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  2. List of company towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bynum, North Carolina, formerly owned by J.M. Odell Manufacturing Company (town purchased by the county in the 1970s) Canton, North Carolina, a company town built-up by the Champion International Paper Company; Kannapolis, North Carolina, owned by the Cannon Mills Company; Saxapahaw, North Carolina, formerly owned by Sellers Manufacturing Company

  3. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .bcbs .com. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States -based federation with 33 independent and locally-operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 115 million people as of 2022. [ 2][ 3] It was formed in 1982 from the merger of its ...

  4. For-profit corporation - Wikipedia

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    A for-profit corporation is usually an organization operating in the private sector which sets aims that eventually help the organization itself. This kind of a company makes shares of ownership available to the general public. The purchasers of those shares then become the company's shareholders; shareholders have bought a portion of ownership ...

  5. History of corporate law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    New Jersey followed New York's lead in 1816, when it enacted its first corporate law. [ 3] In 1837, Connecticut adopted a general corporation statute that allowed for the incorporation of any corporation engaged in any lawful business. [ 3] Delaware did not enact its first corporation law until 1883.

  6. Duke Energy - Wikipedia

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    Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company ranked as the 141st largest company in the United States in 2024 – its highest-ever placement on the Fortune 500 list.

  7. Kaiser Permanente - Wikipedia

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    Kaiser Permanente closed health plans in Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham [54] in North Carolina four years later. The organization also sold its unprofitable Northeast division in 2000. The Ohio division was sold to Catholic Health Partners in 2013. [55] In 1995, Kaiser Permanente celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as a public health plan. Two ...

  8. American business history - Wikipedia

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    American business history is a history of business, entrepreneurship, and corporations, together with responses by consumers, critics, and government, in the United States from colonial times to the present. In broader context, it is a major part of the Economic history of the United States, but focuses on specific business enterprises.

  9. Goodrich Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Goodrich Corporation, formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, was an American manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Co. by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, the company name was changed to the "B.F. Goodrich Company" in 1880, to BFGoodrich in the 1980s, and to "Goodrich Corporation" in 2001.