List of companies based in Hayward, California

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This is a list of current and former companies operating in, or based in, Hayward, California. Significant local divisions of national and international companies are included, as are local businesses. Former companies that have closed, been acquired by other companies, or moved are also listed. Other economically or culturally important institutions, such as shopping malls, colleges, and nonprofit organizations, are included.

Retail[edit]

Southland Mall entrance

Southland Mall is the largest shopping center in Hayward. It houses the anchor department stores Sears, Kohl's and Macy's, and other retailers. In addition to a Target store at the Skywest Commons mall, the city's major retailers include Home Depot and Office Depot. A Costco Business Center is located there.[1]

Manufacturing[edit]

Hayward has a large number of manufacturing businesses and corporate headquarters, including high-tech companies, and is considered part of a northern extension of Silicon Valley.[2] (Companies manufacturing in Hayward are in bold text.)

Berkeley Farms
Gillig plant
Simm's Custom Cycles
  • Simms' Custom Cycles, founded by legendary custom motorcycle builder Ron Simms[29][30]
  • Simple Wave, the creator of the Calibowl spill free bowl[31][32]
  • Sugar Bowl Bakery, founded in 1984 in San Francisco, facilities consolidated in Hayward from locations in Hayward and San Francisco
  • Ultra Clean Technology, has operated its headquarters, and one of its manufacturing plants, out of Hayward since 2008, having moved there from Palo Alto[33][34][35][36]
  • US Boba Company, first U.S. company to make bubble tea tapioca balls[37][38]

Other[edit]

Nonprofits[edit]

Top employers[edit]

2014[edit]

According to the city's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[44] the top employers in the city, representing 6.5% of total city employment, were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Hayward Unified School District 2500
2 California State University, East Bay 1447
3 Kaiser Permanente 1200
4 City of Hayward† 845
5 St. Rose Hospital 842
6 Gillig 700
7 Impax Laboratories 700
8 Chabot College 600
9 Manheim Auctions (AKA Bay Cities Auto) 500
10 Marelich Mechanical 500

2013[edit]

According to the city's 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[45] the top employers in the city, representing 8.2% of total city employment, were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Kaiser Permanente 2,500
2 California State University, East Bay 2,207
3 Hayward Unified School District 2200
4 Alameda County 1200
5 City of Hayward† 800
6 Gillig 700
7 St. Rose Hospital 700
8 Pentagon Technologies 650
9 Berkeley Farms 600
10 Impax Laboratories 594

2012[edit]

According to the city's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[46] the top employers in the city, representing 6.8% of total city employment, were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Hayward Unified School District 2,200
2 California State University, East Bay 1880
3 Kaiser Permanente 1200
4 Alameda County 1114
5 St. Rose Hospital 842
6 City of Hayward† 786
7 Gillig 700
8 Chabot College 494
9 Kobe Precision 450
10 Plastikon† 400

2011[edit]

According to the city's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[47] the top employers in the city, representing 8% of total city employment, were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Kaiser Permanente 2,200
2 Alameda County 2,000
3 Hayward Unified School District 1981
4 California State University, East Bay 1500
5 St. Rose Hospital 1065
6 City of Hayward† 812
7 Gillig 600
8 Chabot College 615
9 Kobe Precision 450
10 Plastikon 400

2010[edit]

According to the city's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[48] the top employers in the city that year, representing 7% of total city employment, were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Hayward Unified School District 2,500
2 California State University, East Bay 1,447
3 Kaiser Permanente 1,200
4 City of Hayward† 845
5 St. Rose Hospital 842
6 Gillig 700
7 Chabot College 600
8 Marelich Mechanical 500
9 Bay Cities Auto Auction 500
10 Kobe Precision[49] 450
11 Injex Industries†[50] 425
12 Pepsi Beverages Company/Bottling Group[51] 400
13 Alameda Newspaper Group 300

2009[edit]

According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[52] the top employers in the city that year were:

# Employer # of employees
1 Hayward Unified School District 1,776
2 California State University, East Bay 1,600
3 Kaiser Permanente 1,200
4 City of Hayward† 1,178
5 St. Rose Hospital 842
6 Gillig 700
7 Chabot College 615
8 Marelich Mechanical 500
9 Manheim Auctions (AKA Bay Cities Auto) 500
10 Kobe Precision 450
11 Alameda Newspaper Group 425
12 Pepsi Beverages Company 400
13 Injex Industries†[53] 375

† indicates employers wholly located or headquartered in Hayward

Two businesses which had significant employment in fiscal year 2000–2001, Mervyns (2,000), and Pacific Bell (940), no longer operate in Hayward.

Former businesses[edit]

Holiday Bowl sign

Hunt Brothers Cannery[edit]

The economy of Hayward in the first half of the twentieth century was based largely on the Hunt Brothers Cannery. It was opened in Hayward in 1895 by brothers William and Joseph Hunt, who were fruit packers originally from Sebastopol, California.[54] The Hunts initially packed local fruit, including cherries, peaches, and apricots, then added tomatoes, which became the mainstay of their business. At its height in the 1960s and 1970s, Hunt's operated three canneries in Hayward, at A, B, and C Streets; an adjacent can-making company; a pickling factory; and a glass manufacturing plant. From the 1890s until its closure in 1981, Hunt's employed a large percentage of the local population. The air around Hayward was permeated by the smell of tomatoes for three months of each year, during the canning season. The canneries closed in 1981, as there were no longer enough produce fields or fruit orchards near the cannery to make it economically viable. Much of the production was moved to the Sacramento Valley. The location of the former canneries is marked by a historic water tower with the Hayward logo.[55] A housing development now occupies much of the former cannery site.[56]

Other former businesses[edit]

Much of the Bay coastal territory of Hayward was turned into salt ponds, with Oliver Salt and Leslie Salt operating there.[57][58] Much of this land has in recent years been returned to salt marshes. A 1983 image of the ponds appears on a 2012 US postage stamp.[59]

Mervyns headquarters (demolished in 2017)

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