Today it is ranked 20th in size under the Fortune 500 list.
The company was listed on the Fortune 500 list from 1995-2001.
He has been a business consultant with 27 businesses, a number of which are on the Fortune 100 list.
During that time the magazine created its Fortune 500 list of the nation's largest businesses.
Take a look at the retailers on the Fortune 500 list in 1979, and today more than 50 percent have disappeared.
It was also number 703 on the Fortune 1000 list in 2006.
The news this week that it would not make the Fortune 500 list for the first time in years was met with resignation.
Corporate clients include over 250 organizations in Fortune 500 list.
In 2002, the company joined the Fortune 500 list of largest publicly held companies.
In 2009 the company was listed at number 312 on the Fortune 500 list.