The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) owns a handful of companies under the holding company Deseret Management Corporation. The companies are:
Real Estate:
Temple Square Hospitality: operates a handful of restaurants and reception centers in Salt Lake City
Zions Securities: manages residential and commercial properties in Salt Lake City, Utah
Hawaii Reserves: manages residential and commercial properties in Laie, Hawaii
Property Reserve
Media:
Bonneville International: owns several radio stations nationwide
Deseret Book: LDS publisher and book store
Deseret Digital Media: operates the websites of the church-owned companies
Deseret News: Utah's second largest daily newspaper
KSL Broadcasting: the television and online news service connected to Deseret News
Agriculture:
AgReserves Inc
Farmland Reserve Inc
Financial and Insurance:
Beneficial Financial:insurance and retirement services
Deseret Mutual:provides insurance for LDS church authorities, employees, and missionaries
They also own four universities (BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College) and a non-profit thrift store - Deseret Industries.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates both non-profit and for-profit companies.
Non-profits operated by the Church include:
-Deseret Industries, a thrift store
-Intellectual Reserve, a non-profit holder for the Church's intellectual property, trademarks, and copyrights
For-profits operated by the Church include:
-Polynesian Cultural Center, a living-history museum and tourist attraction in Hawaii which provides employment for students of BYU-Hawaii
-Deseret Management Corporation, a holding company for most of the church's profit ventures including:
-Beneficial Financial Group (insurance)
-Bonneville International (media and broadcasting)
-Deseret Book (publishing and bookstores)
-Deseret News Publishing (newspapers)
-AgReserves, Inc (agriculture)
-Deseret Ranches (agriculture)
-Farmland Reserve, Inc (agriculture)
-Hawaii Reserves (real estate and development in Laie, Hawaii)
-Property Reserve (real estate, commercial, residential, mixed use development)
-Temple Square Hospitality (restaurants, catering, reception halls, on Temple Square)
-Seagull Book (bookstores)
Basically anything Deseret; Deseret Industries (D.I.), Deseret Book, etc.
the MORMON CHURCH OWNS ONLY ONE COMPANY. dessert SOME say that the Mormon church owns Wal-Mart that isn't true> sure the guy who founded wal-mart was Mormon
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