How to represent a list with one item?
I have an application which generates a table of information. One of the columns may contain more than one business name but often only contains one business name. Semantically, the column contains a list in each row. Instinct tells me to maintain consistency by displaying the business names in a bulleted list. However, it seems to me that it would be very puzzling to a user to see a table that happens to only have lists with a single bulleted list item in each row.
Here's an example of the type of data we're looking at:
|-------------------------|
|* UNIVERSAL LOANS |
|* NATIONAL FIRST CREDIT |
| FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP|
|-------------------------|
|* DEWEY, CHEETAM, & HOWE |
|-------------------------|
|* BOB'S GROCERY |
|-------------------------|
There is some UX guidance for bulleted lists (e.g., https://www.nngroup.com/articles/presenting-bulleted-lists/) but I have not found anything specific to this question.
How do I best represent a list of one list item, especially in the context of a table column which contains many lists of one or more items each?