List of companies based in Seattle explained

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

, 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

• Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
• Dendreon – immunotherapeutics (defunct)
• Juno Therapeutics
• NanoString Technologies – life sciences tools
• Seagen (Bothell)
• ZymoGenetics – therapeutic protein

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

• ClearSign Combustion

Financial

• Gravity Payments
• Moss Adams
• Russell Investments
• Seattle Credit Union
• WaFd Bank

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
• 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

• CellNetix
• Center for Global Infectious Disease Research
• Emeritus Senior Living
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Northwest Kidney Centers
• PATH
  • The Polyclinic Providence Health and Services
• Remote Medical International^[2]
• Ventec Life Systems

Insurance

• PEMCO – auto, home, boat, and life insurance
• Safeco – property insurance
• Trupanion – pet 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
• 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^[3] – 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

• Davis Wright Tremaine
  • Lane Powell Perkins Coie

Manufacturing

• Allied Marble & Granite – manufactured stone product installations^[4]
• 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
• 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

• Revolution Public Relations^[5] – 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
• Tooth & Nail Records

Retail

• 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

• Evo – outdoor retailer ^[6]
• 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.
• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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, 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)

External links

• Map of Seattle companies

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fortune 500. 2022-01-12. Fortune. en.
2. https://www.remotemedical.com/ Remote Medical International
3. https://LetYouKnow.com LetYouKnow.com
4. Web site: Allied Marble Inc . 2013-09-27.
5. http://www.revolutionpr.com Revolution Public Relations
6. Web site: Seattle Times. Seattle Times. 3 March 2024 . en.