Enron

Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural... Wikipedia

• Former type:  Public
• Traded as:  NYSE: ENE
• Industry:  Energy
• Fate:  Chapter 11 bankruptcy (as an effect of accounting fraud)
• Predecessor:  InterNorth (Northern Natural Gas Company), Houston Natural Gas, merger in 1985
• Successor:  Dynegy, Prisma Energy International, J.M. Hansen Corporation
• Founded:  July 16, 1985 in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
• Founder:  Kenneth Lay (for the Houston National Gas branch)
• Defunct:  March 1, 2007, November 28, 2016 (as Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation)
• Area served:  United States, India, Caribbean, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico
• Key people:  Kenneth Lay (founder, chairman and CEO), Jeffrey Skilling (former president, COO, and CEO), Andrew Fastow (former CFO), Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (former vice chairman, chairman and CEO of Enron International), Jason Paxton (Director of Finance)
• Services:  Energy
• Revenue:  $100.789 billion
• Total assets:  $67.503 billion
• Number of employees:  20,600 (2000)
• Divisions:  Enron Energy Services (EES), Enron Xcelerator
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo