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Statec published two reports on the biggest employers in Luxembourg on Monday 3 July. Post, CFL and ArcelorMittal are the biggest employers in Luxembourg in 2016.Pictured: Arsdorf Post Office and town hall, Luxembourg, May 1995Picture credit: Sludge G 

A second report, published on 3 July, showed also the biggest employers by activity.

Here is the top ten list of employers in Luxembourg:

  1. Post Luxembourg tops the list, with 4,350 employees. This includes subsidiaries, such as Post Telecom, Victor Buck Services and Michel Greco.
  2. The second biggest employer is CFL, the national railway, with 4,170 employees.
  3. A close third with 4,160 employees is ArcelorMittal.
  4. Next up, with 4,030 employees, is Cactus, which also includes Caterman SA (canteens and restaurants) and Leesch Frères SA
  5. The bank BGL BNP Paribas comes fifth, with 3,700 employees.
  6. Sixth is Dussmann, a cleaning company based in Contern which employs 3,650 people.
  7. Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, based in Colmar Berg, is seventh with 3,410 employees.
  8. PricewaterhouseCoopers is Luxembourg’s eighth biggest employer with 2,840 employees.
  9. Ninth is Luxair, the airline, with 2,630 employees.
  10. The Fondation Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, a hospital in Luxembourg, ranks 10th place with 2,210 employees.

Biggest employers by branch of activity:

In the information and communication sector, Post Luxembourg (4,350), RTL Group (650), Sogeti Luxembourg (650) make up the top three.

In financial services and insurance, BGL BNP Paribas tops the list with 3,700 employees, followed by Banque internationale à Luxembourg (1,940), and Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat Luxembourg (1,810).

The “real estate activities, specialised, scientific and technical activities, activities of administrative services and support” sector is led by the cleaning service companies such as Groupe Dussmann (3,650), PricewaterhouseCoopers (2,840), Deloitte Luxembourg (1,830), KPMG Luxembourg (1,550), and Nettoservice (1,360). Seventh is the last of the so-called Big Four, EY Luxembourg, with 1,170 employees.

In the food, drinks and tobacco industry, the top three employers are the tobacco producing Landewyck Group (650 employees), followed by the meat producing and processing companies Mahevia (540) and Presta Meat (480).

Within the "chemical industry, the production of plastic and rubber products, other mineral non-metallic products and textile industry," Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations (3,410 employees) tops the list, followed by plastic producers DuPont de Nemours (1,050) and Euro-Composites (850).

In the metal industry, Arcelor Mittal (4,160 employees) is followed by Eurofoil (310) and Vossloh Cogifer Kihn (150).

Another broad category is the "production of IT, electronic and optic pieces, of electronic equipment, the automobile industry, the manufacturing of machines and equipment, and repair of machines and equipment." Husky Injection Molding Systems is the biggest employer in this space, with 960 employees. IEE comes second with 660 employees, and CEBI Luxembourg is third with 600.

In the construction industry, the biggest national employers are Socom (590), CDCL (530), and Elco (500).