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.
Current
- 924 Gilman - founded in 1986; an all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music club where Berkeley natives Operation Ivy, Pansy Division, Green Day, Rancid, Crimpshrine, Tiger Army and AFI started out
- Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.
- Acme Bread Company - one of the earliest artisanal bakers in the Bay Area
- AlbertMing
- Amoeba Music
- Annie's Homegrown - natural/organic food manufacturer
- Berkeley Bowl
- Berkeley Electronic Press
- Boner Records
- BookFinder.com
- Caffe Mediterraneum - Allen Ginsberg wrote part of "Howl" at "Caffe Med"
- The Cheese Board - founded in 1967/71, this business comprises two collectively owned and operated businesses
- Chez Panisse - founded in 1971 and the birthplace of California cuisine
- The Claremont Resort - founded in 1906, this historic site was originally the Claremont Hotel. Although the main hotel building lies entirely within the city limits of adjacent Oakland, a portion of the grounds lie within Berkeley, and the resort uses this for its street address.
- Cleis Press - feminist and woman-centered publishing company; moved from Minneapolis to San Francisco and is now located in Berkeley
- Computers and Structures
- Counterpoint - book publisher
- DYMO Corporation
- Earthmine
- East Bay Vivarium
- Fantasy Studios - recording studio founded by Saul Zaentz
- The Freight and Salvage - founded in 1968, this is a nonprofit musical performance venue that primarily hosts folk music and world music acts
- The Good Bean
- GU Energy Labs
- Heyday Books - independent nonprofit publisher with a focus on California history, often partnering with organizations such as the Oakland Museum and Santa Clara University; founded by Berkeleyan Malcolm Margolin
- LeadGenius
- Magnatune
- Magoosh - online education startup founded in 2009
- Master-McNeil
- Meyer Sound Laboratories
- Middle-earth Enterprises
- Monterey Market
- Ninth Street Opus
- Noah's Bagels
- Nolo.com
- North Atlantic Books
- Pacific Steel
- Peachpit
- PowerBar
- Publishers Group West
Historic
- Axcom Trading Advisors
- Berkeley Farms
- Berkeley Systems
- Berkeley Softworks
- 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"
- 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
Historic top employers
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city for that year were:
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