Alaska's Largest Private Employers in 1996

For the sixth straight year, Carr Gottstein Foods, a grocery chain, heads the list of the state's largest private sector employers.(See Tables 1 and 3.)ln 1996, Carr's provided an average of 3,299 jobsthe largest workforce ever recorded by one firm since the inception of this list in 1985. All other firms had at least a thousand fewer employees. The second and third largest employers were Providence AlaskaMedical Center and Fred Meyer respectively-a slightly different lineup from last year. ARC0 Alaska, which held the number two spot in 1995, slipped to fourth place as it continued to downsize.