Editing Fairfield County, Connecticut (section)

==Economy==
[[File:One Stamford Forum.jpg|thumb|One Stamford Forum, the global headquarters of [[Purdue Pharma]]]]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, corporations began moving their [[headquarters]] to Fairfield County from [[Manhattan]]; Thomas J. Lueck of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that the trend "permanently decentralized big business in the [[New York metropolitan area|New York region]]." During the 1980s many buyouts and reorganizations and an [[economic recession]] lead to companies vacating much of the suburban office space in Fairfield County. In 1992 Fairfield County had the headquarters of over 25 major multinational corporations, giving it the third largest concentration of those companies in the United States after [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]].<ref>Lueck, Thomas J. "[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/07/nyregion/vacated-corporate-headquarters-scatter-the-suburban-landscape.html?pagewanted=all Vacated Corporate Headquarters Scatter the Suburban Landscape]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. December 7, 1992. A1, New York Edition. Retrieved on January 5, 2009.</ref>

Fairfield County is home to a large concentration of [[hedge fund]]s and [[private equity firm]]s, with many located along the Gold Coast in places like [[Greenwich, Connecticut|Greenwich]], [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], and [[Westport, Connecticut|Westport]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schott |first=Paul |date=November 30, 2018 |title=Connecticut hedge funds still dominate, but face questions |url=https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Connecticut-hedge-funds-still-dominate-but-face-13434256.php |access-date=April 18, 2023 |website=[[Stamford Advocate]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Wong |first1=Natalie |last2=Parmar |first2=Hema |last3=Kane |first3=Lizzie |date=October 27, 2022 |title=Citadel, Blue Owl Expand in Connecticut in Bid to Cut Commutes |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/wall-street-firms-are-expanding-offices-in-greenwich-other-nyc-suburbs |access-date=April 18, 2023 |website=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fortado |first=Lindsay |date=April 24, 2018 |title=Greenwich: the rich town on the frontline of US hedge fund fight |work=[[Financial Times]] |url=https://www.ft.com/content/3bffaf1c-3e35-11e8-b9f9-de94fa33a81e |access-date=April 18, 2023}}</ref> Major hedge funds headquartered in Fairfield County include [[Bridgewater Associates]], [[AQR Capital]], [[Point72 Asset Management]], [[Lone Pine Capital]], [[Viking Global Investors]], and [[Tudor Investment Corporation]].

Fairfield County is the top location for [[aquaculture]] in the state.<ref name="2017-census-state">{{cite web | access-date=July 29, 2022 | date=2017 | title=Census of Agriculture - State and County Profiles - Connecticut | website=USDA, [[National Agricultural Statistics Service]] | url=https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Online_Resources/County_Profiles/Connecticut/}}</ref>