List of fictional companies

This is a list of fictional companies. These are nonexistent companies created for dramatic or literary purposes in a story, usually so the author or producer either is not giving free advertising to a real company, or (more likely) does not get sued for insulting a real company.

Biomedical

Biocyte Pharmaceuticals - Impossible II
Biosyn - Rival to Jurassic Park builder InGen in the novels
DHARMA Initiative, The - Lost
Drug Co. - Lewis's employer on The Drew Carey Show
G-Corporation - Tekken
InGen - Creators of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and its sequels
Manticore - Dark Angel
Merrick BioTech - The Island
Project Genesis Five - Galax-Arena by Gillian Rubinstein
SiNtek - SiN and SiN Episodes
Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
VersaLife Corporation - Deus Ex and Invisible War
Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals - Grand Theft Auto 2 and Grand Theft Auto III

Conglomerates and multinationals

ARCAM Corporation - Spriggan
Ankh-Sto Associates - Discworld
Arasaka - Cyberpunk 2020
The Arnco. Group - The Bromeliad
AT & Love - The Kids in the Hall
Axon - company from the Unreal series of video games, researches weapon technology for the Terran Colonial Authority
Biffco - Owned by Biff in alternate timeline including nuclear power plant and toxic waste disposal - Back to the Future II
Blue Sun Corporation - in Firefly
Cavendish Foods plc - international grocery, catering and food manufacturing company - To The Manor Born
CCA (Communications Corporation of America) - Network
Central Services - Brazil
CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) - Frank Herbert's Dune
Co-Corp - Wonder Showzen Co-Corp buys up nature.
Conglom-O - Rocko's Modern Life
Consolidated Companies, Inc. - Nine to Five
Continental Corp - Sports Night
Continental Flange - Arnie (TV show starring Herschel Bernardi and Sue Anne Langdon)
Cyberdyne Systems - the computer robotics company responable for the creation of SkyNet, hence the dystopian future world of The Terminator.
Cybus Industries - Alternate universe creators of the Cybermen in Doctor Who
dataDyne - Perfect Dark
The Denmark Corporation - Michael Almareyda's Hamlet
Dryco - Jack Womack's Dryco novels
ENCOM - The software and game manufacturing company in TRON
Energy Corporation - also Luxury Corporation, Transport Corporation, Housing Corporation, Food Corporation, Rollerball (1975)
Engulf & Devour - Silent Movie
Eurocorp - Syndicate Wars
Excalicorp - Arthur, King of Time and Space
FrobozzCo International - Zork
General Technics - Stand on Zanzibar
Genom Corporation - Bubblegum Crisis
Globex Corporation - The Simpsons
Globo-Chem - "We own everything, so you don't have to!", multinational corporation, home of "Pit Pat," the non-threatening, pansexual spokescreature, Mr. Show with Bob and David
Grand and Son Holdings Limited - conglomerate, The Magic Christian
The Hanso Foundation - ''Lost
International Services - operator of prisons, mental institutions, schools, monasteries and convents (Quarantine)
Izanagi Corporation - company from the Unreal series of video games
Kanzaki Zaibatsu - Sakura Wars
Liandri - ruthless company from the Unreal series of video games, started as the Liandri Mining Company
LexCorp - Lex Luthor's company in the Superman universe
LuthorCorp - Lionel Luthor's company in the TV series Smallville.
Maas Industries - Edge of Chaos
Manchurian Global - The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Meas - The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek
Mishima Zaibatsu - Tekken
Momcorp - Futurama
North Central Positronics - Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
Nishitsu Corporation - Japanese zaibatsu or conglomerate, The Destroyer series of novels
Octopus Corporation - Fierce Creatures
Omni Consumer Products (OCP) - RoboCop films
Pentex & Subsidiaries - White Wolf, Inc.
Persona Century Corporation - Darkside Blues
Phayder Corporation - company from the Unreal series of video games, creators of the Necris process
RAMJAC Corporation - Jailbird and other novels by Kurt Vonnegut
Salamander Syndicate - War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
Scrooge McDuck's various companies
Shigamatsu Han - Rollover
Shin-Ra Company - Final Fantasy VII
Shipstone, Inc. - Friday by Robert A. Heinlein
Shitsu-Tonka - DAAS Kapital
Smart Brain - Kamen Rider 555
Sombra Corporation - Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
Spacing Guild - Interstellar travel and banking monopoly. - Frank Herbert's Dune
Stark Industries/Stark Enterprises/Stark International/Stark-Fujikawa - Iron Man comic books
Sto Plains Holdings - Discworld
Supergiant Conglomerated Corporation - This Modern World
Tessier-Ashpool S.A. - Neuromancer
Thorn Industries - Omen II & The Final Conflict
Trade Federation - shipping conglomerate, Star Wars
Transcorp - Stephen King's Everything's Eventual and The Dark Tower series
TransGlobal Energy from the video game Act of War
TriOptimum Corporation - System Shock
Techno Union - technological conglomerate, Attack of the Clones
Trident Corporation - Spriggan
Union Broadcasting Systems (UBS-TV) - Network
Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil, Apocalypse
United Amalgamated Conglomerated Holdings - Johnny and the Dead
United Holdings (Holdings) Ltd. - Good Omens
The Very Big Corporation of America - The Meaning of Life
Wayne Enterprises - Bruce Wayne's company featured in Batman
Wentworth Industries - Parent company of Barnes Wentworth Oil, Dallas
Weyland-Yutani - Alien movies
Whitmore Industries - The Lost Empire
World Economic Consortium - No Regret
The Wolfbridge Group - Knots Landing
World Company - Les Guignols de l'Info
Xanatos Enterprises - Gargoyles
Zik Zak - Max Headroom
ZiffCorp - owned by Artie Ziff, The Simpsons
Ziktor Industries - VR Troopers
Zorg Corporation - firearms, spacecraft, cab companies; The Fifth Element

Construction

Big Bud Dean Constuction, Heathers (Movie)
Bluth Company - housing, Arrested Development
Brande Industries - industrial/construction contractor, Legion of Super-Heroes
Cloverleaf Industries - highway construction, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Drudge Industries, Inc. - Mike Motley's workplace in the classic comic strip Motley's Crew
Durden Demolition - "If it says Durden, it's going down," Transmetropolitan
Goto Engineering - mining/excavation, Cryptonomicon
Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. - construction of protective habitat domes, in several Honorverse novels by David Weber
Greenleaf Construction - The Talented Mr. Ripley
K & B Construction - Home Improvement (TV Show)
Montague Construction - Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet
Ptaclusp Associates, Necropolitan Builders to the Dynasties - pyramid and monument construction, later moved into aquaducts, Discworld
Slate Construction Company - a subsidiary/sibling company of Slate Rock & Gravel, also headed by Mr. Slate, The Flintstones
Wesayso Development Corporation - Dinosaurs
Widmore Construction - Lost
Witt Construction Company - Colossal Cave Adventure (Computer Game)

Energy, communication, and utilities

Fission Chips - The Eternity Code
Grand Trunk Semaphore Company - Discworld
Monsters, Inc. - energy utility, Monsters, Inc.
Monopolated Edison aka "Mon-Ed" - Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
Monopolated Light and Power - New York City utility company, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Myishi Corporation - The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Niagular - cellphone company, The Simpsons
Petrox Oil Company, King Kong (1976)
The Phone Company ("TPC")- The President's Analyst
Phonetix- Cellphone company, Artemis Fowl series
SewerCom - phone company serving sewer mutants, Futurama
Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant - Shelbyville's power plant, The Simpsons
Springfield Nuclear Power Plant - work place of Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Strickland Propane - King of the Hill
Thatherton Fuels - rival of Strickland Propane, King of the Hill
Water and Power - Tank Girl
Western Gas & Electric Company - Dirty Harry: The Enforcer

Entertainment

Bad Wolf Corporation - owners of the GameStation (formerly Satellite 5), Doctor Who episodes "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways"
The Benny Vandergast Memorial Theater (later the Muppet Theater) - The Muppet Show
Big Red Records - The Five Heartbeats
Boogalow International Music - The Apple
Carver Media Group - Tomorrow Never Dies
Century of the Fruitbat Moving Pictures - Discworld
Consumer Recreation Services - creators of The Game
The Dark Agency - Sailor V
Death Records - Phantom of the Paradise
Delicious Records - Half & Half
Delos - amusement parks, Westworld & Futureworld
Double Z Studios - Zig Zag's porn studio in Sabrina Online and other works. "Two Z's and Triple X"
The Dysk Theatre - Discworld (parodies the Globe Theatre)
Engulf and Devour Corporation - holding company, Silent Movie
FunFun Mountain - FoxTrot comic strip
FüxWorld - a fictional parody of the FOX TV network (website)
Galaxy Broadcasting System - a major television network in the Superman comics
The Games Federation - producer of several violent TV contests including The Running Man
Ginga TV (also known as Galaxy TV) - the television network of the Sailor Moon universe
Happyland - amusement park, DC Comics
Haly's Circus - former home of the Flying Graysons, DC Comics
Itchy & Scratchy International - parent company of all things Itchy & Scratchy, The Simpsons
* Itchy & Scratchy Land - amusement park
* Euro Itchy & Scratchy Land - amusement park, Europe
* Itchy & Scratchy Productions - animation studio
Kaiba Corporation - Arenas for the game "Duel Monsters" and later the Duel Disc, after Seto Kaiba became president, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Krustylu Studios - Krusty the Klown's production company, The Simpsons, a pun on Desilu Productions
Luna Park, amusement park on the Moon, Futurama
Mammoth Pictures, Jed's studio on The Beverly Hillbillies, which employs Larry Chapman and Dash Riprock.
Maroon Cartoons - animation studio, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
McMartin Records - Grace of my Heart
Misfit Music - Jem
Monumental Pictures - movie studio, Singin' in the Rain
Mooby Corp. - Owns Mooby the Cow and his Mooby Fun-Time Hour, a nationally syndicated show. Spinoffs include 16 records, two feature films, eight prime-time specials, videotapes, at least one CD, Mooby Magazine, and "MoobyWorld" theme parks on both coasts; there is also a Mooby's fast-food chain - Dogma and Clerks II
Novacom - Adventures in Odyssey
Parallel Universal Studios - Futurama
Past-O-Rama - theme park, Futurama
Phillips Broadcasting - television production, The Critic
Pleasure Paradise Hotel - Biffs alternate timeline - Back To The Future II
Polymer Records - This is Spinal Tap
PolyStar Pictures - movie studio, The Simpsons episode "Beyond Blunderdome"
Reckless Ted's Funland - amusement park, Futurama
Ryan Entertainment - movie studio, Mulholland Dr.
Shields Pictures - movie studio, The Bad and the Beautiful
Sir Putt-A-Lot's Merrie Olde Fun Centre - miniature golf, The Simpsons
Spaceland - amusement park, Cowboy Bebop
Starlight Music - Jem
Tangiers Casino - Used in the movie Casino and in the TV Series Crime Scene Investigation
30th Century Fox - Futurama, a variant of 20th Century Fox that serves as the show's end credit
Union Broadcasting Systems (UBS-TV) - Network
Verner Bros. - movie studio, DC Comics esp. Blue Devil, a parody of Warner Bros.
Video Aces - music video production, Tapeheads
Wally World - amusement park, National Lampoon's Vacation
Wonderworld- amusement park, Beverly Hills Cop III
World Wide Studios - movie studio, The Muppet Movie

Financial

Ankh Futures (Financial Advisors) - Discworld
Ankh-Morpork Mercentile Credit Bank - Discworld
Bank of Springfield - The Simpsons
Bastard Bank - The Comedy Company
Boro National Bank - Rollover
Big Apple Bank - Futurama
Cabbage Growers' Co-Operative Bank - Discworld
Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills - The Beverly Hillbillies
Eastpac - Fast Forward and commonly used as a generic parody or hypothetical bank in Australia (for example, in law school exams)
El Banco Corrupto - Vice City
First New York Bank - Rollover
Globodyne - Dick Harper's place of employment in "Fun with Dick and Jane"
Grayson Moorhead Securities - principled but incompetent investment firm, Saturday Night Live
Gringotts - Harry Potter
Gross Co-Operation - Fast Forward
Mulctuary Money Management - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Nakatomi Trading Corporation - Die Hard, Die Harder
Rive Droit Bank - The Tick animated series
Savings-R-Us - Larry Gonick's Attack of the Smart Pies
Strathclyde Savings Bank - City Lights sitcom
Thrift Bank - Discworld
Western World Funding Corporation - consortium of banks and insurance companies, Network
Whitehall and Marks - The Producers
Wu-Tang Financial - Chappelle's Show

Fronts

Ace Tomato Company - CIA front, Spies Like Us
Auto Plastics - Front for the first Auton invasion in the 1970 Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space
Chalky the Troll's Hollow Statue Export Company - Badly considered "front" for a smuggling ring, Discworld
Cherry Poppers Ice Cream Company - A front which sells ice cream laced with illegal drugs so that customers come back for more; Vice City.
Centrution International Advertising and Creative Ideas Animation - fronts for the CIA in Alex Rider books.
Credit Dauphine - Front for SD-6 in Alias
Drax Corporation - Front for Hugo Drax in Moonraker
Eris Tomato Juice Company - Illuminatus! Trilogy
Extensive Enterprises - Cobra front corporation, G.I. Joe
Farrell Plastics - Front for the second Auton invasion in the 1971 Doctor Who serial Terror of the Autons
Flowers By Irene - front for the FBI in The Simpsons
Fronty's Meat Market - "Not a front since 2997" - Front for the robot Mafia, Futurama
Genco Pura Olive Oil - Front for the Corleone family in The Godfather
Globex Corporation - Front for Hank Scorpio in the Simpsons James Bond spoof episode "You Only Move Twice".
The Hidalgo Trading Company - The false name used on Doc Savage's secret hangar on the Hudson River.
International Electromatics - Front for the Cyberman invasion in the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Invasion. Also a front for the Cybus Corporation in the 2006 episode Rise of the Cybermen.
The Legitimate Businessmen's Club - Front for Fat Tony's Mafia family, The Simpsons
Montana Management - Money laundering company in Scarface
Neodyne Industries - Front to launch a nuclear satellite into space, Time Crisis 2
Nigerian Development Bank - Larry Gonick's Attack of the Smart Pies, in a tribute to a famous e-mail spam
Osato Chemicals - Front for S.P.E.C.T.R.E., in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice
Paper Street Soap Company - Tyler Durden's front for Operation Mayhem in Fight Club
PlayTronics - Sneakers
Red Horse Garage - Front for Project Cadmus, Superman comics
Scolex Industries - Manufacturing turned criminal front, Inspector Gadget movie
Soon Shine Sun's second-hand clothes shop - Front for the History Monks, Discworld
The Leaning Tower - Front for Stephen King's The Dark Tower
Transworld Consortium - Front for MI6 in later James Bond stories, succeeded Universal Export
Two Guys from Quantico - Pizza delivery, front for the FBI in The Simpsons.
United Cake Bakers - front for the Upright Citizens Brigade
Universal Export - Front for MI6 in various James Bond stories
Virtucon - communications/criminal front, Austin Powers movies
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems - alien front, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, starship production yard on later Star Trek series and movies.

Manufacturing

Automotive

Altra Automotive - from Traffic, by Jacques Tati.
Amalgamated Motors - The Munsters
AntiChrysler - Futurama
Bethlehem Motor Company - auto manufacturer and conglomerate, The Betsy
Chrysalis Motors - auto manufacturer and monopolizer, from PC game, Fallout 2, probably spoofing Chrysler
Fourth Reich Motors - auto manufacturers, The Simpsons, a pun on the Third Reich, of course, but might well be a reference to German manufacturers' dominance of the luxury car market: Audi (part of Volkswagen Group), BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche
Keedsler Motors - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Kumatsu Motors - auto manufacturers, The Simpsons
Powell Motors - auto manufacturers, The Simpsons
Maibatsu - Japanese auto manufacturer, Grand Theft Auto video game series (specifically, Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas), probably spoofing Mitsubishi
Takuro - Japanese auto manufacturer in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, maker of the Spirit, a compact car similar to the Honda Civic.

Robots and androids

Bigweld Industries - Robots
Cain Labs - Reploids, Mega Man X
Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - eventual creation of SkyNet; The Terminator.
Cybertronics - Androids and Robotics A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Cybot Galactica - Protocol droids, Star Wars
DivaDroid International - Mechanoids such as Kryten, Red Dwarf
Eye World - Made eyes for Replicants in Blade Runner
Genesis Android Company - Stand Alone Complex
Industrial Automaton - Astromechs, R2-D2, Star Wars
Kurusugawa Electronics - robots, ToHeart and ToHeart2
Light Labs (Right Labs) - humanoid robots, Mega Man
Macroware Robotics, Inc - miniature robots, Chibi-Robo
Megatech Body Company, Ltd. - full body conversion cyborg body manufacturer, Ghost in the Shell
Mishima Heavy Industries - All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Mom's Friendly Robot Company - Futurama
NorthAm Robotics - Robot servants, Bicentennial Man
Rossum's Universal Robots - androids, R.U.R.
Shinohara Heavy Industries - Mobile Police Patlabor
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Storkways, Inc. - Outlet for custom-fabricated human beings, Somtow Sucharitkul's Mallworld
Tyrell Corporation - Blade Runner
U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men - robotics, Isaac Asimov short stories such as I, Robot, title inspired name of US Robotics real-world company.
Yamtaijika Corporation - Björk's "All Is Full of Love" music video

Spaceships

Chiokis Starship Construction Corporation - spaceship construction, semi-canon Star Trek (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)
Galactic Spacecraft - formerly Trowbridge Helicopter, Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan
General Products - many activities (especially spaceship hulls), Larry Niven's Known Space series
Incom Corporation - manufacturers of the Headhunter and X-Wing starfighters, Star Wars
Corellian Engineering Corporation - Star Wars
Kloratis Drives Corporation of Alpha Centauri - space warp engine manufacturer, semi-canon Star Trek (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)
Kuat Drive Yards - starships/ground assault vehicles, Star Destroyers, Star Wars
Leeding Engines Ltd. - space ship engine manufacturer, semi-canon Star Trek (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)
Nergal Heavy Industries - manufacturer of the ND-001 Nadesico battleship, Martian Successor Nadesico
New World Aircraft Corporation - air-and-space-craft design and manufacturing, Thunderbirds
OTEC - responsible for salvaging and reverse-engineering an alien starship in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Reyes-Mclees Shipyards, where construct the spaceships in Combat Evolved.
Shuvinaaljis Warp Technologies - semi-canon Star Trek (Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise)
Sienar Fleet Systems - starfighters, TIE fighters, Star Wars
Space Dynamics - Arwings in Star Fox and racing machines in F-Zero X
Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards - Starships (Galaxy Class Project) - Canon Star Trek (Star Trek Encyclopaedia)
Amalgamated Spaceship - Spaceship manufacturer, George Johansson's "Destiny of the Universe" series of sci-fi novels.

Toys

B&B Toys - The Groove Tube
Happy-Go-Lucky Toys, Inc. - toy manufacturing, Family Guy
Heartland Play Systems - bought by Globotech Industries, Small Soldiers
Input Inc - Toy Johnny 5 robot manufactures, Short Circuit 2
Mainway - hazardous toys, Saturday Night Live
Okama - maker of the GameSphere, South Park
Videlectrix - video games, Homestar Runner
WarioWare, Inc. - video games, WarioWare
Zevo Toys - Toys

Multiple products

Acme - appears in many works of fiction, most notably in Road Runner cartoons and other Looney Tunes as a manufacturing company
Ajax - similar to Acme, appears in recent Mickey Mouse cartoons as a manufacturing company and services company.^*
Binford Tools - Tool Time, show-within-a-show on Home Improvement.
Capsule Corp. - various products that can be shrunk into pocket-sized capsules, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z
Devon Corporation - Pokémon (Ruby/Sapphire video games and Pokémon Advanced TV show)
Double-Wide Double Wonders (formerly Toddco) - Stroker & Hoop
Gippazoid Novelty Company - Space Quest video game series
The Goliath™ Corporation - "For all you'll ever need."™, Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
Hudsucker Industries - toy manufacturing, The Hudsucker Proxy
KrebStar - The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The Kremling Company - Donkey Kong Country video game series
Nirvana Corp. - manufacturing, Dilbert (TV show)
Omni Consumer Products (OCP) - RoboCop
Piffle Princess Enterprises
* Department stores found in many of CLAMP's manga.
* Toys (specifically Angelic Layer angels and accessories), Angelic Layer
* Developed the Humanoid Computer known as a Persocom, Chobits
Silph Co. - Pokémon (Red/Green/Blue/Yellow and Gold/Silver/Crystal video games, Pokémon Adventures]] manga)
SoroSuub - mineral processing, energy mining and food packaging, Star Wars
Spishak - maker of multiple oddly advertised odd products, Mad TV
TaggeCo - several types of manufacturing, Star Wars
Toddco - several types of home appliances - ''Stroker & Hoop
Zero-One Heavy Industry Corporation - household electric appliances, automotive, computers, medical, etc., The Animatrix - The Second Renaissance

Other

Axis Chemical Co. - Batman (movie)
Barrytron - plastics company, Breakfast of Champions
Blackbury Boot Company - Johnny and the Dead
Bourne Free Kilt Co. - kilt company (used to be stilts), Backyard Football 2006
Buxton Steel - Grace of my Heart
Carry's Candles - Discworld
ClapCo - deadbolt company, Seinfeld season 1 episode "The Robbery"
Chalky the Troll's All Nite Pottery - Discworld
Cogswell Cogs - the Jetsons
Crane Industries - Passions - Soap Opera
Duff Brewing Corporation - The Simpsons
Dunder Mifflin - paper. The Office (US version)
El Dorado Cigarette Company - Family Guy
Equilibrium - the powerful antidepressant Prozium in Equilibrium SF movie
General Forge & Foundry - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
General Services Corporation - "—We Also Walk Dogs" by Robert A. Heinlein
Globocide Corporation - chemical poisons, The Oblongs
Goddard's factory - paper manufacturer in the British ITV drama Where the Heart Is (TV series).
The Handy-Dandy Vacuum Cleaner Company - I Love Lucy
Initech - Office Space
Krustyco - Krusty the Klown merchandising, The Simpsons
Monarch Playing Card Co. - Batman (comics)
Paper Street Soap Company - premium soap, Fight Club
Pharmakom Industries - Johnny Mnemonic SF movie
Rearden Steel - Atlas Shrugged
Roboto Industries - the "tractor beam" device, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Roritor Pharmaceuticals - drugs, Brain Candy
Schlocko - various electronic products, Garfield and Friends
Slugworth Chocolate Inc. - candy, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Soylent Corporation - food products, Soylent Green
Sonky's Rubber Goods - Discworld
Spacely Sprockets - The Jetsons
Spectacular Optics - consumer eyewear, missile guidance systems, and zero light sighting systems, Videodrome
St. Anky's Beer - From Super Troopers movie
Uranus Corporation - The Groove Tube
Vandelay Industries - latex, and latex products, Seinfeld
Wernham Hogg - paper, The Office
Windvexer Paperweight Company - Futurama
Winterchem - chemicals, Rollover
Wonka Industries - chocolate and other confectionery treats, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Military, defense, and weaponry

Admiral Bob's Global Security - Snow Crash
Ammunation - Grand Theft Auto series
Anaheim Electronics - mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor/AEUG supporter, Universal Century Gundam
Armacham Technologies - military contractor and developer of various "super soldier" programs in the computer game F.E.A.R.
Armstech - private developer of Metal Gear REX, Metal Gear Solid
Strategic Naval Research Institute (SNRI) - Mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor, Universal Century Gundam
BLAND Corporation - think-tank, Dr. Strangelove
Burleigh and Stronginthearm - longbow, crossbow and siege-engine manufacturers, Discworld
DHS - Global pharma company in the movie "The Constant Gardener"
Draconian Enterprises - advanced weaponry, robotics, synthetics, owned by Xerokine Caeruleus
General Jim's Defense System - Snow Crash
Globotech Industries - bought Heartland Play Systems, Small Soldiers
Golan Arms - Star Wars
Incom Corp. - Star Wars
IPCA - Military and Information Branch of US Government, "Syphon Filter"
Kaiba Corp - Military weapons and vehicles, before Seto Kaiba became president, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Kenbishi Industries - heavy equipment manufacturer/defense contractor, Stand Alone Complex
Kisaragi - Armored Core series
Koffler & Stock - portmanteau of Heckler und Koch GmbH, Agent Under Fire
Kuat Drive Yards - planetary turbolasers, Star Wars
Meyer-Westlicher - portmanteau of Steyr-Mannlicher, Agent Under Fire
MIP Company - mobile suit and mobile armor manufacturer/defense contractor, Universal Century Gundam
Mirage - Armored Core series
Morgenroete - mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor, Gundam SEED
Munitions Belgique - portmanteau of FN-Herstal, Agent Under Fire
Ng Security Industries - Snow Crash
Nordyne Defense Dynamics - owner of Kwik-E-Mart, The Simpsons
Oscorp Industries - military contractor, Spider-Man (movie)
QT Corporation - Private corporation that received funding from the NSA to develop hypertime technology in the movie Clockstoppers.
Quest Aerospace - military contractor, rival of Oscorp, Spider-Man (movie)
Romefeller Foundation - mobile suit manufactuer for the UESA, Gundam Wing
Science Patrol - Earth defence force, Ultraman
Seburo - small arms manufacturer, a signature company in many of Masamune Shirow's books
Three Bees - company that distributes the drug Dypraxa produced by a pharmaceutical company DHS in the movie "The Constant Gardener"
Trident Corporation - weapons manufacturer and research company, Spriggan
Vault-Tec Technologies - government contractor, mainly known for the planning, development and construction of Vaults in Fallout
Union Aerospace Corporation - defense/energy/biotech, Doom
Versatran Air Craft Division - electrostatic propulsion personal, commercial, and military aircraft, subsidiary of Zero-One, The Animatrix-The Second Renaissance
Viking Arms Co. Limited - weapons, actually a parody of Vickers Armstrong in Tintin's The Broken Ear
X-Com - (eXtra-terrestrial COMbat unit) Company charged with the defense of eath against alien invasion in Microprose's X-Com series of computer games
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems - Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and later also appears in Buckaroo Banzai
Zeonic Company - mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor, Universal Century Gundam
Zimmad Company - mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor, Universal Century Gundam

Mining and petroleum

Amorb Prospecting Division - Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos
Barnes Wentworth Oil - Dallas
Benthic Petroleum - The Abyss, Judgment Day, Twister
Bowel Oil (President, Boyle M. Owl) - Firesign Theatre
Colby Enterprises - oil, Dynasty and The Colbys.
Con-Amalgamate - off world mining, Outland. The same name is given to the company that manufactured the defective life support system mentioned in Capricorn One
Connex - major American petroleum corporation from the movie Syriana
d'Anconia Copper - Atlas Shrugged
Dent Oil - cover for gun smuggling - Beverly Hills Cop II
Denver Carington - oil, Dynasty and The Colbys.
Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc. - mining (?), Congo novel and movie
Ewing Oil, Dallas
Galatron Mining Corporation - Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos
Gas Mining Guild - Freelancer
Gulf and Bradley Petroleum, Bubblegum Crisis, episode 7, "Double Vision." Headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Houghton Oil - The Far Arena
Interplanetary Mining Company - Doctor Who serial Colony in Space and the Virgin New Adventure Lucifer Rising
Jetexas - Giant
Jupiter Mining Corporation - space mining, Red Dwarf
Lexoil - Subsidery of Lexcorp, Superman comics
Lezareno Company - Runs the Toize Valley mine in Tales of Symphonia
Mohave Oil - Oil company in Disney-MGM Studios "Catastrophe Canyon" segment of Backlot Tour, Walt Disney World
Octan - Gas station chain in the LEGO universe
O.K. Oil - the company that bought Jed Clampett's oil rich property in the Missouri Ozarks in the pilot episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. Company vice-president John Brewster (Frank Wilcox) appeared on the series from time to time, and his last appearance was the 1966 episode "Jed Joins the Board."
Petrox Oil Company - King Kong (1976)
Pignut Oil - Firesign Theatre
Poseidon Oil - fossil fuel based energy conglomerate from PC game Fallout 2
Post-Terran Mining Corporation (PTMC) - Descent
Rearden Coal - Atlas Shrugged
Rearden Limestone - Atlas Shrugged
Rearden Ore - Atlas Shrugged
Roxxon - Oil company in Marvel Comics
Slate Rock and Gravel - quarrying, The Flintstones
WestStar - Dallas
ZomboTech - Sinister zombie research company San Andreas

Retailers

See List of fictional stores.

Services

Advertising

Ancestor and Sons Advertising Agency - Futurama (TV series)
The Beast with Two Bucks - "$1.99 Sex Shoppe", Futurama (TV series), episode Spanish Fry
Blue Ant - Pattern Recognition
Brent Smythe + Barry - Fast Forward
Crazy Eddie - Automobile dealer in the 1949 film A Letter to Three Wives, based on Madman Muntz (not connected to the later real-life electronics retailer)
DAA - thirtysomething
Livingston, Gentry & Mishkin - Bosom Buddies
McMahon and Tate - Bewitched; The Simpsons
Pym's Publicity - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
Pyrite Advertising Agency - The Flintstones (appears in the made-for-TV-movies "I Yabba Dabba Do!" and "Hollyrock-A-Bye Baby")
Saatchi, Saatchi, Saatchi, Saatchi and Saatchi - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (future version of Saatchi and Saatchi)
Sixty Second Avenue - Bosom Buddies
Team Advantage - consumer rewards program, Jennifer Government
US Alliance - consumer rewards program, Jennifer Government

Incarceration

The Hoosegow - Snow Crash
The Clink - Snow Crash

Investigative services

Angel Investigations - private investigators, specializing in the supernatural, Angel
The Anthropol Detective Agency - outer space investigation agency created by Louis Trimble
Blue Moon Detective Agency - Moonlighting
Charles Townsend Agency - Charlie's Angels
Continental Detective Agency - The Continental Op
DKA (Dan Kearney & Associates) - created by Joe Gores
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - created by Douglas Adams
Duke and Duke - Commodity Brokerage Firm in Trading Places
The Government - Jennifer Government
Jaffe and Jaffe - existential detective agency in I ? Huckabees
The Lunghi Detective Agency - created by Michael Z. Lewin
Millennium Group - Millennium
Nick Danger, Third Eye - Firesign Theatre
The Police - Jennifer Government
Remington Steele Investigations - Remington Steele
Riptide Detective Agency (formerly Pier 56 Detective Agency) - Riptide
Rocky Roccomoto, Motor Detective - Firesign Theatre
Simon & Simon - Simon & Simon
Spade and Archer - The Maltese Falcon
Surfside Six - created by William Orr and Hugh Benson
XXX Investigations (later X-Factor Investigations) - MadroX comic book by Peter David

Legal services

Boots, Boots, Boots, Boots, Marchinup & Downagain - The Goodies
Cage & Fish - Ally McBeal
Crane, Poole & Schmidt - The Practice, Boston Legal
I Can't Believe it's a Law Firm! - Lionel Hutz's law office in Springfield Mall, The Simpsons
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe - several Three Stooges movies and Car Talk; also the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson"
Gage, Whitney & Pace - Second-largest law firm in Manhattan in The West Wing
Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holloway - She-Hulk
Mayfair and Mayfair - Anne Rice novels
McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak - L.A. Law
Milton, Chadwick and Waters - The Devil's Advocate
Murdock and Nelson - Daredevil
Rosenberg & Associates - Vice City
Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short - Gravity's Rainbow
Sebben & Sebben - Harvey Birdman
Stewart, Whitehead and Moore - Neighbours
Slant, Morcombe and Honeyplace - Discworld
Tim Collins & Associates - Neighbours
Vitale, Davis, Horowitz, Riordan, Schrecter & Schrecter - Daria
Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus - The Crying of Lot 49
Wolff & Byrd - Supernatural Law
Wolfram & Hart - metaphysical legal services, Angel
Young, Frutt & Berluti - The Practice

Magical and supernatural

Ghostbusters - supernatural pest control
J.W. Wells & Co., family sorcerers - magical services, The Sorcerer by Gilbert and Sullivan (also features in Tom Holt novels)
M.Y.T.H. Inc. - magical services, the Myth series by Robert Asprin
Rentaghost - Spectral hire service, Rentaghost

Moving and delivery

Awesome Express - competitor to Planet Express, Futurama
IPS (International Parcel Services) - delivery, The King of Queens
The Laurel and Hardy Moving Company - The Music Box
Metropolis Moving - delivery, DC Comics
Pacific Courier - trucking and air express, Die Hard, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Speed
Planet Express - delivery, Futurama
Radikal Kourier Systems (RadiKS) - Snow Crash
Starving Teachers Moving Company - The Simpsons
Tristero Rapid Post - private mail service which may or may not truly exist, The Crying of Lot 49

Publishing

Acidic Books - Gebstadterian counterpart to Basic Books in the works of Douglas R. Hofstadter
Broht and Forrester - Voyager
Goatberger Publishers - Discworld
Megadodo Publications - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pendant Publishing - Seinfeld
Rouster and Sideways - Where's My Cow?, (Discworld)

Other services

Bada Bing - Silvio Dante's strip club - The Sopranos
Barone Sanitation - Tony Sopranos "waste management business" - The Sopranos
Central Intelligence Corporation - Snow Crash
Chaco Chicken, Inc. - a KFC-style chicken processing company - The X-Files episode Our Town.
Computron - television ratings assessors, The Ratings Game
C.H. Lavatory and Sons - plumbers, Discworld
Dale's Dead-Bug - Dale Gribble's pest control service, King of the Hill
The Gayle Shand Agency - public relations, Absolute Power
Gen-U-Tech - genetic engineering and research, Gargoyles
Globo Gym American Corp. - personal fitness centers A True Underdog Story
The Goodies - "We Do Anything, Anytime, Anywhere"
Gruppe Sechs - Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City; a play on "Gruppe Vier", a security company.
Heinzi & Plaff - graphic design, Pattern Recognition
Hobson's Livery Stable - horse rental and storage Discworld
Insuricare - Insurance company, The Incredibles
J.H. "Flannelfoot" Boggis and Nephews- legalised theft, Discworld
King of the Golden River ("Recycling Nature's Bounty") - waste disposal, Discworld
Lacuna Inc. - memory management, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
LesterCorp - filing, Being John Malkovich
Mr. Plow - Homer Simpson's snow removal service, on the Simpsons
Mrs. Palm's House of Negotiable Affection - brothel, Discworld
The New Firm - criminal services, Discworld
Plow King - rival snow-removal service to Mr Plow, set up by Barney Gumble, The Simpsons
Prentiss-McCabe - public relations Absolute Power
Product Testing, Inc. - Cathy comic strip
Old Glory Insurance - insurance company which offers robot attack coverage ("For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.") Saturday Night Live
Shimago-Dominguez Corporation - off-world colonization, Blade Runner
SpringShield - home security, The Simpsons
Sunshine Carpet Cleaners - cult-run company, Seinfeld
Tom's Rhinoplasty - plastic surgery, South Park
U-Stor-It - Snow Crash
Unthinkable Solutions - image consultants, Think the Unthinkable
We-R-Igors - hunchbacked lab assistants, Discworld
Zap-Em - pest control, Men in Black (movie)
Zorgo the Retro phrenologist - creates bumps on peoples' heads, thereby changing their personalities, Discworld

Technology, computers, and software

Altimit Corporation, maker of the ALTIMIT OS, .hack
Applied Cryogenics - cryogenics facility, Futurama
Axon - nanomachine-based neural modifications, Quarantine
Barrytron Limited - electronics manufacturer, Breakfast of Champions
Bells and Whistles Computers - Crunchly saga
Black Sun Systems, Inc. - Snow Crash
Caliban Industries - Blade 2
Com Tron Industries - Industrial espionage (Knight Rider pilot show) ''Knight of the Phoenix
Compuglobalhypermeganet - ISP created by Homer in The Simpsons
CompuTech - unidentified technology company, The Stepford Wives
CyberAcme Systems, Inc. - A.I. manufacturer, Marathon (computer game)
Cyberbiotics - robotics Gargoyles
Cyber Connect (CC) Corporation - released The World, .hack
Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - robotics, The Terminator series
Daystrom Data Concepts - computer design and manufacturing, Star Trek
Data Systems - unidentified technology company, The Stepford Wives
Datatrust - unidentified technology company, Dystopia (computer game)
Digicom - electronics, Disclosure novel and movie
Digicorp - global computing (rival to Sunways), Cypher
ENCOM - creators of the MCP, Tron
fCon - the company that attempts to take over ENCOM in Tron 2.0
Gizmonic Institute - private technological research and development firm, Mystery Science Theater 3000
H.A.L. Labs - A Space Odyssey
HeretiCorp - evil corporation with a board of directors always in the shadows, Sluggy Freelance
Humanidyne Institute - think tank investigating biological anomalies in Misfits of Science series
Hyperdine Systems - creator of the Bishop android in Aliens
Identicon Corp. - biotechnology research firm in the videogame Agent Under Fire.
International Data Corporation (IDC) - satire of IBM, The Destroyer series of novels
Initech - software development, Office Space
Initrode - software development, Office Space
International Technology Corporation - quantum physics, Timeline novel and movie
IPC - consumer electronics and computers, Megaman Battle Network
The Java Server - internet café, The Simpsons
Kaiba Corp - Duel Disks and Dueling accessories, after Seto Kaiba takes over. Yu-Gi-Oh!
Life Extension - cryogenics, Vanilla Sky
Malprave Industries - technology manufacturing corporation in videogame Agent Under Fire.
Medetic - xenotransplantation provider and organ bank, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
Memory Call, - memory implants, Total Recall
Metacortex - software development, Neo's employers in The Matrix http://www.metacortechs.com/
MicroData - datapads, Star Wars
Moneywell - computers, The Sims and The Sims 2, probably a spoof on Honeywell.
NURVs - Microsoft spin-off from Antitrust (movie)
Ono-Sendai - cyberspace, Neuromancer
Quark Industries - robotics and advanced technology research, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
Rekall, Inc. - memory implants, Total Recall
Serano Genomics, Inc. - nanomachine manufacturer, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
Soma - a computer and TV manufacturer in The Sims 2, probably a reference to Sony.
Sunways - global computing (rival to Digicorp), Cypher
Tachibana Labs - Manufactures NAVI computers, Serial Experiments Lain
Techno Union - technological conglomerate, Star Wars
Tokra Electronics - cyberbrain manufacturer, Stand Alone Complex
Ultratech - Killer Instinct videogame series.
Uplink Corporation - Employs and supports computer hackers, probably a reference to Earthlink.
Wario Ware, Inc. - video games, Nintendo's Mario universe
Wattz Electronics Corp. - Manufacturer of various kinds of electronic equipment and energy weapons from the Fallout PC game series
X-S Tech - The Galaxy's leader in high technology, specializing in hyperspatial transport, genetic engineering, cybernetics, and terraforming in the former Walt Disney World attraction, ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Slogan is "If it can't be done without X-S, it shouldn't be done at all".
Xymos Technology - nanotechnology, Prey (novel)
Zorin Industries - microchip company, A View to a Kill

Transportation

Bus companies

Big O Tours - San Andreas
Bikini Line - San Andreas
Bluehound Bus Line - play on Greyhound Lines Dilbert
Canny Bus Group - San Andreas
Whippet Bus Lines - Grand Theft Auto III; a play on the name of the dog "greyhound"
Greathound - bus line in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, "leave the driving to Gus!"
Sit n' Stare Bus Lines - The Simpsons

Railroad

Americana Rail - passenger railroad in Final Run
Amroad - passenger railroad in Silver Streak
Brown Streak Railroad - Passenger Railroad in San Andreas
Contrack - passenger railroad in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Grand Continental - passenger railroad operating the luxury train of the same name in Under Siege 2
Hamtrack - passenger railroad in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
Illinois Southern - cargo railroad in The Fugitive
Taggart Transcontinental - Atlas Shrugged

Toll roads

Cruiseways, Inc. - Snow Crash
Fairlanes, Inc. - Snow Crash

Trucking

RS Haul - San Andreas

Airlines

Aalto Airlines - Flightplan
AirJet Atlantic - Danger on Flight 534
Air Australia - Doctor Who
Air Britain - Down to a Sunless Sea
Air Elbonia (slingshot airline) - Dilbert
Air Kentucky - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Air Republic - Rumor Has It
Air Scotia - The High Life
American Pride - The Langoliers
American Travelways Airlines (ATW) - The Delta Force
Atlantic American Airlines - Meet the Parents
Atlantic International Airlines - Passenger 57
Atlantic Northern - Seinfeld
Blue Star Airlines - Wall Street
CalSky - LAX
Canada World Airways (to portray real-life Air Canada) - Flight 174
Colonial Airlines - Nothing in Common
Columbia Airlines - Airport 1975
ConWest Airlines - Private Parts, The Mystery of Flight 1501, International Airport
Crazy Clown Airlines - The Simpsons
DynaJet - Pushing Tin
EconoJet - Pushing Tin
European Airlines - Eurotrip
Far East - Toy Story 2
Federation World Airlines (FWA) - Airport '79
Four World Airways (airship airline) - American Flagg!
Fresh! (later Fresh! Global and Fresh! Europe) - Mile High
Fresh Air - Red Eye
Fuji Air - Die Hard 2
Gate Corporation (interplanetary transportation) - Cowboy Bebop
Global Airways - Skyjacked, Blackout Effect
InterCity Air - Fearless
Juank Air - San Andreas
Landmark Airlines - Microsoft Flight Simulator
Longhorn Air - A Wing and a Prayer
LYNXjet - airline in Lynx deodorant advertisements
Magic Carpet Airlines - American Graffiti
Mid-Central Airways - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Midwestern Airlines - Hero
Monument Airlines - Crime Scene Investigation
NEA - Die Hard 2
Nocturnal Aviation - fictional sponsor of advertisements on MIT student radio station
No Frills Airlines - The Simpsons
Northeast Airlines - Die Hard 2
NWA Airlines - Soul Plane
Oceanic Airlines - multiple movies and TV shows including Lost
Orbit Airlines - Microsoft Flight Simulator
PAC Atlantic Airways - Drop Zone
Pacific Air - Snakes on a Plane
Pan Universe Airlines (Moon-Earth airline) - The Sequel
Pan West - Amazing Stories
Paradise Airlines (to portray real-life Aloha Airlines) - Miracle Landing
Rockstar Airlines - Grand Theft Auto trilogy
Quantum Airlines - Pandora's Clock
Quest Airlines - Final Descent
Rossini Air Line - Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
Royalty Airlines - View from the Top
Royce Air International - Panic in the Skies!
Scot Air - Medusa's Child
Serb Air - LAX
SkyAmeriWestica - The Simpsons
Soar Airlines - Microsoft Flight Simulator
Solar Airways - Triumph in the Skies
Sparta Airlines - Pushing Tin
Stromboli Airlines - Stewardess School
TAA - Flight 285
Trans American Airlines - Airplane!, Saturday Night Live
TransCon Airlines - Turbulence
TransEastern - Saturday Night Live
Trans East Airlines - Seinfeld
Trans Global Airlines (TGA) - Airport
TransHemispheric Airlines - The Simpsons
TransPacific Airlines - Airframe
Trans Pacific (visually Pan Pacific) - Impossible II
TRA Airlines - Peter Benchley's Amazon, Free Fall
Tri-States Airlines - Blackout Effect
Volée Air - Final Destination
Windsor Air - Die Hard 2

Unknown/miscellaneous

CabalCo - The Chosen
Borchester Land - The Archers
Grunty Industries - Banjo-Tooie video game.
Kordco - Blue Beetle
M & M Enterprises - Catch-22
Kramerica Industries - Seinfeld, created by Cosmo Kramer
Nakamoto Industries - Rising Sun novel and movie
Nutty Arc-Dynamo - Pokey the Penguin
Pickering Industries - Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Rife Advanced Research Enterprises - Snow Crash
Slaughterhousing Ltd. - The Magic Christian
State Og - Something Awful
Swastika Holding Company - Meyer Wolfsheim's "legitimate" business, The Great Gatsby
Thorax Corp. - fictional company from The Brother's Chaps flash cartoon website homestarrunner.com
Venture Industries - superscience, The Venture Bros.
The Crimson Corperation - Druuge corporation in Star Control II that has a monopoly over everything, even sunlight and air. Subsequently, if anyone is fired from the corporation, they are immediately accused of stealing from the corporation and executed.
Hashaway Fixtures - Bathroom fixtures company - King of The Hill

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