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SCV BUSINESS VOICES Santa Clarita Valley’s Largest Private Sector Employers of 2022

HOLLY SCHROEDER

President & CEO of SCVEDC

The Santa Clarita Valley is a growing region with significant opportunities for businesses including available, state-ofthe-art industrial and commercial buildings in master planned developments. Despite the challenges of the last two years, 2022 was a successful year for many companies, and there were several attractions and expansions across our target industry clusters. Through our research for the Economic Outlook Forecast, we compiled the Santa Clarita Valley Largest Employer’s List illustrating some remarkable growth this past year.

New to the SCV Largest Employers List but not to our area is Logix Federal Credit Union, which began occupying its new headquarters in late 2021/early 2022. Logix purchased 12 acres in the Valencia Commerce Center and developed an initial 175k square foot headquarters, with the opportunity to expand to 254k SF. They jumped an astonishing 1,248% from last year’s headcount to a total of 674 employees, and still growing! This further demonstrates how attractive the SCV is due to its pro-business environment and prime location.

The Santa Clarita Valley economic ecosystem is varied and diversified with multiple professional industry sectors — Aerospace & Defense, Medical Devices, Digital Media & Entertainment, Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Corporate & Professional Services. This allows the Santa Clarita Valley to not only be resilient but thrive.

Many companies expanded in 2022, and there was a lot of movement in this year’s rankings. Lief Labs continues to thrive, gaining recognition on the Inc. 5000’s fastest growing private companies list for an 8th year. Leif expanded its footprint in the Santa Clarita Valley recently, achieving 122% growth.

The following are eight more firms with meaningful gains this past year, expanding their company’s employee headcount by more than 25%: Advanced Bionics (+145), AMS Fulfillment (+103), Kaiser Permanente (+144), Knowles Precision Devices (+59), Lief Labs (+93), Remo Inc. (+57), Stay Green Inc. (+100), Sunvair (+62). Visit www.scvedc.org/top-employers to view the full list!

The Santa Clarita Valley is the ideal location for innovative companies in Southern California. Because the Santa Clarita Valley offers a high quality of life, a variety of tax and incentive programs for both small and large companies, and close proximity to most Southern California business centers, it’s no wonder our region has been named Los Angeles County’s most business-friendly city time and time again.

The Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp. is a unique private/public partnership representing the united effort of regional industry and government leaders. The SCVEDC utilizes an integrated approach to attracting, retaining, and expanding a diversity of businesses in the Santa Clarita Valley, especially those in key industry clusters, by offering competitive business services and other resources. For more information, visit SCVEDC.org. 

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