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This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.
As of November 2016[update], 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[edit]
Computer hardware[edit]
Conglomerates[edit]
Consulting[edit]
Financial[edit]
Food and beverage[edit]
Healthcare[edit]
Insurance[edit]
- PEMCO — auto, home, boat, and life insurance
- Safeco — property insurance
- Trupanion — pet insurance
Intellectual property[edit]
Internet[edit]
Manufacturing[edit]
Pet Care[edit]
Property and architecture[edit]
Public relations[edit]
Publishing[edit]
Record labels[edit]
Sports, leisure and entertainment[edit]
Transportation[edit]
Video games[edit]
Companies based in the Greater Seattle area[edit]
Other large or well-known interstate or international companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities:
Companies formerly headquartered in Seattle[edit]
- 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)
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