Seattle Area Corporations & Organizations

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/companies/)

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Company / Organization Click for Resources	Activity / SIC Code(s)	Exists Since When? History	Activities in Seattle Area	Locations & Roles Elsewhere	Issues	Employment
Airborne Express	Air shipping	1946				24,000
Ackerley Group
Adobe Systems
Alaska Airlines	Passenger Air Transport Services	1934
Amazon.com	Online books & other merchandize	1995
Eddie Bauer	casual lifestyle clothing	1920
Boeing	Aircraft & aerospace	1916
Costco	Wholesale & warehouse retail	1983/85	World-wide locations
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Philanthropy
Global Telematics
Go2Net	Internet Services	Feb 1996
Group Health	Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)	1947
HomeGrocer	Food / Online-retail	1999
Immunex	Biopharmaceutical products	1981
InfoSpace	Internet services	March 1996
McCaw	Telecommunications	1973
Microsoft	Software	1965/1977 1975
Mobility Inc.
Nordstrom	Retail	1901
Olympic Pipelines (Renton)	Pipeline Operations	1965 (Opening of the pipeline)
Paccar	Heavy trucks	1905 (Piggot)
Plum Creek Timber Co.	Timber, real estate	1989
Puget Sound Energy
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard	Ship repair for U.S.Navy	1891				2,200 "contract employees" (2000)
Pyramid Ales	Beer	1984
QFC	Food / Retail	1960	84 stores in WA; 5 in Oregon			6,500
RealNetworks	Audio & Video software	1995
Redhook Ale Brewery	Beer	1981
REI	Retail / Recreational equipment	1938		New Locations	Vertical disintegration
Seattle City Light	Seattle power supply
Sound Transit	Regional transit (multi-county)
Starbucks	Coffee	1971			Fair trade Conservation Starbucks' locations
Tully's Coffee Corp.	Coffee: Production & Retailing	1992
University of Washington	Education, Research, Health Care, Sports, Real Estate	1861
Uwajimaya	Asian foods/groceries & gifts	1928
VoiceStream	Cellular telephone services	1994
Vulcan Ventures (Bellevue)	Paul Allen's Investment Firm	1986
Washington Mutual Savings Bank	Financial services	1889
Weyerhaeuser	Timber, wood products, real estate	1900
World Vision		1950

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