Same with TD Bank Financial Group, which comes in at a far second on the top 100 biggest companies list with 2850 employees in the city. Honeywell is one of Mississauga’s largest manufacturing companies and has over 100,000 employees spread across 95 countries, 1,100 of which work here. Honeywell makes everything from aerospace and automotive products to technologies for buildings and homes to turbochargers. You would have to live in a hole in the ground not to come into contact with products made by Honeywell on a regular basis. And since this is an occasion for bragging, it’s worth mentioning that Mississauga is also home to 59 Fortune 500 head offices.
Mississauga has certainly come a long way in the short time that it’s been a city and by all accounts, appears to have a healthy business community. Better than healthy—it’s thriving, and it’s a good thing, too. Anyone who’s had to fill a gas tank lately knows that the economy is not looking so good. It’s pretty easy to grow and expand at exponential rates when you have a lot of space to fill in a relatively new, relatively untouched area, but in the years ahead Mississauga will face a few challenges. We don’t have the space we once had to build new warehouses and manufacturing facilities. How do we hang on to what we have while continuing to hatch new businesses and grow various business sectors that are still so young?
