List of company towns

This is a list of company towns.

Europe

Belgium

Louvain-la-Neuve, home of the Université Catholique de Louvain

Czech Republic

Zlín, original headquarters of Bata Shoes company
Zruč nad Sázavou, Central Bohemia region
Sezimovo Ústí

Denmark

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.

France

Cité ouvrière at Mulhouse

Noisiel, home of the chocolate factory owned by the Menier Family
Sochaux-Montbéliard, home of Peugeot
Villeneuvette, mill town owned by Jules Maistre
Le Creusot, forge town developed by Eugène and Adolphe Schneider.
Hayange and Jœuf, blast furnaces towns, fiefdoms of De Wendel family.
Thumeries, home of the sugar factory previously owned by the Béghin Family

Germany

Leverkusen, home of the Bayer AG
Wolfsburg, built to house Volkswagen workers
Sindelfingen, home of Mercedes-Benz's largest production plant, the Mercedes-Benz Museum, Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio, and its Customer Center. Sindelfingen is a suburb of Stuttgart, headquarters of Mercedes-Benz.

Former GDR

Hungary

Ireland

Rochfortbridge, 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.

Italy

San Donato Milanese, home of the ENI. Built by Enrico Mattei for company's workers, the town is centered on a neighborhood called "Metanopoli".
Rosignano Solvay. Built by Solvay for company's workers of the factory located in the neighbourhood of the city.
Colleferro. Built in the 1912 by Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino for company's workers of the factory located in the neighbourhood of the city.

Moldova

Dnestrovsc, 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.

Norway

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
Rjukan, former Norsk Hydro company town

Poland

Nowa Huta in Kraków
Giszowiec and Nikiszowiec in Katowice
Stalowa Wola and Nowa Dęba in the Central Industrial Region (Poland)
Kawęczyn, now part of Warsaw

Ukraine

Russia

Iron and Steel industry:

Magnitogorsk

Non-ferrous metal industry :

Iron mining:

Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:

Oil and gas:

Petrochemical industry:

Textile industry

Ivanovo - the "city of brides"

Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразующее предприятие" 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.

Slovakia

Partizánske, founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company
Svit, founded by Jan Antonín Baťa of the Bata Shoes company

North America

Canada

See List of company towns in Canada

Dominican Republic

La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation.

Mexico

Ciudad Pemex, Tabasco built around a PEMEX plant.

United States

See List of company towns in the United States

Asia

India

Vikroli, Mumbai, earlier Bombay, developed by Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Sakharwadi, Maharashtra, developed by Walchand Industries
Kirloskarwadi, Maharashtra developed by L.K.Kirloskar

Kumarapatnam, Karnataka, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. A small town developed solely due to two large scale units of Grasim Industries.
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.
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.