Major employers in Elizabeth

16 employers, 4 of them head offices: 3 worldwide, 0 national and 1 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers16
Worldwide HQ3
National HQ0
Regional HQ1
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Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
Elizabeth Public Schools (Elizabeth Board of Education)Education — public school districtMajor site4,6482025Elizabeth, New JerseyCareers →
Trinitas Regional Medical CenterHealth care — acute-care hospitalpart of RWJBarnabas HealthMajor site1,6862024West Orange, New Jersey—
APM Terminals ElizabethTransportation — marine container terminalpart of A.P. Moller-Maersk (APM Terminals)Major site1,5752024Copenhagen, DenmarkCareers →
Maher Terminals LLCTransportation — marine container terminal operatorWorldwide HQglobal (company head office and its only terminal, in the Port of New York and New Jersey)1,2582024Elizabeth, New JerseyCareers →
Allied Beverage GroupWholesale — wine and spirits distributionWorldwide HQglobal (company offices and main distribution facility; cross-dock in Swedesboro NJ)1,0002024Elizabeth, New JerseyCareers →
Wakefern Food Corp.Wholesale — grocery distribution (retailer-owned cooperative)Major site9522024Keasbey (Woodbridge Township), New JerseyCareers →
Performance Food GroupWholesale — foodservice distributionMajor site5772024Richmond, VirginiaCareers →
Fedway AssociatesWholesale — beverage alcohol distributionMajor site4062024New Jersey (head-office city not stated on pages read)—
Actavis Elizabeth (Teva)Manufacturing — generic pharmaceuticalspart of Teva Pharmaceutical IndustriesMajor site2652024Tel Aviv, Israel—
IKEA ElizabethRetail — home furnishingspart of Ingka Group (IKEA US Retail LLC)Major site2102024Leiden, NetherlandsCareers →
Deb El Food ProductsManufacturing — egg productsWorldwide HQglobal (company head office; liquid and processed egg products)—Elizabeth, New Jersey—
County of UnionPublic administration — county governmentRegional HQUnion County government (county seat; administration offices in Elizabeth)—Elizabeth, New JerseyCareers →
City of ElizabethPublic administration — municipal governmentMajor site—Elizabeth, New JerseyCareers →
New Jersey Judiciary — Superior Court, Union VicinagePublic administration — state courtspart of State of New Jersey (Judiciary)Major site—Trenton, New Jersey—
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — Elizabeth–Port Authority Marine TerminalTransportation — port authoritypart of Port Authority of New York and New JerseyMajor site—New York, New York—
UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ — Elizabeth CampusEducation — community collegepart of UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJMajor site—Cranford, New JerseyCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • Ranking and most headcounts come from the Elizabeth Public Schools ACFR (FY2025) Exhibit J-15, 'Principal Employers – Current Year and Nine Years Ago' (2024 column, source 'District Records'; percentages are of total municipal employment). Top ten together = 8,179 jobs (5.95%). The district itself (4,648 FTE in 2025, Exhibit J-16) is not in that table but is the city's largest single employer.
  • J-15 2024 also shows a garbled row (PDF text layer) with 265 employees next to 'Actavis'; recorded on the Actavis row. The 2015 column lists employers no longer in the 2024 top ten: Olympia Trail Bus Co. (442), New England Motor Freight (358), Federal Express (300), Duro Bag Co (240), Atalanta (191), AFI Food Service (536, the 2024 list shows Performance Food Group instead). None of these were added as rows because no current Elizabeth site could be confirmed on the companies' own pages (Atalanta's robots.txt returns 403, treated as not allowed; Novolex/Duro locations page did not list Elizabeth in its HTML).
  • The Mills at Jersey Gardens (Simon Property Group) is not a row: simon.com robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot ('User-agent: ClaudeBot … Disallow: /') and investors.simon.com robots.txt returned 403, so the mall's own page was not opened. Phillips 66 Bayway refinery and Merck are in Linden and Rahway, not Elizabeth; Kean University is in Union Township; Wakefern's head office is in Keasbey — none counted as Elizabeth head offices.
  • Newark Liberty International Airport straddles Newark and Elizabeth (the Union County brochure says the new Terminal A is 'located wholly within Union County'), but no airport or airline headcount for the Elizabeth side was found, so no airline row was added.
  • NJ Department of Labor WARN archives for 2025 and 2026 (nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/<year>_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf) list no notice with Elizabeth as the city (one Union County FedEx notice, Apr 2026, 50 workers; Claire's multi-county).
  • Funding / software: no venture- or growth-funded software or tech company headquartered in Elizabeth was found (two web searches; Wikipedia 'Companies based in Elizabeth, New Jersey' lists only historical firms). Elizabeth's economy is port logistics, wholesale distribution and public services.
  • Blocked or not reached: trinitasrmc.org (Cloudflare 522 on robots.txt and site), rwjbh.org (Cloudflare challenge), simon.com (ClaudeBot disallowed), atalantacorp.com (robots 403), recruiting.ultipro.com (Fedway's job board; robots 'Disallow: /'), www.wakefern.com:443 (connection refused; www2.wakefern.com used), panynj.gov port pages render by script only.
  • worldwideHq for Maersk (Copenhagen), Teva (Tel Aviv), Ingka/IKEA (Leiden), RWJBarnabas (West Orange), NJ Judiciary (Trenton) and the Port Authority (New York) are general knowledge, not read on a page today.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.