What fictional company is responsible for the Axiom spaceship in WALL-E?

Buy n Large is the fictional megacorporation responsible for the Axiom spaceship in WALL-E.

Usually stylized as Buy n Large, the company dominates the film's future society. It sells virtually everything, builds the enormous Axiom starliner, and evacuates humanity from Earth after consumerism, pollution, and environmental collapse make the planet uninhabitable. The company's influence is so extensive that its branding appears throughout the ship and across the remnants of human civilization.

Buy n Large is often mistaken for the Axiom itself. The Axiom is the spaceship, while Buy n Large is the corporation that owns or operates the wider system surrounding it. The company also created the WALL-E trash-compacting robots left behind to clean Earth and established the robotic infrastructure that serves passengers in space.

The corporation functions as more than background world-building. Its cheerful advertisements and convenient products contrast with the ecological damage shown in the film. Buy n Large's former chief executive, Shelby Forthright, is connected to the secret directive that prevents the Axiom from returning to Earth, making the company central to the film's criticism of unchecked corporate power.