can anyone help me think of a publicly owned manufacturing or merchandising corporation?

Answer 1

Manufacturing Companies:

ACT MANUFACTURING
AMER AXLE&MFG HLDS
CHARTERED SEMI
DECKER MANUFACTURING
ENDO MANUFACTURING C
FIBRE-CROWN MANUFACTURING INC.
HAMMOND MANUFACTURING CO LTD
INDUSTRIALEX MANUFACTURING CORP
KIMMON MANUFACTURING
KOITO MANUFACTURING
MURATA MANUFACTURING
MODINE MFG CO
PROBE MANUFACTURING
RAYDAN MANUFACTURING INC. (Tier
REEFCO MANUFACTURING
SMTC MANUFACTURING CORP OF CANA
SEMICONDUCTOR MFG IN
SIMPSON MFG CO INC
TAIWAN SEMICOND ADS

Merchandizing Companies:

Ackerman McQueen
Ad Agency
Ad Methods Halpern & Eurich
Ad Store
Adams Colway & Associates
Adjacency Inc.
Admark, Inc.
Advanced Media Services
Advertising, Boelter & Lee
Ambassador Marketing Group Inc.
America House
Anderson & Arteaga
@Once! Marketing & Associates
Austin Knight
A & Associates
Barber Shop
Barry Advertising, Inc.
Bates Malaysia
Bates Asia Interactive
Bates Dialog
Bates Dorland Interactive
Bates Ireland
Denison Bates
Batey Ads
Battenberg, Fillhardt & Wright
BBDO Techsetter Hotline
Bear Advertising
Benedict Advertising
Benjamens, Van Doorn EURO-RSCG
Benton, Newton & Partners
Bernard Hodes Advertising
Big Black Hat
Biggs Gilmore Communications
Black Box
Black Point Group
Blitz Media
Blue Marble Advanced Communication Group
Bond & Susser Productions
Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt
Brouillard Communications
Brown Communications Group
Business Promotion & Services
Byrne Johnson, Inc.
CHJS
CKS Group
Call It Advertising
Carter Waxman Advertising & Public Relations
Celtic Advertising
Chaffee & Co.- Abracadabra!
Charron, Schwartz & Associates
Cole & Weber's Rodeo
Colle & Porter
Cross Hill Conwill
Cyclops Communications
DB& Communications
DDB Needham, New York
DJN Marketing Services
DNA Advertising & Design
DTF IT
Dahlin Smith White
Dalbey & Denight
Dalton, Rich & Rubicam
Deutsch
Devine Advertising Associates
Dillon Advertising & Public Relations
Doe-Anderson
DolCom, Inc.
Donino & Partners
Donnelly & Mueller
Duckworth, Finn, Grubb, Waters
Duval Woglom Brueckner & Partners
Earle Palmer Brown
EMA Multimedia, Inc.
Eisaman, Johns & Co AB
Emissary Communications
Emporium
Erin/Edwards
ExNovo
Fallon McElligott
Farago Advertising
Felder Communications Group
Fellers & Company
Floathe Johnson: High-Tech Advertising
FLUX Creative Group
Flynn, Sabatino & Day
Foote, Cone & Belding Technology Group
Foster Nunn Loveder
FranceCom, Inc.
Frankel & Anderson
French & Rogers
Fusion Advertising and Communications
G. L. Ness
G. R. Barron and Company, Inc.
Gage Marketing Group
Ganchiff Communications
General Media!
Gennera, Knab & Company
Gennis Agency
Gianettino & Meredith Advertising
Gist & Partners
Green Lake Group
Greenlight Communications
Greg Smith Communications
Grey Advertising
Grey Communications
Haibeck Communications Inc.
Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab
Hanlon Dorsey Advertising
Hart Advertising Ltd.
Hastings & Cohen, Inc.
Hemisphere Corporation
Hensley Segal Renschler
Herring/Newman
High-Touch Communications Inc.
Hill Holliday Advertising
Hodskins Simone & Searls, Inc.
Holland Mark Martin
Hughes, Ruch & Murphy
Hunt Lascaris TBWA
Hutton & Sherer Advertising
imaginagency
Imahara Associates
In-Line Media
InfoHarvest Inc.
Ingalls, Quinn & Associates
J. Walter Thompson Worldwide
J. Walter Thompson-San Francisco
J. Walter Thompson-Sydney
J. Walter Thompson Iberia
J. Walter Thompson Recruitment Advertising
Jacobson Rost
Jaffe & Soeder Marketing Communications
Jerlov & Company
Johnson, Cogert & Strauss
KVO Advertising and Public Relations
Kamstra Communications
Karakas VanSickle Ouellette
Keating Magee Long Advertising
Kern Media Associates
Ketchum Communications
Kidwell McGowan Associates
Kilgannon Group
Kingswood Advertising
Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners
McMann & Tate
McMonigle & Spooner
Mcnabb Advertising
McQuertergroup
Media Connection of New York, Inc.
Media Logic
Media Smith
Media Mix
Meldrum & Fewsmith
Merkley Newman Harty
Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer
Meyer & Johnson
Michael J. Motto Advertising
Merkley Newman Harty
Miller Mauro Group, Inc.
Mindshare Marketing Group
Mintz & Public Relations
Modem Media
Momentum
Montgomery & Partners
Morrison Agency
Morse-Balegno
Mullen Advertising
Myles Spicer & Associates
NTT AD USA
NY Creative Alliance
NeRAY MARCOM
Netmark Advertising and Promotions
Neville Jeffress Advertising
Newman Saylor & Design
O'Connor, Kenny, Swain

Answer 2

There are thousands of publicly owned manufacturing companies. Some big ones are GM, GE, Coke, Delphi, etc.

Answer 3

Wal mart is publicly owned and is the largest retailer in the world