Companies in Atlas Shrugged

This page summarizes named businesses from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. They are generally divided into two groups: those that are operated by sympathetic characters are given the name of the owner, while companies operated by evil or incompetent characters are given generic names. Those who use their own names to name their companies become Strikers, with the minor exception of Mr. Ayers of the Ayers Music Publishing Company.
See also the Atlas Shrugged Wikibook.
Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company, Inc.
Located in Connecticut, run by Mr. Mowen.
Associated Steel
Run by Orren Boyle
Atlantic Southern Railroad
Headquartered in Chicago. Main competitor to Taggart Transcontinental. Dagny has to borrow an employee of theirs when the switching system in Taggart Transcontinental's New York terminal fails.
Ayers Music Publishing Company
Publisher of all of Richard Halley's music.
Dannager Coal Company
Located in Pennsylvania, run by Ken Dannager.
John Galt, Inc.
Located in New York City, across the street from Taggart Transcontinental. Dagny Taggart had this company created in order to allow the completion of the Rio Norte Line when Taggart Transcontinental was unable to do so.
Hammond Cars
Located in Hammond, Colorado, run by Mr. Hammond.
Mulligan Bank
Located in Chicago, run by Midas Mulligan. Is one of the original investors who allowed Hank Rearden to start his business. Mulligan closes his bank and liquidates it rather than pay a judgement to some incompetents who sue him.
Mulligan Tobacco Company
Located in Galt's Gulch, Colorado, run by Midas Mulligan and Hugh Akston.
Phoenix-Durango
A small west-coast railroad, operated by Dan Conway.
Rearden Coal
Coal company run by Hank Rearden. As a result of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, he asks Ken Dannager to buy it.
Rearden Ore
Ore company in Minnesota, run by Hank Rearden. As a result of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, he is forced to sell it to family friend Paul Larkin.
Rearden Steel
Steel plant in Pennsylvania, run by Hank Rearden.
Stockton Foundry
Foundry in Stockton, Colorado.
Taggart Transcontinental
Railroad headquartered in New York, run by Dagny Taggart, and figureheaded by her brother, James Taggart, who is nominally her boss.
Twentieth Century Motor Company
Motor manufacturer located in Starnesville, Wisconsin, run by Jed Starnes, and where John Galt once worked as an engineer. After the death of Jed Starnes his heirs, led by his daughter Ivy, trick their employees into voting to collectivize the company and quickly declines into bankruptcy.
Ward Harvester Company
Farm implements manufacturer run by Mr. Ward.
Wyatt Oil
Oil company run by Ellis Wyatt.

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