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Enron Corporation

Logo (designed by Paul Rand) used from 1996 to 2001. This was Rand’s final major logo before his death in November 1996.
1400 Smith Street, the former headquarters of Enron in Downtown Houston, Texas (now occupied by Chevron Corporation).
Former type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: ENE
Industry	Energy
Fate	Bankruptcy
Predecessor	InterNorth (Northern Natural Gas Company) Houston Natural Gas merger in 1985
Successor	Dynegy Prisma Energy International J.M. Hansen Corporation
Founded	1985 (1985) in Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Founder	Kenneth Lay
Defunct	2001 (2001)
Headquarters	1400 Smith Street Houston, Texas , United States
Area served	United States, India, Caribbean, Brazil
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 (Interim CEO and CFO)
Services	Energy
Revenue	$100.789 billion
Net income	$979 million
Total assets	$67.503 billion
Number of employees	29,000 (2001)
Divisions	Enron Energy Services (EES) Enron Xcelerator

Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation, NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Enron used to have around 22,000 people before it went bankrupt in late 2001. In 2001, it was revealed that people in Enron were involved in accounting fraud. The company closed in 2007.

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