List of companies based in Seattle
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This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in Seattle.
Seattle, Washington is home to five Fortune 500 companies: financial services company Washington Mutual (#103), insurance company Safeco Corporation (#267), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#286), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#342) and coffee chain Starbucks (#425).
Companies currently headquartered in Seattle
- Jones Soda — soft drinks
- Pyramid Breweries, Inc. — beer
- Redhook Ale Brewery — beer
- Seattle's Best Coffee — espresso
- Starbucks — espresso
- Tully's Coffee — espresso
- Corixa — immunotherapeutics
- Dendreon — vaccines
- NeoRx — cancer-treating biopharmaceuticals
- ZymoGenetics — therapeutic proteins
- Vulcan Inc. — investment vehicle for Paul Allen
- Safeco Corporation — property and casualty insurance
- Washington Federal Savings — savings bank
- Washington Mutual — general financial services
- Associated Grocers — grocery distribution retailers' cooperative
- Briazz — sandwiches, salads, and catering
- Dick's Drive-In — drive-in fast-food restaurant chain
- Uwajimaya — Asian supermarket
- Corbis — stock photography
- Getty Images — stock photography
- Amazon.com — retail
- Infopop Corporation — software
- RealNetworks — software
- Speakeasy, Inc. — internet service provider
- Cutter & Buck — golf apparel
- Todd Pacific Shipyards — shipbuilding
- Plum Creek Timber — timber
- Shurgard Storage Centers — self storage
- Windermere Real Estate — real estate brokerage
- Infopop Corporation — Internet
- RealNetworks — Internet
- WRQ — networking software
- Alaska Air Group (includes Horizon Air) — airlines
- Expeditors International — logistics
- Holland America Line — 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)
- Boeing (now in Chicago, Illinois)
- Cinnabon (acquired by AFC Enterprises, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia)
- Immunex (acquired by Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California)
- Muzak (now in Fort Mill, South Carolina)
- MyLackey.com (defunct)
- Rainier Brewing Company (now owned by Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- United Parcel Service (now in Atlanta, Georgia)
Companies based in the Seattle area
Other companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities:
- AT&T Wireless — Redmond
- Codesic Consulting — Kirkland
- Costco — Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
- drugstore.com — Bellevue
- Eddie Bauer — Redmond (founded in Seattle)
- Expedia.com — Bellevue
- Labor Ready, Inc. — Tacoma
- Microsoft — Redmond
- Nintendo of America — Redmond
- Oberto Sausage Company — Kent
- PACCAR — Bellevue
- R.E.I. — Kent (founded in Seattle)
- Russell Investment Group — Tacoma
- T-Mobile USA — Bellevue
- Weyerhaeuser — Federal Way