Companies Based in Arapahoe County, Colorado - Companies Based in Centennial, Colorado, Companies Based in Englewood, Colorado (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Companies based in Centennial, Colorado, Companies based in Englewood, Colorado, Companies based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Western Union, Gap Broadcasting Group, Jones Radio Networks, Adam Aircraft Industries, Gevo, Inc, Adelphia Communications Corporation, Xanterra Parks and Resorts, First Data, Air Methods, Jeppesen, United Launch Alliance, EBags.com, Sports Authority, National CineMedia, Secure64 Software, NextMedia Group, Aviation Technology Group, Red Robin, Ciber, Good Sam Club, Big O Tires, Key Lime Air, American Medical Response, LaMar's Donuts, CoBank. Excerpt: The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado, United States. Until it discontinued the service in 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams. Western Union has a number of divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, business payments and commercial services. In 1851, the New York & Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was organized in Rochester by Hiram Sibley and others, with the goal of creating one great system with unified and efficient operations. Meanwhile, Ezra Cornell had bought back one of his bankrupt companies and renamed it the New York & Western Union Telegraph Company. Originally fierce competitors, by 1855 both groups were finally convinced that consolidation was their only alternative for progress. The merged company was named The Western Union Telegraph Company at Cornell's insistence and Western Union was born. Western Union bought out smaller companies rapidly, and by 1860 its lines reached from the East Coast to the Mississippi River, and from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River. In 1861 it opened the first ...