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

As of May 2009 Seattle, Washington was home to four Fortune 500 companies: clothing merchant Nordstrom (#301), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#130), coffee chain Starbucks (#261) and logistics company Expeditors International of Washington (#434).

Companies currently headquartered in Seattle

Beverages

The Starbucks Center, Seattle

• 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
• Hard 8 Beverage Co. — flavored malt beverages - energy drinks

Biotechnology

• Dendreon — immunotherapeutics
• ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins
• Trubion — therapeutic proteins
• Oncothyreon — cancer research

Broadcasting

• Fisher Communications — radio and television stations

Computer Hardware

• Cray Inc. — supercomputers
• F5 Networks — networking
• Isilon Systems — computer storage

Conglomerates

• Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen

Financial

• Washington Federal Savings
• Homestreet Bank — branches in Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii

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
• Pagliacci Pizza — Pizza restaurant chain

Intellectual Property

• Corbis — stock photography
• Getty Images — stock photography
• Intellectual Ventures — technical patents

Insurance

• PEMCO — auto, home, boat, and life insurance

Internet

• Amazon.com — retail
• Drugstore.com — retail
• Big Fish Games — Casual Games
• Classmates.com — A social networking service
• Expedia.com — online travel services
• Infopop Corporation — software
• Onvia — government business intelligence portal
• PayScale — global employee compensation database
• PopCap — Casual Games
• RealNetworks — software
• Redfin — online real estate brokerage
• Pet Holdings Inc. — operates many popular web blogs such as: I Can Has Cheezburger? and the Fail Blog
• PersonRatings.com — rating site
• Zillow.com — real estate information service

Manufacturing

• Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
• Todd Pacific Shipyards — shipbuilding

Property

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

Public Relations

• Chen Communications public relations, marketing, and communications consulting firm
• Waggener Edstrom — public relations

Publishing

• Fantagraphics Books — comics and graphic novels

Record Labels

• Barsuk Records
• Sub Pop
• Tooth & Nail Records
• Robot Monster, Inc.

Retail

• 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

Software

• WebOnyx — Web Application Development
• Delicious Monster — Shareware
• Groupee, Inc. (formerly Infopop Corporation) — Internet
• RealNetworks — Internet
• AttachmateWRQ — networking
• Avanade
• Isilon — Network storage devices
• The Omni Group — develops software for the Mac OS X platform
• Spring Wireless USA — mobile networking

Transportation

• Aero Controls Inc.
• Expeditors International — logistics
• Holland America Line — cruise ships
• Ambassadors International — 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)
• 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)
• Chen Communications (now in Redmond, Washington)
• 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 Sandy Springs, Georgia)
• Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase)

Companies based in the Seattle area

Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac

Microsoft headquarters in Redmond

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

• 180 Solutions — Bellevue
• Action Engine — Bellevue
• Alaska Air Group, Alaska Airlines, and Horizon Air — SeaTac
• Brooks — Bothell
• Bartell Drugs — Seattle
• Bungie Studios — Kirkland
• 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

See also

• List of companies based in Kirkland, Washington