Populating dropdown in form from table

Hello,

I am a bit confused on how to use the controllers/models in the right way.

I have 2 tables:

-Companies and towns

I have created a form that shows here "company/create.blade.php":

public function create()
{
return view('company.create');
}

In this form I would like to populate the dropdown menu with towns from the town table.

I currently have a company model, controller and a town model and controller.

The form is showing fine but as soon as I try to pass the dropdown values from the town table, I receive errors(see below).

use App\Town;

public function create()
{
$towns = App\Town::all();
return view('company.create', ['towns' => $towns]);
}

I have also tried this but same error.:

public function create()
{

$towns = App\Town::all()->orderBy('name', 'desc')->get();
return view('company.create', compact('towns'));
 }

In the company/create.blade.php I added this:

            <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('towns') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
                 <label for="towns" class="col-md-4 control-label">Select a Town</label>
                 <div class="col-md-6">

                      <select class="form-control" id="town">
                      <option value="">Select a Town</option>
                      @foreach ($towns as $town)
                      <option value="{{ $town->id }}">{{ $town->name }}</option>
                      @endforeach
                      </select>
                     @if ($errors->has('towns'))
                         <span class="help-block">
                             <strong>{{ $errors->first('towns') }}</strong>
                         </span>
                     @endif
                 </div>
             </div>

I was expecting to have the form populated from the table "town" but instead, I am getting this:

ErrorException (E_ERROR) Undefined variable: towns (View: C:\laragon\www\kolloxmt\resources\views\company\create.blade.php)

Any idea what am I doing wrong please?