This is a list of notable businesses, organizations or charities founded byQuakers. Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses that have never had any connection to Quakers, although some people may believe that they did or still do.

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• Albright and Wilson, manufacturing chemists
• Allen & Hanburys, founded in London in 1715 by QuakerSilvanus Bevan and his brother Timothy; grew to be a leading pharmaceutical company with operations in Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada, China, India and South Africa before being acquired byGlaxo Laboratories in 1958
• Alternatives to Violence Project, volunteer-run conflict transformation program started in a New York prison in 1975
• American Friends Service Committee, Quaker peace and social justice organization founded in 1917
• Amnesty International, human rights organization;Eric Baker was a founding partner

• Barclays Bank, finance^[1][2][3]
• Bethlehem Steel, founded by Quaker entrepreneurJoseph Wharton
• Bewley's, Irish hot beverage company founded by Samuel and Charles Bewley. The Bewleys were one of Ireland's most well known Quaker families.
• Bradshaw's, Victorian and Edwardian publisher of the most widely used railway timetables in Britain, Europe and India, founded by QuakerGeorge Bradshaw
• Bryant and May, former match manufacturing company, founded by two Quakers, Francis May and William Bryant

• Cadbury plc, chocolate and drinks manufacturer, founded by QuakerJohn Cadbury, and expanded by Quaker sonsRichard andGeorge
• Canadian Friends Historical Association, association of Quakers and historians who seek to preserve and communicate the ongoing history and faith of Friends (Quakers) in Canada and their contribution to the Canadian experience
• Carr's, UK biscuit manufacturer^[4]
• Clarks, shoe manufacturer
• Coalbrookdale Company, iron manufacturer
• Coast Medic, UK charity providing Paramedic emergency care at sea
• Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, founded byArthur Dorland

• Duane Morris, now one of the 100 largest law firms in the US, and still committed to Quaker values^[5]

• Earlham College, liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, founded in 1847 as theFriends Boarding School, a boarding high school for the religious education of Quaker adolescents

• Friends Provident, life insurance company, founded by QuakersSamuel Tuke andJoseph Rowntree
• Furness Withy, British Marine Transport company, founded as Withy and Co., iron and steel shipbuilders, ofWest Hartlepool byQuaker brothersHenry Withy (1852–1922) andEdward Withy (1844–1927); grew to own in excess of a thousand ships

• Gilkes Wilson and Company, British locomotive manufacturer
• Goodbody Stockbrokers, Irish Stockbrokers. Known for many years as "Goodbody & Webb", it was founded by two Quakers, Jonathan Goodbody and Richard Webb.
• Guilford College
• Greenpeace, campaigning environment organization; the four^{[citation needed]} founding members includeIrving Stowe^[6] and Dorothy Stowe of Vancouver Monthly Meeting.

• Huntley and Palmers biscuits, manufacturer inReading, Berkshire
• Huntsman, steel manufacturer

• TheInman Line, Victorian passenger shipping line on the North Atlantic, founded in 1850 by Irish Quaker industrialistJohn Grubb Richardson and EnglishmanWilliam Inman
• TheInternational Voluntary Service was founded in 1931 by the Swiss QuakerPierre Ceresole
• ICOPA, theInternational Conference on Penal Abolition, formerly the International Conference on Prison Abolition, founded byRuth Morris

• Jacob's, Irish biscuit maker, best known for thecream cracker. Founded by William Beale Jacob and his brother Robert who were both Quakers.
• J. S. Fry & Sons, chocolate manufacturer
• John Fowler & Co., manufacturer of agricultural tools and machinery, founded by Quaker engineer and inventorJohn Fowler
• J H Holmes & Co (showing the entry for John Henry Holmes), electrical engineer, inventor and manufacturers in Newcastle upon Tyne specialising in early motors, dynamos & switches, and were pioneers of electric lighting on trains and the Suez canal
• Johns Hopkins University, renowned private university in Baltimore, Maryland, originally started as a graduate university by Quaker abolitionistJohns Hopkins, early board positions were partly filled by Friends
• Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

• Lloyds Bank, finance^[7]

• Merz & McLellan, British electrical engineering consultancy co-founded byCharles Hesterman Merz

• Neptune Bank Power Station, designed byMerz & McLellan, first power station in the United Kingdom to generate three-phase electric power, and the first to supply electricity for industrial purposes rather than just lighting
• Newcastle Electric Supply Company, founded byJohn Theodore Merz, pioneered the use of high-voltage three-phase AC power distribution in the United Kingdom

• Oxfam, charity^[8]

• PQ Corporation, orPhiladelphia Quartz Company, was originally founded by Philadelphia Quaker businessmen, Joseph Elkinton and Thomas Elkinton.
• Priestman Brothers,Kingston upon Hull engineering company founded by QuakerWilliam Dent Priestman and his brother Samuel Priestman, which built the earliest recorded railway locomotive powered by an internal combustion engine

• Penington Friends House, founded in 1897 to provide shelter and meals to Quakers and friendly people coming to New York City. Long term and short stay guest rooms are still provided.
• ThePlymouth China Factory, founded byWilliam Cookworthy, the first person in Britain to discover how to makehard-paste porcelain.

• Reckitt and Sons (nowReckitt),Kingston upon Hull household products manufacturer founded by QuakerIsaac Reckitt, and greatly expanded by his Quaker sonSir James Reckitt
• Renovaré, interfaith group founded byRichard J. Foster
• The Retreat, a pioneering mental health institution founded byWilliam Tuke that practicedMoral treatment.
• Rogers Communications, Canadian media conglomerate
• Rogers Vacuum Tube Company, Canadian retailer and manufacturer of radio transmitters using alternating current vacuum tubes
• Rowntree's (owned byNestlé), chocolate manufacturer, founded by QuakerJoseph Rowntree

• Sandy Spring Bank, founded in 1868 by Quaker farmers, now the largest bank in the state of Maryland, US^[9]
• Scott Bader Commonwealth, British manufacturer of advanced resins and composites, founded byErnest Bader in 1951
• Sony (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, or Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering, Co.), TTK's founding board president was Tamon Maeda, a Japanese Quaker, prewar Japanese ambassador to ILO, and postwar Minister of Education
• Stockton and Darlington Railway, established in 1825 by QuakerEdward Pease, operated the world's first permanent steam locomotive-hauled railway line
• Strawbridge and Clothier (now part of Macy's), department store chain, US (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware)

• Waterford Crystal, former producer ofcrystal glass, founded by Quakers in 1783, closed in 1851; the modernWaterford Wedgwood was not founded by Quakers, being the merger of a separateWaterford Crystal company founded in 1947 by non-QuakerCharles Bacik, andWedgwood, founded by theUnitarian,Josiah Wedgwood.
• Western Union, founded byEzra Cornell.
• Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, a Quaker educational institution in Selly Oak.

• Quaker Oats Company, food manufacturer
• Quaker State, motor oil brand
• Quaker Steak & Lube, casual dining restaurant chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania

• BBC article on Quakers successes in business

• The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920

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