List of Companies of The United States - Former Companies

Former Companies

This list includes former companies and those that were acquired or merged:

  • Adventure International
  • Affiliated Computer Services, acquired by Xerox in 2010
  • Aldus Corp., (merged with Adobe Systems)
  • AlliedSignal, acquired Honeywell and adopted the Honeywell name.
  • American Motors Corporation (AMC)
  • America West Airlines, merged with US Airways in 2005
  • AmeriCredit, acquired by General Motors in 2010.
  • Ameritech, now part of AT&T Inc.
  • Amoco, now part of BP
  • Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
  • Apollo Computer, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989
  • Airborne Express
  • Arbusto Energy
  • Arco, or Atlantic Richfield Company, acquired by BP Amoco
  • Arthur Andersen
  • AT&T Corporation, acquired by SBC Communications (now AT&T Inc.)
  • AT&T Wireless, acquired by Cingular
  • Avalon Hill, acquired by Hasbro
  • Bell Labs, largely acquired by Alcatel-Lucent
  • Bell Atlantic, now part of Verizon Communications
  • BellSouth, acquired by AT&T Inc.
  • Boston Manufacturing Company
  • Butler International
  • Cingular, now part of AT&T Inc.
  • Coleco Inc. (Connecticut Leather Company)
  • Columbia Records, now part of Sony
  • Compaq, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002
  • CommWorks Corporation acquired by UTStarcom in 2003
  • Connectix Corp.
  • Conoco, now part of ConocoPhillips
  • Continental Airlines, merged with United Airlines in 2010
  • CSK Auto, acquired by O'Reilly
  • Data Resources Inc. (DRI)
  • Digital Equipment Corporation, acquired by Compaq in 1998 (now part of Hewlett-Packard)
  • Enron
  • Esso (S.O.) - renamed Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil
  • Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil
  • Fox Film Corporation, forerunner of 20th Century Fox
  • GTE, now part of Verizon Communications
  • Gulf Oil
  • Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, acquired in 1956 by the Continental Can Company
  • IGN Entertainment Inc., formerly Snowball Inc., now owned by News Corp.
  • Infocom Inc.
  • Kozmo.com
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Lighthouse Design, taken over by Sun Microsystems in 1996
  • Maxis Software Inc., taken over by EA in 1997
  • Macromedia, taken over by Adobe Systems in 2005
  • McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing
  • Merrill Lynch, acquired by Bank of America at year-end 2008
  • Nabisco (National Biscuit Company), acquired by Kraft
  • Nashua Manufacturing Company
  • Netscape, now part of Time Warner
  • NYNEX, now part of Verizon Communications
  • Oakley, Inc., acquired by Luxottica Group S.p.A.
  • Orange Micro
  • Pacific Bell, now part of AT&T Inc.
  • PageNet
  • Palm, Inc., was split into PalmOne, Inc. and PalmSource, Inc.
  • Pan American World Airways
  • PeopleSoft, acquired by Oracle Corporation
  • Phillips Petroleum Company, now part of ConocoPhillips
  • Rockwell International
  • Sara Lee Corporation, acquired by Mexican bakery giant Grupo Bimbo
  • Siebel Systems, acquired by Oracle Corporation
  • Sierra Entertainment Inc. (formerly Sierra On-Line)
  • Southern New England Telephone, now part of AT&T Inc.
  • Southwestern Bell or SBC Communications, now called AT&T Inc.
  • Standard Oil
  • Standard Oil of Indiana, later became Amoco, still later acquired by BP
  • Standard Oil of Ohio, or Sohio, now part of BP
  • Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle Corporation
  • Texaco, now part of Chevron Corporation
  • TSR, Inc., acquired and discontinued
  • Union Carbide, now part of Dow Chemical Company
  • Universal Studios, now part of NBCUniversal (controlled by General Electric)
  • Unocal Corporation (Unocal), acquired by Chevron Corporation
  • US WEST, now part of Qwest
  • Wachovia, now part of Wells Fargo
  • Washington Mutual, now part of JPMorgan Chase
  • Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), now Global Insight
  • WorldCom, renamed MCI

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