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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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