Fictional Companies



This is a list of notable fictional companies. Entries in this list must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

These are nonexistent companies created for dramatic or literary purposes in a story. Fictional companies are used so the author or producer avoids endorsing or denouncing a real company, as well as to avoid legal action for slander or trademark infringement.

Biomedical

 * DHARMA Initiative, The - Lost
 * Ecumena - hospital/health care chain in St. Elsewhere (the producers were sued by Humana anyhow)&lt;ref&gt;'St. Elsewhere' Told to Carry Disclaimer - New York Times&lt;!-- Bot generated title --&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;
 * Hanso Foundation - Lost
 * InGen - Creators of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and its sequels
 * Khumalo - biotech corporation in the Takeshi Kovacs novels.
 * Medical Mechanica - FLCL
 * Prescott Pharmaceuticals - The Colbert Report
 * Tricell - "Resident Evil"
 * Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
 * Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - defense/energy/biotech, Doom
 * VersaLife Corporation - Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War

Conglomerates and multinationals

 * Acme - Used in the Looney Tunes Cartoons, most famous for being featured in the "Roadrunner" cartoon.
 * ARCAM Corporation - Spriggan
 * Biffco - Owned by Biff in alternate timeline including nuclear power plant and toxic waste disposal - Back to the Future II
 * Binford - Industrial Manufacturer from the Home Improvement television series.
 * Blue Sun Corporation - in Firefly
 * Bluecorp - information gathering company owned by Redd White, the man who murdered Mia Fey - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
 * Buy and Large Corporation (BuynLarge) - in Pixar animated film WALL-E
 * CHOAM - Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles Interplanetary corporation which controls all economic activity in the Padishah Empire - Dune series.
 * Conglom-O - Rocko's Modern Life
 * Cyberdyne Systems - the computer robotics company responsible for the creation of SkyNet, hence the dystopian future world of The Terminator.
 * Digivation Industries - competitor of Veridian Dynamics in Better Off Ted
 * Deon International - Owned by Larry Deon. Appeared in seaQuest 2032 and seemed to be involved in many different industries including, but not limited to, Military defense and weaponry, technology, Owned the fictional sports team Deon Demons, air travel, metals and technological assets.
 * Energy Corporation - also Luxury Corporation, Transport Corporation, Housing Corporation, Food Corporation, Rollerball (1975)
 * FrobozzCo International - Zork
 * Global Dynamics - Eureka
 * The Hanso Foundation - ''Lost
 * Hishii Industries - Manufacturer of powered exoskeletons known as 'Labors.' - Patlabor - series
 * Itex - A multinational corporation and the primary antagonist of the Maximum Ride series of novels.
 * KrebStar - Manufacturer of everything from breakfast cereal to sneakers to mentholated hot lather machines in The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
 * LexCorp - Lex Luthor's company in the Superman universe
 * LuthorCorp - Lionel Luthor's company in the TV series Smallville.
 * Mishima Zaibatsu - Tekken
 * Multi-National United (MNU) - District 9
 * Momcorp - Futurama
 * Omni Consumer Products (OCP) - RoboCop films
 * OsCorp - Norman Osborn's company in the Spiderman universe.
 * RAMJAC Corporation - Jailbird and other novels by Kurt Vonnegut
 * Roxxon - oil company in Marvel Comics titles
 * Sheinhardt Wig Company - Subsidiary of General Electric and owner of NBC in 30 Rock
 * Scrooge McDuck's various companies
 * Shinra Electric Power Company - Final Fantasy VII
 * Trade Federation - shipping conglomerate, Star Wars
 * Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
 * Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - Doom series of video games by id Software
 * The Very Big Corporation of America - The Crimson Permanent Assurance
 * Wayne Enterprises - Bruce Wayne's company featured in Batman
 * Weyland-Yutani - Alien movies
 * World Company - Les Guignols de l'info

Construction

 * Bluth Company - property development, Arrested Development
 * Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. - construction of protective habitat domes, owned by Honor Harrington, in several Honorverse novels by David Weber

Energy, communication, and utilities

 * Blaidd Dwrg Nuclear Power Plant - Doctor Who - "Boom Town"
 * Ewing Oil - The family oil company in Dallas.
 * Grand Trunk Semaphore Company - Discworld
 * Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant - Shelbyville's power plant, The Simpsons
 * Shinra Electric Power Company - a ruthless mega-corporation which controls most of the world, Final Fantasy VII
 * Springfield Nuclear Power Plant - work place of Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
 * Strickland Propane - King of the Hill
 * Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - defense/energy/biotech, Doom

Entertainment

 * Bad Wolf Corporation - owners of the GameStation (formerly Satellite 5), Doctor Who episodes "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways"
 * Bada Bing - Silvio Dante's strip club - The Sopranos
 * British Broadcasting Service - A parody of the BBC featured in the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
 * Dragonfire Films - film production company from the FOX series Action
 * Hippodrome - Start of The Seven Crystal Balls, The Adventures of Tintin.
 * Kaiba Corporation - Arenas for the game "Duel Monsters" and later the Duel Disc, after Seto Kaiba became president, Yu-Gi-Oh!
 * Maroon Cartoons - animation studio, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 * Network 23 - The network from the TV series Max Headroom
 * See also: List of fictional radio stations, List of fictional television stations, List of fictional record companies

Fronts

 * Ace Tomato Company - CIA front in Spies like us
 * Primatech Paper Co. - Paper company in Heroes, front for secret organisation
 * Universal Exports - front company for MI6 agents in the James Bond books and 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.

Automotive

 * National Motors Corporation from Wheels
 * Porter Automobiles, from My Mother the Car
 * Powell Motors - auto manufacturers, The Simpsons
 * Vaillante, from the Michel Vaillant comic

Food and drink

 * For a more complete list of fictional beverages, see List of fictional beverages.
 * Bettabuy's - Coronation Street
 * Central Perk - A coffeehouse on Friends.
 * Crudgington Brewery - family-owned brewery featured in the Bill Tidy "Kegbuster" cartoon strips.
 * Duff Beer - The Simpsons
 * Groovy Smoothie - a restaurant on iCarly
 * Muffin Buffalo - Wonder Falls, Pushing Daisies
 * Peach Pit - A coffeehouse on Beverly Hills, 90210.
 * Quake - Restaurant in Charmed
 * Quark's - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
 * The Queen Victoria - EastEnders
 * The Regal Beagle - A pub on Three's Company.
 * Rovers Return - Coronation Street
 * Scavo's Pizzeria - Desperate Housewives.
 * Soylent Corporation - manufacturer of synthetic foods in Soylent Green
 * Sunshine Desserts - dessert manufacturer in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
 * The Woolpack - Emmerdale

Robots and androids

 * Astromech - droid manufacturer in Star Wars
 * Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - eventual creator of SkyNet; The Terminator.
 * Mom's Friendly Robot Company - androids, Futurama
 * Rossum's Universal Robots - androids, R.U.R.
 * Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Tyrell Corporation - Blade Runner
 * U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men - robotics, Isaac Asimov short stories such as those in I, Robot, title inspired name of U.S. Robotics real-world company.

Spaceships

 * General Products - many activities (especially spaceship hulls), Larry Niven's Known Space series
 * Incom Corporation - manufacturers of X-wing fighters in Star Wars
 * Nergal Heavy Industries - manufacturer of the ND-001 Nadesico battleship, Martian Successor Nadesico
 * Sienar Fleet Systems - manufactirers of TIE fighters in Star Wars
 * Trioptimum Corporation - manufacturer of the Von Braun in the System Shock video game.

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.
 * Bonk Business - a fictional corporation created by Finnish artist and sculptor Alvar Gullichsen. The company produces absurd machines that have no apparent use, and are powered by anchovy oil.&lt;ref&gt;Bonk Museum&lt;/ref&gt;
 * Cinco - A company featured in Tim and Eric creations specializing in a variety of useless products.
 * Silph Co. - Pokémon (Red/Green/Blue/Yellow and Gold/Silver/Crystal video games, Pokémon Adventures manga)

Other

 * Allied British Plastics - Plastic goods manufacturer, The Big Business Lark
 * Amalgamated Durables - Washing machine manufacturer, Spitting Image
 * Vandelay Industries — latex and latex products, Seinfeld
 * W.C. Boggs & Co. - bathroom fittings, Carry On at Your Convenience

Military, defense, and weaponry
See also List of fictional military organizations for private military companies
 * Anaheim Electronics - mobile suit manufacturer/defense contractor/AEUG supporter, Universal Century Gundam
 * Aperture Science - Makes shower curtains and develops portal technology, Portal
 * Black Mesa Research Facility - Develops almost every conceivable scientific discipline, Half-Life
 * dataDyne - Perfect Dark -- not to be confused with DataDyne.org, a not-for-profit developer of mobile software for public health and international development.
 * Izon - defense Military weaponry manufacturer in the Cube (film series)|Cube]]'' films
 * Men In Black
 * Nordyne Defense Dynamics - owner of Kwik-E-Mart, The Simpsons
 * Office of Scientific Intelligence(OSI) - a secret intelligence branch of the American government featured in The Six Million Dollar Man
 * Queen Industries - defense Military weaponry manufacturer in DC Comics
 * Seburo - small arms manufacturer, a signature company in many of Masamune Shirow's books
 * Stark Industries - defense Military weaponry manufacturer in Marvel Comics
 * Torchwood - institute founded by Queen Victoria to defend the United Kingdom from aliens in Doctor Who
 * Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - defense/energy/biotech, Doom
 * X-Com - (eXtra-terrestrial COMbat unit) Company charged with the defense of earth 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
 * Zorg Industries - A weapons manufacturer based in New York City and run by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg in the film The Fifth Element

Mining and petroleum

 * Arctic & European Fish Oil Company - The Day of the Triffids (renamed European Oils in the 1981 television adaptation)
 * Benthic Petroleum - The Abyss, cameos in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Twister.
 * Dinoco - Toy Story, Cars
 * Ewing Oil - The family oil company in Dallas
 * Jupiter Mining Corporation - owners of the mining ship Red Dwarf
 * Liandri Mining Corporation - The corporation behind the televised deathmatches in Epic Games' Unreal videogame series
 * Roxxon - Oil company in Marvel Comics
 * Slate Rock and Gravel Company - The Flintstones
 * Tagruato - Cloverfield, Star Trek
 * Ultor Corporation - featured in the Red Faction and Saints Row series of video games

Paper

 * Dunder Mifflin — paper, The Office (U.S. TV series)
 * Michael Scott Paper Company - paper, The Office (U.S. TV series)
 * Wernham Hogg - paper. The Office (UK TV series)

Restaurants

 * The Crab Shack - My Name Is Earl
 * Daddy Green's Pizza - The Last Dragon, (1985 film)
 * Doublemeat Palace - fast food restaurant - Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * Good Burger - All That, Good Burger movie
 * Krusty Burger - fast food restaurant - The Simpsons
 * McDowell's - fast food restaurant, very similar to McDonald's - Coming to America
 * Mel's Diner - Alice
 * Milliways - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Mooby's - fast food restaurant - View Askew
 * Orange Orange - frozen yogurt shop - Chuck
 * The Pie Hole, pie shop - Pushing Daisies

Retailers

 * The Android's Dungeon - comic books and collectibles, The Simpsons
 * Curious Goods - antique shop, Friday the 13th: the Series
 * Garak's - tailor's shop, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
 * Hooper's Store - convenience store, Sesame Street
 * Lacey's - department store on All My Children.
 * The Magic Box - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Kwik-E-Mart - convenience store, The Simpsons (in July 2007, in a promotional tie-in with the Simpsons movie, the 7-Eleven chain temporarily converted twelve stores into Kwik-E-Mart stores)
 * Mega Lo Mart - Wal-Mart-like store, King of the Hill
 * Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes - magical joke shop in Harry Potter

Advertising

 * McMahon and Tate - Bewitched; The Simpsons
 * Parcher and Murphy - Desperate Housewives
 * Peterson Advertising - Desperate Housewives
 * Sloane Curtis Advertising - Baby Boom; What Women Want
 * Zimms - Desperate Housewives

Investigative services

 * Angel Investigations - created by Joss Whedon Angel
 * Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - created by Douglas Adams
 * The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - created by Alexander McCall Smith
 * Psych - basically private investigators but claiming to reveal facts through psychic visions

Legal services

 * See List of fictional law firms

Magical and supernatural

 * Ghostbusters - paranormal pest control
 * Magic School - Charmed

Moving and delivery

 * Get a Move On Removals - Clarence
 * Fairview U Move - Desperate Housewives
 * Planet Express - delivery, Futurama
 * IPS - delivery, King of Queens

Publishing

 * Meade Publications - Ugly Betty
 * Mode Magazine - Ugly Betty
 * Goatberger Publishers - Discworld

Other services

 * The Goodies - From the TV show of the same name.

Technology, computers, and software

 * Armacham Technology Corporation (ATC) - F.E.A.R.
 * Initech - Office Space
 * Caliban Industries - Blade 2
 * CC Corporation - Creator of massive MMORPG The World in the .hack series.
 * ComTron - Technology startup where secrets were being smuggled Knight Rider pilot
 * Contoso and Fabrikam - Fictional company names used as examples by Microsoft
 * Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - robotics, The Terminator series
 * Daystrom Data Concepts - computer design and manufacturing, Star Trek
 * Gizmonic Institute - private technological research and development firm, Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Metacortex - The Matrix (film)
 * Queen Industries - computer Technology software manufacturer in DC Comics
 * Rekall - Corporation specialising in planting false memories in the Total Recall movie.
 * Uplink Corporation - Employs and supports computer hackers
 * WarioWare, Inc. - video games, Nintendo's Mario universe
 * Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil movies and video games
 * Zorin Industries - microchip technology in A View to a Kill

Railroad

 * Arlesdale Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Brown Streak Railroad - passenger railroad in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
 * Culdee Fell Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Merioneth and Lantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited - Ivor the Engine
 * Mid Sodor Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * North Western Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Northern & Southern Railway - The Railway Children
 * Onion Pacific Railroad - Popeye
 * Skarloey Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Sodor & Mainland Railway - Thomas the Tank Engine
 * Sudden Pacific Railroad - Popeye

Airlines

 * Grim Reaper Airways - Spitting Image
 * Oceanic Airlines - Lost, Executive Decision and others.
 * Package Air - Spitting Image
 * Soar Airlines - Microsoft Flight Simulator
 * Total Bastard Airlines - Saturday Night Live
 * Volée Airlines - "Final Destination"

Miscellaneous

 * Delos, high-tech amusement park - Westworld
 * M & M Enterprises - Catch-22
 * Ravenwood - Jericho military contractor
 * iCarly, a web show within the Nickelodeon sitcom of the same name