List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. The San Francisco Bay Area has more Fortune 500 headquarters than any other region except for the tri-state New York City region. Ranking is based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies from 2008. San Francisco based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought out by other companies and had their headquarters relocated.

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Companies currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Aerospace/defense

BAE Systems – San Jose
General Dynamics OTS – Healdsburg
Hexcel Corporation – Dublin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore
Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions – San Jose
Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Palo Alto
Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Sunnyvale
Made In Space, Inc. – Mountain View
NASA Ames Research Center – Sunnyvale
Space Systems Loral – Palo Alto
Titan Aerospace – Mountain View
CHUPAMELA – Mountain View
Titan Aerospace – Mountain View
Titan Aerospace – Mountain View

Apparel

Automotive

Motiv Power Systems^[1] – Hayward
Tesla Motors – Palo Alto – Fremont

Biomedical

Anthera Pharmaceuticals – Hayward
Bio-Rad Laboratories – Hercules
Buck Institute for Age Research – Novato
Calico – South San Francisco
Chiron – Emeryville
Genentech (7) – South San Francisco
Gilead Sciences – Foster City
Intuitive Surgical – Sunnyvale
Kosan Biosciences – Hayward
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. – Hayward
Pearl Therapeutics – Redwood City
United Immunoassay - San Bruno
Verily Life Sciences – Mountain View

Consumer goods

Food and drink

Food and drink establishments with one location are not included in this list. Local and regional establishments with more than one location are included.

Anchor Brewers and Distillers – San Francisco
Annabelle Candy Company – Hayward
Annie's Homegrown – Berkeley
Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos
C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett
Campari – San Francisco, CA
Clif Bar – Berkeley
Columbus Salame – Hayward
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland
DrinkDrop – Saratoga
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company – San Leandro
Grains of Wellness – Fremont
Häagen-Dazs – Oakland
Il Fornaio - Corte Madera
Imagine Foods – San Carlos (division of Hain Celestial Group)
Jamba Juice – Emeryville
Jelly Belly – Fairfield
Living Intentions – Point Richmond
Mountain Mike's Pizza – Hayward
Odwalla – Half Moon Bay
Otis Spunkmeyer – San Leandro
Peerless Coffee – Oakland
Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville
Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company – Point Reyes Station
PowerBar – Berkeley
The Republic of Tea – Novato
See's Candies – South San Francisco
Shasta – Hayward
Takaki Bakery (Andersen Institute of Bread and Life) – Hayward

Healthcare

Eargo - Mountain Valley, California
Kaiser Permanente – Oakland
McKesson – San Francisco
Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto

Internet

Media

Communication Arts – Menlo Park, California
Daily Review – Hayward
Future US – South San Francisco
Oakland Tribune – Oakland
San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose, California
University of California Press – Berkeley, California

Mobile media

Musical instruments and accessories

Dunlop Manufacturing – Benicia
E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
Saga Musical Instruments – South San Francisco
Santa Cruz Guitar Company – Santa Cruz

Networking

Real estate

LiquidSpace – San Francisco
Prologis – San Francisco
Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust - Oakland

Retail

Software

Sports

24 Hour Fitness – San Ramon
All Pro Wrestling – Hayward
Fox Racing Shox – Scotts Valley
Giro – Santa Cruz
GoPro - San Mateo
Hydrapak – Oakland
JumpSport – San Jose
Kestrel USA – Santa Cruz
Lowepro – Sebastopol
Pac-12 Conference – Walnut Creek
Santa Cruz Skateboards – Santa Cruz
Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
TRX System – San Francisco

Telecommunications

Avaya – Santa Clara
Fastmetrics – San Francisco
J&K Communications – Alameda
Livewire Communications – Concord
Pacific Telemanagement Services – San Leandro
Xtelesis Corporation - Burlingame, California

Transportation and logistics

Future Packaging Group – San Jose
Genesis Engineering Services Inc – San Jose
Gillig Corporation – Hayward
Legacy Transportation – San Jose
Virgin America – Burlingame

Companies formerly based in the San Francisco Bay Area

This list contains both extant companies which have moved their headquarters out of the Bay Area (often during a corporate buyout), and defunct companies.

Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
Best Manufacturing Company – San Leandro (defunct)
Caterpillar Inc. (50) – relocated to Peoria, Illinois
Chaosium – formerly based in Oakland, then Hayward, now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
ComputerLand – Hayward (defunct)
Esprit relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
Etec Systems, Inc. – Hayward (defunct)
Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
FMC Corporation (Farm Machinery Corp, Farm Machinery and Chemical Corp) – moved headquarters from San Jose to Chicago; subsequently moved to Philadelphia
Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
Franklin Ophthalmic Instruments – Hayward (defunct)
Friden, Inc. – San Leandro (defunct)
Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
Hunt Brothers Cannery – moved from Hayward
Knight-Ridder – purchased by The McClatchy Company
Leslie Salt – purchased by Cargill in 1978
Mervyn's – Hayward (defunct)
Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
NUMMI – automobile manufacturer (defunct)
Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
Peterbilt Motors – relocated to Denton, Texas
Qume – Hayward (defunct)
Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – acquired by The Hershey Company
The Sharper Image
Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
United Commercial Bank - acquired by East West Bank

References

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