Company context
The public record describes Waste Management, Inc as American company. Its recorded founding year is 1968.
- Public business description
- American company
- Country recorded for the company
- United States
- Founding year in source record
- 1968
Recorded founders
- Dean Buntrock · American businessman
- Wayne Huizenga · American businessman (1937–2018)
The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.
Understanding Waste Management, Inc in context
Waste Management, Inc is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “American company,” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 1968. The source links 2 people in this library to the founding team. Each has a separate profile, which makes it possible to follow the people behind the business without treating one founder as its sole owner.
The company website listed in the source is the next place to research its current offering. Compare the company’s own description, its leadership information, and dated announcements with this reference record before drawing conclusions about today’s business. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.
This reference library documents public founding associations, including historical businesses and founders. A company may have changed ownership, name, or operating status since the recorded founding event. It is separate from our revenue-qualified growth profiles. Founding does not establish current ownership, employment, company revenue, or an AE client relationship.
Research trail
- Wikidata public record Q2552219: company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
- Waste Management, Inc website as listed in the public record
Following up with the business
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