List of company towns

This is a list of company towns.

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Europe

Belgium

Czech Republic
  • Zlín, original headquarters of Bata Shoes company
  • Zruč nad Sázavou, Central Bohemia region (Bata came in 1939)
  • Sezimovo Ústí

Denmark

France

Germany
  • Leverkusen, home of the Bayer AG (?)
  • Wolfsburg, built to house Volkswagen workers
  • Sindelfingen, home of Mercedes-Benz's largest production plant, the Mercedes-Benz Museum, Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio, and its Customer Center. Sindelfingen is a suburb of Stuttgart, headquarters of Mercedes-Benz.

Former GDR

Hungary

Ireland
  • Rochfortbridge (County Westmeath), built by public company OPW in the 1840s as part of famine relief on the site of an original village and rebuilt 110 years later by Bord na Móna during the 1950s for its employees, the more modern phase being designed by architect Frank Gibney.

Italy

Transnistria (Moldova)

Netherlands
  • Batadorp, Best municipality, developed by Bata Shoes
  • Heveadorp, Renkum municipality, developed by rubber manufacturing company Hevea
  • Philipsdorp, Eindhoven municipality, developed by Philips. Philips employed about 40.000 people in Eindhoven in the mid sixties.
  • Radio Kootwijk, Apeldoorn municipality, developed by Dutch P.T.T.

Norway

Poland

Ukraine

Russia
Kstovo's Peace Square and the WWII monument, sponsored by its city's company LUKOIL.

Iron and Steel industry:

Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel):

Iron mining:

Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:

Oil and gas:

Petrochemical industry:

Textile industry

Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразующее предприятие" (gradoobrazuyushcheye predpriyatiye, literally 'the enterprise that has created the town') to refer to the industrial facility - these days often part of a larger company such as LUKOIL or Norilsk Nickel - that is the city's main employer and the main source of funding for the city's budget.

Slovakia

United Kingdom
Main article: Model village

North America

Canada

Dominican Republic
  • La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul sugar and real estate empire).

Mexico
  • Ciudad Pemex, Tabasco built around a PEMEX plant.

United States

See List of company towns in the United States

Asia

India

Vikroli, Mumbai, earlier Bombay, developed by Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Sakharwadi, Maharashtra, developed by Walchand Industries Kirloskarwadi, Maharashtra developed by L.K.Kirloskar

Indonesia

Japan
Hokkaido
Tohoku district
Kanto district
Chubu district
Kinki district
Chugoku district
Shikoku district
Kyushu district

Malaysia
  • Proton City, Tanjung Malim, Perak developed by Proton Holding Berhad

Pakistan
  • Batapur, a residence area for labour workers in the Bata shoe factory.
  • Steel Town, a residential area for employees of Pakistan Steel Mills.

Australia

Middle East
  • Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
  • Awali, home of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO).
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References
  1. Curl, James Stevens (2006). A dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture (2. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198606788. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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