Organizations
The companies, teams, media, and institutions that make Miami a Latin American business capital.
Carnival Corporation
The world's largest cruise company runs its global fleet from an office park in Doral, anchoring Miami's claim as the cruise capital of the world.
Royal Caribbean Group
A global cruise company headquartered on the water at PortMiami, one of the three giants that make Miami the world's cruise nerve center.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
The third of Miami's cruise giants, run from offices in the city and sailing a fleet of brands out of PortMiami.
Lennar
One of the largest homebuilders in the United States, run from Miami and a quiet engine of Florida's relentless growth.
Ryder System
The truck-leasing and logistics company whose yellow rental trucks are everywhere, run from the Doral area for generations.
AutoNation
The largest auto retailer in the country, built by Wayne Huizenga out of the same South Florida deal-making that produced Blockbuster and Waste Management.
Watsco
The largest distributor of air-conditioning equipment in the country, run quietly from Coconut Grove in a region that cannot live without AC.
ODP Corporation
The South Florida company behind Office Depot, a national retail brand run from the suburbs north of Miami.
Chewy
The online pet-supply retailer that grew out of South Florida into one of the region's signature homegrown e-commerce success stories.
Citadel
Ken Griffin's hedge fund and its sister market-maker moved their headquarters from Chicago to Miami in 2022, the single loudest signal of finance moving to the city.
MasTec
The infrastructure-construction company built by the Mas family of Cuban Miami, laying the pipelines, towers, and power lines that run beneath American life.
World Kinect
A fuel-logistics multinational with roots in South Florida, built to move energy across borders from a Miami-area base.
Restaurant Brands International
The fast-food parent company behind Burger King, a chain born in Miami that grew into a global brand.
The Related Group
Jorge Perez's development company, builder of much of Miami's condo skyline and the model for selling towers to Latin American buyers.
Perry Ellis International
A Doral-based apparel company that owns and licenses a portfolio of clothing brands from a Miami-area headquarters.
TelevisaUnivision
The largest Spanish-language media company, with major operations in Miami, the de facto capital of Latin American media.
Telemundo
NBCUniversal's Spanish-language network, headquartered in Miami-Dade and a pillar of the city's Spanish-language media base.
The Miami Herald
Miami's flagship English-language newspaper, a Pulitzer-winning institution that chronicled the city's century of transformation.
El Nuevo Herald
The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, a daily voice for Cuban and Latin Miami.
America TeVe
A Miami-based Spanish-language broadcaster, part of the city's dense exile-media landscape.
Miami Heat
The city's NBA franchise, owned by Micky Arison and playing downtown, one of Miami's few unifying institutions.
Miami Dolphins
The NFL franchise that has anchored South Florida's sports identity since 1966 and remains the closest thing the region has to a unifying institution.
Miami Marlins
Miami's Major League Baseball franchise, a two-time World Series champion that now plays on the footprint of the demolished Orange Bowl in Little Havana.
Florida Panthers
The NHL franchise of the Miami metropolitan area, based in Sunrise and a relative latecomer that has grown into a fixture of the region's sports landscape.
Inter Miami CF
The Major League Soccer club co-owned by David Beckham and the Mas brothers, whose 2023 signing of Lionel Messi reshaped the profile of American soccer.
Knight Foundation
A major national foundation focused on journalism and the arts that has become one of the largest single forces in Miami's civic and cultural life.
The Miami Foundation
The region's community foundation, pooling donor funds to support local civic, philanthropic, and resilience initiatives across Greater Miami.
The Beacon Council
Miami-Dade County's official economic-development organization, charged with attracting businesses and investment to the region.
Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau
The official tourism-marketing body for Greater Miami and Miami Beach, tasked with selling the region as a destination to travelers and conventions worldwide.
Cuban American National Foundation
The exile lobbying organization founded by Jorge Mas Canosa in 1981, long the institutional heart of hardline Cuban-exile politics in Miami and Washington.
Brightline
The privately run higher-speed passenger railroad linking Miami to Orlando, terminating downtown at MiamiCentral and reviving the Flagler idea of connecting Florida by rail.