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 August 2013, Seattle, Washington was home to four Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon.com (#49), coffee chain Starbucks (#208), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#227), and Expeditors International (#428).^[1] Four more are located in the metropolitan area: Costco Wholesale (#22), Microsoft (#35), Paccar (#168), and Weyerhaeuser (#363).

Biotechnology

• Dendreon — immunotherapeutics (defunct)
• Juno Therapeutics
• Kineta
• Seattle Genetics (Bothell)
• ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins

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
• Synapse Product Development — engineering and product development

Design

• Artefact
• ClearSign Combustion

Financial

• Capital One Investing
• Moss Adams
• Russell Investments
• Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union
• Washington Federal Savings

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
• Darigold — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
• Jones Soda — soft drink maker
• Mike's Hard Lemonade beverage maker
• 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

• Emeritus Senior Living
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Northwest Kidney Centers
• PATH
• The Polyclinic

Insurance

• Group Health Cooperative — health care organization
• PEMCO — auto, home, boat, and life insurance
• Safeco — property insurance
• Trupanion — pet insurance

Intellectual property

• Corbis — stock photography
• Getty Images — stock photography
• Intellectual Ventures — patent assertion hedge fund
• Synapse Product Development — new product development

Internet

• 10,000ft — SaaS project planning and management
• Allrecipes.com — online recipe service and forum
• Amazon.com — retail
• Avvo — legal services search
• BuddyTV — TV news, second screen technology
• Cheezburger — operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog
• Classmates.com — social networking service
• DomainTools.com — DNS research and monitoring tools
• eNotes.com — educational resource service
• ExtraHop Networks — network analysis appliance maker
• F5 Networks — application delivery controllers
• findwell — online real estate brokerage
• Groundspeak — operators of Geocaching.com
• Leafly — cannabis information
• Moz — search engine optimization
• Onvia — government business intelligence portal
• PayScale — global employee compensation database
• Penny Arcade — webcomic
• RealNetworks — software
• Redfin — online real estate brokerage
• Social Strata — software
• Soundrangers — online sound effects and music
• Spoon — application virtualization
• Sporcle — online trivia
• Tableau Software — data visualization
• thePlatform — online video publishing
• Thrift Books — retail
• WhitePages.com — online people search, reverse phone & address lookup, and business search
• Zillow.com — real estate information service

Law

• Davis Wright Tremaine
• Lane Powell
• Perkins Coie

Manufacturing

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

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
• Mithun — architectural firm
• NBBJ — architectural firm
• Plum Creek Timber — timber
• Sellen Construction
• Weber Thompson — architectural firm
• Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage

Public relations

• Waggener Edstrom — 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.com
• 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
• 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
• Seattle Pacific Industries – owner of Sergio Valente brand apparel
• Social Strata (formerly Groupee Inc., and before that, Infopop Corporation) — Internet
• Sur La Table — cookware
• Tommy Bahama — 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

Video games

• Arenanet — Guild Wars franchise
• Big Fish Games — casual games
• PopCap — casual games
• Sucker Punch Productions — Sly Cooper and Infamous franchise

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
• Bungie Studios — Bellevue
• Classmates.com — Renton
• Clearwire — Bellevue
• Concur Technologies — Redmond
• Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
• drugstore.com — Bellevue
• Eddie Bauer — Bellevue (founded in Seattle)
• eNom — Kirkland
• Expedia, Inc. — Bellevue
• 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
• Premera Blue Cross — Mountlake Terrace
• Puget Sound Energy — Bellevue
• Raleigh USA — Kent
• R.E.I. — Kent (founded in Seattle)
• Savers/Value Village — Bellevue
• 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)
• 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)
• REI (now in Kent, Washington)
• Safeco (acquired by Liberty Mutual)
• Seafirst Bank (acquired by Bank of America)
• Shurgard Storage Centers (acquired by Public Storage)
• Surreal Software (acquired by Midway Games)
• United Airlines (now in Chicago)
• United Parcel Service (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

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

References

1. "Fortune 500", Fortune, retrieved 15 August 2013