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 (defunct) 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 Providence Health and Services Remote Medical International 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
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)
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External links Map of Seattle companies