List of company towns

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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[]

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)[]

  • Dnestrovsk, developed by Moldavskaya GRES

Netherlands[]

  • Batadorp, Best municipality, developed by Bata Shoes
  • Heveadorp, Renkum municipality, developed by rubber manufacturing company
  • , 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[]

  • 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

  • , 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[]

Japan[]

Hokkaido
Tohoku district
  • Nikaho, Akita - TDK
  • Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima - Fujitsu Tohoku
Kanto district
Chubu district
Kinki district
Chugoku district
Shikoku district
Kyushu district

Malaysia[]

  • 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[]

Middle East[]

  • 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 [3]

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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ http://alborzic.ir/en-US/history
  • Buildings of Ireland [1]
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