Companies born in your city

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by Min-Chi-Cbus

Right. Who owns it today? Is it still Target or is it its own corporation? Where is it now based?

It is headquartered in Cincinnati now as Macy's Inc.

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Originally Posted by Gantz

It is headquartered in Cincinnati now as Macy's Inc.

Thank you! I don't always want to do the research myself sometimes, so thanks again!!

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by Gantz

Boston's Macy's company is not the one everyone knows about today. It was a different venture by the same guy who went on to establish the Macy's department store in NYC in 1858.

Well, they were both named Macy's and created by the same guy...

And while it's true that the Haverhill location closed pretty quickly, I think it could still be argued that Macy's began there...

I'd also add Converse, Gilette, and Hood to my list, and maybe TD bank if you REALLY want to stretch it...

[ColdAilment]

Peavey Electronics is born and headquartered in Meridian Mississippi. (not my hometown, but my current place of residence)

[BellevueNative]

Some more for Seattle area:

Expedia
Red Hook Brewery
Drugstore.com
Allrecipes
Sur la Table
Weyerhauser
F5 Networks
Alaska Airlines/Horizon Airlines
Seattle's Best Coffee (now owned by Starbucks)
TreeTop (OK, so it's outside the Seattle metro)
Russell Investments
Real Networks
Vulcan
Washington Mutual (wha-whaaaa)
T-Mobile USA (Western Wireless-->Voicestream-->T-Mobile)

[RightonWalnut]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

For Philly

Dick Clark Productions
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dupont
AmerisourceBergen
Comcast
AC Moore
Pep Boys
Urban Outfitters
Charming Shoppes
Burlington Coat Factory
Cambells Soup
Cigna
Lincoln National
Crown Holdings
NutriSystems
Sungaurd
Toll Brothers Builders
Vishay Technologies
VWR Technologies
Vangaurd Financial
Wawa
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Endo Pharmaceuticals
UGI
Unisys
Teleflex
Universal Health Services
FMC
Ametek
A bunch of defunct Locomotive Builders
InterDigital
Radian Group

Some to add to your list:

Liberty Property Trust
Brandywine Realty
PSFS
Auntie Anne's (started in Downingtown)
Boscov's
Strawbridge's (now defunct)
Bell Telephone (now Verizon)
Wanamaker's (now defunct)
Rita's Water Ice
Curtis Publishing Company (now defunct)
EB Games (now defunct)
Jones Apparel Group (owns Barney's NY), was founded in Philadelphia but moved to NYC
Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Also, Philadelphia had the first Stock Exchange, the first Zoo, the first and second Bank of the U.S. and the first U.S. Mint, among other things... Sooo I guess you can say we started all that too, haha. We invented the U.S. Dollar.. lol jk

[RightonWalnut]

Originally Posted by BTA88

Sunoco
Jiffy Lube
Rita's

Sunoco actually started in Pittsburgh

[animatedmartian]

Metro Detroit and area:

• Comerica Bank (Founded in 1849 as Detroit Savings Fund Institute) (Renamed in 1982)
• SmithGroupJJR (1853)
• Hudson's Department Store (1881) (Merged into Dayton–Hudson Corporation)
• Kmart (Founded 1899 as Kresge Corporation) (Renamed in 1977)
• Ally Financial Inc (Founded 1919 as General Motors Acceptance Corporation) (Renamed in 2009)
• La-Z-Boy (1927)
• Avis Rent A Car System (1946)
• Pulte Homes (Founded 1950)
• Taubman Centers (1950)
• Gale Publish Company (Founded 1954) (Currently owned by Cengage Learning)
• Little Caesars (1959)
• Art Van Furniture (1959)
• Domino's Pizza (1965)
• Penske Corporation (1969)
• Hungry Howie's Pizza, Inc (1973)
• Quicken Loans Inc (1985)

And now, the car companies (and major subsidiaries)....

• Oldsmobile (1897) (Was owned by GM now defunct)
• Dodge (1900) (Now owned by Chrysler)
• Rapid Motor Vehicle Company (1902) (Bought by GM and changed to GMC)
• Buick Motor Company (1903) (Now owned by GM)
• Ford Motor Company (1903)
• General Motors (1908)
• Hudson Motor Car Company (1909)
• Chevrolet (1911) (Now owned by GM)
• Lincoln Motor Company (1917) (Now owned by Ford)
• Cadillac Automobile Company (1922) (Now owned by GM)
• Chrysler (1925)
• Plymouth (1928) (Owned by Chrysler now defunct)
• Pontiac (1926) (Was owned by GM now defunct)
• Mercury (1938)
• American Motors Corporation (1954) (Spin-off of Hudson Motor Car Company) (Now defunct)
• Saturn Corporation (1985) (Founded by GM now defunct)

[TAM88]

Boston:

Staples
Marshalls
New Balance
Gillette
Fidelity
Liberty Mutual
State Street Corp.
Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams)
Dunkin Donuts (nearby Quincy)
Genzyme
Zip Car (Cambridge)
Biogen Idec (Cambridge)
Carbonite
Bain Capital
Valspar
Vic Firth
Harmonix (Cambridge - makers of Rock Band)
Raytheon (Cambridge)
Polaroid (Cambridge)