List of companies based in San Francisco

The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses, based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008.

Companies currently based in San Francisco

Companies formerly based in San Francisco

• Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
• California State Automobile Association - relocated to Walnut Creek, California
• Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
• Crocker Bank – purchased by Wells Fargo Bank
• Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
• Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
• Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
• Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
• Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
• Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
• Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
• Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
• Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
• Pegasus Aviation Finance Company - acquired by AWAS
• Popchips
• Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
• Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
• The Sharper Image
• Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
• Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
• Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
• Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
• United Commercial Bank; acquired by East West Bank

See also

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

References