Western Union money transfer information establishment

The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. Its North American headquarters is in Meridian, Colorado, although the postal designation of nearby Englewood is used in its mailing address. 

Western Union has several divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, business payments and commercial services. They offered standard "Cablegrams", as well as more cheerful products such as Candygrams, Dollygrams, and Melodygrams.

Western Union, as an industrialized monopoly, dominated the telegraph industry in the late 19th century. It was the first communications empire and set a pattern for American-style communications businesses as they are known today

Headquarters: Englewood, Colorado, United States

CEO: Hikmet Ersek (1 Sep 2010–)

Stock price: WU (NYSE) US$19.05 +0.19 (+1.01%)
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Founded: 1851

Number of employees: 7,000 (2010)

Subsidiaries: Western Union International Ltd, SpeedPay, Inc, more

Founders: Jeptha Wade, Ezra Cornell, Hiram Sibley, Samuel L. Selden

Online

Western Union's website, westernunion.com, still allows users to send and receive funds to others, pay bills, or purchase gift cards.

The domain westernunion.com attracted at least 8.7 million visitors annually by 2008, according to a Compete.com study.

Western Union Mobile

In October 2007, Western Union announced plans to introduce a mobile money-transfer service with the GSM Association, a global trade association representing more than 700 mobile operators in 218 countries and covering 2.5 billion mobile subscribers.

The proliferation of mobile phones in developed and developing economies provides a widely accessible consumer device capable of delivering mobile financial services ranging from text notifications associated with Western Union cash delivery services to phone-based remittance options. Western Union's mobile money transfer service offering will connect its core money-transfer platform to m-bank or m-wallet platforms provided by mobile operators and/or locally regulated financial institutions.

See also

• 60 Hudson Street – Former headquarters
• 92 Code
• Pangram – Used by WU to test teleprinters.
• Pennsylvania v. New York — Question before the U.S. Supreme Court: when Western Union Money orders are supposed to escheat to the state if not fully redeemed, what state is to get the money?
• Western Union, 1939 schooner chartered by Western Union Telegraph Company, used in film as slave ship La Amistad
• Western Union splice
• Western Union Telegraph Building – Former Headquarters