List of companies based in Seattle
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This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle Metropolitan Area.
As of May 2010[update] Seattle, Washington was home to three Fortune 500 companies: clothing merchant Nordstrom (#270), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#1100) and coffee chain Starbucks (#241).
[edit] Companies currently headquartered in the Seattle Metropolitan Area
[edit] Beverages
- Hale's Ales — beer
- Jones Soda — soft drinks
- Pyramid Breweries, Inc. — beer
- Redhook Ale Brewery — beer
- Starbucks (including Seattle's Best Coffee) — espresso
- Tully's Coffee — espresso
- Mike's Hard Lemonade Co. — flavored malt beverages
[edit] Biotechnology
- Dendreon — immunotherapeutics
- ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins
- Trubion — therapeutic proteins
- Adaptive TCR Technologies — ImmunoSEQ -Immune Profiling
[edit] Broadcasting
[edit] Computer Hardware
[edit] Conglomerates
- Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen
[edit] Consulting
- Slalom Consulting — Management Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
- Plaster Group, LLC — Business & Technology Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
- Royal Heights Consults
- Avanade — Business & Technology Consulting and Information Technology Consulting
[edit] Financial
[edit] Food
- American Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea
- Darigold — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
- Dick's Drive-In — drive-in fast-food restaurant chain
- Fran's Chocolates — artisan chocolatier
- Molly Moon's — homemade ice cream shop
- Pagliacci Pizza — Pizza restaurant chain
- Theo Chocolates — Organic and Fair Trade chocolate manufacturer
- Trident Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea
- Uwajimaya — Asian supermarket
[edit] Gaming
- Big Fish Games — Casual Games
- PopCap — Casual Games
[edit] Intellectual Property
- Corbis — stock photography
- Getty Images — stock photography
- Intellectual Ventures — technical patents
[edit] Insurance
- Grange Insurance home, farm, auto, business, fire
- PEMCO — auto, home, boat, and life insurance
- Safeco — auto, home, and fire insurance
- Seattle Auto Insurance auto insurance, vehicle insurance, renters insurance, PWC insurance, among others
[edit] Internet
- Allrecipes.com
- Amazon.com — retail
- Cheezburger — Operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog
- Classmates.com — A social networking service
- Conceivian Corporation — Technology startup incubator
- Drugstore.com — retail
- EnergySavvy.com — Home energy efficiency rating and improvement
- eNotes.com — Educational resource service
- FlashDrivePros LLC solid-state data recovery and backup
- findwell — online real estate brokerage
- Groundspeak — operators of Geocaching.com
- Healthy Paws Pet Insurance & Foundation — Pet Health Insurance
- Lockerz — Social Networking; Ecommerce; Entertainment
- Onvia — government business intelligence portal
- Ovation Teas — retail loose leaf tea store
- PayScale — global employee compensation database
- Penny Arcade — Webcomic and online comedy empire
- RealNetworks — software
- Redfin — online real estate brokerage
- Relaquil — natural supplement retail
- Raw Signal — online news ranking
- Social Strata — software
- Soundrangers — online sound effects and music
- TeachTown.com — education software and solutions for children with special needs and autism
- Walk Score — online walkability index of major cities
- Zillow.com — real estate information service
- ModernPaperGoods.com — Online greeting card retailer
- John G Wilbanks Photography, Inc — Photography
[edit] Manufacturing
- Crescent Down Works — Down Vests and Jackets
- Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
- Todd Pacific Shipyards — shipbuilding
- Pacific Coast Feather Company — bedding
[edit] Marketing
- Mark Equity — Marketing & Advertising
- Morse Best Innovation — B2B Technology Marketing
- Portent, Inc. — Internet marketing company
- Project Bionic — Creative Marketing & Social Media Services/Planning
[edit] Property
- Diamond Parking — parking lots
- Plum Creek Timber — timber
- Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage
- John L. Scott — real estate brokerage
[edit] Public Relations
- Waggener Edstrom — public relations
- Communique PR — public relations
- Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications — public relations
[edit] Publishing
[edit] Record Labels
[edit] Retail
- WallTools.com — tools
- Antica Farmacista — Home Fragrance
- Amazon.com
- Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland) — sex toys
- Blue Nile Inc — diamonds
- Nordstrom — apparel
- Sur La Table — cookware
- Car Toys — automobile audio equipment and cell phones
- PCC Natural Markets — supermarket
- Zumiez — action sports
- Tommy Bahama — apparel
- Union Bay — apparel
- Outdoor Research — apparel
- NetMotion Wireless — Mobile VPN Solution
- Social Strata (formerly Groupee Inc., and before that, Infopop Corporation) — Internet
- RealNetworks — Internet
- Rhapsody — Online Music Service
- AttachmateWRQ — networking
- Isilon — Network storage devices
- The Omni Group — develops software for the Mac OS X platform
- Cequint
- Super Supplements - Health and Wellness
[edit] Telephone Answering Services
- Sound telecom
[edit] Transportation
- Nabtesco Aerospace Inc.
- Aero Controls Inc.
- Expeditors International — logistics
- Holland America Line — cruise ships
- Ambassadors International — cruise ships
- Alaska Airlines — airlines
[edit] 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)
- Corixa — immunotherapeutics, closed in 2006
- 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)
- 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)
- Shurgard Storage Centers (acquired by Public Storage)
- Seafirst Bank (acquired by Bank of America)
- Surreal Software (acquired by Midway Games)
- 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)
- United Airlines (now in Chicago, IL)
- United Parcel Service (now in Sandy Springs, Georgia)
- Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase)
- Insure Pacific Inc (now in Central Oregon)
- Community Service
- World Vision
[edit] Companies based in the Seattle area
Other companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities:
- 180 Solutions — Bellevue
- Alaska Air Group, Alaska Airlines, and Horizon Air — SeaTac
- ArenaNet — Bellevue
- Brooks Sports — Bothell
- Bartell Drugs — Seattle
- Bungie Studios — Bellevue
- Clearwire — Bellevue
- Classmates.com — Renton
- Coinstar — Bellevue
- Concur — Redmond
- Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
- drugstore.com — Bellevue
- Eddie Bauer — Redmond (founded in Seattle)
- Expedia, Inc. — Bellevue
- Liftport Group — Bremerton
- Microsoft — Redmond
- msnbc.com — Redmond
- Nintendo of America — Redmond
- Nirvaha — Bellevue
- 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)
- Russell Investment Group — Tacoma (Moving to Seattle in 2010. Russell is planning on occupying part of the Washington Mutual building) [1]
- Savers/Value Village — Bellevue
- Slalom Consulting — Seattle
- Sucker Punch Productions — Bellevue
- Symetra Financial — Bellevue
- T-Mobile USA — Bellevue
- True Blue, Inc. — Tacoma
- Weyerhaeuser — Federal Way
- eNom — Bellevue
- Valve Corporation — Bellevue
- Western Logistics Inc. — Seattle,Washington
[edit] See also
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