This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.
As of December 2021[update], the Seattle metropolitan area is home to ten Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#2), Costco Wholesale (#12), Microsoft (#15), coffee chain Starbucks (#125), Paccar (#159), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#289), Weyerhaeuser (#387), Expeditors International (#299), Alaska Airlines (#459) and Expedia (#500).[1]
Biotechnology edit
- Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
- Dendreon – immunotherapeutics (defunct)
- Juno Therapeutics
- Seagen (Bothell)
- ZymoGenetics – therapeutic protein
- NanoString Technologies – Life Sciences Tools
Computer hardware edit
Conglomerates edit
- Vulcan Inc. – investment vehicle for Paul Allen
Consulting edit
- 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 edit
Financial edit
Food and beverage edit
- 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
- MOD Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
- Pagliacci Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
- Piroshky Piroshky – pastry 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 edit
Insurance edit
Intellectual property edit
- Getty Images – stock photography
- Intellectual Ventures – patent assertion hedge fund
Internet edit
- Allrecipes.com – online recipe service and forum
- Amazon – retail
- Avvo – legal services search
- 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
- JetPunk - online trivia
- Leafly – cannabis information
- LetYouKnow.com - marketplace that empowers consumers to price bid on new cars
- 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 edit
Manufacturing edit
- Allied Marble & Granite – manufactured stone product installations[2]
- Cutter & Buck – golf apparel
- Filson – outdoor apparel
- Pacific Coast Feather Company – bedding
- Tom Bihn - bags and luggage
- Vigor Shipyards – shipbuilding
Pet care edit
- Rover.com – dog boarding and dog walking
Property and architecture edit
- 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
- MG2 - architectural firm
- Miller Hull Partnership – architecture and planning
- Mithun – architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, planning and urban design
- NBBJ – architectural firm
- Olson Kundig Architects – architectural firm
- Plum Creek Timber – timber
- Sellen Construction
- Weber Thompson – architectural firm
- Windermere Real Estate – real estate brokerage
Public relations edit
Publishing edit
- 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 edit
Retail edit
- Amazon
- 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 edit
- Professional Bowlers Association – sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling
- Puzzle Break – first American-based live escape room company
- Evo - outdoor retailer [3]
Transportation edit
- Aero Controls Inc.
- Alaska Airlines – major US airline
- Ambassadors International – cruise ships
- Convoy – trucking logistics software
- Expeditors International – logistics
- Holland America Line – cruise ships
- Saltchuk – transportation and logistics
- Windstar Cruises – cruise ships
Video games edit
- 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 edit
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
- Kymeta – Redmond
- 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
- REI – Kent (founded in Seattle)
- Savers/Value Village – Bellevue
- SOG Specialty Knives - Lynnwood
- Sucker Punch Productions – Bellevue
- T-Mobile US – Bellevue
- Talking Rain – Preston
- Valve – Bellevue
- Wizards of the Coast - Renton
Companies formerly headquartered in Seattle edit
- 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 Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia)
- 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)
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ "Allied Marble Inc". Retrieved 2013-09-27.
- ^ "Seattle Times". Seattle Times.