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16 companies
Unilever
Consumer Goods & FMCG
Unilever generated €60.8 billion revenue in 2024 ($65.7B USD), up 1.9% with 4.2% underlying sales growth driven by 2.9% volume increases across Person...
United Airlines
Aviation
United Airlines solved the hardest communication problem in business - then forgot the lesson when it mattered most. On December 28, 1978, Flight 173...
UBS Group AG
Banking
UBS absorbed rival Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion (March 2023) in a state-brokered rescue, instantly creating a financial organism representing 200%...
Ulta Beauty
Beauty Retail
Ulta Beauty's 2024-2025 performance demonstrates resource partitioning mastery—occupying the niche between Sephora's prestige-only model and mass reta...
Ultimate Electronics
Retail
Ultimate Electronics' 2011 liquidation closed a chain of 46 electronics stores after years of decline. The company competed against Best Buy without t...
Under Armour
Athletic Apparel
Under Armour generated $5.7 billion revenue in fiscal 2024, down 3% as the brand retreated from mass-market competition with Nike and Adidas. The comp...
UniCredit
Financial Services
UniCredit is an Italian global banking group serving 25 million clients across Europe. The company provides commercial banking, corporate banking, and...
Union Pacific Railroad
Railroad Transportation
Union Pacific operates largest North American railroad network with network effects from route density. Economies of scale in freight transportation a...
Uniswap
Cryptocurrency / DeFi
Uniswap v4 launched in late 2024 and processed over $110 billion in trading volume within its first 177 days, achieving $1 billion in Total Value Lock...
United Commercial Bank
Banking
United Commercial Bank's 2009 FDIC seizure destroyed the largest Chinese-American bank in the U.S. The San Francisco-based bank had made construction...
United Parcel Service
Logistics & Package Delivery
UPS operates global logistics with network effects from route density and economies of scale in package delivery. First-mover advantage in integrated...
UnitedHealth Group
Healthcare Services & Insurance
UnitedHealth Group's 2024 revenue of $400.3 billion makes it the ninth-largest company globally by sales—yet profits collapsed 35.6% to $14.4 billion,...
Unity Software
Software - Game Development
Unity Software demonstrates how keystone species can trigger trophic cascades through policy changes. The company's September 2023 announcement of run...
UPM-Kymmene
Forest Products & Paper
UPM's €10 billion forest products business demonstrates metabolic diversification from single resource base: 15,800 employees across 54 plants convert...
US Airways
Aviation
US Airways' 2013 merger with American Airlines created the world's largest airline but ended the US Airways brand. The company had emerged from two ba...
USAA (United Services Automobile Association)
Insurance/Financial Services
Insurance and financial services company founded in 1922 by 25 Army officers, serving exclusively U.S. military members, veterans, and their families....