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.
Louvain-la-Neuve, home of the Université Catholique de Louvain
Zlín, original headquarters of Bata Shoes company
Billund, home of LEGO's International Headquarters.
Bjerringbro, home of Grundfos' International headquarters.
Nordborg, home of Danfoss' International headquarters.
Struer, home of Bang & Olufsen' International headquarters.
Cité ouvrière at Mulhouse
Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), home of the chocolate factory owned by the Menier Family
Sochaux-Montbéliard (Doubs), home of Peugeot
Villeneuvette (Hérault), mill town owned by Jules Maistre
Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire), forge town developed by Eugène and Adolphe Schneider.
Hayange and Jœuf, blast furnaces towns, fiefdoms of De Wendel family.
Thumeries (Nord), home of the sugar factory previously owned by the Béghin Family
Leverkusen, home of the Bayer AG (?)
Wolfsburg, built to house Volkswagen workers
Eisenhüttenstadt
Schwedt
Halle-Neustadt
Wolfen-Nord, now in Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Hoyerswerda
Dunaújváros
Tiszaújváros
Petőfibánya
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.
San Donato Milanese, home of the ENI. Built by Enrico Mattei for company's workers, the town is centered on a neighborhood called "Metanopoli" (Methanopolis).
Rosignano Solvay. Built by Solvay for company's workers of the factory located in the neighbourhood of the city.
Dnestrovsk, developed by Moldavskaya GRES
Netherlands
Batadorp, Best municipality, developed by Bata Shoes
Heveadorp, Renkum municipality, developed by rubber manufacturing company Hevea
Philipsdorp, 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.
Barentsburg, mining town run by Arktikugol
Grumant, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol
Longyearbyen, former mining company town run by Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
Ny-Ålesund, former mining, now research town run by Kings Bay
Pyramiden, ghost mining town run by Arktikugol
Sveagruva, mining town run by Store Norske
Poland
Nowa Huta in Kraków
Giszowiec and Nikiszowiec in Katowice
Stalowa Wola and Nowa Dęba in the Central Industrial Region (Poland)
Iron and Steel industry:
Magnitogorsk
Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel):
Norilsk
Monchegorsk
Zapolyarny
Nikel
Iron mining:
Kovdor
Olenegorsk
Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:
Apatity
Kirovsk
Oil and gas:
Surgut
Nizhnevartovsk
Nefteyugansk
Novy Urengoy
Petrochemical industry:
Kstovo
Kirishi
Textile industry
Ivanovo - the "city of brides"
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.
Partizánske (formerly Baťovany), founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company (partly out of an existing local municipality and its cadastre)
Svit, founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company
Allenby, British Columbia, a former copper mining town adjacent to Copper Mountain, another company town and also a copper mine.
Anyox, British Columbia, a now-abandoned smelter town on Observatory Inlet, near the mouth of the Nass River.
Arvida, now in Jonquière borough, Saguenay, Quebec, owned by Alcan
Batawa, Ontario owned by Bata
Bralorne, British Columbia, and nearby Pioneer Mine, British Columbia; both famous gold mining towns; Bralorne's third townsite is also known as Bradian
Brexton, British Columbia, a gold mining town (near Bralorne)
Bridge River aka Bridge River Townsite, now South Shalalth, a British Columbia model village developed as part of the Bridge River Power Project and now mostly depopulated.
Britannia Beach, British Columbia - a semi-abandoned copper and gold mine and crushing plant near Squamish
Camp McKinney - gold, near Rock Creek, British Columbia
Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador owned wholly by Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation
Clayburn, British Columbia - brick clay mine and brick kiln
Copper Mountain, British Columbia - copper, near Princeton, British Columbia, abandoned 1960s
Espanola, Ontario, until 1958 owned by the paper mill.
Elsa, Yukon
Fermont, Quebec, built by the Québec Cartier Mining Company
Flin Flon, Manitoba (and Saskatchewan), owned by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBMS)
Fort Vancouver and other former Hudson's Bay Company trading posts-cum-towns in the Pacific Northwest. Others include Colville, Victoria BC, Fort Langley BC, Hope BC and more.
Fraser Mills, British Columbia, now part of Coquitlam. The original mills were sawmills but eventually became a large pulp mill owned by Crown Zellerbach (the company President was the mayor, by default and acclamation). Most workers in Fraser Mills did not live in the "village" (as incorporated) but in nearby Maillardville
Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador Control relinquished to citizens from Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company in 1961
Gold River, British Columbia - now incorporated
Government Cannery, British Columbia
Harmac, British Columbia - pulp mill, near Nanaimo, British Columbia
Hendrix Lake, British Columbia, a mining town in the Cariboo region
Keno City, Yukon
Kimberley, British Columbia, now incorporated
Kitimat, British Columbia, based around an aluminum smelter built by Alcoa's Canadian subsidiary Alcan. Also nearby is Kemano which accompanies the Kemano powerhouse of the Nechako Diversion
Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador developed by the Iron Ore Company of Canada
Logan Lake, British Columbia - copper mine
Minto City, British Columbia - gold mining town
Nanisivik, Nunavut, built to support a lead-zinc mine and abandoned after the mine's closure in 2002.
New Waterford, Nova Scotia, a former coal-mining town on Cape Breton Island.
Nitinat, British Columbia, near Youbou, British Columbia - former company town of Crown Zellerbach, a forestry company
Ocean Falls, British Columbia, a now-abandoned pulp mill town on the central BC Coast
Port Mellon, British Columbia, a pulp mill and town on the east shore of Howe Sound near the Langdale ferry terminal, which is near Sechelt
Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador
Woodfibre, British Columbia a pulp mill town on the east shore of Howe Sound near Squamish
Walkerville, Ontario a distillery on the south shore of the Detroit River, founded by Hiram Walker
La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul sugar and real estate empire).
Ciudad Pemex, Tabasco built around a PEMEX plant.
See List of company towns in the United States
Kumarapatnam, 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.
Tembagapura, Papua developed by PT Freeport Indonesia (subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan)
Hokkaido
Muroran, Hokkaido NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION Muroran
Tomakomai, Hokkaido - Oji Paper Company Tomakomai
Asahikawa, Hokkaido - Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Asahikawa
Tohoku district
Nikaho, Akita - TDK
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima - Fujitsu Tohoku
Kanto district
Hitachi, Ibaraki and Hitachinaka, Ibaraki - Hitachi
Kashima, Ibaraki - NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL
Yaita, Tochigi - Sharp Corporation
Ota, Gunma - Fuji Heavy Industries Gunma
Oizumi, Gunma - SanyoTokyo
Noda, Chiba - Kikkoman
Urayasu, Chiba - The Oriental Land Company, Tokyo Disney Resort
Kimitsu, Chiba - NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL Kimitsu
Kita, Tokyo - Oji Paper Company A foundation place and a research institute exist.
Fuchu, Tokyo - Toshiba Fuchu
Minamiashigara, Kanagawa and Kaisei, Kanagawa - Fujifilm
Hino, Tokyo - Hino Motors
Chubu district
Kurobe, Toyama - YKK
Komatsu, Ishikawa - Komatsu Limited
Suwa, Nagano - Epson
Iwata, Shizuoka - Yamaha
Toyota City, Japan - Toyota
Kariya, Aichi - Toyota Industries, Denso, Aisin Seiki Co.,TOYOTA Auto Body, Co. Ltd.,and Toyota Boshoku
Tahara, Aichi ToyotaTahara
Tokoname, Aichi INAX
Suzuka, Mie - Honda
Kinki district
Ikeda, Osaka - Daihatsu
Moriguchi, Osaka and Daitō, Osaka - Sanyo
Kadoma, Osaka - Panasonic
Aioi, Hyōgo - IHI,Harima
Ayabe, Kyoto - Gunze Limited
Chugoku district
Hiezu, Tottori - Oji Paper Company Yonago
Tamano, Okayama - Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
Fukuyama, Hiroshima - JFE Steel Corporation
Fuchu, Hiroshima、Bofu, Yamaguchi - Mazda
Ube, Yamaguchi - Ube Industries
Iwakuni, Yamaguchi - Mitsui Chemicals
Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi - Taiheiyo Cement
Shikoku district
Naruto, Tokushima - Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Anan, Tokushima - Nichia
Shikokuchūō, Ehime DAIO PAPER CORPORATION・EHIME PAPER MFG CO.,LTD.
Niihama, Ehime - Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
Kyushu district
KitaKyushu, Fukuoka(Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyūshū) - NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION and TOTO
Omuta, Fukuoka - Mitsui
Kurume, Fukuoka - Bridgestone
Kanda, Fukuoka - Nissan Motor Company・Nissan ShataiKyushu、ToyotaKyushu
Tosu, Saga - Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical
Nagasaki, Nagasaki - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries、Mitsubishi Electric
Sasebo, Nagasaki - Sasebo Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Yatsushiro, Kumamoto - Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Yashiro
Minamata, Kumamoto - Chisso
Nagasu, Kumamoto - Japan Marine United Corporation
Nakatsu, Oita - Daihatsu Kyushu
Nobeoka, Miyazaki - Asahi Kasei
Nichinan, Miyazaki - Oji Paper Company Nichinan
Proton City, Tanjung Malim, Perak developed by Proton Holding Berhad
Batapur, a residence area for labour workers in the Bata shoe factory.
Steel Town, a residential area for employees of Pakistan Steel Mills.
Cabramurra, New South Wales, built as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
Jabiru, Northern Territory, built for the Ranger Uranium mine
Leinster, Western Australia, BHP Billiton mining town, closed community.
Moomba, South Australia, built for gas processing
Mount Beauty, Victoria and Bogong Village, established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme.
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, built for workers at the Alcan Gove Alumina Refinery and mining operation, operated by Rio Tinto Group.
Roxby Downs, South Australia, built for Olympic Dam mine
Useless Loop, Western Australia, Shark Bay Resources, Solar Salt Operations.
Yallourn, Victoria, now demolished, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for workers at the Yallourn Power Station.
Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
Awali, home of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO).
