List of companies

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Hale's maze of shell companies ends here ...

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This is a list of companies that can be found in Team Fortress 2. Many of these are presumed to be sub-fronts for the intelligence agencies behind Reliable Excavation Demolition and Builders League United. These companies are identified largely through signs or logos on maps, but some are identified through signs, text, and dialog or other content provided for the game, especially the comics and update webpages and videos.

The inclusion of commercial signs in maps serves several purposes. By referencing graphic corporate art styles of the first seven decades of the 20^th Century, the signs help establish the game's ambiance; a few signs are direct references to real business signs that could be seen in the Sixties. The signs are also used to help establish the theme of the maps, e.g., mining company signs on a mine themed map. Signs with BLU Team Tendency signs tend to use relatively modern and industrial styles, while signs with RED Team Tendency tend to have more antique, rural, or rustic styles. A few signs like "Gray Gravel Co." or "Auto-Borax" refer to the Storyline or tease updates. The company or product names on the signs are also used to make jokes, puns, and references, including references to names of game developers and historical artists that influenced the game.

"Properties" are the maps where signs for the company appear on major properties that the company possesses or operates; however, some companies have no properties on the present official maps, but appear in-game or in promotional Movies or Comics as "Signage only" (ellipses [...] indicate intentionally incomplete lists). "Team tendency" is the team that the company tends to lean towards in building style or map location; the coloration helping players to orient on the map.

Note: File locations for these posters can be found at tf2_textures_dir\materials\signs (ex: Alliance Towing is sign127).

Company (Products)	Properties (Signage) or Appearances	Team tendency	Reference to...
Alliance Towing	(Badlands, Mannhattan...)	RED	Unknown
Alpha Electric	Hydro (Pier)	Unknown	Unknown
Alto Elevators	Vanguard	Unknown	Unknown
Army Surplus General	(Enclosure)	Unknown	Mapper AsG_Alligator, contributor to Mossrock, Enclosure, and Gravestone
Ball Fortress (Sandman)	Label on Sandman's ball	Unknown	Sandman's ball
Ballinger	(Barnblitz...)	Unknown	Jeff Ballinger, an artist at Valve. Environment artist for Team Fortress 2 launch maps.
Banana Bay Exports	Banana Bay	Unknown	Unknown
Bayou Shipping	(Mountain Lab, Moonshine Event...)	Unknown	A bayou is a slow-moving stream, river, marshy lake, wetland, or creek.
Beacon	(Badlands, ...)	BLU	Unknown
Biggs	(Foundry, 2Fort...)	BLU	Unknown
Binder's Popsicles	(Doomsday...)	BLU	Unknown
Binksi Logging	Lumberyard, Sawmill... (Laughter...)	BLU	Unknown
Binski Paper Co	Lumberyard	RED	Unknown
Blue Mountain Pioneering	(Landfall)	Unknown	Blue Mountain of the Trainyard Skybox, seen from Lumberyard and others, notably End of the Line [1] and behind the burning BLU base on Snowplow (same mountain, later skybox).
Builders League United	Process, Badwater Basin...	BLU	Unknown
BLU Blast Complex	Foundry	BLU	Blast furnace, a factory where iron ore is refined into steel. (Paired with RED Iron Works)
BLU Brewery (Blu Streak Beer)	Ring of Fired, Grave Matters Meet the Engineer, Mann vs. Machine Rancho Relaxo	BLU	Unknown (Paired with Red Shed)
BLU Co	Granary, Doomsday	BLU	Blue Corn Co. (graphic art logo)
BLU Freight & Shipping	Freight	BLU	Unknown (Paired with Redstone Cargo)
BLU Industries Incorporated	Double Cross	BLU	Unknown
Blue Corn Co.	Granary (Mannhattan, Foundry...)	BLU	Blue corn, the main variety of flint corn grown in New Mexico. (Paired with RED Bread)
BLU Steel	Foundry	BLU	Blue Steel, referencing the color and toughness of tempered steel. (Paired with RED Iron)
BLU Warehouse	Unknown	BLU	Unknown
Boggy Brook's	Mountain Lab	None	Unknown
Bonk! (Bonk! Atomic Punch, Crit-a-Cola, Soda Popper, Winger, Atomizer, Bonk Boy, Bonk Batteries), Turkeys	'Bonk' Energy Drink Grave Matters The Days Have Worn Away	None	The Scout's memetic response.
Boucherie	Pier	Unknown	"Butchery"
Brown Nugget Prospecting	(Gold Rush, Foundry, Badwater Basin...)	RED	Unknown
Buckshot	Cauldron	None	Mapper Lauren "Yrrzy" Godfrey, Creator of Cauldron and contributor to Slasher and Snowfall
Bullseye Bill's	Slasher	None	The Super Mario enemy Bullet Bill.
Café et bistro	Pier	Unknown	"Cafe and bistro"
Captain Dan's (Edible Wood Pulp, Precooked Meat Product, Army Surplus Beans, Bread in a Can, Captain's Cocktails, ...)	Mannhattan (Coal Town) Rumford WAR!, Ring of Fired	Unknown	See Captain Dan
Casali Shafting Co.	(Badwater Basin, Coal Town, Bigrock...)	Unknown	Dario Casali, a level designer at Valve.
Cave Raiders	Swiftwater	Unknown	Unknown
Cerveza Royale	Expiration Date	Unknown	Cerveza, Spanish word meaning beer, which itself references Demoman's South of the Border beer run in Expiration Date.
Chaps Dry Goods	Coal Town (Decoy)	Unknown	Unknown
Château de Fleurs	Pier	Unknown	"Castle of Flowers"
Charles Darling's Triassic Preserve	Enclosure	Unknown	Charles Darling, Jurassic Park
Chairman	Steel	Unknown	1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, a favorite car of Frank Sinatra, who owned several, and who was nicknamed the Chairman.
Chemical Processing Facility	Swiftwater	Unknown	Unknown
Clem's	Barnblitz, Foundry, Pier, Citizen Pain Minigun	Unknown	Unknown
Cliffe Rocks Inc.	Gold Rush, Foundry	Unknown	Jess Cliffe, a level designer and artist at Valve.
Conagher Railroads	Wutville	BLU	The Engineer's surname.
Conagher's Tool & Munitions	Loose Canon	Unknown	Radigan Conagher, grandfather of Dell Conagher, the Engineer.
Conga (Professional Grade Dancing Boots)	(Wutville)	Unknown	The Conga taunt.
Conquistador Fried Giblets	Expiration Date	Unknown	Kentucky Fried Chicken, whose early "chicken buckets" had red and white stripes.
Cornwell	Dustbowl, 2Fort, Foundry, Doomsday	RED	20th century American illustrator Dean Cornwell, one of the artists who inspired the visual style for Team Fortress 2.
Cracky Pop!	(Badwater Basin, Cloak...)	Unknown	Unknown
Crash Construction	Probed, Moonshine Event	None	References the username of the creator of Probed, [UEAK]Crash. It also appears on other maps he has made or helped work on.
Crummy's Burgers	(Foundry, Badwater Basin, Doomsday...)	Unknown	Unknown
Carmack Computers	Galleria	BLU	References Doom co-creator John Carmack.
Dalokohs	Dalokohs Bar	Unknown	Dalokohs is shokolad, the Russian word for chocolate, spelled backwards.
Dapper Cadaver	Expiration Date	Unknown	Fashion magazine the Spy reads in the film Expiration Date.
Darling Zoos	Bidwell's Big Plan	Unknown	Charles Darling, nemesis of Saxton Hale
Der Architect	Hassle Castle	Unknown	Unknown
Discount Alchemist (Australium exchange)	Rottenburg	Unknown	Australium
Diedrich's Discount Delicatessen	Pier	Unknown	Unknown
Doctor Wilson's Auto-Borax	(Foundry, ...)	RED	Tobor, an unused texture and, as "robot" spelled backwards, was part of the ARG tease for Mann vs. Machine.
Driller	(Foundry, Granary...)	RED	Dave Riller, a game designer at Valve. (Paired with Jimi Jam)
Duck Duck Goos (Salted Sweet Cream Butter)	(Wutville)	Unknown	The Duck Journal action item. The game Duck, Duck, Goose.
Elliphany Electric Trains	Cauldron	None	Elliphany is the name of mapper Harlen "UEAKCrash" Linke's daughter.
Ellis' Crawdads	Moonshine Event, Pier	RED	"Do you know what 'suck the heads' means? 'Cause I came down here with Keith once, and he didn't know, and― I mean, it ain't nothin' bad. It's about eatin'―" Ellis quote from Left 4 Dead 2 (Paired with Spawn-N-Go)
Emmerich's	Pier	Unknown	Hal Emmerich from the Metal Gear series Revolver Ocelot reference: "It's a nice gun, I'll give you that. But the engraving gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever"
Finest Hour Ale House	Pier	Unknown	Winston Churchill's 1940 Finest Hour speech.
Freeman Airboat Tours	Mountain Lab, Lakeside	Unknown	A reference to Gordon Freeman and the airboat he uses to travel in, as well as the Half-Life and Left 4 Dead franchises. "C17" is an abbreviation for City 17, a location from the Half-Life series.
Freyja's Sushi	Mossrock	RED	Mapper Freyja, creator of Mossrock and Suijin, and contributor to Banana Bay, Cauldron, and Enclosure.
FGD Luxury Automobiles	Galleria	RED	Refers to FGD5 who created various assets for the map including the cars in the showroom and the ice resurfacer.
General Industries Co.	(Badwater Basin, Coldfront...)	BLU	Unknown
Gilded Gold	(Hoodoo, Foundry...)	BLU	False or fool's gold. Gilding looks like gold, but it is not. (Paired with Shiny's Bullion)
Gold Medal	(Gold Rush...)	None	Gold Medal Dynamites were products of the real life company, Illinois Powder Mfg. Co.
Goldbloom Tropical Flora Export	Enclosure	None	Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum
Goldstream Fuel Co.	(Foundry...)	BLU	Unknown
Gray Gravel Co.	Gravel Pit, Frontier (Gold Rush, Foundry...)	Gray Mann	Gray Mann, CEO.
Green Valley Post	Landfall	Unknown	Unknown
Griffivore Banana Co.	Laughter	None	Reference to a video of entertainer Griffin McElroy eating an unpeeled banana.
Hammond's Amber Mining Co.	Enclosure	Unknown	John Hammond and his source of Dino DNA
Hampshire's Heavy Lifting Equipment	(Byre)	Unknown	The "Hampshire Heavies" TF2 community
Handy Hoe	(Hoodoo, Nightfall...)	RED	Unknown
Happy Farmers Cooperative	2Fort, Hightower, Viaduct	RED	A happy face emoticon is incorporated into the circular form logo commonly used by cooperative agricultural groups.
Happy Farmers Cooperative (Tractors)	(Thunder Mountain, Foundry, Well...)	RED	From a promotional artwork for the famous International Harvester Red tractors; the largest selling row crop tractors of the middle 20^th Century. (Paired with Industrial Tractor)
Hôtel D'amour	Pier	Unknown	"Hotel of Love"
Humboldt's Pharmacy	Rottenburg	Unknown	19th century German natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt known to have studied electrical animation of dead tissue.
Humboldt Sauermilch Molkerei GMBH	Rottenburg	Unknown	The Mad Milk Syringes upgrade for Medic's syringe guns in Mann vs. Machine
Hurg Spaceship Parts	Brazil	Unknown	Unknown
Husky Acres	(Granary, Decoy...)	RED	Unknown
Icarus Airliners	(Coldfront)	Unknown	Eric "Icarus" Wong, the mapper that created Coldfront in which this poster appears. "Flying High" is how the mythic Icarus crashed.
I.D.O.	Byre	None	Ian "idolon" Spadin, the mapper that created Byre
Imperial Mining	Gold Rush, Upward, Nightfall	RED	Unknown (Paired with Regal Plumbing Supplies)
Industrial (Tractors)	(Dustbowl, Gravel Pit, Hydro, 2Fort, Viaduct, Foundry, Badwater Basin...)	BLU	Caterpillar D10 The first commercially successful tractor to use the iconic "high-drive system" invented by C. L. Best, founding CEO of Caterpillar Inc. (Paired with Happy Farmers Tractor)
Jenkin Coal Co.	Dustbowl, Upward, Mountain Lab, Doomsday...	None	Unknown
Jimi Jam	(Foundry, Hightower, Citizen Pain Minigun)	BLU RED (Citizen Pain Minigun)	(Paired with Driller)
Jobbs Orchards	Mac Update trailer	BLU	Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple.
Klintz Hocks	Rottenburg	Unknown	Unknown
Kritzhaus	Rottenburg	Unknown	Unknown
Lucky Plucker	(Foundry...)	BLU	Unknown
Lumpy Bros (Butter for Less)	Mannhattan	Unknown	Unknown
Mannhattan Used Fireworks	Mannhattan	None	Unknown
Mann Co. (Weapons, Cosmetic items)	Decoy, Mannworks, Coal Town Mann Co. Catalog Mann Co. Store	Mann Co.	Previously owned by Saxton Hale, Mann Co. is the company that supplied the TF2 mercenaries with their weapons in the Gravel Wars and the Robot War.
Menschnapps	Mannhattan	Mann Co.	Unknown
Mann Co. (The Mann Co. Genuine Spacesuit)	(2Fort Invasion)	Mann Co.	The Mann Co. Genuine Spacesuit is a sponsor of radio KKBC Refers to the original Alien tagline.
Sleepy Dog (Meaty Chunks dog food)	(2Fort Invasion)	None	Sleepy Dog's Meaty Chunks dog food is a sponsor of radio KKBC
McJohn Power	Powerhouse	BLU	(Opposes Wood Electric)
(Metal)	(Cactus Canyon)	RED	Ralston Purina, famous feed mill and cereal company, which in the 1960s was well-known for this "checkerboard square" logo. (Paired with Seed)
Mhankö	Mannhattan	Mann Co.	(Saxton Hale's boutique line)
Neal's Bananaland Ice Cream	(Pier)	Unknown	Mapper Neal "Blade x64" Smart, creator of Pier and contributor to Mossrock. STAR_ Team Fortress Classic video.
Newell and Sons	Get games faster with Steam	Unknown	Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve. Steampipe, the current Steam content delivery system.
Newell & Sons Steam Delivering	(Pier)	Unknown
NJ Productions	Lakeside	Unknown	Mapper Valentin "3DNJ" Levillain, creator of Mountain Lab, Kong King, and Lakeside
Nile Archaeo	Lakeside	BLU	(Red Raiders' archaeologist rivals)
Northern Express	Freight, Well	Unknown	Southern Pacific and other railroads
Odessa Mining Logistics	Odyssey	RED	Unknown
Old Geezer	Brew Grave Matters (Foundry, Badwater Basin...)	RED	Planned original bobblehead from Meet the Sniper.
Otto's Cafe	Rottenburg	Unknown	Unknown
Petite Chou-Fleur Floral	Sunshine, Pier	None	"Ma petite chou-fleur" French for "My little flower" Quote from Meet the Spy
Poco Coop	Wutville	Unknown	Unknown
P.R.P.	None	None	Unknown
Pinkerpaw Packaging	Mannhattan	None	Unknown
Piper & Piper Pipeworks Inc.	(Badwater Basin, Double Cross...)	BLU	Valve
Primaprime	Projector screen for instructional films that may be available in Mission Briefings.	None	Unknown
Projecto (Projector Screens)	Projector screen for instructional films.	None	Unknown
PYVE (Pyroland Vision Experience)	(Wutville)	Unknown	The Pyrovision Goggles
Reliable Excavation Demolition	Process...	RED	Unknown
Red Bread	Granary (Thunder Mountain, Hightower...) Expiration Date Red Bread (Soundtrack)	RED	Red wheat, the primary classification of bread wheat grown in United States and Soviet Union (now, Russia and Ukraine). (Paired with Blue Corn Co.)
Red Forest Fur Company	Landfall	RED	Fess Parker's frontiersmen characters, such as Daniel Boone in 1968, made coonskin caps popular with school children.
Red Ind. Trading	Landfall	RED	Unknown
Red Industries Unincorporated	Highpass	RED	Unknown
RED Iron	Foundry	RED	Red Iron, referencing the color and strength of structural steel. (Paired with BLU Steel)
RED Iron Works	Foundry	RED	Ironworks, a factory where iron ore is refined into steel. (Paired with BLU Blast Complex)
Red Planet Chemicals (DDT)	Swiftwater	RED	Swiftwater's premise is RED is poluting BLU's bottle's water supply. In 1968, DDT was a major environmental concern.
Red Raiders	Lakeside	RED	(Nile Archaeo's treasure hunting rivals)
Red Shed (Red Shed Whiskey) (Red Shed Beer)	Well (Badwater Basin, Coal Town...) Ring of Fired Meet the Sandvich Meet the Medic Rancho Relaxo RED	RED	Unknown
Red Valley Mining	Badlands	RED	Unknown
Redstone Cargo	Freight	RED	Unknown (Paired with BLU Freight & Shipping)
Regal Plumbing Supplies	Gold Rush (Dustbowl, Thunder Mountain...)	BLU	Unknown (Paired with Imperial Mining)
Rio Grande Coal Co.	Badlands, Bigrock, Thunder Mountain	BLU	A.D.M., whose molecule in green leaf logo from the 1960s and 70s symbolized making chemicals from plants instead of oil or coal. SpaceChem: A.D.M.'s 4 atoms are replaced by SpaceChem's 3-atom logo.
Rolling Stone Mining Logistics	Unknown	RED	Unknown
Sanders BBQ	Foundry	RED	Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que (Paired with Lucky Plucker)
Sapper Sour Candy	Pier, Landfall	Unknown	Sapper Mega Sour Bubble Gum
Schucker & Sons	Decoy	Unknown	Unknown
Scoot's Canoe	Foundry	BLU	A fan nickname of the Scout. (Paired with Sunny Hay)
Sea Side Exports	Mannhattan	RED	This sign takes the place of the circle C sign that would normally mark the Mannhattan defender's last of three points, or "C side".
(Seed)	(Cactus Canyon)	BLU	(Paired with Metal)
Shifty's Quick Shot	Swiftwater	Unknown	The sign designates a Sniper camp on Swiftwater. Darrell "Shifty" Powers was a WWII sniper with Easy Company in the 101st Airborne.
Shiny's Bullion	(Hoodoo, Foundry...)	RED	False or fool's gold. (Paired with Gilded Gold)
Smart (double-edged blades)	(Pier)	Unknown	Mapper Neal "Blade x64" Smart, creator of Pier and contributor to Mossrock
Smart Fireworks	Pier	RED	Mapper Neal "Blade x64" Smart, creator of Pier and contributor to Mossrock
Spawn-N-Go	Moonshine Event, Pier	BLU	20 sec. is the maximum for Respawn Times. (Paired with Ellis' Crawdads)
Strongarm Lifting	Vanguard	Unknown	Unknown
Sunny Hay	Barnblitz (Foundry, Thunder Mountain...)	RED	"Grass grows, ... sun shines, ...." — a tagline of the Scout. (Paired with Scoot's Canoe)
Swift	Swiftwater	BLU	Unknown
Telemax (Teleporters)	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
TF Industries (Sandvich, Saxton Series of action comics)	WAR!, ... Sentry Operating Manual	None	A reference to both Valve and Team Fortress 2.
Tree Feller 2 Million	Landfall	Unknown	TF2M is an abbreviation for TF2Maps.net.
Trench Diggers FIRST UNION	Landfall	Unknown	TF2M is an abbreviation for TF2Maps.net.
Tycho Corp Off-World Excavations	Bread Space	Unknown	Unknown
Vier Augen Optical Co.	Pier	Unknown	Vier Augen is a German phrase, literally meaning "Four Eyes"; in other words, a German wearing glasses, e.g., the Medic.
Wade Canoes	Moonshine Event	Unknown	Unknown
Wedge	Vanguard	Unknown	Reskin of Biggs
Wood Electric	Powerhouse	RED	(Opposes McJohn Power)
Wright Shipping	(Mannhattan...)	BLU	Matt & Danika Wright, 3D artists at Valve.
XXX	Bottle	None	A mark indicating extra strong alcoholic beverage.
Yeti Park	Mercenary Park	None	Logo of the Yeti fight park; although, the image is of a bear forepaw print.
YTI Institute for Research and Development.	Mercenary Park	None	Logo of the facility that altered the Yeti for greater strength and aggression.
Yti-Hale Shipping	Mercenary Park	None	Saxton Hale's amalgamated violent animal shipping company.
Zippy Plow	(Foundry, Gold Rush, Badlands, ...)	RED	The Ferguson System, later known as the three-point hitch.