List of historic companies in Omaha
This is a list of historic companies in Omaha. These businesses were either located in Omaha, founded in Omaha and/or still functioning in Omaha.
| Historic companies[1] In alphabetical order | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Founded | Notes | |||
| American National Bank | |||||
| Armour-Swift | |||||
| ASARCO | |||||
| Baird Holm Law Firm | |||||
| Banker’s Life & Casualty | |||||
| Baum Iron | |||||
| Bemis Company | |||||
| Bergman Company | |||||
| Borsheim’s | |||||
| Brewer-Korisko Mortuary | |||||
| Brodkey’s | |||||
| Burkley Envelope Company | 1891 | ||||
| Burlington Northern Railroad | |||||
| Byron Reed Company, Inc. | 1856 | ||||
| Campbell Soup Company | |||||
| Carpenter Paper Company | |||||
| Carter White Lead Company | |||||
| Chicago Lumber Company | |||||
| Commercial Federal Bank | |||||
| ConAgra, Inc. | |||||
| Crosby-Kunold | |||||
| Cudahy Packing Company | |||||
| Daily Record | |||||
| Drake-Williams Steel, Inc. | |||||
| Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. | |||||
| Equitable Life Assurance Society | |||||
| Fairbanks Scales | |||||
| Fairmont Foods Company | |||||
| Ferguson Enterprises-U.S. Supply Co. | |||||
| First National of Nebraska | 1857 | Founded by Herman and Augustus Kountze as the Kountze Brothers Bank. | |||
| Forest Lawn Memorial Park | |||||
| Fraser Stryker Law Offices | |||||
| G.E. Supply | |||||
| Gordon Moving & Storage Company, Inc. | |||||
| H. Thiessen Pickle Company | |||||
| Heafey-Heafey-Hoffman-Dworak-Cutler | |||||
| I-Go Van & Storage | |||||
| Interstate Printing Company | |||||
| John Roth & Sons | |||||
| Johnson Hardware Company | |||||
| J.F. Bloom Company | |||||
| J.P. Cooke Company | |||||
| Klopp Printing & Lithographing | |||||
| Krug Brewery | |||||
| Linoma Realty Company | |||||
| Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska | |||||
| Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel Company | |||||
| Malashock Jewelry Company | |||||
| Methodist Hospital | |||||
| Metro Area Transit | |||||
| Metropolitan Utilities District | |||||
| Metz Brewery | 1856 | ||||
| Mutual Benefit Life | |||||
| N.P. Dodge Company | |||||
| NCR Corporation | |||||
| New England Company | |||||
| New York Life Insurance Company | |||||
| Northwest Mutual | |||||
| Northwestern Fur Company | |||||
| O’Keefe Elevator Company | |||||
| Olson Brothers | |||||
| Omaha Bedding & Couch Manufacturing Company | |||||
| Omaha Box Company | |||||
| Omaha Country Club | |||||
| Omaha Ice Company | |||||
| Omaha Livestock Exchange | |||||
| Omaha Livestock Market | |||||
| Omaha Printing Company, Inc. | |||||
| Omaha Public Power District | |||||
| Omaha Rubber Stamp Company | |||||
| Omaha World-Herald | 1885 | Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. | |||
| Paxton-Mitchell | |||||
| Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. | |||||
| Packaging Corporation of America | |||||
| Paxton & Vierling Steel Company | |||||
| Pegler-Sysco Food Service Co. | |||||
| Physician’s Mutual Insurance Company | 1902 | Founded by Edwin E. Elliott. | |||
| Piccolo Pete’s Restaurant | |||||
| Qwest | |||||
| Redfield & Company | |||||
| Renze Company | |||||
| Rotella’s Italian Bakery, Inc. | |||||
| Schmitt Music Centers | |||||
| Scott Manufacturing Company | |||||
| Storz Brewing Company | 1876 | ||||
| Sunderland Brothers Company | |||||
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | |||||
| U.S. Bank of Omaha | |||||
| United States Checkbook Company | |||||
| Wells Fargo | |||||
| WESCO | |||||
| Willow Springs Bottling Company | |||||
| Woodmen of the World Life Insurance | |||||
| Wright & Wilhelmy Company | |||||
| XPEDX | |||||
| Younkers, Inc. | |||||
See also
References
- ↑ "Historic Omaha Businesses", Douglas County Historical Society. Retrieved 1/27/08.
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