List of companies based in Seattle

This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.

As of May 2010, Seattle, Washington was home to three Fortune 500 companies: clothing merchant Nordstrom (#270), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#100) and coffee chain Starbucks (#241).

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• Tully's Coffee — espresso

Biotechnology

• Dendreon — immunotherapeutics
• ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins

Broadcasting

• Fisher Communications — radio and television stations

Computer hardware

• Cray Inc. — supercomputers
• EMC Isilon — Computer storage
• F5 Networks — networking

Conglomerates

• Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen

Consulting

• Avanade — Business & Technology Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
• Bradson Consulting — Management Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
• Point B — Management Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
• Slalom Consulting — Management Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
• Synapse Product Development — Engineering and Product Development

Financial

• Russell Investments
• Moss Adams
• ShareBuilder
• Washington Federal Savings

Food and beverage

• American Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea
• Darigold — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
• Jones Soda — Soft drink maker
• Pagliacci Pizza — Pizza restaurant chain
• Theo Chocolate — Organic and Fair Trade chocolate manufacturer
• Trident Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea
• Uwajimaya — Asian supermarket
• Starbucks — Coffee retailer and coffeehouse chain
• Tully's Coffee — Coffee retailer and wholesaler

Gaming

• Big Fish Games — Casual Games
• PopCap — Casual Games

Insurance

• PEMCO — auto, home, boat, and life insurance
• Safeco — auto, home, and fire insurance
• Trupanion — pet insurance
• Group Health Cooperative — Healthcare organization

Intellectual property

• Corbis — stock photography
• Getty Images — stock photography
• Intellectual Ventures — technical patents
• Synapse Product Development — new product development

Internet

• Allrecipes.com — online recipe service and forum
• Amazon.com — retail
• BuddyTV — TV news, 2nd screen technology
• Cheezburger — Operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog
• Classmates.com — A social networking service
• Drugstore.com — retail
• efelle media — Seattle website design and online marketing company
• eNotes.com — Educational resource service
• ExtraHop Networks — Network Analysis appliance maker
• findwell — online real estate brokerage
• Groundspeak — operators of Geocaching.com
• Lockerz — Social Networking; E-commerce; Entertainment
• Onvia — government business intelligence portal
• PictureFrameGuys.com — online retailer of custom picture frames
• PayScale — global employee compensation database
• Penny Arcade — Webcomic and online comedy empire
• RealNetworks — software
• Redfin — online real estate brokerage
• Social Strata — software
• Soundrangers — online sound effects and music
• Smith.co — online digital agency
• Thrift Books — retail
• Walk Score — online walkability index of major cities
• WhitePages.com — online people search, reverse phone & address lookup, and business search
• Zillow.com — real estate information service

Manufacturing

• Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
• Filson — outdoor apparel
• Pacific Coast Feather Company — bedding
• Vigor Shipyards — shipbuilding

Property and Architecture

• Diamond Parking — parking lots
• John L. Scott — real estate brokerage
• Plum Creek Timber — timber
• Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage
• Bassetti Architects — architectural firm
• Johnson Braund Design Group — design and architectural firm

Public relations

• Waggener Edstrom — Public relations

The Fearey Group — Public relations

Publishing

• Fantagraphics Books — comics and graphic novels
• Bilingual Books, Inc. — foreign language books and computer software

Record labels

• Barsuk Records
• Sub Pop — Fleet Foxes, Foals, Beach House, The Postal Service, Flight of the Conchords, No Age, Wolf Parade and The Shins
• Tooth & Nail Records
• Viamount Records
• Fin Records — Independent record label

Retail

• Amazon.com
• AttachmateWRQ — networking
• Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland) — sex toys
• Bartell Drugs
• Blue Nile Inc — diamonds
• Car Toys — automobile audio equipment and cell phones
• Cequint
• ID1 Clothing — hand made apparel and accessories
• NetMotion Wireless — Mobile VPN Solution
• Nordstrom — apparel
• The Omni Group — develops software for the Mac OS X platform
• Outdoor Research — apparel
• PCC Natural Markets — supermarket
• QFC — supermarket chain
• RealNetworks — Internet
• Rhapsody — Online Music Service
• Seattle Pacific Industries – owner of Union Bay and Sergio Valente brand apparel
• Social Strata (formerly Groupee Inc., and before that, Infopop Corporation) — Internet
• Sur La Table — cookware
• Tommy Bahama — apparel
• Zulily — apparel
• Zumiez — action sports

Sports

• Professional Bowlers Association - sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling

Transportation

• Aero Controls Inc.
• Ambassadors International — cruise ships
• Expeditors International — logistics
• Holland America Line — cruise ships

Companies based in the Greater Seattle area

Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac

Microsoft headquarters in Redmond

Other large or well-known interstate or international companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities:

• Alaska Air Group, Alaska Airlines, and Horizon Air — SeaTac
• ArenaNet — Bellevue
• Brooks Sports — Bothell
• Bungie Studios — Bellevue
• Classmates.com — Renton
• Clearwire — Bellevue
• Coinstar — Bellevue
• Concur Technologies — Redmond
• Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
• drugstore.com — Bellevue
• Eddie Bauer — Bellevue (founded in Seattle)
• eNom — Bellevue
• Expedia, Inc. — Bellevue
• Microsoft — Redmond
• msnbc.com — Redmond
• Nintendo of America — Redmond
• Oberto Sausage Company — Kent
• PACCAR — Bellevue
• Premera Blue Cross — Mountlake Terrace
• Puget Sound Energy — Bellevue
• Raleigh USA — Kent
• R.E.I. — Kent (founded in Seattle)
• Savers/Value Village — Bellevue
• Seattle Genetics — Bothell
• Sucker Punch Productions — Bellevue
• Symetra Financial — Bellevue
• T-Mobile USA — Bellevue
• True Blue, Inc. — Tacoma
• Valve Corporation — Bellevue
• Weyerhaeuser — Federal Way
• Wizards of the Coast — Renton

Companies formerly headquartered in Seattle

• Airborne Express (ground operations acquired by DHL, Plantation, Florida; air operations spun off as ABX Air, Wilmington, Ohio)
• Associated Grocers (acquired by Unified Western Grocers of Los Angeles)
• Boeing (now in Chicago, Illinois)
• The Bon Marché (owned by Macy's, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; name changed to Bon-Macy's in 2003; rebranded as Macy's in 2005)
• Cinnabon (acquired by FOCUS Brands, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia)
• Corixa — immunotherapeutics, closed in 2006
• Costco (now in Issaquah, Washington)
• Eddie Bauer (now in Bellevue, Washington)
• Ernst Home Centers (liquidated following unsuccessful bankruptcy filing in 1996)
• Frederick & Nelson (went out of business in 1992)
• Immunex (acquired by Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California)
• Magnolia Audio Video (headquarters moved to Kent, Washington; now owned by Best Buy)
• Muzak (now in Fort Mill, South Carolina)
• MyLackey.com (defunct)
• Rainier Brewing Company (now owned by Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (now in Greenwood Village, Colorado)
• R.E.I. (now in Kent, Washington)
• Seafirst Bank (acquired by Bank of America)

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• Shurgard Storage Centers (acquired by Public Storage)
• Surreal Software (acquired by Midway Games)
• United Airlines (now in Chicago, IL)
• United Parcel Service (now in Sandy Springs, Georgia)
• Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase)
• World Vision (now in Federal Way, Washington)

See also

• List of companies based in Kirkland, Washington
• List of companies based in Bellevue, Washington
• List of companies based in Kent, Washington