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The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
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Exxon Mobil
The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.
ExxonMobil is the...
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General Motors
General Motors Company, also known as GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
For 2008, GM ranked as the largest U.S. automaker by sales and the world's second largest by sales. GM had the third highest 2008...
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is an energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining,...
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ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips Company (NYSE: COP) is an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States. It is also one of the fortune 500 companies. It is the fifth largest...
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Mobil 1
Mobil is a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company. Its former headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, are currently used as ExxonMobil's...
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Gulf Oil
Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger with...
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Armour and Company
Armour and Company was an American slaughterhouse and meatpacking company founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1867 by the Armour brothers, led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company was Chicago's most important business and helped make the...
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Chrysler LLC
Chrysler Group LLC is a U.S. automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the...
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Texaco
Texaco ("The Texas Company") is the name of an American oil retail brand. Its flagship product is its fuel, "Texaco with Techron". It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand.
Texaco was an independent company until it merged into Chevron Corporation...
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Amoco
Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company (Indiana), was a global chemical and oil company, founded in 1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana. It later absorbed the American Oil Company founded in Baltimore in 1910 and...
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Esmark
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Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company ("oil major") of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in...
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IBM
International Business Machines , abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology...
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AT&T Technologies
AT&T; Technologies, Inc., was created in 1983 in preparation for the Bell System Divestiture, which became effective as of January 1, 1984. It assumed the corporate charter of Western Electric Co., Inc.
AT&T;, after divisting ownership of the Bell...
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Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G;, NYSE: PG) is a Fortune 500, American multinational corporation headquartered in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of consumer goods. As of 2008, P&G; is the 8th largest corporation in the world by...
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ARCO
ARCO (an acronym for Atlantic Richfield Company) is an oil company which is, since 2000, a subsidiary of UK-based BP and is officially known as BP West Coast Products LLC. ARCO that was formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic Refining and...
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Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil Corporation, (NYSE: MRO), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a worldwide oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Principal exploration activities are in the United States, Norway, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Canada....
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Nabisco Group Holdings Corporation
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Archer Daniels Midland
The Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), is a conglomerate based in Decatur, Illinois. ADM operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial...
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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the...
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Sinclair Oil
Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916, as Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation, by combining the assets of eleven small petroleum companies. Originally a New York corporation,...
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BP America Inc
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Boeing
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Its international headquarters has been in Chicago,...
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Beatrice Foods
The Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company and household name. Its smaller international food operations were sold to Reginald Lewis, a corporate attorney creating TLC Beatrice International in 1987. The majority of its...
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RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Currently, the RCA trademark is owned by the French conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned...
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United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate based in Hartford, Connecticut. It researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, helicopters...
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Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW TYO: 4850) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after BASF) and as of February 2009, the...
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Unocal Corporation
Union Oil Company of California, dba Unocal is a defunct company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. It was headquartered in El Segundo, California,...
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Sunoco
Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Sun Company Inc. (1886-1920 and 1976-1998) and Sun Oil Co. (1920-1976).
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Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is a United States-based corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar (commonly referred to simply as CAT) is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and...
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Singer Corporation
Singer Corporation is a manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I.M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merrit Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865...
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Douglas Aircraft Company
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas. It is currently a...
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American Motors
American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company — at the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.
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Citgo
Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo) is a United States-incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner and marketer of gasoline, lubricants, petrochemicals, and other petroleum products.
Citgo has supplied 14,001 retailers, but in July 2006 announced plans...
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General Foods
General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions. In November,...
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Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
The earliest foundations of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company were the American Iron Company, founded in 1851 by Bernard Lauth, and the firm of Jones and Lauth, founded in 1852 by B. F. Jones a few miles (c 4 km) south of Pittsburgh along the...
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Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide) is one of the oldest chemical and polymer companies in the United States, currently employing more than 3,800 people. It became infamous for the worst ever industrial accident that took place in its Bhopal,...
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Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second-largest in the world (after Nestlé SA). It markets many brands in more than 155 countries.
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by Harvey Firestone in 1900 to supply pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era. Firestone soon saw the huge potential for marketing tires for...
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Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries is a diversified U. S. fabric maker based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1923, the company has operations in the United States, Mexico, and India and a global manufacturing and product development network based in...
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Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a multinational aerospace manufacturer, global security and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed with Martin Marietta. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington...
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ASARCO
ASARCO LLC is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona that mines and processes primarily copper. The company, a subsidiary of Grupo México, is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ASARCO plans to emerge from bankruptcy in...
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Borden Chemical, Inc.
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TRW
TRW Incorporated was an American corporation involved in a number of businesses, mostly defense-related, but including automotive, aerospace and credit reporting.
The credit reporting business, spun off in 1996, is now called Experian. Lucas Diesel...
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Honeywell
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) (legally Honeywell International Inc.) is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major...
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GenCorp
GenCorp is an American technology-based manufacturer based in Sacramento, California. Established in 1915, GenCorp was formerly the General Tire and Rubber Company.
The name change was implemented in 1984 when GenCorp was formed as a parent holding...
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Cudahy
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Briggs Manufacturing
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Uniroyal
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AMAX
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Wilson Sporting Goods
The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports.
Wilson makes equipment for many sports, among them badminton, baseball,...
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Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an American aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth largest defense contractor in the world in 2008, and the largest builder...
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Ralston Purina Company
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company is the pet food division of Swiss-based Nestlé, following a merger in December 12, 2001, between the Nestlé's Friskies PetCare Company and the American Ralston Purina Company. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri,...
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American Can Company
The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." It was formerly a member of the Dow...
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Youngstown Sheet and Tube
The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. Officially, the company was created on November 23, 1900, when Articles of Incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and...
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Continental Group
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines internationally. The Coca-Cola Company claims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia,...
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American Cyanamid
American Cyanamid is a large, diversified, American chemical manufacturer, founded by Frank Washburn in 1907.
Lederle Laboratories, maker of Centrum and Stresstabs vitamins, was Cyanamid's pharmaceutical division. Davis & Geck was the company's...
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Conoco Inc.
Conoco Inc. was an American oil company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. It is now a brand of gasoline and service station in the United States which belongs to the ConocoPhillips Company.
Based in Ogden, Utah, the...
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