A small sample of companies that were founded the same year as Cooperative Extension began.
- American Licorice Company
- American Pop Corn Company
- Chicken of the Sea
- Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (Ohio)
- Dodge
- Farm and Dairy (Ohio)
- Greyhound (bus) Lines Inc.
- Kirby Company (Ohio – founded as George H. Scott Machine Shop)
- Maserati – Italian luxury car manufacturer
- Merrill Lynch
- Speedo International Limited
- Stop&Shop Supermarket Company
- Velvet Ice Cream (Utica, Ohio)