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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

Advertising

Automotive

Banks

Beverages (alcoholic)

Beverages (non-alcoholic)

Broadcasting and cable TV

Business services

Communications equipment

Computer services

Construction

Consumer financial services

Food

Hospitals

Hospitality

Insurance (accident and health)

Insurance (property and casualty)

Investment services

Motion pictures

Personal and household products

Public benefit

Publishing and printing

Real estate

Recreational activities

Resource recovery

Recology

Resource sharing

Retail (apparel & shoes)

Retail (non-physical)

Retail (specialty)

Software and programming

Utilities

Companies formerly based in San Francisco

Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
Bechtel - relocated to Reston, Virginia
California State Automobile Association – relocated to Walnut Creek, California
Charles Schwab Corporation - relocated to Westlake, Texas in 2019
Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
Core-Mark - relocated to Dallas, Texas in 2019
Cost Plus World Market - relocated to Oakland
Crocker Bank – purchased by Wells Fargo Bank
Del Monte Foods - relocated to Walnut Creek, California
Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong
Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
Gymboree - defunct
Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
Link TV - merged with KCET in 2012
McKesson Corp - relocated to Irving, Texas
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
Pacific Gas and Electric Company - moved to Oakland, California in 2022
Palantir Technologies - relocated to Austin, Texas in 2021
Patelco Credit Union - relocated to Dublin, California in 2018
Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
Popchips - relocated to Playa Vista, California
Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
The Sharper Image - relocated to Farmington Hills, Michigan
Sega of America - relocated to Irvine, California in 2015
SKYY Spirits - renamed Campari America after acquisition by Campari Group and relocated to New York City in 2018
Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
Sunset Magazine - relocated to Oakland, California
Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
Union Bank of California - relocated to New York City
United Commercial Bank – acquired by East West Bank
URS Corporation - acquired by AECOM in 2014

See also

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