History Main / AcmeProducts

* The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators (ItMakesSenseInContext[[note]]Not really, but it's that kind of book anyway.[[/note]]) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit.

* The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators (ItMakesSenseInContext) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit.

** Bringing us around to one sad point: the Sears catalogue ended in 1993. The Internet hit big in 1995. If only they had held out a mere two more years...

* The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, which was your one stop shop for everything you could every possibly want (and much you didn't)... at least until around WorldWarII when demographic changes moved people away from rural areas to suburban zones. Sears even sold ''cars and houses'' via catalog.

* ''{{Deadlands}}'': Smith & Robards has everything a player character will ever need, all the way to customized submarines. And for the cash-strapped, there's always El Cheapo.

* Nickelodeon show ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' had this, with everyone listening to Krebstarr radios and wearing Kreb of the Loom underwear.

* The ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companhia_Uni%C3%A3o_Fabril Companhia União Fabril]]'' ("Manufacturing Union Company"). It was, before the Carnation Revolution, the largest company in Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula, one of the five largest ones in Europe, and one of the 100 largest in the ''world''. While mainly known as a chemical company, especially in fertilizers, for they were produced under the main company name, it also operated in other sectors, such as: cement, petrochemicals, textiles, beer, beverages, metallurgy, naval construction, electrical equipment, oilseeds, insurance, banking, wood pulp, tourism, mining, etc. In fact, there is still a company with the same name (although ''not the same company'') owned by the family who owned the old CUF, centering around chemicals, and hundreds of other companies which might be or not be owned by the same family who owned the old CUF. Their slogan, BTW, was ''"O que o país não tem, a CUF cria"'' ("What the country [Portugal] doesn't have, CUF creates").

** And like Acme, they're derided by some for their products' [[YourMileageMayVary hit-and-miss build quality]] - some items work reliably for a long time, while others would work for days or months but eventually break down or malfunction.

* SynTek Megacorporation from ''AlienSwarm''. Everything from drinks to weaponry to medicine and synthetic drugs is made by them.

** A chain of Acme Supermarkets still exists in the northeastern USA.

* There's a chain of supermarkets in the Delaware Valley region called Acme, but they don't quite sell everything.

* In LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' series, all starship hulls and a multitude of other useful high-tech products are sold by an alien-owned company called General Products.
** Not ''all'' hulls, just the [[spoiler:near-invulnerable, radiation-proof ones that come in 4 useful sizes...]] which does kind of give them an advantage in the market, I guess.

* The ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companhia_Uni%C3%A3o_Fabril Companhia União Fabril]]'' ("Manufacturing Union Company"). It was, before the Carnation Revolution, the largest company in Portugal, one of the five largest ones in the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the 100 largest in the ''world''. While mainly known as a chemical company, especially in fertilizers, for they were produced under the main company name, it also operated in other sectors, such as: cement, petrochemicals, textiles, beer, beverages, metallurgy, naval construction, electrical equipment, oilseeds, insurance, banking, wood pulp, tourism, mining, etc. In fact, there is still a company with the same name (although ''not the same company'') owned by the family who owned the old CUF, centering around chemicals, and hundreds of other companies which might be or not be owned by the same family who owned the old CUF. Their slogan, BTW, was ''"O que o país não tem, a CUF cria"'' ("What the country [Portugal] doesn't have, CUF creates").

** In one ''Looney Tunes'' short comic it was revealed that the ACME agent Wile E., when going to pick up his equipment, is Bugs Bunny in disguise, which may have something to do with why they never work the way they are supposed to.

* The Ultor Corporation in several Volition-made games (i.e. SaintsRow, RedFaction) are a clothing label, a mining company, and invest in extensive city redevelopment.

* The novel The Quillan Games in the Pendragon series features the territory of Quillan, in which the Blok corporation, which started as a general store, evolved until it completely controlled the territory, and produce everything, from food to buildings to artwork, on the planet. If it doesn't have the name "Blok" on it, it probably doesn't exist or is boarded up underground with a factory or concentration camp built over it.
* In LarryNiven's Known Space series, all starship hulls and a multitude of other useful high-tech products are sold by an alien-owned company called General Products.

* CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is a massive entity in Dune which, more or less, controls the sale of everything - essentially a mass amalgamation of craft and guilds.

* The Shutsu Tonka Unitocracy in ''DAAS Kapital''.

* ''Ground Control'' had the MegaCorp Crayven which produced food (such as the "Crayven Crunchbars"), combat armour, starships, had a military force, sponsored several frontier colonies and owned a multitude of TV channels. Oddly, Crayven did ''not'' produce Crayven brand weapons. Its armaments came from a sister-corporation called Wellby-Simms instead.

* SynTek Megacorporation from Alien Swarm. Everything from drinks to weaponry to medicine and synthetic drugs is made by them.

** [[BigBad Not so much]] in ''LooneyTunesBackInAction.''

* Aperture Science from ''Portal''. Every single element, item or device used in the countless tests is Aperture-branded product, and that includes the sentient computer running the place. Not bad for a company that started out designing parts for shower curtains.
* ''EliteBeatAgents'': The ABCD sporting goods company ranges from footballs to Olympic athlete's track suits.

* ''RatchetAndClank'' has Gadgetron, which supplies the hero's weapons and equipment. He actually gets to save it from an attack in the first game.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', or more accurately, its expanded universe of the Valve blog, features "Mann Co.", with the slogan "We Sell Products And Get In Fights".
** Mann Co. is actually a subsidiary of the even larger TF Industries, which also owns [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience RED and BLU]] and all of ''their'' subsidiaries.

* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Acme is headed by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, the movie's BigBad, who, not coincidentally, counts Wile E Coyote among his hired goons, despite "My God, man what am I going to do with you? You've done nothing but screw up. You've walked off of mesas, been smashed by boulders, and run over by diesel trucks. And don't blame the equipment. The equipment is good. It's Acme equipment. You're a coyote. Be wily."

** In one Looney Toons short comic it was revealed that the ACME agent Wile E goes to to pick up his equipment is Bugs Bunny in disguise, which may have something to do with why they never work the way they are supposed to.

* The PinkPanther uses Acme products on several occasions.

* ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' live at Acme Labs. We don't see them making a ton of bizarre roadrunner-busting products, but turning lab animals into evil geniuses who want to TakeOverTheWorld... sounds about right.

* Conglom-O from ''RockosModernLife'' was either this, or a corrupt MegaCorp, depending on episode needs.

* ''VideoGame/((Portal))'': Aperture Science. Every single element, item or device used in the countless tests is Aperture-branded product, and that includes the sentient computer running the place. Not bad for a company that started out designing parts for shower curtains.

* The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, which was your one stop shop for everything you could every possibly want (and much you didn't)... at least until around WorldWarII when demographic changes moved people away from rural areas to suburban zones. Sears even sold ''cars and houses''.

** Bringing us around to one sad point: the Sears catalogue ended in 1993. The Internet hit big in 1995. If they had held out a mere two more years...

* Like the two listed above: General Electric has a massive line of products ranging from household appliances to locomotives and aircraft.