Bridgewater Associates, and the headquarters of Starwood Hotels (Now Marriott International), and KAYAK.com.
caption: NBC Sports Group world headquarters at 1 Blachley Road
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