List of companies based in Seattle

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

As of April, 2005, Seattle, Washington was home to five Fortune 500 companies: financial services company Washington Mutual (#131), insurance company Safeco Corporation (#285), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#294), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#303) and coffee chain Starbucks (#372).

Safeco announced an agreement to be acquired by Liberty Mutual on April 23, 2008. Washington Mutual was acquired by JPMorgan Chase on September 25, 2008.

Companies currently headquartered in Seattle

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

Biotechnology

* Corixa — immunotherapeutics
* Dendreon — immunotherapeutics
* ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins

Broadcasting

* Fisher Communications — radio and television stations

=Computer Hardware=

* Cray Inc. — supercomputers
* Isilon Systems — computer storage

=Conglomerates=

* Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen

=Financial Services=

* Safeco Corporation — property and casualty insurance
* Washington Federal Savings — savings bank

Food

* Dick's Drive-In — drive-in fast-food restaurant chain
* Uwajimaya — Asian supermarket
* WestFarm Foods (Darigold) — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
* American Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea
* Trident Seafoods — Management company for Fishing Vessels in the Bering Sea

Intellectual Property

* Corbis — stock photography
* Getty Images — stock photography

Internet

* Amazon.com — retail
* Brio Realty — Internet based real estate brokerage
* Infopop Corporation — software
* Onvia — government business intelligence portal
* PayScale — global employee compensation database
* PopCap — Casual Games
* RealNetworks — software
* Zillow.com — real estate information service

Manufacturing

* Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
* Todd Pacific Shipyards — shipbuilding
* Boeing

Marketing

* Perpetual Promotion, The Marketing Agency — marketing
* Wines of Washington Promotion — marketing

Property

* Diamond Parking — parking lots
* Plum Creek Timber — timber
* Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage
* John L. Scott — real estate brokerage

Public Relations

* Perpetual Promotion, The Marketing Agency — public relations
* Waggener Edstrom — public relations

Publishing

* Fantagraphics Books — comics and graphic novels

=Record Labels=

* Barsuk Records
* Sub Pop
* Tooth & Nail Records

Recreation

* Cranium, Inc. — board games

Retail

* Amazon.com
* Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland) — sex toys
* Blue Nile Inc — diamonds
* Nordstrom — apparel
* Sur La Table — cookware

Sales Promotion

* Perpetual Promotion, The Marketing Agency — sales promotion

Software

* DatStat — Enterprise Research Management
* Delicious Monster — Shareware
* Groupee, Inc. (formerly Infopop Corporation) — Internet
* RealNetworks — Internet
* AttachmateWRQ — networking
* Avanade
* Isilon — Network storage devices
* Microsoft

Transportation

* Alaska Air Group (includes Horizon Air) — airlines
* Flexcar — car sharing
* Expeditors International — logistics
* Holland America Line — cruise ships

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)
* Costco (now in Issaquah, Washington)
* Eddie Bauer (now in Redmond, Washington)
* Ernst Home & Nursery (shut down due to bankruptcy in 1997)
* 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 Parcel Service (now in Atlanta, Georgia)
* Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase)

Companies based in the Seattle area

Other companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities:

* 180 Solutions — Bellevue
* Action Engine — Bellevue
* Alaska Airlines — SeaTac
* Brooks — Bothell
* Bungie Studios — Redmond
* Clearwire — Kirkland
* Classmates.com — Renton
* Concur — Redmond
* Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
* drugstore.com — Bellevue
* Eddie Bauer — Redmond (founded in Seattle)
* Expedia, Inc. — Bellevue
* Liftport Group — Bremerton
* Microsoft — Redmond
* Nintendo of America — Redmond
* Oberto Sausage Company — Kent
* PACCAR — Bellevue
* Premera Blue Cross — Mountlake Terrace
* Raleigh USA — Kent
* R.E.I. — Kent (founded in Seattle)
* Russell Investment Group — Tacoma
* Savers/Value Village — Bellevue
* Sucker Punch Productions — Bellevue
* T-Mobile USA — Bellevue
* True Blue, Inc. — Tacoma
* Weyerhaeuser — Federal Way
* eNom — Bellevue
* Valve Corporation — Bellevue

ee also

*List of companies based in Kirkland, Washington