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Also known as Enron Corp., Enron Corporation, Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.

Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was led by Kenneth Lay and developed in 1985 via a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies at the time of the merger. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,600 staff and was a major electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper company, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000. Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.

Key facts

Company.name
Enron Corporation
Company.logo
Logo de Enron.svg
Company.logo_size
175px
Company.logo_caption
Logo (designed by Paul Rand) used from 1997 to 2001. This was Rand's final major logo before his death in November 1996.
Company.image
File:1400SmithDowntown.jpg
Company.image_caption
1400 Smith Street, the former headquarters of Enron in Houston, Texas. It is now occupied by Chevron Corporation.
Company.type
Public
Company.industry
Energy
Company.fate
Chapter 11 bankruptcy (as a result of accounting fraud)
Company.founded
in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Company.founder
Kenneth Lay (for the Houston National Gas branch)
Company.defunct
(as Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation)
Company.location_city
1400 Smith StreetHouston, Texas
Company.area_served
United States, India, Caribbean, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico
Company.services
Energy
Company.revenue
$100.789 billion
Company.net_income
$979 million
Company.assets
$67.503 billion

via Wikipedia infobox

Company

Industry
Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services
State of incorporation
OR
Entity type
operating
Latest filing
35-CERT · 2005-11-29

via SEC EDGAR

Official website

ENRON | We're Back - Can We Talk? – Enron Corporation

We're back and we have something to say

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Encyclopedic overview

55 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Pre-merger origins (1925–1985)
  • InterNorth
  • Houston Natural Gas
  • Merger
  • Post-merger rise (1985–1991)
  • Timeline (1985–1992)
  • 1980s
  • July 1985
  • November 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1991–2000
  • Operations as a trading firm
  • Entrance into the retail energy market
  • Data management
  • Overseas expansion
  • Misleading financial accounts
  • 2002–2006
  • 2001 accounting scandals
  • Accounting practices
  • Post-bankruptcy
  • Insider trading scandal
  • Peak and decline of stock price
  • California's deregulation and subsequent energy crisis
  • Former management and corporate governance
  • Products
  • Online marketplace services
  • Broadband services
  • Energy and commodities services
  • Capital and risk management services
  • Commercial and industrial outsourcing services
  • Project development and management services
  • EnronOnline
  • Enron International
  • Management
  • Projects
  • India
  • Project summer
  • Enron Global Exploration & Production, Inc.
  • Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service
  • Enron's influence on politics
  • "Women of Enron"
  • 2024 satirical reboot and meme coin
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links
  • Data

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