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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company was the world's largest public corporation in 2010 by revenue.[3] The...

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. It is majority owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software...

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company headquartered in 595 Market Street in San Francisco, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit card and debit cards. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set...

Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAB)(NYSE: VNV), short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television. As of 2010, it is the world's fourth-largest media conglomerate, behind The Walt Disney...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ, NASDAQ: VZ) is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It started in 1983 as Bell Atlantic (based in Philadelphia) with a footprint covering New Jersey to Virginia and NYNEX (based in New York...

Vectren Corporation NYSE: VVC is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. Through its utility subsidiaries (Indiana Gas Company, Southern Indiana Gas and Electric, and Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio), the company distributes natural gas to approximately one million...

ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors. The privately held company has approximately...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with activities spanning the length of the pharmaceutical product pipeline, from target identification through to clinical trials and marketing. Most of its activity has been in collaboration with much larger pharmaceutical firms, though some of...

Verbatim Americas, LLC is a US company that markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation of Japan and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. One of the world's leading image and data storage media technology developers, Verbatim...

VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) is an American apparel corporation. VF corporation sells jeanswear, intimate apparel, daypacks, and workwear. The corporate headquarters are in Greensboro, North Carolina. The company was established first as Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Company in...

VECO Corporation was an Alaska-based oil pipeline service and construction company until its purchase in September 2007 by CH2M HILL. As of that date, the VECO Corporation ceased to exist. Founded in 1968, the company grew to become a major player in the Alaskan oil industries' support. VECO...

The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $1.8 trillion[1] in assets. It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to individual and institutional investors in the United States and abroad...

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power based in San Antonio, Texas, United States.[1] The company owns and operates 14 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the...

Uwajimaya Uwajimaya was founded in 1928 by Fujimatsu Moriguchi of Yawatahama, Japan, in Tacoma, Washington, where he sold fishcakes and other goods from his truck to Japanese farmers, loggers and fishermen at work sites. Moriguchi named his company Uwajima-ya after the town of Uwajima (Ehime...

The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company is the world's tenth largest steel producer ranked by sales (see list of steel...

Company Profile of Universal Studios ; Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in...

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in the United Technologies Building in Hartford, Connecticut.[1] It researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines...

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), colloquially referred to as UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world...

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a global provider of information technology services and programs. Unisys has a deep heritage in the technology industry. The company traces its roots back to the founding...

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) (NYSE: UNP), headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman. UP's route map covers most of the central and western United States west of Chicago and New Orleans...