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).

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
  • Stanley 1913 - drinkware and food storage brand
  • 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

  • Benaroya Research Institute
  • CellNetix
  • Center for Global Infectious Disease Research
  • Emeritus Senior Living
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Northwest Kidney Centers
  • PATH
  • The Polyclinic<!--- Polyclinic --->
  • Providence Health and Services
  • Remote Medical International<!--- Remote --->
  • 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
  • Coupang – retail
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cutter & Buck – golf apparel
  • Filson – outdoor apparel
  • Pacific Coast Feather Company – bedding
  • Tom Bihn – bags and luggage

Pet care

  • Rover.com – dog boarding and dog walking

Property and architecture

  • Bassetti Architects – architectural firm
  • Callison – architectural firm
  • Diamond Parking – parking lots
  • Garret Cord Werner – architecture and interior design, reconstruction of historic places
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

thumb|[[Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac]]

thumb|[[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
  • BECU – Tukwila
  • 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)

See also

References

  • Map of Seattle companies