Wells Fargo & Co. (
NYSE:
WFC) is a diversified
financial services company in the
United States with
consumer finance subsidiaries doing business in
Canada and
Puerto Rico. Headquartered in
San Francisco,
California (its bank, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., is legally chartered in
Sioux Falls,
South Dakota), Wells Fargo is a result of an acquisition of California-based
Wells Fargo & Co. by Minneapolis-based
Norwest Corporation in 1998. The new company chose to keep the name Wells Fargo, to capitalize on the 150-year history of the nationally-recognized Wells Fargo name and its trademark
stagecoach (the company's slogan, "The Next Stage," is a nod to the company's wagons-west motif). After the acquisition, the company maintained its headquarters in San Francisco.
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