This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.
As of December 2021[update], 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).[1]
Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac
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:
- 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)