Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)
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This page covers the naming convention of businesses, corporations, companies, public limited company, limited companies, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, proprietary limited companies and other types of corporations.
Convention: The legal status of the company (Corp., plc or LLC), is not normally included, i.e. Microsoft or Wal-Mart. When disambiguation is needed, legal status, main company interest or "(company)" can be used to disambiguate. For example, Dell, Inc., Halifax (bank) or Converse (company). When the legal status is used, it is abbreviated in the article title (Corp. Co., Inc., LLC, LLP, Ltd., plc, etc.) In the article itself, the title sentence of the article should include the abbreviated legal status. For example: Generic Co. Ltd. is largest provider of widgets in the world.