List of companies based in Kent, Washington
This is a list of large, well-known, interstate, or international companies headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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- Blue Origin - privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos; develops technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal of dramatically lower cost and increased reliability
- Boeing Space & Defense - Washington State headquarters; engineers and manufactures military aircraft and missiles, as well as space exploration equipment such as the lunar rover
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- Diamondback Bicycles - a major bicycle brand
- Door to Door Storage - self-storage company; introduced portable, containerized storage to the industry
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Fenwick - Pioneers in fiberglass and graphite fishing rods. Founded in 1952 and named after Fenwick Lake in Kent Washington. They have since been bought and moved to Columbia, South Carolina.
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- LaserMotive - engineering firm developing technologies for efficiently transmitting power via lasers, a form of wireless energy transfer commonly called "laser power beaming"
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- Novara - REI's brand of bicycles and cycling clothing
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- Oberto Sausage Company - family-owned; makes beef jerky, pepperoni and other snack sausages
- Omax Corporation - second largest water jet manufacturer in the US
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- Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company - manufactured and marketed food products, including Carnation evaporated milk, with its famous slogan that it came from "Contented Cows"
- Pay 'n Pak - home improvement chain; operated 112 stores on the West Coast
- Puget Sound Electric Railway - interurban railway that ran between Tacoma and Seattle
- Puget Systems - custom computer business operating primarily through their website; sells a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including laptops, desktops, and servers
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- Raleigh Bicycle Company USA - US headquarters of one of the oldest manufacturers of bicycles, motorcycles, and three-wheel cars
- Redline bicycles - manufacturer of BMX, freestyle, cyclocross, mountain, and road bicycles and components
- REI - retail corporation organized as a consumers' cooperative, selling outdoor recreation gear, sporting goods, and clothing
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- Seattle-Tacoma Box Company - manufacturer of shipping containers, crates, boxes, and other wooden products
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- Tazo Tea Company - tea and tisane manufacturer specializing in New Age-style marketing and product labeling
- ThyssenKrupp Aerospace - engineers and manufactures carbon fiber on a variety of Boeing products, including commercial aviation aircraft, military aircraft, and space and communications systems
- Torker - brand of bicycles, unicycles, strollers, and trailers, as well as cycling clothing
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- X10 Wireless Technology - manufactures and markets wireless video cameras
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gollark: Oh, and everyone being annoyed about plastic now, but that hasn't really done much.
gollark: Technologically speaking.
gollark: I can't really think of things going *backward* except maybe nuclear power.
gollark: And there's all the random incremental gains in background things which are hard to notice, and advancements in biology.
gollark: I feel like "we have constant access to basically all human knowledge and communication with everyone" is actually quite significant, though.
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