Western Union has taken of 451st position in the rating Fortune 500 in 2009, having moved from 473rd line in 2008. As a result of 2011, net income of Western Union has increased by 28% to $ 1.165 billion, the company reported. In April 1851 companions registered in Albany New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company (NYMVPTC), which included founded two years before New York State Printing Telegraph Company. Money transfer is a matter of minutes, at any distance. In 1856, in 7 years after the foundation of New York State Printing Telegraph Company, the company changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1884 Western Union has become a joint-stock company and was brought to the stock exchange. The company has entered in the first American stock index Dow Jones.