Seventeen manufacturing companies were named on Fortune magazine's "100 best companies to work for" list for 2006.
The manufacturers (along their position on the top 100 list and their total number of U.S. employees) included:
8) J.M. Smucker, 2,930 employees
10) S.C. Johnson, 3,404
25) Cisco Systems, 26,644
32) Alcon Laboratories, 6,227
38) Milliken, 9,300
39) Amgen, 11,374
42) Microsoft, 37,746
44) Pella, 3,986
51) Genzyme, 5,399
52) Eli Lilly, 21,898
61) Sherwin-Williams, 27,938
77) National Instruments, 2,148
79) East Penn Manufacturing, 4,082
83) Texas Instruments, 16,102
95) Wm. Wrigley Jr., 3,372
97) Intel, 48,655
98) General Mills, 17,993
Biotechnology research firm Genentech was first on this year's list. Wegmans Foods Market was second and Valero Energy was third.
