List of companies headquartered in San Francisco, California

The following is a list of companies headquartered in San Francisco. Fortune 500 rankings indicated in parenthesis. All ranking is based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008. [ [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/full_list/ Full list of Fortune 500 companies - 2008] , CNN Money. Retrieved on June 12, 2008.]

Companies headquartered in San Francisco

Agriculture
*Del Monte Foods

Apparel
*Gap, Inc. (162)
*Levi Strauss & Co.

Biomedical
*McKesson Corporation (18)

Construction
*Bechtel Corporation

Electronics
*Dolby Laboratories
*OQO
*Sega of America
*Watkins Computer, Inc.

Energy
*Chemoil Corporation
*Pacific Gas & Electric (200)

Entertainment
*Industrial Light and Magic
*Lucasfilm
*LucasArts
*The Orphanage
*Wild Brain

Financial
*Bank of the West
*Bank of the Orient
*Barclays Global Investors
*Charles Schwab (402)
*Esurance
*First Republic Bank
*Pegasus Aviation
*Stone & Youngberg, LLC
*ThinkEquity Partners, LLC
*Thomas Weisel Partners
*UnionBanCal Corporation and Union Bank of California
*United Commercial Bank
*VISA
*Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank (41)

Food and Drink
*Adina World Beat Beverages
*Anchor Brewing Company
*Boudin Bakery
*Del Monte Foods
*Hills Bros.
*Skyy Spirits LLC

Internet
*BitTorrent Inc.
*Blogspot
*Craigslist
*Digg
*Imeem
*Linden Lab
*SixApart
*Technorati
*Typepad
*Wikipedia
*Yelp, Inc.
*YouNoodle

Media
*AllBusiness.com
*Americana exchange
*Bebo
*Business 2.0
*Chronicle Books
*CNET
*Craigslist
*Current TV
*Dwell Magazine
*Juxtapoz Magazine
*LiveJournal
*MacWorld Magazine
*Mevio
*Mother Jones Magazine
*PC World Magazine
*Planetout
*Thrasher Magazine
*Treasure island media
*VIZ Media
*Wired Magazine
*XLR8R Magazine

Miscellany / Etc.
*ABM Industries
*Ammunition LLC
*URS Corporation

Non-profit
*Internet Archive
*The Sierra Club
*Wikimedia Foundation

Retail
*Good Vibrations
*Gymboree Corporation
*The Sharper Image
*Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Software
*Salesforce.com
*Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories

Companies headquartered near San Francisco (within San Francisco Bay Area)

Apparel
*Bebe – Brisbane, California
*The North Face – San Leandro, California

Biomedical
*Chiron – Emeryville, California
*Genentech – South San Francisco, California
*Gilead Sciences – Foster City, California

Consumer Goods
*Clorox (474) – Oakland, California

Electronics
*AMD (406) – Sunnyvale, California
*Agilent Tech. (443) – Santa Clara, California
*Apple Inc. (103) – Cupertino, California
*Applied Materials (270) – Santa Clara, California
*Cisco Systems (71) – San Jose, California
*Hewlett Packard (14) – Palo Alto, California
*Intel (60) – Santa Clara, California
*JDS Uniphase – Milpitas, California
*Logitech – Fremont, California
*Maxtor – Milpitas, California
*Sanmina-SCI (255) – San Jose, California
*Solectron Corporation – Milpitas, California
*Sun Microsystems (184) – Santa Clara, California
*THX – San Rafael, California
*Digidesign – Daly City, California
*Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale, California
*Foundry Networks – Santa Clara, California
*Terayon – Santa Clara, California

Energy
*Calpine Corporation (318) – San Jose, California
*Chevron (3) – San Ramon, California

Entertainment
*Electronic Arts – Redwood City, California
*Netflix – Los Gatos, California
*Pixar – Emeryville, California

Financial
*Fisher Investments – Woodside, California
*Franklin Templeton Investments – San Mateo, California
*GWF Corporation – Oakland, California
*PayPal – San Jose, California
*Robert Half International – Menlo Park, California

Food and Drink
*C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett, California
*Clif Bar – Berkeley, California
*Jamba Juice – Emeryville, California
*Jelly Belly – Fairfield, California
*Odwalla – Half Moon Bay, California
*Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville, California
*PowerBar – Berkeley, California
*See's Candies – South San Francisco, California

Internet
*Ask.com – Oakland, California
*eBay (326) – San Jose, California
*Google (150) – Mountain View, California
*Yahoo! (353) – Sunnyvale, California
*YouTube – San Bruno, California
*Facebook – Palo Alto, California

Media
*ReadyMade Magazine – Berkeley, California
*University of California Press – Berkeley, California
*Communication Arts – Menlo Park, California

Retail
*Longs Drug Stores – Walnut Creek, California
*Orchard Supply Hardware – San Jose, California
*Ross Stores (412) – Pleasanton, California
*Safeway (55) – Pleasanton, California
*Restoration Hardware – Corte Madera, California
*Walmart.com – Brisbane, California

Software
*Adobe Systems – San Jose, California
*Autodesk – San Rafael, California
*Intuit – Mountain View, California
*McAfee – Santa Clara, California
*Mozilla – Mountain View, California
*Oracle (137) – Redwood City, California
*Sybase – Dublin, California
*Symantec (461) – Cupertino, California
*VMware – Palo Alto, California

Security
*Franklin Resources (389) – San Mateo, California

Sports
*Pac-10 Conference – Walnut Creek, California

Transportation and Logistic
*Virgin America – Burlingame, California
*CNF – San Mateo, 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
*Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
*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, 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
*Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
*Folgers – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.

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