List of companies based in San Francisco
The following is a list of companies headquartered in San Francisco. Fortune 500 rankings indicated in parentheses. All ranking is based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008.
Companies headquartered in San Francisco
Basic Materials
Capital Goods
Construction
Consumer Cyclical
Consumer Non-Cyclical
Beverages (Alcoholic)
Beverages (Non-Alcoholic)
Food
Personal and Household Products
Energy
Financial
Banks
Consumer Financial Services
Insurance (Accident and Health)
Insurance (Property and Casualty)
Investment Services
Healthcare
Biotechnology and Drugs
Hospitals
Public Benefit
Services
Advertising
Broadcasting and Cable TV
Business Services
Hotels and Motels
Motion Pictures
Publishing and Printing
Real Estate
Recreational Activities
Resource Recovery
Retail (Apparel)
Retail (Non-Physical)
Retail (Specialty)
Technologies
Communications Equipment
Computer Services
Software and Programming
Utilities
Companies headquartered near San Francisco (within San Francisco Bay Area)
Apparel
Biomedical
Healthcare Kaiser Permanente – Oakland, California
Consumer Goods
Electronics
- AMD (406) – Sunnyvale, California
- Adaptec – Milpitas, California
- Agilent Tech. (443) – Santa Clara, California
- Anchor Bay Technologies – Campbell, California
- Apple Inc. (103) – Cupertino, California
- Adaptec – Milpitas, California
- Applied Materials (270) – Santa Clara, California
- Barracuda Networks - Campbell, California
- Bay Imaging – San Carlos, California
- Cisco Systems (71) – San Jose, California
- E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley, California
- Fujitsu Computer Products of America – Sunnyvale, California
- Genesis Microchip – Santa Clara, California
- Hewlett Packard (14) – Palo Alto, California
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – San Jose, California
- Hitachi Data Systems – Santa Clara, California
- Intel (60) – Santa Clara, California
- JDS Uniphase – Milpitas, California
- Integrated Device Technology – San Jose, California
- Logitech – Fremont, California
- LSI Corporation – Milpitas, California
- Macrotron Systems, Inc. – Fremont, California
- Maxtor – Milpitas, California
- Monster Cable Products – Brisbane, California
- National Semiconductor – Santa Clara, California
- NetApp – Sunnyvale, California
- Nvidia – Santa Clara, California
- Philips Lumileds Lighting Company – San Jose, California
- Rackable Systems – Fremont, California
- Rambus – Los Altos, California
- Sanmina-SCI (255) – San Jose, California
- SanDisk – Milpitas, California
- Seagate Technology – Scotts Valley, California
- Silicon Graphics – Mountain View, California (acquired by Rackable Systems)
- Silicon Image - Sunnyvale, California
- Solectron Corporation – Milpitas, California
- Sony Optiarc America Inc. – San Jose, California
- Sun Microsystems (184) – Santa Clara, California
- Supermicro – San Jose, California
- Super Talent – San Jose, California
- THX – San Rafael, California
- Digidesign – Daly City, California
- Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale, California
- Foundry Networks – Santa Clara, California
- Terayon – Santa Clara, California
- Xilinx – San Jose, California
Energy
Entertainment
- Electronic Arts – Redwood City, California
- Kerner Optical – San Rafael, California
- Netflix – Los Gatos, California
- Pandora Radio – Oakland, California
- Pixar – Emeryville, California
- Dreamworks Animation – Redwood City, California
- Skywalker Sound – San Rafael, California, (Lucas Valley)
- Lucasfilm Animation – San Rafael, California, (Lucas Valley)
- Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. – Foster City, California
Financial
Food and Drink
- Amadillo Willy's – Los Altos, California
- Basic American Foods – Walnut Creek, California
- Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos, California
- C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett, California
- Clif Bar – Berkeley, California
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland, California
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Company - San Leandro, California
- Häagen-Dazs – Oakland, California
- Imagine Foods - Palo Alto, California
- Jamba Juice – Emeryville, California
- Jelly Belly – Fairfield, California
- Odwalla – Half Moon Bay, California
- Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville, California
- PowerBar – Berkeley, California
- The Republic of Tea – Novato, California
- See's Candies – South San Francisco, California
Internet
Media
Mobile Media
Musical Instruments and Accessories
Other
Retail
Software
- Adobe Systems – San Jose, California
- Autodesk – San Rafael, California
- Business Objects – San Jose, California
- Intuit – Mountain View, California
- McAfee – Santa Clara, California
- Mozilla – Mountain View, California
- Oracle (137) – Redwood City, California
- Palantir Technologies - Palo Alto, California
- Skytide – Oakland, California
- Sybase – Dublin, California
- Symantec (461) – Cupertino, California
- VMware – Palo Alto, California
- Tibco – Palo Alto, California
- Maketick – Fremont, California
Security
Sports
Transportation and Logistics
Telecommunications
- Calix, Inc. Petaluma, California
Companies formerly headquartered in or near San Francisco
- Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
- Esprit relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
- FMC Corporation – Moved headquarters from San Jose to Philadelphia
- Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
- Flickr - acquired by Yahoo!
- Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
- Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
- Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
- Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City, New York
- Knight-Ridder – purchased by The McClatchy Company
- Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
- Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
- Peterbilt Motors – relocated to Denton, Texas
- Caterpillar Inc. (50) – relocated to Peoria, Illinois
- Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
- Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
- Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – acquired by The Hershey Company
- Six Apart - moved to Tokyo
- Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada.
- Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
- Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
- United Commercial Bank; acquired by East West Bank
- Pegasus Aviation Finance Company - acquired by AWAS
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