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Western Union

Denver, United States · Founded 1851

Western Union was founded in 1851 by Jeptha Wade, Ezra Cornell, Samuel L. Selden and Hiram Sibley, and is based in Denver, United States.

Key facts

Legal form
Delaware corporation
Employees
11,000 (2020)
Listed
New York Stock Exchange
Revenue
USD 4,835,000,000 (2020)

About

American financial services and communications company

Founders

In context

We hold 5 other financial services companies founded in the 1850s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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