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 November 2016[update], Seattle, Washington was home to six Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#18), coffee chain Starbucks (#146), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#197), Weyerhaeuser (#373), Expeditors International (#390), and Alaska Airlines (#459).[1] Four more are located in the metropolitan area: Costco Wholesale (#15), Microsoft (#25), Paccar (#147), and Expedia Group (#385).
Biotechnology
- Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
- Atossa Genetics — breast health
- Dendreon — immunotherapeutics (defunct)
- Juno Therapeutics
- Seattle Genetics (Bothell)
- ZymoGenetics — therapeutic protein
- NanoString Technologies — Life Sciences Tools
Computer hardware
- Cray Inc. — supercomputers
- EMC Isilon — computer storage
- F5 Networks — application delivery controllers
Conglomerates
- Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen
Consulting
- Alvarez and Marsal — management consulting, turnaround management and performance improvement
- Avanade — business and technology consulting and information technology consulting
- Slalom Consulting — management consulting and information technology consulting
Design
Financial
Food and beverage
- American Seafoods — management company for fishing vessels in the Bering Sea
- Beecher's Handmade Cheese
- Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company — coffee retailer
- Crowd Cow — online meat delivery marketplace
- Darigold — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
- Jones Soda — soft drink maker
- Just Poké – fast casual, poké restaurant chain
- MOD Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
- Pagliacci Pizza — pizza restaurant chain
- Seattle's Best Coffee
- Starbucks — coffee retailer and coffeehouse chain
- Theo Chocolate — organic and fair trade chocolate manufacturer
- Trident Seafoods — management company for fishing vessels in the Bering Sea
- Tully's Coffee — coffee retailer and wholesaler
- Uwajimaya — Asian supermarket
Healthcare
- Center for Infectious Disease Research
- Emeritus Senior Living
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Northwest Kidney Centers
- PATH
- The Polyclinic
- Ventec Life Systems
Insurance
Intellectual property
- Getty Images — stock photography
- Intellectual Ventures — patent assertion hedge fund
Internet
- Allrecipes.com — online recipe service and forum
- Amazon — retail
- Avvo — legal services search
- BuddyTV — TV news, second screen technology (Business closed)
- Cheezburger — operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog
- Classmates.com — social networking service
- eNotes.com — educational resource service
- ExtraHop Networks — cloud security analytics
- F5 Networks — application delivery controllers
- findwell — online real estate brokerage
- Groundspeak — operators of Geocaching.com
- Leafly — cannabis information
- Onvia — government business intelligence portal
- Panopto — video content management
- PayScale — global employee compensation database
- Penny Arcade — webcomic
- Porch — home services platform
- RealNetworks — software
- Redfin — online real estate brokerage
- Smartsheet — SaaS work collaboration software
- Soundrangers — online sound effects and music
- Sporcle — online trivia
- Tableau Software — data visualization
- Thrift Books — retail
- Turbo (formerly Spoon) — application virtualization
- WhitePages.com — online people search, reverse phone & address lookup, and business search
- Zillow.com — real estate information service
Law
Manufacturing
- Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
- Filson — outdoor apparel
- Pacific Coast Feather Company — bedding
- Tom Bihn - bags and luggage
- Vigor Shipyards — shipbuilding
Pet Care
- Rover.com — dog boarding and dog walking
Property and architecture
- Bassetti Architects — architectural firm
- Callison — architectural firm
- Diamond Parking — parking lots
- Howard S. Wright Companies — construction
- John L. Scott — real estate brokerage
- Johnson Braund Design Group — design and architectural firm
- Miller Hull Partnership — architecture and planning
- Mithun — architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, planning and urban design
- NBBJ — architectural firm
- Plum Creek Timber — timber
- Sellen Construction
- Weber Thompson — architectural firm
- Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage
Public relations
Publishing
- Bilingual Books, Inc. — foreign language books and computer software
- Fantagraphics Books — comics and graphic novels
- Mountaineers Books — non-fiction books
- Sasquatch Books — non-fiction books
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
Retail
- Amazon
- AttachmateWRQ — networking
- Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland) — sex toys
- Bartell Drugs
- Blue Nile Inc — diamonds
- Brooks Sports — athletic apparel
- Car Toys — automobile audio equipment and cell phones
- Cascade Designs — outdoor apparel
- Cequint
- Indix — product intelligence database
- Julep — cosmetics and personal care
- K2 Sports — sporting goods and apparel
- 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
- Sur La Table — cookware
- Tommy Bahama — apparel
- Zumiez — action sports
- Zulily — apparel and housewares
Sports, leisure and entertainment
- Professional Bowlers Association — sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling
- Puzzle Break — first American-based live escape room company
Transportation
- Aero Controls Inc.
- Ambassadors International — cruise ships
- Expeditors International — logistics
- Holland America Line — cruise ships
- Saltchuk — transportation and logistics
- Windstar Cruises — cruise ships
Video games
- Arenanet — Guild Wars franchise
- Big Fish Games — casual games
- PopCap — casual games
- Sucker Punch Productions — Sly Cooper and Infamous franchise
- Undead Labs — State of Decay games
Companies based in the Greater Seattle area
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
- Blue Origin — Kent
- Bungie — Bellevue
- Classmates.com — Renton
- Clearwire — Bellevue
- Concur Technologies — Bellevue
- Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
- drugstore.com — Bellevue
- Eddie Bauer — Bellevue (founded in Seattle)
- eNom — Kirkland
- Expedia Group — Seattle (moved HQ from Bellevue to Seattle)
- Fluke Corporation — Everett
- Funko — Everett
- INRIX — Kirkland
- Intelius — Bellevue
- Microsoft — Redmond
- msnbc.com — Redmond
- MulvannyG2 Architecture — Bellevue
- Nintendo of America — Redmond
- Oberto Sausage Company — Kent
- Outerwall (formerly Coinstar) — Bellevue
- Paccar — Bellevue
- Philips — Bhotell
- Premera Blue Cross — Mountlake Terrace
- Puget Sound Energy — Bellevue
- Raleigh USA — Kent
- REI — Kent (founded in Seattle)
- Savers/Value Village — Bellevue
- SOG Specialty Knives - Lynnwood
- Sucker Punch Productions — Bellevue
- Stryker — Redmond
- T-Mobile US — Bellevue
- Talking Rain — Preston
- Valve — Bellevue
- 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)
- Group Health Cooperative (acquired by Kaiser Permanente in 2017)
- Immunex (acquired by Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California)
- Muzak (now in Fort Mill, South Carolina)
- MyLackey.com (defunct)
- Rainier Brewing Company (now owned by Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (now in Greenwood Village, Colorado)
- REI (now in Kent, Washington)
- Safeco (acquired by Liberty Mutual)
- Seafirst Bank (acquired by Bank of America)
- Shurgard Storage Centers (acquired by Public Storage)
- Speakeasy, Inc. (acquired by Best Buy in 2007 and merged with MegaPath in 2010)
- Surreal Software (acquired by Midway Games)
- United Airlines (now in Chicago)
- UPS (now in Sandy Springs, Georgia)
- Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase)
- World Vision (now in Federal Way, Washington)
- Zulily (acquired by Liberty Interactive)
See also
References
- ^ "Fortune 500", Fortune, retrieved 28 November 2016
