American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) 200 Vesey Street World Financial Center New York, NY 10285 Phone: (212) 640-2000 Fax: (212) 640-0404 http://www.americanexpress.com
American Express Company was incorporated in 1965 as a New York corporation. The Company was founded in 1850 as a joint stock association. It is a global payments and travel company. The main products and services of the Company are charge and credit payment card products and travel-related services offered to consumers and businesses around the world. The reportable operating segments of the Company are comprised of two customer-focused groups; the Global Consumer Group and the Global Business-to-Business Group. The Global Network & Merchant Services segment operates a global general-purpose charge and credit card network for both proprietary Cards and Cards issued under network licensing agreements. It also manages merchant services globally, which includes signing merchants to accept Cards as well as processing and settling Card transactions for those merchants. This segment also offers merchants point-of-sale, servicing and settlement and marketing products and services. As a significant part of its proprietary Card-issuing business, the Company's U.S. banking subsidiaries, Centurion Bank and AEBFSB, issue a range of Card products and services to consumers and small businesses in the United States. The Company offers individual consumer charge Cards such as the American Express Card, the American Express Gold Card, the Platinum Card(r), and the ultra-premium Centurion(r) Card revolving credit Cards such as Blue from American Express(r), Blue Cash(r) Card from American Express and Blue Sky from American Express and Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express, True Earnings(r) Card. It issues its charge and credit Cards in numerous countries around the globe. Through its Global Commercial Services group, it provides expense management services to more than 100,000 companies and organizations worldwide through Global Commercial Card and Global Travel Services. The Company is a global issuer of commercial cards and is also a global travel management Company for corporations and businesses. Through American Express Publishing, it publishes luxury lifestyle magazines such as Travel+Leisure(r), Travel+Leisure Golf, Food & Wine(r) and Departures(r); travel resources such as SkyGuide(r); business resources such as the American Express Appointment Book and SkyGuide Executive Travel, a business traveler supplement; a variety of general interest, cooking, travel, wine, financial and time management books; branded membership services; a growing roster of international magazine editions; as well as directly sold and licensed products. Most aspects of its business are subject to rigorous regulation by U.S. Federal and state regulatory agencies and securities exchanges and by non-U.S. government agencies or regulatory bodies and securities exchanges.
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