

Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, India.Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Tokyo.Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Tokyo.LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Paris.Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd., Beijing.European Aeronautic Defence &Space Co., Leiden, Netherlands.Carrefour SA, Boulonge Billancort, France.BHP Billiton Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.

companies also listed alphabetically with headquarters. The following is a list of 75 major non-U.S. Walt Disney Co., The (DIS) Burbank, Calif.Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB) Irving, Texas.Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) New Brunswick, N.J.Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Abbot Park, Ill.Companies, listed alphabetically with ticker symbols and headquarters. Use “the” lowercase unless it is part of the company’s formal name.īelow is a list of 125 major U.S. Use an ampersand only if it is part of the company’s formal name but not otherwise in place of “and.” For example,ĭo not use symbols such as exclamation points, plus signs, or asterisks that form contrived spelling that might distract or confuse a reader. For example, “BMW.” Other should be uppercase and lowercase. For example, “eBay.” But capitalize the first letter if it begins a sentence.ĭo not use all-capital-letter names unless the letters are individually pronounced. Generally, follow the spelling and capitalization preferred by the company. If more than one company is listed, each should be in a self-contained paragraph below the dash. -Disney’s full corporate name is The Walt Disney Co.-United Airlines is a unit of United Continental Holdings Inc.When the full corporate name is NOT in the story, it should be included in a self-contained paragraph separated from the bottom of the story by a dash.


However, the corporate name might be irrelevant in a story about a political candidate’s appearance at a local retail store. For example, include the corporate name in a story on an earnings report or in a story on a plane crash that could affect the airline’s stock price. For example, “Costco” is acceptable for “Costco Wholesale Corp.,” but it should contain the full name somewhere in the body of any story in which the subject matter could affect a company’s business. The formal name need not be used on first reference.
