List of companies based in Berkeley, California

This is a list of companies based in Berkeley, California, current and former businesses either located in Berkeley or with their administrative offices there. Berkeley is the location of a number of nationally prominent businesses, many of which have been pioneers in their areas of operation.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Current
Acme Bread
Fantasy Studio doors
Rasputin Music

Historic
Men working leather at the now defunct Manasse-Block Tannery in Berkeley, California
  • Axcom Trading Advisors
  • Berkeley Farms
  • Berkeley Systems
  • Berkeley Tribe
  • Beserkley Records
  • Black Lizard - book publisher
  • Bookpeople - an alternative book wholesaler, responsible for much of the growth in alternative/small press book publishing from 1970-1990; moved to Oakland in the 1990s, closed in 2004
  • California Faience
  • Cetus Corporation
  • Clif Bar - headquarters formerly in Berkeley, moved to neighboring Emeryville
  • Cody's Books – founded in 1956 and closed in 2008, was "a pioneer in bookselling, bringing the paperback revolution to Berkeley, fighting censorship, and providing a safe harbor from teargas for student activists during the Free Speech Movement and throughout the 1960s and 70s"[5]
  • Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley - the "Berkeley Co-op", a consumers' cooperative that operated from 1939 to 1988; at its height of popularity had over 100,000 members, making it the largest cooperative of its kind in North America
Golden Sheaf Bakery
Scharffen Berger

Historic top employers

According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[7] the top employers in the city for that year were:

# Employer # of employees
1 University of California, Berkeley 14,444
2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 3,735
3 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center 3,100
4 City of Berkeley 1,658
5 Bayer 1,500
6 Berkeley Unified School District 1,200
7 Kaiser Permanente 700
8 Pacific Steel 600
9 Andronico's 325
10 Berkeley City College 300

See also

References
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  2. Weinstein, Dave (2008). It Came from Berkeley. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-0254-5.
  3. "LeadGenius Racks Up $6 mln". Reuters. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  4. "Berkeley Startup Cluster Company Listing- Magoosh". Berkeleystartupcluster.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  5. "Paperback Dreams". Paperback Dreams. Archived from the original on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  6. Victor F. Zonana. "One of the Fastest-Growing Chains in U.S.: Whole Earth Access Stores are Bargain Basement for Yuppies." Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1986: E2
  7. "City of Berkeley CAFR" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  8. Berkeley Inside Out, Malcolm Margolin. Heyday Books (1989) p. 104
  9. "CDHS has reorganized". Dhs.ca.gov. Archived from the original on 2012-12-29. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
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