List of California companies
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List of California companies includes notable companies that are, or once were, headquartered in California.

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  • A&M Records
    A&M Records
    A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

  • ABM Industries
  • ACC Capital Holdings
  • AECOM
    AECOM
    AECOM Technology Corporation is a professional technical and management support services firm. The company is ranked as the number one design firm for 2010 and 2011 by Engineering News-Record and number one by Architectural Record. It provides services in the areas of transportation, planning,...

  • AMD
  • Accelrys
    Accelrys
    Accelrys is a software company headquartered in the US, with representation in Europe and Japan. It provides software for chemical, materials and bioscience research for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, energy and chemical industries.Accelrys started in 2001...

  • Activision
    Activision
    Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...

  • Actuate Corporation
    Actuate
    Actuate Corporation is a San Mateo, California based Public Computer software company. Actuate is the founder and co-leader of the Eclipse BIRT open source project, a development environment for "presenting compelling data visualizations"...

  • Adaptec
    Adaptec
    Adaptec is a computer hardware brand owned by PMC-Sierra that is used on some of its host adapters for connecting storage devices to computers. The production line of Adaptec is in Indonesia. Products are made to interface with SCSI, Serial ATA, and Serial attached SCSI. Some of its host adapters...

  • Adio
    Adio
    Adio Footwear is a skateboarding footwear and clothing company, founded by skater Chris Miller in 1999. It was later acquired by K2, based in Carlsbad, California. K2 was acquired by the Jarden Corporation in 2007....

  • Adobe Systems
    Adobe Systems
    Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

  • Advanced Micro Devices
    Advanced Micro Devices
    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...

  • Aerojet
    Aerojet
    Aerojet is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, Gainesville and Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet is owned by GenCorp. They are the only US propulsion company that provides both solid rocket...

  • Agilent Technologies
    Agilent Technologies
    Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation...

  • Aldila
    Aldila
    Aldila is a sports equipment manufacturing company based in Poway, California, United States. The company specializes in OEM and consumer golf club shafts, but also manufactures other carbon fiber products....

  • Allergan
    Allergan
    Allergan, Inc., is a global specialty pharmaceutical company. Their product ranges include ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, dermatology products, and neurological products.-Profile:...

  • American Apparel
    American Apparel
    American Apparel is a clothing manufacturer in the United States. It is a vertically integrated clothing manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer that also performs its own design, advertising, and marketing...

  • American Reprographics Company
    American Reprographics Company
    American Reprographics Company is the largest reprographics company in the United States, providing business-to-business document management services to the architectural, engineering and construction industry. It also provides these services to companies in other industries that require...

  • American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
    Honda
    is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

  • Ameriflight
    Ameriflight
    Ameriflight LLC is an American cargo airline with its headquarters in Hangar 1 on the grounds of Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California. It is the largest United States FAA Part 135 cargo carrier, operating scheduled and contract cargo services to destinations in 30 US states, Canada, Mexico, and...

  • Ameriquest Mortgage
    Ameriquest Mortgage
    Ameriquest was one of the United States' leading wholesale lenders, and the largest sub-prime lender in the nation until all but four of its top-performing retail offices were closed in September of 2007. Its loan origination practices were at the heart of the Financial crisis of 2007–2010...

    (closed)
  • Amgen
    Amgen
    Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 17,000 staff members. Its products include Epogen, Aranesp, Enbrel, Kineret,...

  • Amy's Kitchen
    Amy's Kitchen
    Amy's Kitchen is a privately held corporation which began operation in 1987, with the purpose of making healthy, organic, and easy-to-prepare frozen food. Owned and run by Andy and Rachel Berliner, Amy's Kitchen took its name from their then-newborn daughter. The company employs over 1,500 people...

  • AnaSpec
    AnaSpec
    AnaSpec Inc. is a biotechnology company headquartered in Fremont, California. Located in the Silicon Valley, it is a provider of custom and catalog research peptides, antibodies, dyes, assay kits, synthesis reagents, oligonucleotides, and PCR kits...

  • Andronico's
    Andronico's
    Andronico's is a supermarket chain based primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its first store was founded in 1929 on Berkeley's Solano Avenue by Greek immigrant Frank Andronico. Since then, thirteen additional stores have opened and five have since closed...

  • Antec
    Antec
    Antec, Inc. is an American-based maker of PC components and accessories. Antec's principal products are computer cases and power supplies. Antec also offers PC cooling products and notebook accessories. Founded in 1986, the company is headquartered in Fremont, California, U.S.A., with additional...

  • Apple Inc., parent company of FileMaker Inc.
    FileMaker Inc.
    FileMaker Inc. is a computer software company formed in 1998 from the vestiges of Claris as a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Inc.FileMaker develops, supports and markets two relational database programs; FileMaker and Bento. FileMaker is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating...

  • Applied Materials
    Applied Materials
    Applied Materials, Inc. is a capital equipment producer serving the semiconductor, TFT LCD display, Glass, WEB and solar manufacturing industries....

  • Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Applied Micro Circuits Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power Architecture , and server processor ARM , optical transport and storage solutions...

  • APTARE
  • Ariba Inc.
  • Arkeia Software
    Arkeia Software
    Arkeia Software provides worldwide network backup solutions for both physical and virtual environments. Arkeia Software is a private company that was founded in 1996 by three French engineers and is currently based in Carlsbad, California. The company has 50 employees...

  • Aspen Education Group
    Aspen Education Group
    Aspen Education Group is an American, for-profit business organization that operates a variety of therapeutic treatment programs for troubled adolescents, including wilderness therapy programs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools, and weight loss programs. Aspen is a...

  • Autodesk
    Autodesk
    Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's...

  • Avenuewest Corporate Housing
  • Averatec
    Averatec
    Averatec is a South Korean laptop computer brand owned by TG Sambo, the country's first computer maker. The brand first entered the American market in July 2003 and has since grown 360% to the fourth largest laptop maker, overtaking Sony in 2004 with a market share of 11.6% according to Current...

  • Avery Dennison
    Avery Dennison
    Avery Dennison Corporation is a global manufacturer and distributor of pressure sensitive adhesive materials , office products, and various paper products....

  • AVST
    AVST
    Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. is a privately held software company in the telecommunication industry, headquartered in Orange County, California...


B

  • BAX Global
    BAX Global
    BAX Global is an international shipping company that is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has other major offices in Australia, Singapore, London, the Netherlands and Toledo, Ohio. The company which was founded in 1971 also operates an airline...

  • BMW of North America
    BMW
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

  • Baja Fresh
    Baja Fresh
    Baja Fresh is a chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants founded in Newbury Park, California in 1990 and headquartered in Cypress, California. The chain emphasizes fresh ingredients, and each restaurant features a self-serve salsa bar....

  • Banana Republic (clothing retailer)
  • Bank of California
    Bank of California
    The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco, California, on July 4, 1864, by William Chapman Ralston. It was the first commercial bank in the Western United States, the second-richest bank in the nation, and considered instrumental in developing the American Old West.-History:The ancestor of...

  • Bank of the West
    Bank of the West
    Bank of the West, is a commercial bank which sponsors the Bank of the West Classic professional tennis tournament, a U.S. Open series event.-History:Bank of the West began as Farmers National Gold Bank of San Jose, California, in 1874...

  • bebe stores
    Bebe stores
    bebe stores are an American clothing retailer founded in 1976. The name was inspired by, and is pronounced as in, the phrase "to be or not to be" from the play Hamlet. Manny Mashouf, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s, opened the first bebe store in San Francisco during a time...

  • Bechtel
    Bechtel
    Bechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the U.S...

  • Beckman Coulter
    Beckman Coulter
    Beckman Coulter Inc., is a company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments. Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in...

  • Behr (paint)
    Behr (paint)
    Behr Process Corporation is a manufacturer of interior and exterior residential paint, founded in 1947 by Otho Behr Jr. It is known for their extensive range of available colors...

  • Belkin
    Belkin
    Belkin International, Inc., is a Californian manufacturer of computer hardware that specializes in connectivity devices, headquartered in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California...

  • Big 5 Sporting Goods
    Big 5 Sporting Goods
    Big 5 Sporting Goods is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 388 stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Steven G. Miller is the Chairman, President, and CEO.The Big 5 name is...

  • Big Dogs
    Big Dogs
    Big Dogs, based in Santa Barbara, California, was a chain of stores in the United States which features clothing and apparel holding the "Big Dogs" brand name. Since October 2010 it offers all products only via their company website...

  • Bikram Yoga
    Bikram Yoga
    Bikram Yoga is a system of yoga that Bikram Choudhury synthesized from traditional hatha yoga techniques and popularized beginning in the early 1970s. Bikram's classes run exactly 90 minutes and consist of a set series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises...

  • BioMarin Pharmaceutical
    BioMarin Pharmaceutical
    BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is a biotechnology firm based in Novato, California. It has offices and facilities in the US, South America, Asia and Europe. BioMarin's core business and research is in enzyme replacement therapies...

  • Birdhouse Skateboards
    Birdhouse Skateboards
    Birdhouse Skateboards is a skateboard company formed by ex-Powell Peralta pros Tony Hawk and Per Welinder in 1992....

  • Birdwell
    Birdwell (clothing)
    Birdwell is an American surf clothing company, headquartered in California, makers of Birdwell Beach Britches. Founded by Carrie Birdwell Mann in 1961, the company manufactures and sells customized heavy-duty swimsuits, which are sold internationally...

  • Black Angus Steakhouse
    Black Angus Steakhouse
    Black Angus Steak and Seafood Restaurant was founded in 1964 by Stuart Anderson of Seattle, Washington. The restaurant chain is based in Los Altos, CA. -History:...

  • Black Box Distribution
    Black Box Distribution
    Black Box Distribution is a skateboard distributor owned by professional skateboarder Jamie Thomas. It serves 4 companies, 3 are owned by Thomas; Fallen Footwear, Mystery Skateboards, and Zero Skateboards. Slave Skateboards is owned by Ben Horton...

  • Black Label Skateboards
    Black Label Skateboards
    Black Label is a skateboarding company founded and owned by longtime professional skateboarder and skateboard graphic artist John Lucero in 1990. It is based in Costa Mesa, California.-External links:* *...

  • Blue Shield of California
    Blue Shield of California
    Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan founded in 1939 and based in San Francisco, California. The organization serves over 3.4 million health plan members and nearly 65,000 physicians across the state...

  • Boeing Phantom Works
    Boeing Phantom Works
    The Phantom Works division is the advanced prototyping arm of the Defense and Security side of The Boeing Company. Its primary focus is developing advanced military products and technologies, many of them highly classified, and has produced breakthroughs in defense, space and security.Founded by...

  • Bolthouse Farms
    Bolthouse Farms
    Bolthouse Farms, founded 1915 in Grant, Michigan, is a vertically integrated farm company located in California's San Joaquin Valley and headquartered in Bakersfield, California. The company still operates some facilities in Prosser, Washington, but shut down operations in Michigan in June 2010...

  • Boost Mobile
    Boost Mobile
    Boost Mobile is a brand of wireless prepay service run by Sprint Nextel, operating within the Sprint Prepaid Group along with Virgin Mobile USA, Assurance Wireless, and payLo by Virgin Mobile. Boost Mobile uses GSMand iDEN networks...

  • Brio Technology
    Brio Technology
    Brio Technology was a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1984 by Yorgen Edholm and Katherine Glassey. The company is best known for their business intelligence software systems, starting with DataPivot on the Apple Macintosh. Brio Software was acquired by Hyperion in 2003...

  • Bristol Farms
    Bristol Farms
    Bristol Farms Inc. is an upscale grocery store chain in California, United States. Founded in Los Angeles County, Bristol Farms operates fourteen stores, twelve in Southern California, and one in San Francisco. The fourteenth store operates as Lazy Acres Market in Santa Barbara...

    , a division of SuperValu
    Supervalu (United States)
    SuperValu Inc. is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States , and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.On June 2, 2006,...

  • Broadcom
    Broadcom
    Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...

  • Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
    Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
    The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant and Market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of September 2010, thirty-two Bubba Gump restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, three are in Japan, two are located in Mexico,...

  • Building Materials Holding Corporation
    Building Materials Holding Corporation
    Building Materials Holding Corporation located in San Francisco, California is a holding company engaged, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, BMC West and SelectBuild Construction in the distribution and usage of building materials, selling primarily to professional contractors and builders as...

  • Buy.com
    Buy.com
    Buy.com, Incorporated is an online retailer based in Aliso Viejo, California.Buy.com began by selling computers and electronics in 1997 and has since expanded into many other categories...


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  • Circa (C1rca)
  • CB Richard Ellis
    CB Richard Ellis
    CBRE Group, Inc. , a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm . The Company has approximately 31,000 employees , and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices worldwide...

  • CKE Restaurants
    CKE Restaurants
    CKE Restaurants, Inc. is the parent company of the Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito restaurant chains. Its headquarters are in Carpinteria, California. It was incorporated in 1964 by Carl's Jr. founder Carl Karcher as Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc.- History :In 2007, it sold...

    , parent of Carl's Jr.
    Carl's Jr.
    Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States. The first store has opened in Canada in Kelowna, BC. They are in the process of expanding to Mexico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam,...

    , Hardee's
    Hardee's
    Hardee's is a restaurant chain, located mostly in the Southeast and Midwestern regions of the United States. It has evolved through several corporate ownerships since its establishment in 1960. It is currently owned and operated by CKE Restaurants. Along with its sibling restaurant chain, Carl's...

    , Green Burrito
    Green Burrito
    Green Burrito is an American fast-food restaurant chain run by CKE Restaurants, Inc., located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States and serving fast-food Tex-Mex....

    , Red Burrito and La Salsa.
  • CNET
    CNET
    CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...

  • California Lawyer
  • California Pizza Kitchen
    California Pizza Kitchen
    California Pizza Kitchen , known within the food industry as CPK, is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza...

  • Callaway Golf Company
  • Calpine
    Calpine
    Calpine Corporation is a Fortune 500 power company founded in 1984 in San Jose, California.Calpine's headquarters were permanently moved from San Jose to Houston, Texas in 2009. The company's stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CPN until it was delisted on December 5,...

  • CamelBak
    CamelBak
    CamelBak Products, LLC is an outdoors equipment company known primarily for its hydration products, such as hydration packs and water bottles. CamelBak is also a supplier of hydration packs, protective gear, and other products to the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies around the world.The...

  • Cartridge World
    Cartridge World
    Cartridge World claims to be the world’s fastest growing ink and toner refilling retailer and franchisor in the printer cartridge industry. The company refills and remanufactures inkjet and toner printer cartridges...

  • Cathay Bank
    Cathay Bank
    Cathay Bank is a Chinese American bank based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1962, it has since expanded its network throughout California and into Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, Illinois, and New Jersey...

  • Century Theatres
    Century Theatres
    Century Theatres is a movie theater chain which operates many multiplexes in the western United States, primarily in California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. In recent years, it has expanded into the inter-mountain states, the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and parts of the Midwest...

  • Champion (spark plug)
    Champion (spark plug)
    Champion is an American brand of spark plugs.Originally Champion was a Fortune 500 Company founded by Robert A. Stranahan and Frank D. Stranahan in 1908 in Boston, MA and then moved to Toledo, OH in 1910 to be close to the Willys-Overland Auto Company....

  • Charles Schwab Corp.
    Charles Schwab Corp.
    The Charles Schwab Corporation , is an American brokerage and banking company, based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1971 by Charles R. "Chuck" Schwab, as a traditional, brick and mortar brokerage firm and investment newsletter publisher. In 1973, the company name changed from First...

  • Charlotte Russe (retailer)
    Charlotte Russe (retailer)
    Charlotte Russe is a specialty retail chain store in the United States dedicated to selling trendy clothing and accessories under the Charlotte Russe, refuge., and blu chic labels. The company is based in San Diego, California...

  • CHBO - Corporate Housing by Owner
  • The Cheesecake Factory
    The Cheesecake Factory
    The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates 165 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 151 under The Cheesecake Factory mark, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark...

  • Chevron Corporation
    Chevron Corporation
    Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, United States and active in more than 180 countries. It is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining,...

    , owns Gulf Oil
    Gulf Oil
    Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies...

     in the USA
  • Chicken of the Sea
    Chicken of the Sea
    Chicken of the Sea is a brand of canned tuna produced by a company owned by Thai Union Group.-Company:Based in San Diego, California, the company markets a variety of other seafood items under the Chicken of the Sea brand name, including clam, crab, mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna...

  • Chiron Corporation
    Chiron Corporation
    Chiron Corporation was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis International AG on April 20, 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. Chiron's business and research was in three main areas:...

  • Circle K
    Circle K
    Circle K is an international chain of convenience stores, founded in 1951, in El Paso, Texas, United States. It is owned and operated by the Canadian-based Alimentation Couche-Tard.-Overview:...

     - Western Region Offices
  • Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

    (Linksys
    Linksys
    Linksys by Cisco, commonly known as Linksys, is a brand of home and small office networking products now produced by Cisco Systems, though once a separate company founded in 1995 before being acquired by Cisco in 2003...

    )
  • City National Bank
    City National Bank
    City National Bank is an American financial institution headquartered in Los Angeles, California, owned by City National Corporation , with total assets of $21.8 billion . As of 2011, it is the 25th largest bank in USA...

  • Claim Jumper
    Claim Jumper
    Claim Jumper is a restaurant chain headquartered in Irvine, California with 45 locations in Arizona, California, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin and Oregon. Founder Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper Restaurant in Los Alamitos, California in 1977...

  • Clorox Company
  • Coco's Bakery
    Coco's Bakery
    Coco's Bakery Restaurant is a chain of casual dining restaurants operating in the Western portion of the United States.-Locations:, the chain operates over 115 restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.-History:...

  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
    The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
    The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is a Los Angeles, California-based coffee chain, owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. The first Coffee Bean opened in September 1963. The chain has over 750 locations in 22 countries...

  • Computer Sciences Corporation
    Computer Sciences Corporation
    Computer Sciences Corporation is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA...

  • Con-way
    Con-way
    Con-way, Inc. is a freight transportation and logistics company with businesses in less-than-truckload and full truckload freight services, truckload brokerage, logistics, warehousing, supply chain management and trailer manufacturing, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Con-way’s services are used by...

  • Corsair Memory
    Corsair Memory
    Corsair Memory is a computer peripherals and hardware company headquartered in Fremont, California. Corsair designs and sells a range of products for computers, including high-speed DRAM modules, ATX power supplies , USB flash drives , CPU and memory cooling solutions, computer cases, solid-state...

  • Cost Plus, Inc.
    Cost Plus, Inc.
    Cost Plus, Inc. is the owner and operator of the chain of Cost Plus World Market specialty/import retail stores. The name originated from the initial concept, since abandoned, of selling items for "cost plus 10%".-History:...

  • Countrywide Financial
    Countrywide Financial
    Bank of America Home Loans is the mortgage unit of Bank of America. Bank of America Home Loans is composed of:*Mortgage Banking, which originates purchases, securitizes, and services mortgages. In 2008, Bank of America purchased the failing Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion...

  • Covad
    Covad
    Covad Communications Group was an American provider of broadband voice and data communications. By 2006, the company had 530,000 subscribers, and ranked 16th largest ISP in the United States. Covad was acquired by U.S...

  • Craigslist
    Craigslist
    Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements, with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums....

  • Cricket Communications
    Cricket Communications
    Cricket Communications, Inc. founded in 1999, also known as Cricket Wireless, provides wireless services to 7 million customers in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, utilizing its CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks...

  • Crowley Maritime
    Crowley Maritime
    Crowley Maritime Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Florida, and founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides transportation and logistics services in U.S...

  • Cunard Line
    Cunard Line
    Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...


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  • DIC Entertainment Corp.(U.S.)
    DiC Entertainment
    DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

  • DaVita
    DaVita
    DaVita, Inc. is one of the largest kidney care companies in the United States, with corporate headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Their offerings include in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, vascular access management, chronic kidney disease education, and renal diet...

  • DC Shoes
    DC Shoes
    DC Shoes is an American company that specializes in footwear for extreme sports, skateboarding, snowboarding as well as snowboards, shirts, jeans, hats, and jackets.The company was founded in 1993 by Ken Block and Damon Way, and is based in Vista, California...

  • Del Monte Foods
    Del Monte Foods
    Del Monte Foods is an American food production and distribution company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Del Monte Foods is one of the country's largest producers, distributors and marketers of branded food and pet products for the U.S. retail market, generating approximately $3.6...

  • Del Taco
    Del Taco
    Del Taco is a North American fast food restaurant chain which specializes in American-style Mexican cuisine as well as American foods such as burgers, fries, and shakes...

  • Delta Scientific
  • Deluxe Distribution
    Deluxe Distribution
    Deluxe Distribution is an ERMICO owned subsidiary founded in 1986 with limited partner Brian Ware in San Francisco. The original intent of Deluxe was for the distribution of the Beware Record label and various small record labels popular with skateboarders along with Thunder Trucks and Supercush...

  • Diedrich Coffee
    Diedrich Coffee
    Diedrich Coffee is a coffee company based in Irvine, CA. Its first coffee house in Orange County, CA was opened in 1983. It owns the American mall-based stores for Gloria Jean's Coffees...

  • DirecTV
    DirecTV
    DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

  • DiscoveRx
    DiscoveRx
    DiscoverRx develops, commercializes and manufactures reagents and assay kits for the drug discovery market. Their focus is on lucrative protein target classes, such as G-protein-coupled receptors and kinases....

  • Disney
    The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

  • Dodge & Cox
    Dodge & Cox
    Dodge & Cox is a mutual fund company founded in 1930 by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox which provide professional investment management services. They are headquartered in San Francisco, California...

  • Dole Food Company
    Dole Food Company
    Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 74,300 full-time and seasonal employees who are responsible for over 300...

  • DreamHost
    DreamHost
    DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is the web hosting branch of New Dream Network, LLC, founded in 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and...

  • Driscoll's
    Driscoll's
    Driscoll's is the brand name of Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc., a Watsonville, California-based producer and distributor of fresh berries. Driscoll's is a supplier and marketer of both organic and conventional berries, including strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and other...

  • Dwell (magazine)
    Dwell (magazine)
    Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...

  • Dwindle Distribution
    Dwindle Distribution
    Dwindle Distribution, based in El Segundo, CA, is the largest skateboard manufacturing company and distributor. It is owned by Globe International Limited. It serves seven skate companies: Almost, Enjoi, Speed Demons, Tensor Trucks, Blind, Cliche, Superior and Darkstar Skateboards. Dwindle...

  • Ducommun
    Ducommun
    Ducommun Incorporated provides manufacturing, engineering, and support services to the global aerospace and defense industry. It manufactures structural and electronic components and subassemblies for a wide variety of commercial, military, and space aircraft, notably for the Boeing 737 NG and 777...


E

  • E-Loan
    E-Loan
    E-Loan, Inc. is a Rosemont, Illinois-based financial services company that offers savings accounts and certificates of deposit and access to partners that may be able to assist customers in obtaining loans....

  • EBSuite
    EBSuite
    EBSuite.com - eBusiness Suite of CRM business tools develops a CRM application for small, medium & enterprises organizations that is offered as on-demand or Software as a Service . On-demand software, or Software as a Service , has grown since early 2002.-History:EBSuite is an on-demand Customer...

  • EVGA
  • Easton (company)
    Easton (company)
    Easton-Bell Sports makes sports equipment and clothing under the brands Bell Sports, Blackburn, Easton, Giro, and Riddell. Its parent company is Fenway Partners.-Easton:...

  • East West Bank
    East West Bank
    East West Bank is a Chinese American bank in the state of California in the United States. It has 119 branch locations in northern and southern California, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, two overseas branches in Hong Kong, one each in Shanghai and Shantou and representative...

  • eBay
    EBay
    eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

  • Edison International
    Edison International
    Edison International is a public utility holding company based in Rosemead, California. Its subsidiaries include Southern California Edison, and un-regulated non-utility assets Edison Mission Energy and Midwest Generation, power producers, and Edison Capital...

    , owns Southern California Edison
    Southern California Edison
    Southern California Edison , the largest subsidiary of Edison International , is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, USA. It provides 14 million people with electricity...

  • El Pollo Loco
    El Pollo Loco
    El Pollo Loco is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Mexican grilled chicken, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. "El Pollo Loco" is Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken".Their main dish is pollo asado, a grilled marinated chicken...

  • Elanex
    Elanex
    Elanex, Inc. commonly known as Elanex, is a translation technology and services company based in San Francisco, California, USA that provides localization, translation, and interpreting services. Elanex primarily provides human translation, with only the aid of technology, but companies also...

  • Electra Bicycle Company
    Electra Bicycle Company
    Electra Bicycle Company is a Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company, founded in 1993 by Benno Bänziger and Jeano Erforth. The company offers a wide range of modern cruiser bicycles and is credited with re-popularizing the cruiser bike. Additionally Electra designed and sells comfort...

  • Electronic Arts
    Electronic Arts
    Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

  • Elephant Bar
    Elephant Bar
    The Elephant Bar is a restaurant chain in the United States. The corporate office is located in La Mirada, California. As of July 2009, the chain comprises 47 restaurants throughout ten states with the majority in California. Elephant Bar Restaurants are also located in Arizona, California,...

  • Emerica
  • Esurance
    Esurance
    Esurance Inc. is an American auto insurance provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. Esurance has 1,700 employees in 14 offices nationwide.-History:...

  • Euphonix
    Euphonix
    Euphonix was a professional audio company located in Mountain View, California, United States. Euphonix produced the first successful line of large digitally controlled analog audio mixing consoles in the late 1980s and has since moved on to all-digital systems....

  • Experian
    Experian
    Experian plc, formerly known as CCN Systems, is a global credit information group with operations in 36 countries. The company employs 15,500 people with corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and operational headquarters in Nottingham, England and Costa Mesa, California, US...

  • Extreme Pizza
    Extreme Pizza
    Extreme Pizza is a privately-held restaurant franchise chain specializing in conventional and California-style pizza, founded by Todd Parent and Michael Pastor in 1994 in San Francisco, California. The chain currently includes over 30 locations in the United States, and one in Ireland...


F

  • Facebook
    Facebook
    Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

  • Facedown Records
    Facedown Records
    Facedown Records is a Christian record label based in Fallbrook, California, devoted mostly to hardcore punk and metalcore bands . Founded by No Innocent Victim drummer Jason Dunn, the label started off small with a number of 7" record releases by bands such as Overcome, Dodgin Bullets, and Born...

  • Factory 2-U
    Factory 2-U
    Factory 2-U is a chain of stores operated by National Stores. The brand under National Stores sells off-brand apparel under the Factory 2-U name. The chain was formerly operated by Factory 2-U Stores, Inc. , which had its headquarters in San Diego, California...

  • Fallen Footwear
    Fallen Footwear
    Fallen Footwear is a skateboarding footwear brand started by a professional skateboarder Jamie Thomas.-History:In 2003, it was announced that Fallen Footwear would be manufactured and distributed by DC Shoes under license from Thomas....

  • Famous Stars and Straps
    Famous Stars and Straps
    Famous Stars and Straps is an American clothing and accessory line created by Travis Barker on December 8, 1999, best known for being the drummer in the band blink-182...

  • Farmers Insurance Group
  • Fatburger
    Fatburger
    Fatburger is a fast casual restaurant chain. It uses the slogan The Last Great Hamburger Stand. While it is a fast food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order and the restaurant has a liquor license...

  • First Republic Bank
    First Republic Bank
    First Republic Bank is a bank and wealth management company offering personal banking, business banking, trust and wealth management services. The bank specializes in delivering personalized relationship-based service through preferred banking or trust offices on the US East and West Coasts,...

  • First American Corporation
    First American Corporation
    First American Financial Corporation is a United States financial services company and is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries....

  • Fisher Investments
  • Fleetwood Enterprises
    Fleetwood Enterprises
    Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. was a producer of motorhomes and manufactured housing. It was founded in 1950 by John Crean in Riverside, California....

  • Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, a division of OSI Restaurant Partners
  • Flip Skateboards
    Flip Skateboards
    Flip Skateboards is a US-based international skateboard company, owned by Jeremy Fox, Ian Deacon, and Geoff Rowley. The company produces skateboard decks, wheels, and clothing. Flip is distributed by NHS Distribution in the US.- History :...

  • Food 4 Less & Foods Co., a division of Kroger
    Kroger
    The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

  • Forever 21
    Forever 21
    Forever 21 is an American chain of clothing retailers with branches in major cities in The United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East that offers fashion and accessories for young women and men....

  • Forum Snowboarding
    Forum Snowboarding
    - History :Forum snowboards was first started by Four Star Distribution and pro snowboarder Peter Line in the summer of 1996. It also owns outerwear companies Four Square and Special Blend. The Four Square team consists of Pat Moore, Peter Line and Andreas Wiig. The Special Blend team consists of...

  • Fosters Freeze
    Fosters Freeze
    Fosters Freeze is a chain of fast-food restaurants in California. It was founded by George Foster in 1946 on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, California, a location that still remains, and claims to have been the first fast-food chain in the state.George Foster later sold the Foster's Freeze franchise...

  • Fox Racing
    Fox Racing
    Fox Head, Inc. is privately owned action sports brand founded in 1974. Fox designs, develops and distributes clothing and accessories to over fifty countries primarily focusing on off-road motorized biking.- History :...

  • Franklin Templeton Investments
    Franklin Templeton Investments
    Franklin Resources Inc. is a holding company which, together with its subsidiaries, is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments; it is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN, in honor of Benjamin...

  • Freedom Debt Relief
    Freedom Debt Relief
    Freedom Debt Relief is a debt settlement company based in San Mateo, California, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Freedom Financial Network, LLC a financial service company headquartered in San Mateo California. The company has served more than 100,000 clients since its inception in 2002...

  • Frederick's of Hollywood
    Frederick's of Hollywood
    Frederick's of Hollywood is a well-known retailer of women's lingerie in the United States, with stores in many modern shopping malls across the USA....

  • Fresh Choice
    Fresh Choice
    Fresh Choice is a chain of buffet-style restaurants which operate in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa. The first restaurant was opened in Sunnyvale, California in 1986, and as of 2010 there are 30 locations with two new...


G

  • Gap, Inc., owns Old Navy
    Old Navy
    Old Navy is an American clothing brand as well as a chain of stores owned by Gap, Inc., with corporate operations in San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San Francisco.Gap, Inc. was run by...

     stores
  • Gateway
  • GenCorp
    GenCorp
    GenCorp is an American technology-based manufacturer based in Rancho Cordova, California. Established in 1915, GenCorp was formerly the General Tire and Rubber Company....

  • Genencor
  • Genentech
    Genentech
    Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

  • Geni.com
    Geni.com
    Geni is a genealogy and social networking website. Launched on January 16, 2007, the Web 2.0 company aims to create a family tree of the world. While family profiles are private, Geni’s mission is to create a shared family tree of common ancestors...

  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
    Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
    The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss candymaker Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domingo Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California...

  • Gilead Sciences
    Gilead Sciences
    Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. For many years since the company was founded, the company concentrated primarily on antiviral drugs to treat patients infected with HIV, hepatitis B or influenza. In 2006, Gilead acquired two...

  • Girl Skateboard Company
  • Global One Lending
    Global One Lending
    Global One Lending is a Sacramento-based residential mortgage broker, licensed in the state of California, founded by Vietnamese-American entrepreneurs Robert Do and Quinn Dang in April, 2003....

  • Good Earth Teas
    Good Earth Teas
    Good Earth Teas is a tea distributor based in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1972 under their parent company Fmali Herb Company, it was originally one of the first American herbal tea companies during the early 1970s...

  • Google
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

  • Gottschalks
    Gottschalks
    Gottschalks was a middle-tier American department store that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states ; some locations ran as Harris-Gottschalks stores...

  • Granite Construction
    Granite Construction
    Granite Construction Inc. is a member of the S&P 400 Index based in Watsonville, California, and is the parent corporation of Granite Construction Company, a heavy civil general contractor and construction material producer....

  • Grimmway Farms
    Grimmway Farms
    Grimmway Farms was started by the Grimm brothers in the southern San Joaquin Valley in central California in the 1960s. Grimmway is the largest grower, producer, and shipper of carrots in the world. Along with carrots, Grimmway Farms produces potatoes, citrus, and carrot juice varieties...

  • Grocery Outlet
    Grocery Outlet
    Grocery Outlet, first known as Canned Foods Grocery Outlet until 1987, is a privately owned supermarket chain. Founded in 1946 in San Francisco, California, it currently operates within the Western states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona...

  • Guess (clothing)
  • Guitar Center
    Guitar Center
    Guitar Center is the largest chain of musical instrument retailers in the world with 223 locations throughout the United States. Its headquarters is in Westlake Village, California....

  • Guittard Chocolate Company
    Guittard Chocolate Company
    The Guittard Chocolate Company is an American-based chocolate maker which produces couverture chocolate using original formulas and traditional French methods...

  • Gymboree

H

  • Häagen-Dazs
    Häagen-Dazs
    Häagen-Dazs is a brand of ice cream, established by Jewish-Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961. Starting with only three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and coffee, the company opened its first retail store in Brooklyn, New York, on November 15, 1976...

  • Harris Department Store
    Harris Department Store
    The Harris Company was a retail corporation, based in San Bernardino, California, that operated a chain of department stores named Harris', all in Southern California...

  • The Hat
    The Hat
    The Hat is a Southern California fast-food restaurant specializing in pastrami sandwiches. This iconic eatery, once local only to the San Gabriel Valley, has been offering its "World Famous Pastrami" to Southern California residents since 1951. Its customers consume 13 to 15 tons of pastrami per...

  • Health Net
    Health Net
    Health Net, Inc. is among the United States of America's largest publicly traded health insurers. The company’s HMO, POS, insured PPO and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to approximately 6.6 million individuals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia through group,...

  • Herbalife
    Herbalife
    Herbalife International is a global nutrition, weight-loss and skin-care company. The company was founded in 1980 and it employs around 4,000 people worldwide. Herbalife reported net sales of USD 2.7 billion in 2010...

  • HP
    Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

  • HighPoint Technologies
    HighPoint Technologies
    HighPoint Technologies is a multi-channel SATA and RAID controller device manufacturer. The company was founded in 1995.They make RocketRAID series of RAID cards.-Operating System Support:Microsoft Windows* Windows 95* Windows 98* Windows Me...

  • Hilton Hotels
    Hilton Hotels
    Hilton Hotels & Resorts is an international chain of full-service hotels and resorts founded by Conrad Hilton and now owned by Hilton Worldwide. Hilton hotels are either owned by, managed by, or franchised to independent operators by Hilton Worldwide. Hilton Hotels became the first coast-to-coast...

  • Hitachi America Ltd.
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...

    , multiple divisions and subsidiaries located in California
  • Hot Dog on a Stick
    Hot Dog on a Stick
    HDOS Enterprises, commonly known as Hot Dog on a Stick, is a fast food company originating in Santa Monica, California, originally founded by Dave Barham.-History:...

  • Hot Topic
    Hot Topic
    Hot Topic is an American retail chain specializing in music and pop culture-related clothing and accessories, as well as licensed music on CD. The majority of the stores are located in regional shopping malls. The first Hot Topic store was opened in 1988 by Orv Madden, who retired as CEO in 2000...

  • Hurley International
    Hurley International
    Hurley International is a clothing company located in Costa Mesa, California founded by Bob Hurley. The company puts emphasis on skateboarding, surfing, music, and "fun"...

  • Hyundai Motor America
    Hyundai Motor Company
    Hyundai Motor Company is a Korean multinational automaker based in Seoul, South Korea which, along with Kia, comprises the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the world's fourth largest automaker as of 2009. As of 2011, it is the world's fastest growing automaker for two years running...


I

  • IHOP (restaurant)
  • In-N-Out Burger
    In-N-Out Burger
    In-N-Out Burger is a regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations in the western United States. Founded in 1948 by Harry Snyder and his wife Esther, establishing the first In-N-Out burger in Baldwin Park and headquartered in Irvine, California, In-N-Out Burger has since expanded outside...

  • Independent Truck Company
    Independent Truck company
    Independent Truck Company is a skateboard truck manufacturer based in Santa Cruz, California established in 1978, owned by NHS, Inc. The trucks are manufactured by Ermico Enterprises, Inc...

  • IndyMac Bank
    IndyMac Bank
    OneWest Bank is a federal savings bank with 82 retail branches in southern California and approximately $14 billion in deposits as of February 2010....

  • Ingram Micro
    Ingram Micro
    Ingram Micro, Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and the world’s largest information technology distributor, providing sales, marketing and logistics services for the IT industry in all corners of the globe.-Overview:...

  • Insider Pages
    Insider Pages
    Insider Pages is an online "local search" service operated by IAC/InterActiveCorp.Before its acquisition by IAC the company was based in Redwood Shores, California, and had over 600,000 reviews of local merchants around the country. Insider Pages was founded by Stuart MacFarlane in 2004...

  • Intel
  • IntelliCorp (Software)
    IntelliCorp (Software)
    IntelliCorp is a software company that provides, develops, and markets SAP application lifecycle management, business process management and data management software for SAP customers and partners...

  • International House of Pancakes
  • International Lease Finance Corporation(ILFC)
    International Lease Finance Corporation
    The International Lease Finance Corporation is an aircraft lessor headquartered in Century City, Los Angeles, California.It is the world's largest aircraft lessor by value, though ILFC's rival, General Electric's GECAS unit, has more aircraft...

  • International Telegram
  • Intuit
  • Investools, Inc.
    INVESTools
    Thinkorswim brokerage , with its Investools division, is an American company offering live and online investor education services....

  • Ipath
    IPath
    In finance, the iPath refer to a family of exchange-traded notes .The iPath combine the investment aspects of bonds and exchange-traded funds...

  • It's a Grind Coffee House
    It's a Grind Coffee House
    It's A Grind Coffee House is a coffee house franchise which sells a variety of coffees, teas, blended drinks, and bakery items. The name "It's a Grind Coffee House" is a registered trademark of Praise International North America, Inc, which is the North America affiliate of Gloria Jean's Coffees...


J

  • Jack in the Box
  • Jacobs Engineering Group
    Jacobs Engineering Group
    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a publicly traded company with over 50,000 employees and 2010 revenues of nearly $10 billion, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, it was founded in 1947 by Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs. Jacobs offers...

  • Jacuzzi
    Jacuzzi
    Jacuzzi is a company that produces whirlpool bathtubs and spas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. The term "jacuzzi" is now often used generically to refer to any bathtub with massaging jets.-History:...

  • Jamba Juice
    Jamba Juice
    Jamba Juice is a chain of smoothie restaurants, headquartered in Emeryville, California, with over 700 locations operating in 30 states, the Bahamas, Canada, Korea, and the Philippines. Over 500 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised...

  • Jazzercise
    Jazzercise
    Jazzercise is a dance-based group fitness program. Each 60-minute Jazzercise class features a fusion of jazz dance, resistance training, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, and Latin-style movements set to popular music. The Jazzercise program was founded in 1969 by Jazzercise CEO Judi Sheppard Missett...

  • JBL
    JBL
    JBL is an American audio electronics company currently owned by Harman International. It was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated electronics. There are two independent divisions within the company — JBL Consumer and JBL Professional...

  • J.D. Power and Associates
    J.D. Power and Associates
    J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information services firm founded in 1968 by James David Power III. The firm conducts surveys of customer satisfaction, product quality, and buyer behavior for industries ranging from cars to marketing and advertising firms. The firm is best known for...

  • Jelly Belly
    Jelly Belly
    The Jelly Belly Candy, or simply Jelly Belly, is the maker of The Jelly Belly and other candy, formerly known as The Herman Goelitz Candy Company...

  • Jenny Craig, Inc.
  • Jimboy's Tacos
    Jimboy's Tacos
    Jimboy's Tacos is a Sacramento based Mexican style fast food chain, started in 1954 by a couple named Jim and Margaret Knudsen.-History:In 1951, Grass Valley, California restaurant owners Jim and Margaret Knudson visited a friend's house for dinner...

  • Johnny Rockets
    Johnny Rockets
    Johnny Rockets is an American restaurant franchise whose concept is to create a classic American restaurant atmosphere. The theme is the diner-style restaurant that had become a common sight by the 1950s...

  • Juicy Juice
    Juicy Juice
    Juicy Juice is a brand of juices and juice concentrates geared toward children and sold in the United States by Nestlé using the slogan "The very best juice for the very best kids." Prior to March 2006, it was known as Libby's Juicy Juice and was formerly owned by the Libby's Canned Food Company,...

  • Juniper Networks
    Juniper Networks
    Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...


K

  • Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield...

  • K-Swiss
    K-Swiss
    K-Swiss, Inc. is an American footwear company based in Westlake Village, California. The company designs, develops, and markets a range of athletic shoes under the K-Swiss brand.- History :...

  • K2 Sports
    K2 Sports
    K-2, Corporation. was founded in 1961 by brothers Bill and Don Kirschner on Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington. K2 is known for pioneering fiberglass ski technology, which made skis significantly lighter and more lively than their wood and metal contemporaries...

  • KB Home
    KB Home
    KB Home is a homebuilding company based in the United States, founded in 1957 as Kaufman & Broad in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first company to be traded on the NYSE as a home builder and is a Fortune 500 company...

  • KLA Tencor
    KLA Tencor
    KLA-Tencor Corporation is a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic, and other related nanoelectronics industries...

  • Kashi Company
    Kashi Company
    Kashi is an American food company. Founded in October 1984 by Philip and Gayle Tauber, the La Jolla-based company sought a nutritionally balanced breakfast and began experimenting with different whole grains and seeds...

  • Kikkoman International Inc.
    Kikkoman
    is an international company based in Japan.Founded in 1917, it is based in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is a combination of 8 family-owned businesses founded as early as 1603 by the Mogi and Takanashi families....

  • Kingston Technology
    Kingston Technology
    Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is an American privately held, multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells and supports flash memory products and other computer-related memory products. Headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, USA, Kingston Technology...

  • Kirin Brewery of America LLC
    Kirin
    Kirin may refer to:People*Ivica Kirin , politician, former Interior Minister of Croatia*Kirin Kiki , Japanese TV and film actressCompanies* Kirin Brewery Company, a Japanese brewing company...

  • Klasky Csupo
    Klasky Csupo
    Klasky Csupo, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment production company located in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, founded by artist/producer, Arlene Klasky and animator, Gábor Csupó.- History :...

  • Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
    Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ' is a world-leading venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal has called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms in the world...

  • Kole Imports
    Kole Imports
    Kole Imports is a general merchandise importer and closeout buyer/wholesaler in the United States. According to the , the company was founded in 1985 by brothers Rob and Danny Kole. The states the company offers "over 10,000 dollar store items" and "hundreds of over-dollar items"...


L

  • LA Fitness
  • LPL Financial
    LPL Financial
    LPL Financial is the largest organization of independent financial advisors in the United States. LPL Financial was formed in 1989 through the merger of two brokerage firms—Linsco and Private Ledger —and has since expanded its number of independent financial advisors from a few hundred to more...

  • LSI Corporation
    LSI Corporation
    LSI Corporation is an electronics company based in Milpitas, California that designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks.-History:...

  • Lakai
  • Lam Research
    Lam Research
    Lam Research Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Its products include etch systems, including dielectric etch products, conductor etch products, and resist strip products, as...

  • Landmark Education
    Landmark Education
    Landmark Education LLC is a personal training and development company which offers educational programs in approximately 115 locations in more than 20 countries worldwide....

  • Laserfiche
    Laserfiche
    Laserfiche is a manufacturer of document management, enterprise content management, workflow, records management, document imaging and forms capture software. It is headquartered in Long Beach, California. “Laserfiche” refers to both the company and its product platform.-History:Laserfiche began...

  • Lazy Acres
    Lazy Acres
    Lazy Acres Market Inc., based in Santa Barbara, California, United States, is a single grocery store for natural and organic foods, gourmet foods, supplements and body care products, as well as eco-friendly goods...

    , a division of SuperValu
    Supervalu (United States)
    SuperValu Inc. is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States , and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.On June 2, 2006,...

  • Leap Wireless
    Leap Wireless
    Leap Wireless International, Inc. is an American public telecommunications company that provides wireless services through its subsidiary, Cricket Communications...

    , parent company of Cricket Communications
    Cricket Communications
    Cricket Communications, Inc. founded in 1999, also known as Cricket Wireless, provides wireless services to 7 million customers in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, utilizing its CDMA 1X and 1xEV-DO networks...

     and Jump Mobile
    Jump Mobile
    Jump Mobile was a mobile cellular communications brand and subsidiary of United States based Leap Wireless International, Inc. From its inception in 2005, Jump Mobile grew to offer pre-paid wireless services customers in 25 states...

    .
  • Levi Strauss & Co.
    Levi Strauss & Co.
    Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business...

  • Lexicon Branding
    Lexicon Branding
    Lexicon Branding, Inc., is an American marketing firm founded in 1982 by David Placek. It focuses on selecting brand names for companies and products...

  • Linksys
    Linksys
    Linksys by Cisco, commonly known as Linksys, is a brand of home and small office networking products now produced by Cisco Systems, though once a separate company founded in 1995 before being acquired by Cisco in 2003...

  • Lions Gate Entertainment
    Lions Gate Entertainment
    Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California...

  • Live Nation
    Live Nation
    Live Nation is a live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on concert promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, which then merged with Ticketmaster in 2010 to become Live Nation Entertainment....

  • Logitech (United States)
    Logitech
    Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...

  • Longs Drugs
    Longs Drugs
    Longs Drugs is an American chain of over 40 drug stores throughout the State of Hawaii. Before being acquired by CVS Caremark in 2008, it was a chain of over 500 stores, located primarily on the West Coast of the United States...

  • Los Angeles Airways
    Los Angeles Airways
    Los Angeles Airways was a helicopter airline that was based in Westchester, Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Airways offered services to area airports as well as Disneyland from Los Angeles International Airport and the heliport at the Newporter Resort, now the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach...

  • Lovecraft Biofuels
    Lovecraft Biofuels
    Lovecraft Biofuels is a Silverlake, California based company that modifies typical diesel engines to run on vegetable oil using whats known as a "single tank" conversion. It does not properly heat the fuel oil to the necessary 180°F needed to ensure long engine life...

  • Lucas Oil Products
    Lucas Oil
    Lucas Oil Products is a manufacturer and distributor of automotive oil, additives, and lubricants. It was founded by trucker Forrest Lucas and his wife Charlotte in 1989....

  • Lucasfilm
    Lucasfilm
    Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman and CEO, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO....

  • Lucky Brand Jeans
    Lucky Brand Jeans
    Lucky Brand Jeans is a designer denim company founded in Vernon, California, United States in 1990 by Gene Montesano and Barry Perlman. Lucky Brand is a subsidiary of the Liz Claiborne fashion company. Lucky also produces sportswear, outerwear, T-shirts and active wear. Lucky Brand products are...

  • Lucky Stores
    Lucky Stores
    Lucky Stores is an American supermarket chain founded in Alameda County, California in 1935. Lucky is currently operated by SuperValu in Southern California and Nevada and by Save Mart in Northern California and Nevada.In 1998, Lucky's parent company, American Stores, was taken over by Albertsons,...

    , a division of SuperValu
    Supervalu (United States)
    SuperValu Inc. is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States , and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.On June 2, 2006,...


M

  • Macerich
  • Malibu Boats
    Malibu Boats
    Malibu, which is headquartered in Merced, California, is a United States manufacturer of recreational boats, founded in 1982. Malibu is notable as a major manufacturer of water sports boats, used in water skiing and wakeboarding tournaments.-History:...

  • Matson Navigation Company
    Matson Navigation Company
    The Matson Navigation Company, a subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, is a private shipping company with roots extending into the late 19th century...

  • Mattel
    Mattel
    Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...

  • Mazda North American Operations
    Mazda
    is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales...

  • Maxim IC(Maxim Integrated Products)
  • Maxtor
    Maxtor
    Maxtor Corporation, founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate Technology in 2006, was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, the third largest in the world immediately prior to acquisition...

  • Maxygen
    Maxygen
    Maxygen Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing improved versions of protein drugs using DNA shuffling and other protein modification technologies...

  • McAfee
    McAfee
    McAfee, Inc. is a computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. It markets software and services to home users, businesses and the public sector. On August 19, 2010, electronics company Intel agreed to purchase McAfee for $7.68 billion...

  • The McClatchy Company
    The McClatchy Company
    The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million...

  • McKesson Corporation
  • Mel Bernie Company
    Mel Bernie Company
    The Mel Bernie Company, trading as 1928 Jewelry , is a manufacturer and wholesaler of costume jewelry and novelties. They also distribute their products directly to consumers via their web site....

  • Memorex
    Memorex
    Memorex began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier. It is now a consumer electronics brand of Imation specializing in disk recordable media for CD and DVD drives, flash memory, computer accessories and other electronics.Established in...

  • Mercury Insurance Group
    Mercury Insurance Group
    Mercury Insurance Group is an American automobile and property insurance company founded by George Joseph in 1961. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.-History:...

    (Mercury General)
  • Mendocino Redwood Company
    Mendocino Redwood Company
    The Mendocino Redwood Company, officially abbreviated as MRC, is a California based forest products company. With holdings of over , primarily in Mendocino County, this relatively new timber company owns and manages ten percent of the county's private land...

  • Mervyns
    Mervyns
    Mervyns was an American middle scale department store chain based in Hayward, California. It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares. Many of the company's stores were in shopping malls...

  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

  • Metropolitan West Financial
    Metropolitan West Financial
    Metropolitan West Financial was a diversified financial services holding company with interests in a variety of firms that provide financial advice and strategic planning, capital management, asset management, investment advice, and fixed-income portfolio management.The acquisitive firm provides...

  • Microtek
    Microtek
    Microtek International Inc. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of digital imaging products and other consumer electronics. Among its current product line are Microtek branded plasma and LCD TVs, LCD flat panel monitors, LCD and DLP projectors, and digital cameras as well as their flagship line of...

  • Miro Technologies
    Miro Technologies
    Miro Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in La Jolla, California that is a developer and supplier of ground-based Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul and supply management software to the Aerospace / Defense and commercial MRO sectors.Miro initially provided an aftermarket...

  • Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.
    Mitsubishi Motors
    is a multinational automaker headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. In 2009 it was the fifth-largest Japan-based automaker and the 17th-largest in the world measured by production...

  • Mozilla Corporation
    Mozilla Corporation
    The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Navigator web browsers and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by a growing global community of...

  • Music World Corporation
    Music World Corporation
    Music World Corporation is an American music production and music publishing company, representing hundreds of song and music cue titles for a small clientele of composers and lyricists including the company founder. The company was founded in 1958 by Academy Award-winning songwriter Robert B...


N

  • Naked Juice
    Naked Juice
    Naked Juice is an American brand of natural fruit juice drinks produced by the Naked Juice Company of Monrovia, California; operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo. The first of these drinks were produced in 1983 and sold in California under the name "Naked Juice", referring to their...

  • National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers,...

  • Navigenics
    Navigenics
    Navigenics, Inc. is a privately held personal genomics company, based in Foster City, California, that uses genetic testing to help people determine their individual risk for dozens of health conditions....

  • NBC Universal
    NBC Universal
    NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...

  • Nestlé USA/Nestlé USA - Beverages Division
    Nestlé
    Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...

  • NetApp
  • Netflix
    Netflix
    Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...

  • Netgear
    Netgear
    Netgear is a U.S. manufacturer of computer networking equipment and other computer hardware....

  • NetZero
    NetZero
    NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, owner of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services. The current chairman, president, and CEO of United Online is Mark Goldston.- History :NetZero launched in...

  • Neurocrine Biosciences
    Neurocrine Biosciences
    Neurocrine Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company founded in 1992 and located in San Diego, California. The company tooks its name from the original focus on therapies for neurological and endocrine diseases and disorders....

  • Newegg
    Newegg
    Newegg.com Inc. is an online retailer of computer hardware and software. It is based in City of Industry, California. The company was founded by Fred Chang, a Taiwanese immigrant, in 2001.- History :...

  • Niman Ranch
    Niman Ranch
    Niman Ranch is an Alameda, California based network of more than 680 U.S. family farmers and ranchers who raise livestock traditionally, humanely and sustainably to deliver the finest-tasting proteins in the world. The Independent family farmers practive the highest standards of animal husbandry...

  • The North Face
    The North Face
    The North Face, Inc. is an American outdoor product company specializing in outerwear, fleece, shirts, footwear, and equipment such as backpacks, tents, and sleeping bags....

  • Northrop Grumman
    Northrop Grumman
    Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...

  • Novellus Systems
    Novellus Systems
    Novellus Systems Inc. develops, manufactures, sells, and services semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. It is a leading supplier of chemical vapor deposition , plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition , physical vapor deposition , electrochemical deposition ,...

  • NOZA, Inc.
    NOZA, Inc.
    NOZA, Inc. is a privately-held Santa Barbara, California-based company established in 2006 by Craig Harris. It is the parent company of NOZA, an Internet search engine and online database built for fundraising and prospect research by nonprofit and charitable organizations.-History:After completing...

  • Nugget Markets
    Nugget Markets
    Nugget Markets is a family-owned upscale supermarket chain operating within the greater Sacramento metropolitan area. It is headquartered in Woodland, California. As of October 2009, the company operates 9 of its flagship Nugget-brand stores, as well as 3 Food 4 Less franchises.- History :Nugget...

  • NUMMI
    NUMMI
    New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. was an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, opened in 1984 and closed in 2010. On October 27, 2010 it reopened as a 100% Tesla Motors-owned production facility, known as the Tesla Factory...

  • NVIDIA
    NVIDIA
    Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...


O

  • O'Reilly Media
    O'Reilly Media
    O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...

  • Oakley, Inc.
    Oakley, Inc.
    Oakley, Inc., based in Foothill Ranch, California, makes sport equipment including sunglasses, sports visors, and ski goggles, as well as watches, clothing, bags, backpacks, shoes, prescription glasses, football and hockey eyewear, Golf gear and other accessories...

  • Occidental Petroleum
    Occidental Petroleum
    Occidental Petroleum Corporation is a California-based oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America...

  • Op
    Ocean Pacific
    Ocean Pacific Apparel Corp is a private company based in Irvine, California, USA. It produces primarily surf related apparel, swimwear, footwear and accessories. OP is available exclusively at Wal-Mart.-History:...

  • OCZ Technology
    OCZ Technology
    OCZ Technology is a manufacturer of computer hardware based in San Jose, California, USA. Since entering the memory market in 2002, OCZ has targeted its products primarily at the computer hardware enthusiast market, first producing performance DDR RAM, Video Cards, USB drives, and various Cooling...

  • Oracle
    Oracle Corporation
    Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

  • Osiris Shoes
    Osiris Shoes
    Osiris Shoes is a skate shoe company that was founded in 1996 by Tony Chen, Tony Magnusson, Brian Reid, Doug Weston and Laura Kim. They created the company when they saw a void in the skateboard industry for pro designed and endorsed footwear. -History:...


P

  • Pacer International
    Pacer International
    Pacer International is a leading asset-light based transportation and logistics services provider. Within North America, Pacer manages one of the most comprehensive double-stack intermodal networks with more than 100,000 route miles of double-stack rail operations, integrated with a nationwide...

  • Pacific Gas and Electric Company
    Pacific Gas and Electric Company
    The Pacific Gas and Electric Company , commonly known as PG&E, is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield almost to the Oregon border...

  • Pacific Lumber Company
    Pacific Lumber Company
    The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations, located south of Eureka and north of San Francisco. The once storied company and its historically positive relationship with conservationists begun in the 1920s was altered...

  • Pacific Sunwear
    Pacific Sunwear
    Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. is a US based retail clothing brand rooted in the youth oriented culture and fashion vibe of California. The company sells lifestyle apparel, along with footwear and accessories designed for teens and young adults. As of late 2011, the company operated over 800...

  • Palm, Inc.
    Palm, Inc.
    Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

  • Panda Express
    Panda Express
    Panda Express is a fast casual restaurant chain serving American Chinese cuisine. It operates mainly inside the United States, in casinos, shopping malls, supermarkets, airports, train stations, strip plazas, theme parks, stadiums, college campuses and The Pentagon...

  • Panda Inn
    Panda Inn
    Panda Inn is a chain of sit-down Chinese restaurants in California owned and operated by the Panda Restaurant Group. Its original founding goal was to bring new varieties of Chinese cuisine, such as Mandarin cuisine and Szechuan cuisine dishes, to Southern California, which had traditionally...

  • Paramount Petroleum
    Paramount Petroleum
    Paramount Petroleum Corporation is headquartered in Paramount, California. It operates a refinery at that location and is the largest seller of asphalt in California. Paramount also operates a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States...

  • Paramount Pictures
    Paramount Pictures
    Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

  • Parsons Corporation
    Parsons Corporation
    Parsons Corporation is an engineering, construction, and technical and management services firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. Founded in 1944 by engineer Ralph M. Parsons, Parsons Corporation is currently one of the largest such companies in the United States, with revenues exceeding...

  • Party America
    Party America
    Party America is a chain of stores that sell supplies for parties. There are 144 total Party America stores and they are located in 46 states . Party America is not located in Maine, New Mexico, Hawaii, or Alaska.Its 2005 revenue was $160 million, and it had 1,764 employees in 2005...

  • Paxton Automotive
    Paxton Automotive
    Paxton Automotive is a United States-based manufacturer of superchargers for automotive use. The company is the major proponent of the centrifugal type supercharger. Early products were offered under the McCulloch name. Some Paxton superchargers have been factory fitted, but most units sold have...

  • PayPal
    PayPal
    PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....

  • PC World (magazine)
    PC World (magazine)
    PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services...

  • Peet's Coffee & Tea
    Peet's Coffee & Tea
    Peet's Coffee & Tea is a specialty coffee roaster and retailer. Founded in 1966 by Alfred Peet in Berkeley, California as "Peet's Coffee, Tea & Spices", Peet's is especially known for its strong, dark roasted coffee, including its Major Dickason blend.- Company history :Alfred Peet started Peet's...

  • Pelican Products
    Pelican Products
    Pelican Products is an American multinational company that designs and manufactures flashlights and cases. Their products are used in many industries including military, police, firefighting and entertainment. Pelican has over 1,500 employees worldwide...

    , makers of the Pelican case
    Pelican case
    Pelican cases, designed by Pelican Products, are molded plastic containers that seal with an airtight and watertight gasket. Pelican cases include a barometric relief valve made of Gore-Tex to prevent barotrauma to the case, during transportation, or when the air pressure in the environment may...

  • PeoplePC
    PeoplePC
    PeoplePC is an Internet service provider owned by EarthLink.PeoplePC was founded by Nick Grouf, Max Metral and David Waxman, and launched in the USA in October 1999...

  • Petco
    PETCO
    PETCO is a chain of retail stores that offers pet supplies and services such as grooming and dog training. Founded in 1965 and incorporated in Delaware, it is headquartered in San Diego, California...

  • Pinnacle Systems
    Pinnacle Systems
    Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets. The company was founded in 1986 by Ajay Chopra, Mirek Jiricka and Randall Moore....

  • Pixar
    Pixar
    Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

  • Plan B Skateboards
    Plan B Skateboards
    -History:The Plan B Skateboarding team was founded in 1991 by Mike Ternasky, Jackson Kontzer, and Gabriel Torres.In 1994, Mike Ternasky was killed in a car accident, leaving the ownership of the company in the hands of Danny Way and Colin McKay, and Michael Ternasky's wife who temporarily shelved...

  • PMI Group
    PMI Group
    The PMI Group is a holding company whose primary subsidiary is the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. .PMI has a 50% equity ownership in CMG Mortgage Insurance Company and CMG Mortgage Assurance Company , a provider of private mortgage insurance to the credit union industry.The company was founded in 1972...

  • Polar Air Cargo
    Polar Air Cargo
    For the Russian aviation company see: Polar AirlinesPolar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. is an American cargo airline based in Purchase, Harrison, New York, USA. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East...

  • Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. The company rose to prominence in the 1980s as skateboarding began maturing as a sport. The company featured the Bones Brigade, a team of the era's top competitors...

  • PowerColor
    PowerColor
    The PowerColor brand was established in 1997 by the TUL corporation, based in Taipei, Taiwan. PowerColor maintains office locations in a number of countries, including Taiwan, Holland, and the United States...

  • Premiere Radio Networks
    Premiere Radio Networks
    Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...

  • Princess Cruises
    Princess Cruises
    Princess Cruises is a British-American owned cruise line, based in Santa Clarita, California in the United States. Previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises PLC, the company is now one of ten cruise ship brands operated by Carnival Corporation & PLC and accounts for approximately 19% share...

  • Public Storage
    Public Storage
    Public Storage , a real estate investment trust , is one of the largest self-storage companies in the United States with headquarters in Glendale, CA.Public Storage built its first self-storage facility in 1972...


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  • Raley's Supermarkets
  • Ralphs
    Ralphs
    Ralphs is a major supermarket chain in the Southern California area and the largest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger. It is the oldest such chain west of the Mississippi River. Ralphs also operates stores under the Food 4 Less and Foods Co. names in California.-History:Ralphs Grocery Company...

    , a division of Kroger
    Kroger
    The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

  • Rambus
    Rambus
    Rambus Incorporated , founded in 1990, is a technology licensing company. The company became well known for its intellectual property based litigation following the introduction of DDR-SDRAM memory.- History :...

  • Rasta Taco
    Rasta Taco
    Rasta Taco is a Mexican Mobile Taco Cart Catering Company, located in California's Gold Coast, Dana Point . It was founded in 2007 by Mario "Maji" Melendez and is owned by Rasta Taco Holding Inc....

  • Real Mex Restaurants
    Real Mex Restaurants
    Real Mex Restaurants, Inc. is the largest operator of full-service, Mexican restaurants in the U.S..Owned by a private equity firm and headquartered in Cypress, California, they have more than 200 restaurants operating in more than a dozen states. 2006 income was approximately $534 million.In...

  • Rentech
    Rentech
    Rentech is a United States company engaged in development and commercialization of a patented and proprietary Fischer-Tropsch process for the conversion of various feedstocks to liquids fuels and chemicals...

  • Republic of Tea
    Republic of Tea
    The Republic of Tea is a company that markets organic and exotic teas from around the world. The company was founded in 1992 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler with Bill Rosenzweig after selling their interest in the original Banana Republic stores, which the Zieglers co-founded .The Republic of Tea is...

  • Restoration Hardware
    Restoration Hardware
    Restoration Hardware is an American furniture chain of home furnishings, bath fixtures and bathware, functional and decorative hardware and related merchandise. The company defines its wares as classic and authentic American. Restoration Hardware, Inc. sells its merchandise offering through its...

  • Riverdeep
    Riverdeep
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology originally started as Riverdeep Interactive Learning, is a publishing house for educational online and CD-ROM products based in San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1995, Riverdeep was principally the creation of the Irish ex-investment banker...

  • RingCentral
    RingCentral
    RingCentral provides cloud computing based phone systems, designed to help small businesses manage mobile, fax, and email communications. Its products include RingCentral Office, RingCentral Mobile, and RingCentral Fax. - History :...

  • Rosewill
    Rosewill
    Rosewill is a computer hardware rebrander based in City of Industry, California. Rosewill maintains a full line of computer products such as cooling fans and computer cases...

  • Ross Stores inc.
  • Round Table Pizza
    Round Table Pizza
    Round Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.The company slogan for many years has been "The Last Honest Pizza".- History :...

  • Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
    Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
    Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill, formerly known as Rubio's Baja Grill, also simply known as Rubio's, is a fast casual "Fresh Mex" or "New Mex" restaurant chain specializing in Mexican food, with an emphasis on fish tacos. As of 2007, Rubio's operates, licenses or franchises more than 170 restaurants...

  • Ryland Homes
    Ryland Homes
    Ryland Homes is the United States' 9th-largest developer and home-builder. The builder, based in Calabasas, California, has built over 285,000 homes across the United States since its inception, focusing primarily on first-time homebuyers and first- and second-time moveup buyers...


S

  • SD Entertainment
    SD Entertainment
    SD Entertainment is an animation studio specialising in direct-to-DVD movies for children. The "SD" in the initials of the company name stand for Sabella Dern, the respective last names of its founders: former MGM Animation employees Paul Sabella and Johnathan Dern.The company is based in Woodland...

     & Kidtoon Films
    Kidtoon Films
    Kidtoon Films is a distributor of children's animated films in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of The Bigger Picture, a Cinedigm company. Formerly owned by SD Entertainment, which produces many of its releases...

  • SIPphone
  • SMC Networks
    SMC Networks
    SMC Networks designs, develops and manufactures customer-premises equipment such as gateways, routers, modems and home security, automation, and monitoring products for residential and business customers....

  • Safeway
    Safeway Inc.
    Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...

    (Pavilions, Vons
    Vons
    Vons is a southern California and southern Nevada supermarket chain and a division of Safeway Inc. It is headquartered in Arcadia, California, and operates stores under the Vons and Pavilions banners.-Beginning:...

    )
  • Saitek
    Saitek
    Saitek is a designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics founded in 1979 by Swiss technologist Eric Winkler. They are best known for their PC gaming controllers, mice, keyboards especially the Eclipse series of back-lit keyboards, and their Flight Yoke System.- History :Saitek was founded in...

  • Saleen
    Saleen
    Saleen, Incorporated, commonly known as Saleen, was an American manufacturer of high-performance sports cars and high-performance automotive parts in Troy, Michigan, formerly based in Irvine, California...

  • Salem Communications
    Salem Communications
    Salem Communications is a U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher specializing in evangelical Christian and conservative political talk radio. It owns 99 commercial radio stations, 65 of which are in the top 25 markets. Salem is the fifth largest U.S....

  • Samsung Activewear
    Samsung
    The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

  • Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
  • SanDisk
    SanDisk
    SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory...

  • Sanmina-SCI Corporation
    Sanmina-SCI Corporation
    Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a global electronics manufacturing services provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in technology-related industries such as communications and computer hardware. Sanmina-SCI has nearly 80 manufacturing sites...

  • Santa Cruz Skateboards
  • Save Mart Supermarkets
    Save Mart Supermarkets
    Save Mart Supermarkets owns and operates supermarkets operating under the names of Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx located in Northern California and Northern Nevada.-Background:...

  • Scantron
    Scantron
    Scantron is an American company based in Eagan, Minnesota, that manufactures and sells machine-readable papers on which students mark answers to academic multiple-choice test questions. To analyze those answers, the machines use image-based data collection software and scanners...

  • Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
    Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
    Scharffen Berger Chocolate is a line of chocolate produced by Artisan Confections Company, a subsidiary of The Hershey Company. Acquired by Hershey in 2005, it was formerly produced by Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, an independent Berkeley, California-based chocolate maker, founded in 1996 by...

  • Science Applications International Corporation
    Science Applications International Corporation
    SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients...

    , (SAIC)
  • Seagate Technology
    Seagate Technology
    Seagate Technology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology, Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, United States.-1970s:On November 1, 1979...

    (Maxtor
    Maxtor
    Maxtor Corporation, founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate Technology in 2006, was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, the third largest in the world immediately prior to acquisition...

    )
  • See's Candies
    See's Candies
    See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See, his wife Florence, and his mother Mary in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California...

  • Sempra Energy
    Sempra Energy
    Sempra Energy is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego, California. It divides its interests into two broad categories: Sempra Utilities, including Pacific Enterprises/Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric; and Sempra Global, a holding company for...

    , owns Southern California Gas
    Southern California Gas
    Southern California Gas Company is the primary provider of natural gas to the region of Southern California. Its headquarters are located in Downtown Los Angeles.-Competition:...

     Company, San Diego Gas & Electric
    San Diego Gas & Electric
    San Diego Gas & Electric is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to San Diego County and southern Orange County in southwestern California, United States...

    , Sempra Commodities, and Sempra Generation.
  • Sephora USA, Inc.
    Sephora
    Sephora is a chain of cosmetics stores founded in France in 1970 and acquired by Paris-based conglomerate LVMH in 1997. The Sephora chain includes more than 750 stores in 17 countries...

  • Sequoia Voting Systems
    Sequoia Voting Systems
    Sequoia Voting Systems was a California-based company that is one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the U.S., having offices in Oakland, Denver and New York City. Some of its major competitors were Premier Election Solutions and Election Systems & Software.It was acquired by...

  • Shakey's Pizza
    Shakey's Pizza
    Shakey's Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain based in the United States. The chain currently has about 500 stores globally, and about 60 in the United States.-History:...

  • Shea Homes
    Shea Homes
    Shea Homes, a division of the J.F. Shea Co., Inc., is America's largest privately owned new home builder. Headquartered in Walnut, California, the company develops new home communities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington...

  • The Sharper Image
    The Sharper Image
    The Sharper Image is an American product brand, formerly associated with a defunct retail company, now licensed for use on consumer electronics and gift products....

  • Shubb
    Shubb
    Shubb is the name of a company that specialises in producing top-quality capos for all kinds of stringed instruments. The company was formed in 1974 by Rick Shubb and Dave Coontz. Both are practising banjoists.-Capo Design:...

  • Silicon Graphics
    Silicon Graphics
    Silicon Graphics, Inc. was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark...

  • Sirna Therapeutics
    Sirna Therapeutics
    Sirna Therapeutics was a San Francisco, California based biotechnology company that explores the use of RNA interference in human disease therapy. Sirna's development pipeline includes several small interfering RNA drugs, thought to stably silence the expression of specific disease-related genes...

  • Skechers
    Skechers
    Skechers is an American shoe company headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, founded by CEO Robert Greenberg. Greenberg started Skechers in 1992 after he left LA Gear which he also founded. Skechers was started with his son as a distributor for Doc Martens; they launched their own shoe line...

  • Sleep Train
    The Sleep Train
    Sleep Train is one of the top three mattress retailers in the United States and the largest on the West Coast. It was founded by Dale Carlsen in June 1985. Sleep Train stores carry mattresses manufactured by Sealy, Stearns & Foster, Simmons, Vera Wang by Serta, and Tempur-Pedic...

  • Sole Technology
    Sole Technology
    Sole Technology, Inc. is an American footwear company, specialising in skateboarding shoe production and distribution. It is owned and run by Pierre André Senizergues, a former professional freestyle skateboarder. The company is head quartered in Lake Forest, California.Soletech has seven...

  • Solectron
    Solectron
    Solectron Corporation was a global electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers . It pioneered the electronics manufacturing services industry in 1977 and was a leader in the field...

  • Sony Pictures Entertainment
    Sony Pictures Entertainment
    Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...

  • Souplantation
    Souplantation
    Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes are the two names given the same buffet style chain of United States restaurants. The first Souplantation opened in San Diego in 1978, and the company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp., in 1983...

     & Sweet Tomatoes
  • Spansion
    Spansion
    Spansion Inc. is a Flash memory chip maker that designs, develops and manufactures NOR flash memory products. The company has over 3,400 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Spansion is a former joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu....

  • Standard Pacific Homes
    Standard Pacific Homes
    Standard Pacific Homes is the nation's 12th largest homebuilder, based in Irvine, California engaged in the development of single-family and multi-family homes. Standard Pacific has built homes for more than 113,000 families during its 46-year history. The Company constructs homes within a wide...

  • Stater Bros.
    Stater Bros.
    Stater Bros. Markets is a privately held supermarket chain, based in San Bernardino, California, consisting of over 167 stores located throughout Southern California. Founded in Yucaipa, California in 1936 by Cleo and Leo Stater , it consisted of 167 stores as of February 23, 2009...

  • Stereo Sound Agency
  • Submarina
    Submarina
    Submarina is an American chain of fast-food restaurants. Founded in 1977, the chain specializes in sub sandwiches.-History:Submarina was founded by Ron Vickers and Les Warfield of Reno, Nevada. They opened their first shop in Poway, California and later opened the first official franchise shop in...

  • Sun-Maid
    Sun-Maid
    Sun-Maid Growers of California is a cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Kingsburg, California. It was founded in 1912 as the California Associated Raisin Company...

  • Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

  • Sunsweet Growers
    Sunsweet Growers
    Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA. The company operates the largest dried fruit plant in the world. -Products:Sunsweet manufactures...

  • Super Talent Technology
    Super Talent Technology
    Super Talent Technology is a San Jose, California-based designer and manufacturer of DRAM and flash memory products for the computer industry.-History:...

  • SwoopThat.com
    SwoopThat.com
    SwoopThat.com is an online textbook price comparison service. Based in San Diego, California, it specializes in college textbooks but includes high school textbooks as well. The company's books by course search engine lets students input their class schedules, see all the required textbooks for...

  • Supermicro
    Supermicro
    Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro designs, develops, manufactures and sells servers based on the x86 architecture. The company's offerings include rackmount, tower server and blade server systems, high-end workstations, storage server systems, motherboards, chassis, and server components...

  • Symantec
    Symantec
    Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

  • Systat
    SYSTAT
    SYSTAT is a statistics and statistical graphics software package, developed by Leland Wilkinson in the late 1970s, who was at the time an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago...


T

  • TRAMS, Inc.
    TRAMS, Inc.
    TRAMS, Inc. is subsidiary of Sabre Holdings.Founded in 1986, TRAMS, Inc. develops and supports software for retail travel agencies in the United States and worldwide. The company name is an acronym for TRavel Agency Management Systems, which is SMART in reverse...

  • Taco Bell
    Taco Bell
    Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...

  • Tapatio Foods
    Tapatío hot sauce
    Tapatío is a hot sauce, produced in Vernon, California, that can be found at many grocery stores in the United States. It rates 3,000 on the scale of Scoville units....

  • Tastee-Freez
    Tastee-Freez
    Tastee-Freez is a Newport Beach, California-based franchised chain of fast-food restaurants with stores in 22 of the United States, with most of its stores located in Virginia, Illinois and Maryland. Currently there are fewer than 100 freestanding stores in the United States and Panama. It was...

  • Teledyne
    Teledyne
    Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is an industrial conglomerate primarily based in the United States but with global operations. It was founded in 1960, as Teledyne, Inc., by Henry Singleton and George Kozmetsky....

  • Thrasher magazine
    Thrasher magazine
    Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine founded in 1981 by Kevin Thatcher, Eric Swenson, and Fausto Vitello. It regularly publishes articles , skateboard photography, interviews with professional skateboarders, interviews with and reviews of musical groups, skatepark reviews, and miscellaneous...

  • Ticketmaster
    Ticketmaster
    Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment...

  • Togo's
    Togo's
    Togo's Eateries, Inc., is a chain of fast casual sandwich restaurants owned by Mainsail Partners. Its headquarters are in San Jose, California....

  • Tommy's
  • Toshiba America Consumer Products (TACP) Inc., Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc., and Toshiba America Mri Inc.
    Toshiba
    is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

  • Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
  • Trader Joe's
    Trader Joe's
    Trader Joe's is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. , Trader Joe's had a total of 365 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California, but the company also has locations in 30...

  • Transworld Skateboarding
    Transworld Skateboarding
    Transworld SKATEboarding is a skateboarding magazine, website, and production company.Founded in 1983, TWS was a response to Thrasher Magazine and specifically to the December 1982 article ‘Skate and Destroy’ written by C.R...

  • Tuff Shed
    Tuff Shed
    Tuff Shed Incorporated is the largest manufacturer and installer of storage buildings and garages in the United States. The company currently operates 45 factories servicing customers in 34 states, and has 1,000 employees...

  • Twitter
    Twitter
    Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

  • Tyr Sports, Inc.
    Tyr Sports, Inc.
    TYR Sport, Inc. is an American manufacturer of recreational and competitive swimwear, swim caps and goggles. It was co-founded in 1985 by Olympic medalist and former USA Swimming Co-Captain Steve Furniss. TYR is based in Huntington Beach, California. Contrary to popular belief, its name is not an...


U

  • Unified Western Grocers
    Unified Western Grocers
    Unified Grocers, originally Unified Western Grocers, is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent supermarkets in the Western United States. It was formed in 1999 as the merger of United Grocers of Oregon and Certified Grocers of California...

  • Union Bank of California
    Union Bank of California
    Union Bank, N.A., formerly known as Union Bank of California, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations...

  • Universal Studios
    Universal Studios
    Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

  • Upper Deck Company
    Upper Deck Company
    The Upper Deck Company, LLC , founded in 1988, is a private company primarily known for producing trading cards...

  • URS Corp.
    URS Corp.
    URS Corporation is an engineering design firm and a U.S. federal government contractor. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, URS is a full-service, global organization with offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.-History:...

  • UTStarcom
    UTStarcom
    UTStarcom is a Fortune 1000 company that specializes in IP-based networking products for telecommunications companies and service providers. Its core markets are multimedia communications and broadband, including IP and entertainment , next generation broadband networks and optical network solutions...


V

  • Vans, Inc.
  • Varian Medical Systems
    Varian Medical Systems
    Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, California, is a manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer...

  • VeriSign
    VeriSign
    Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...

  • Veritas
    VERITAS Software
    Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California...

  • ViewSonic
    ViewSonic
    ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors....

  • Vigor Gaming
    Vigor Gaming
    Vigor Gaming was a privately held manufacturer of enthusiast level personal computers based in City of Industry, California. The company was founded in 2004 by several former employees and the former owner of competing company. Vigor Gaming Computers are designed specifically for gaming...

  • Virgin America
    Virgin America
    Virgin America, Inc. is a United States-based low-cost airline that began service on August 8, 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards." San Francisco...

  • Visa (credit card)
    VISA (credit card)
    Visa Inc. is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered on 595 Market Street, Financial District in San Francisco, California, United States, although much of the company's staff is based in Foster City, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout...

  • Viz Media
    VIZ Media
    VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

  • VMware
    VMware
    VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

  • Vocera Communications
    Vocera Communications
    -Vocera, Inc.:Vocera, Inc. is a wireless communications company headquartered in San Jose, California. It specializes in network-based software systems that provide voice communication for mobile personnel in hospital, retail, hospitality, government, manufacturing and other in-building...

  • Volcom
    Volcom
    Volcom, Inc. is a designer, marketer and distributor of young men's and young women's clothing, footwear, accessories and related products sold under the Volcom brand name. Volcom is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, United States...


W

  • Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

  • Waste Connections
  • Watson Pharmaceuticals
    Watson Pharmaceuticals
    Watson Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated is the 5th largest pharmaceutical company in the United States based on number of prescriptions dispensed...

  • WD-40
    WD-40
    WD-40 is the trademark name of a United States-made water-displacing spray. It was developed in 1953 by Norm Larsen, founder of the Rocket Chemical Company, San Diego, California. It was originally designed to repel water and prevent corrosion, and later was found to have numerous household...

  • Weatherbill
    Weatherbill
    WeatherBill is an online service, launched in January 2007, that helps people and businesses adapt to climate change. The company’s technology platform enables the real-time pricing and purchasing of customizable weather insurance using proprietary global weather simulation modeling and local...

  • Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

  • West Air
    West Air
    West Air, Inc. is an American airline based in Fresno, California, USA. West Air, Inc. provides feeder service on behalf of FedEx Express throughout California and parts of Nevada and Utah.- History :...

  • West Coast Choppers
    West Coast Choppers
    West Coast Choppers is a lifestyle brand that began selling screen-printed t-shirts and stickers with the company's Iron cross/Maltese cross logo while founder and "master marketer" Jesse G. James was finishing high school, packaging the accoutrements of the chopper lifestyle long before any...

  • Westamerica Bank
    Westamerica Bank
    Westamerica Bancorporation is the holding company for Westamerica Bank and its subsidiaries. The company is headquartered in San Rafael, California making Westamerica Bank the seventh largest bank headquartered in the state. The bank has over five billion dollars in assets, with over 90 branches...

  • Western Digital
    Western Digital
    Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B...

  • Western Mutual Insurance Group
    Western Mutual Insurance Group
    Western Mutual Insurance Group is a group of Property and Casualty Insurance companies, made up of Western Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliate, Residence Mutual Insurance Company, and their jointly owned subsidiary, Arizona Home Insurance Company...

  • Wetzel's Pretzels
    Wetzel's Pretzels
    Wetzel's Pretzels is a Pasadena, California-based chain of fast-food restaurants. The first Wetzel's Pretzels location opened in 1994 at the South Bay Galleria, in Redondo Beach, California...

  • Wienerschnitzel
    Wienerschnitzel
    Wienerschnitzel is an American fast food chain founded in 1961 that specializes in hot dogs, but is currently expanding to other items. Wienerschnitzel locations are found almost exclusively in California and Texas, though others are located in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico,...

  • Williams-Sonoma
    Williams-Sonoma
    Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a high-end American consumer retail company that sells kitchenwares, furniture and linens, as well as other housewares and home furnishings, along with a variety of specialty foods, soaps and lotions...

    , parent company of Pottery Barn
    Pottery Barn
    Pottery Barn is an American-based home furnishing store chain with retail stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Since September 1986, when it was purchased from GAP, Inc, Pottery Barn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc....

  • Winchell's Donuts
    Winchell's Donuts
    Winchell's Donuts is an international doughnut company founded by Verne Winchell on October 8, 1948, in Temple City, California. , there are over 170 stores in 12 western states, as well as Guam, Saipan, and Saudi Arabia. Several stores also operated in Nagoya, Japan in the past, with most stores...

  • Wolfgang Puck Worldwide Inc.
    Wolfgang Puck
    Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, businessman and occasional actor. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions...

  • World Savings Bank
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