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 November 2016, Seattle, Washington was home to six Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#18), coffee chain Starbucks (#146), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#197), Weyerhaeuser (#373), Expeditors International (#390), and Alaska Airlines (#459).^[1] Four more are located in the metropolitan area: Costco Wholesale (#15), Microsoft (#25), Paccar (#147), and Expedia Group (#385).

Biotechnology[]

• Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
• Dendreon — immunotherapeutics (defunct)
• Juno Therapeutics
• Seattle Genetics (Bothell)
• ZymoGenetics — therapeutic protein
• NanoString Technologies — Life Sciences Tools

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
• 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
• Crowd Cow — online meat delivery marketplace
• Darigold — dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
• Jones Soda — soft drink maker
• – fast casual, poké restaurant chain
• MOD Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
• 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[]

• Center for Global Infectious Disease Research
• Emeritus Senior Living
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Northwest Kidney Centers
• PATH
• Remote Medical International
• The Polyclinic
• 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
• BuddyTV — TV news, second screen technology (Business closed)
• 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
• Leafly — cannabis information
• Onvia — government business intelligence portal
• Panopto — video content management
• — 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[]

• 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
• Miller Hull Partnership — architecture and planning
• Mithun — architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, planning and urban design
• 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
• Revolution Public Relations - 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
• 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
• 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[]

• 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
• Expeditors International — logistics
• Holland America Line — cruise ships
• Saltchuk — transportation and logistics
• The Boeing Company — Aircraft Design and Manufacturing
• Windstar Cruises — cruise ships
• Convoy - Trucking Logistics

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 — Remond

• Microsoft — Redmond
• msnbc.com — Redmond
• MulvannyG2 Architecture — Bellevue
• Nintendo of America — Redmond
• Oberto Sausage Company — Kent
• Outerwall (formerly Coinstar) — Bellevue
• Paccar — Bellevue
• Philips — Bothell
• 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
• Stryker — Redmond
• 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 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)
• 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)
• United Airlines (now in Chicago)
• 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[]

References[]

External links[]

• Map of Seattle companies