Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

==Economy==
[[File:MinuteMaidHQSugarLandTX.JPG|thumb|[[Minute Maid]] headquarters, [[Sugar Land Town Square]], [[First Colony]]]]
[[File:FortBend 379.JPG|thumb|Imperial Sugar offices]]
As in the rest of the Greater Houston area, the energy industry presence is large, specifically petroleum exploration and refining. Sugar Land holds the headquarters to [[Fortune 500|''Fortune'' 500]]<ref name="money.cnn.com"/> company CVR Energy, Inc.<ref name="cvrenergy.com">[http://cvrenergy.com CVR Energy, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508174456/http://www.cvrenergy.com/ |date=May 8, 2012 }} Retrieved May 22, 2012.</ref> ({{NYSE|CVI}}), Western Airways, and NalcoChampion's Energy Services division. CVR Energy was listed as the city's only resident 2012 [[Fortune 500]] company<ref name="money.cnn.com">{{cite web| url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/full_list/401_500.html |title=2012 Fortune 500 List by ''Fortune'' magazine |publisher=Money.cnn.com |date=May 21, 2012 |access-date=June 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name="cvrenergy.com"/> and the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' ranked it the No. 5 public company in the Houston area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/business/chron-100/article/No-5-public-company-CVR-Energy-3652313.php|title=No. 5 public company: CVR Energy|date=June 21, 2012|access-date=May 2, 2017}}</ref> Sugar&nbsp;Land also has a large number of international energy, software, engineering, and product firms.

Sugar Land is home to the headquarters of the Imperial Sugar Company. It was once the home of the company's main (and sole) [[Sugar refinery|refinery]] and distribution center. The refinery and distribution center have been closed since 2003.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=June 4, 2003|title=Imperial Sugar shuts down Sugar Land plant|work=[[Houston Business Journal]]|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/06/02/daily33.html|url-status=live|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119014014/https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/06/02/daily33.html|archive-date=January 19, 2021}}</ref>

[[Schlumberger]], an [[oil services]] company, moved its Houston-area offices from 5000 [[Interstate 45|Gulf Freeway]] in Houston to a campus in Sugar Land in 1995.<ref>Sarnoff, Nancy. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090215060628/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2005_3843924 Burger King sniffing for new home / Houston said to be in running for headquarters' possible relocation]" ([http://web.archive.org/web/20090215060628/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2005_3843924 Archive]). ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. February 3, 2005. Business 3. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.</ref><ref name="Schlumhq">"[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/10/24/daily21.html?from_yf=1 Schlumberger to move U.S. headquarters to Houston]". ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Wednesday October 26, 2005. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.</ref><ref>"[http://www.slb.com/content/contact/geomarkets/nsa/nsa.asp North America (NAM) Contacts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204025147/http://www.slb.com/content/contact/geomarkets/nsa/nsa.asp |date=2009-02-04 }}". ''Schlumberger''. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.</ref> This {{convert|33|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus is at the northeast corner of [[U.S. Highway 90A]] and Gillingham Lane. (The former Gulf Freeway headquarters was repurposed as the University of Houston Energy Research Park after 2009.)

As of 2015, Schlumberger was the second-largest employer in Sugar Land. In 2015, Schlumberger announced that it was moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to the Sugar Land facility from a Houston office building. The company plans to build new buildings with a scheduled completion time of late 2017. They include a total of {{convert|250000|sqft|sqm}} of class A office space and an "amenities" building with {{convert|100000|sqft|sqm}} of space.<ref>Mulvaney, Erin. "[http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2015/10/schlumberger-plans-to-relocate-national-headquarters-to-sugar-land/ Schlumberger plans to relocate national headquarters to Sugar Land]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151023163225/http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2015/10/schlumberger-plans-to-relocate-national-headquarters-to-sugar-land/ Archive]). ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. October 5, 2015. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.</ref>

[[Fluor Daniel]] also has a major office in Sugar Land at 1 Fluor Daniel Dr.

[[Minute Maid]] opened its headquarters in [[Sugar Land Town Square]] in [[First Colony]] on February 16, 2009; previously, it was headquartered in [[2000 St. James Place]] in Houston.<ref>Dawson, Jennifer. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/02/16/daily5.html Minute Maid headquarters opens in Sugar Land]". ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Monday February 16, 2009. Retrieved on February 16, 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4454032
|title=Deal of the Week / Cameron buys Galleria-area building
|work=[[Houston Chronicle]]
|access-date=December 21, 2008}}</ref><ref>Dawson, Jennifer. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/01/21/daily7.html?surround=lfn&brthrs=1 Minute Maid gets $2.4M incentive for move to Sugar Land]". ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Monday January 21, 2008. Retrieved on February 16, 2009.</ref>

In 1991, [[BMC Software]] leased about {{convert|120000|sqft|m2}} at the Sugar Creek National Bank Building and about {{convert|16000|sqft|m2}} in the Fluor Daniel Building, both in Sugar Land. BMC planned to vacate both Sugar Land facilities when its current headquarters, located in [[Westchase, Houston|Westchase]], opened; BMC's headquarters were scheduled to open in 1993.<ref>Bivins, Ralph. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1991_822915 BMC signs a big lease/Firm needs space until tower's done]". ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. November 17, 1991. Retrieved on August 2, 2009.</ref>

===Largest employers===
According to the city's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web|date=September 30, 2019|title=Comprehensive Annual Financial Report — Fiscal Year 2018-2019|url=https://www.sugarlandtx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/23657/COSL-CAFR-FY2019-FINAL?bidId=|access-date=July 31, 2020|publisher=City of Sugar Land|format=PDF}}</ref> the largest employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No.
! Employer
! No. of employees
|-
|1
|[[Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital|Methodist Sugar Land Hospital]]
|2,400
|-
|2
|[[Fluor Corporation|Fluor Enterprises, Inc]]
|1,980
|-
|3
|[[Schlumberger]]
|1,900
|-
|4
|[[Nalco Champion]]
|1,216
|-
|5
|[[Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital|Memorial Hermann Sugar Land]]
|800
|-
|6
|[[CHI St. Luke's Health|St. Luke's Hospital Sugar Land]]
|473
|-
|7
|Accredo Packaging
|425
|-
|8
|[[Baker Hughes]]
|422
|-
|9
|Applied Optoelectronics
|396
|-
|10
|[[AmerisourceBergen|AmerisourceBergen Drug Company]]
|380
|-
|}