This is a list of company towns.
See the category Company towns for an unannotated list of articles. See the category Socialist planned cities for an unannotated list of articles.
Europe
Belgium
Louvain-la-Neuve, home of the Université Catholique de Louvain
Czech Republic Zlín, original headquarters of Bata Shoes company Zruč nad Sázavou, Central Bohemia region (Bata came in 1939) Sezimovo Ústí
Denmark
Billund, home of LEGO's International Headquarters. Bjerringbro, home of Grundfos' International headquarters. Nordborg, home of Danfoss' International headquarters. Struer, home of Bang & Olufsen' International headquarters.
France
Cité ouvrière at Mulhouse Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), home of the chocolate factory owned by the Menier Family Sochaux-Montbéliard (Doubs), home of Peugeot Villeneuvette (Hérault), mill town owned by Jules Maistre Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire), forge town developed by Eugène and Adolphe Schneider. Hayange and Jœuf, blast furnaces towns, fiefdoms of De Wendel family. Thumeries (Nord), home of the sugar factory previously owned by the Béghin Family
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 Eisenhüttenstadt Schwedt Halle-Neustadt Wolfen-Nord, now in Bitterfeld-Wolfen Hoyerswerda
Hungary Dunaújváros Tiszaújváros Petőfibánya
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 Colleferro, Lazio. Built in the 1912 by Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino for company's workers of the factory located in the neighbourhood of the city. Corte di Cadore, Borca di Cadore, Veneto Metanopoli, San Donato Milanese, Lombardy. Built by Enrico Mattei for Eni's workers. Rosignano Solvay, Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany. Built by Solvay for company's workers. Villaggio ANIC, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna
Moldova
Dnestrovsc, developed by Moldavskaya GRES
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 Barentsburg, mining town run by Arktikugol Grumant, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol Longyearbyen, former mining company town run by Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Ny-Ålesund, former mining, now research town run by Kings Bay Pyramiden, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol Sveagruva, mining town run by Store Norske Rjukan, former Norsk Hydro company town
Poland Nowa Huta in Kraków Giszowiec and Nikiszowiec in Katowice Stalowa Wola and Nowa Dęba in the Central Industrial Region (Poland) Kawęczyn (historically, until 1944), now part of WarsawEncyklopedia Warszawy. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 1994, p. 328–329. ISBN 83-01-08836-2.
Ukraine Sievierodonetsk Pripyat
Russia
Iron and steel industry: Magnitogorsk
Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel): Norilsk Monchegorsk Zapolyarny Nikel
Iron mining: Kovdor Olenegorsk
Non-metal mineral extraction and processing: Apatity Kirovsk
Oil and gas: Surgut Nizhnevartovsk Nefteyugansk Novy Urengoy
Petrochemical industry: Kstovo Kirishi
Textile industry Ivanovo – the "city of brides" 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 Partizánske (formerly Baťovany), founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company (partly out of an existing local municipality and its cadastre) Svit, founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company
United Kingdom
North America
Canada See List of company towns in 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
Kumarapatnam, Karnataka, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. A small town developed solely due to two large scale units of Grasim Industries (textiles). Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. The town economy is mostly dependent on the 4 large scale units of Grasim Industries (textiles). Kansbahal, Orissa, developed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital etc. all being established and maintained by L&T's heavy engineering works. Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, developed by Tata Group. Kailasapuram, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu developed by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital, Stadium, open air theaters etc. all being established and maintained by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
Indonesia
Tembagapura, Papua developed by PT Freeport Indonesia (subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan)
Japan Hokkaido Muroran, Hokkaido – Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation Muroran Tomakomai, Hokkaido – Oji Paper Company Tomakomai Asahikawa, Hokkaido – Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. Asahikawa
Tohoku district Nikaho, Akita – TDK Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima – Fujitsu Tohoku
Kanto district Hitachi, Ibaraki and Hitachinaka, Ibaraki – Hitachi Kashima, Ibaraki – Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Yaita, Tochigi – Sharp Corporation Ota, Gunma – Fuji Heavy Industries Gunma Oizumi, Gunma – SanyoTokyo Noda, Chiba – Kikkoman Urayasu, Chiba – The Oriental Land Company, Tokyo Disney Resort Kimitsu, Chiba – Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Kimitsu Kita, Tokyo – Oji Paper Company A foundation place and a research institute exist. Fuchu, Tokyo – Toshiba Fuchu Minamiashigara, Kanagawa and Kaisei, Kanagawa – Fujifilm Hino, Tokyo – Hino Motors
Chubu district Kurobe, Toyama – YKK Komatsu, Ishikawa – Komatsu Limited Suwa, Nagano – Epson Iwata, Shizuoka – Yamaha Toyota City, Japan – Toyota Kariya, Aichi – Toyota Industries, Denso, Aisin Seiki Co., Toyota Auto Body, Co. Ltd., and Toyota Boshoku Tahara, Aichi – Toyota Tahara Tokoname, Aichi – INAX Suzuka, Mie – Honda
Kinki district Ikeda, Osaka – Daihatsu Moriguchi, Osaka and Daitō, Osaka – Sanyo Kadoma, Osaka – Panasonic Aioi, Hyōgo – IHI, Harima Ayabe, Kyoto – Gunze Limited
Chugoku district Hiezu, Tottori – Oji Paper Company Yonago Tamano, Okayama – Mitsui E&S Fukuyama, Hiroshima – JFE Steel Corporation Fuchu, Hiroshima、Bofu, Yamaguchi – Mazda Ube, Yamaguchi – Ube Industries Iwakuni, Yamaguchi – Mitsui Chemicals Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi – Taiheiyo Cement
Shikoku district Naruto, Tokushima – Otsuka Pharmaceutical Anan, Tokushima – Nichia Shikokuchūō, Ehime – Daio Paper Corporation – Ehime Paper Mfg. Co.. Niihama, Ehime – Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
Kyushu district KitaKyushu, Fukuoka (Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyūshū) – Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Toto Omuta, Fukuoka – Mitsui Kurume, Fukuoka – Bridgestone Kanda, Fukuoka – Nissan Motor Company・Nissan Shatai Kyushu、Toyota Kyushu Tosu, Saga – Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Nagasaki, Nagasaki – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries、Mitsubishi Electric Sasebo, Nagasaki – Sasebo Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Yatsushiro, Kumamoto – Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. Yashiro Minamata, Kumamoto – Chisso Nagasu, Kumamoto – Japan Marine United Corporation Nakatsu, Oita – Daihatsu Kyushu Nobeoka, Miyazaki – Asahi Kasei Nichinan, Miyazaki – Oji Paper Company Nichinan
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.
Vietnam VinCity by Vincom Group.
Australia
Cabramurra, New South Wales, built as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme Jabiru, Northern Territory, built for the Ranger Uranium Mine Leinster, Western Australia, BHP mining town, closed community Moomba, South Australia, built for gas processing Mount Beauty, Victoria and Bogong Village, established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, built for workers at the Alcan Gove Alumina Refinery and mining operation, operated by Rio Tinto Roxby Downs, South Australia, built for Olympic Dam mine Useless Loop, Western Australia, Shark Bay Resources, Solar Salt Operations Yallourn, Victoria, now demolished, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for workers at the Yallourn Power Station
West Asia
Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company Awali, home of the Bahrain Petroleum Company
Iran Naft Shahr, a city established for oil well drilling. Mahshahr, a petroleum exporting port. Salafchegan, an industrial city Alborz Industrial City
References
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