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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 December 2021 , 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
Computer hardware
Conglomerates
Consulting
Design
Financial
Food and beverage
Healthcare
Insurance
Intellectual property
Internet
Law
Manufacturing
Pet care
Property and architecture
Public relations
Publishing
Record labels
Retail
Sports, leisure and entertainment
Transportation
Video games
Companies based in the Greater Seattle area
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:
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, Arlington, 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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