YOUR TOWN OR CITY

[jammy 0]

Hi!!!

I was just wondering if your hometown or city has any major business headquaters located there?!?!!!?!?!?

I live In Darlington in the North East of England.

Cleveland Bridge is located in my town, they are the people who designed and built the Sydney Harbour Bridge!

Pictures welcome!!

Thanks

[GingerBlokey 30]

Hey. I reccomend you take the capitals out of the title.

But what they heck!

My town is Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK

I dont know of any major companies being based here but there are quite a few smaller ones. Pasta Foods, Swire Oilfield Services, ASCO, Gapton Vehicle Hire, Blackfriars Brewery.

It used to be home to a crisps factory, 3 brewerys and alot more factories but then WWII happened.

[Duke87 1,070]

New York, NY: too many to name

Stamford, CT: UBS Warburg, General Electric, HBO (the TV channel), WWE (the wrestling guys), Pitney Bowes.... also the original home of Nine West, but they moved to White Plains, NY several years ago.

[jammy 0]

I took the capitals out Gingerblokey! lol!

I have friends in Great Yarmouth

Your right Duke87, if you listed them all the forum would become 9 pages long! lol!

[Easy Bakes 253]

Dallas Texas.

Again to many to name.

but off the topof my head.

Texas Insturments

JC Pennys

Mobil/Exxon has a building here but not sure if it thier Home base.

American Airlines

Southwest Airlines

Dr Pepper

[jammy 0]

Hey, I've just found out that there is kind of a sub-headquaters for Orange mobile, although there main HQ is located in India their English one is in Darlington

[hamsterTK 93]

Nothing special in College Station

A few well known companies like HP and Schlumberger do have a presence here though

[ky72x 13]

Kingsburg, California

Sun-Maid, that's about it. Otherwise you'd be looking more into localized and regional companies.

[xiziz 11]

Stockholm, Sweden; A bit to many to name all, but it includes SAS, Saab and most of the major Swedish newspapers, aswell as a bunch of state owned enteprises.

Out where i live, in a villa-estate area there arnt many companies, a few local ones, the biggest beeing "Gustavsberg"... who make toilets and plates, and other porslin, found throughout Europe, ive seen em as far soulth as spain!

"Oh yeah, im from the place where they made your toilet..."

[DDPP_lok 0]

Hong Kong ,China

the most well known company ...

err......

HSBC

[Shadow Assassin 336]

Sydney, Australia.

Too many to list.

[daniel01 0]

In Melbourne there is...

Telstra - Telecommunications

Coles Group - Groups of retailers

ANZ - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

NAB - National Australia Bank

and many more...

[sc4portugal 10]

Fig Foz:

Navagate paper factory (if anyone has navagate paper check on the back for where it was made it might say Figueira da Foz, Portugal)

Another paper factory

A Saint-Gobain glass factory

[Krio 624]

Helsinki is home to papergiants UPM-Kymmene and StoraEnso. Nordic's biggest media corporation SanomaWSOY, which operates in 20 countries is also Helsinki-based company. Helsinki is also home of Finnair, Finland's national airline.

Almost in Helsinki are Nokia and KONE, which are located in Espoo, second largest "city" of Finland. "City", because Espoo is more suburb of Helsinki. Fortum, which is major energy company in Skandinavia and Baltic Countries has it's "skyscraper" in Espoo.

That's it. Nokia is only super-class company here.

[GingerBlokey 30]

If you go further afield than Yarmouth to Norwich you get companies like Lotus, Norwich Union, Colman's Mustard, Brivtic Drinks, Eastern Daily Press, AirUK, Bernard Matthews, ITV Anglia and BBC East

It is the regional capital and about 20 miles west of here.

[jvlm.123 0]

Hmm, my town doesn't have any major companies (it's mainly a commuter town). But Ireland does have a lot of multinationals present (most with their European HQs in the country) including:

Adobe, Alienware, Allianz, AOL Europe, Apple, Bose, Braun Oral-B, Citigroup, Dell, eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Hasbro, Hewlett Packard (HP), Hitachi, IBM Intel, Kellog's Europe, Lexmark, MBNA, Microsoft, Motorla, Oracle, Pepsi Cola, Pfizer, TDK, UPS and Yahoo!.

They're just the ones I can think of - there are over 1,000 other major multinationals, usually IT companies, Financial services companies, Pharmacutical companies, Engineering Technology companies, Chemical companies, Consumer Goods companies and International services companies.

[marryescher 0]

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, we have the world headquarters of Dominoes Pizza. Google just came here, and Pfizer is here also. Pfizer is leaving in the fall though.

[jammy 0]

Great! Isn't the HQ of IKEA FURNITURE STORE (great store!) located in Sweden?

[LivingInThePast 364]

@hamstertk: What about that Neutral Posture place?

[simwario 95]

My town (Bremerhaven) is mainly known for it's frozen food industry, a well known

food brand in Germany  Frosta has a seat here in Bremerhaven among some other less known brands..

[Odainsaker 2,133]

San Antonio, Texas, has never been a major business center like its sisters Dallas and Houston, but there are some noteworthy companies here.

AT&T - used to be SBC, a former post-breakup Baby Bell holding company, but they have bought back their former parent company and name, along with several of their regional siblings. The tentacled monster telecommunications company is once again the largest in the U.S. Also within the multi-headed Baby Bell hydra is the giant Southwestern Bell Telephone, which along with SBC moved here from St. Louis.

Clear Channel Communications - Tentacled monster radio and entertainment company. Pretty much most of our radio stations and their programming in the U.S. are owned, controlled, or influenced by them.

USAA - big insurance and financial services exchange serving mainly U.S. military personnel and their families. Their sprawling headquarters campus is claimed the largest U.S. commercial office building, second only after the Pentagon in square footage.

Frost National Bank - Not a major bank by national standards, but the largest bank actually headquartered in Texas. Ha, take that Dallas!  Okay okay, San Antonio goes back to being a small poor city now.

Southwest Research Institute - world-renowned scientific non-profit does research and development in all fields for industry and government. Their "New Horizons" space probe is heading towards Pluto even now.

Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research - private institution with laboratories decoding the human genome and tackling some of the deadliest of exotic diseases in one of the world's few top Biosafety Level 4 facilities. Was weird living across from the world's largest baboon colony for biomedical research. I just hope those Ebola bioweapons bugs don't get out and turn us all into movie plague zombies.

Tesoro Corporation - This is Texas, so we also hoave our share of oil companies. Tesoro is a refiner and gas seller mostly known in the western part of the U.S.  At least it is not Enron...ha, take that Houston!  Opps, I forgot how underdeveloped and provincial San Antonio really is.

Valero Energy Corporation - North America's largest oil refiner, and one of the large gas retailers...most of us in the U.S. know them best for their many gas stations from Ultramar and Diamond Shamrock.

H-E-B - C'mon, everyone in Texas knows H-E-B. Say the letters, it is not "heb", hehe. Very large and popular privately-owned grocery chain.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas - now online, the new Texas subsidiary of the Japan-based automotive leader single-handedly raised the average manufacting wage by several dollars in San Antonio, which never before had a significant manufacting sector.  Serving the new megaplant is one of the nation's larger industrial supplier parks hosting of train of new supplier and support companies that came in along with Toyota.  A real industrial coup worthy of mention for a small-time city.

After that, it's slim pickings, though you can be sure most anything named "Alamo _______" is somehow based here. We always get a laugh though at how the home-grown Pace company, nationally known for its top-selling Pace Picante Sauce and brilliantly funny national commercials about cowboys complaining of inferior salsa being made by city-slickers in yankee New York City, was ultimately bought up by a company based in New York City. Neeew Yawk Citee! Git' a rope!

[coolotter88 2]

The laser was invented in the town I live in. now who/which company invented the laser?

The C programming language was also created

you owe everything to this company in my town...what is it?

[brancra 1,060]

My town is too small to be home to any major companies. We're lucky to have a furniture store on main street, and a K-Mart on the edge of town.

[KinFreon 0]

Butte, Montana, (where I live) used to be the headquarters for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; which had underground and pit mine operations in Montana and Chile. Sadly, once the Montana mines closed and the Chilean mines were socialized, Anaconda Mining became no more than an environment liability for ARCO, and thus BP.

Today, we're the headquarters for Resodyn (a chemical and biotech company) and Town Pump (a regional conglomerate involved in petroleum refining, gas stations, convenience stores, casinos, car washes, truck stops, and lodging), as well as home to a major silicon manufacturing plant for Norway-based REC. For such a small town, we have a lot of business.

[djrules5454 5]

The Twin Cities as a whole has Target, Best Buy, Medtronic, 3M, Travelers, Nash Finch, Alliant Tech Systems (rocket parts and the like for NASA), Wells Fargo, Northwest Airlines, and Sun Country Airlines, at least off the top of my head. Slightly more detailed page here. Guidant Corp, now part of Boston Scientific, also used to be based here, though the stuff Guidant produces (medical technology, devices, and their research if you really want to know) still is made in the Twin Cities.

[Fairlane500 8]

Well, Newcastle has zip in the way of company headquarters, however, neighboring Bellevue is home to:

Coin Star

Drugstore.com

Eddie Bauer

Expedia

Infospace

Microsoft (Relocating HQ to Bellevue, plus Redmend might as well be Bellevue)

Paccar (Kenworth, Peterbuilt, Foden, etc.)

Symetra (Life insurance)

T-Mobile (Actually in the even-closer neighborhood of Factoria)

QFC (Grocery Stores)

Also, nearby Renton may not be it's headquarters, but it is a major producer of Boeing aircraft. 40% of all commercial planes in the air were built there. (That 737 you fly on. )

[KinFreon 0]

Originally posted by: Fairlane500 Well, Newcastle has zip in the way of company headquarters, however, neighboring Bellevue is home to:

Coin Star

Drugstore.com

Eddie Bauer

Expedia

Infospace

Microsoft (Relocating HQ to Bellevue, plus Redmend might as well be Bellevue)

Paccar (Kenworth, Peterbuilt, Foden, etc.)

Symetra (Life insurance)

T-Mobile (Actually in the even-closer neighborhood of Factoria)

QFC (Grocery Stores)quote>

Don't forget that Redmond also has Nintendo.

[thatmonkeysim 8]

what company especially major electronic company isnt in my area

[Fairlane500 8]

Originally posted by: KinFreon

Don't forget that Redmond also has Nintendo. quote>

 

Well, and then they also have their big distribution center out in North Bend, which is sort of random, but to me that is the more infamous building, and definitely the beggest "HQ" for the town.

[Barbarossa 51]

Since I live in "Silicon Valley", my list is far too long. But I can say we have Oracle, Yahoo, EMC2, Cisco, Sun Micro,, Marvell, AMD, Intel, Apple, eBay and so many more. 3Com used to be here, but moved to Marlborough, MA.

Coolotter: Is it IBM?

Barbarossa