Then and Now: 275 Companies’ Early Offices Next to Today’s Headquarters
From a garage, a carpentry shop or a one-room office to the campus they run today — 275 before-and-after pairs, oldest first, every photo credited.
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275 companies on eciffo have a photo of an earlier office or founding place next to a photo of today’s headquarters; for 130 of them the old photo shows the very first one. The oldest pair is Barclays: A goldsmith's shop on Lombard Street (1690), and London, United Kingdom today.
Where it started · 1690Lombard Street, City of London, 2017 · Graeme.duckworth / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · LondonOne Churchill Place on the skyline · Photo: HOK
John Freame and Thomas Gould, two Quaker goldsmith bankers, start trading in Lombard Street in the City of London — the business Barclays traces itself back to. Today: 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP, United Kingdom.
Source: home.barclays, Our history · Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street”
A glassworks opened in the village of Saint-Gobain, using a revolutionary process: casting glass on a metal table. Today: 12 place de l'Iris, 92400 Courbevoie, France.
Source: Saint-Gobain Archives, “1692: une manufacture s'installe dans le village de Saint-Gobain” · saint-gobain.com, Our history
Where it started · 1715Plough Court, Lombard Street, London · Wellcome Collection / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · LondonTerrace, 79 New Oxford Street, London, 2024 · Photo: PENSON
Apothecary Silvanus Bevan opened the Plough Court pharmacy, offering medical advice and medicines. Today: 79 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DG, United Kingdom.
The group's oldest houses date back centuries: Moët & Chandon (1743), Hennessy (1765) and Louis Vuitton, the Paris trunk-maker founded in 1854. Today: 22 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France.
Where it started · 1799Season's greetings card of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, c. 1922 · Ernest Haskell / CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New York270 Park Avenue at street level · Photo: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
JPMorganChase's earliest predecessor was chartered in New York City to supply drinking water; its founders included Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Today: 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
The “Imperial Royal Privileged Company of Austro-Italian General Insurance” was founded in 1831 in Palazzo Carciotti on Trieste's waterfront, a neoclassical palace designed in 1798 by Matteo Pertsch for the Greek merchant Demetrio Carciotti. Today: Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 2, 34132 Trieste, Italy.
Source: Generali Bollettino, Dec 2025 · Palazzo Carciotti press release, Dec 9, 2024
Wärtsilä began as a sawmill founded on April 12, 1834, in Värtsilä, a small village in North Karelia. Today: Hiililaiturinkuja 2, 00180 Helsinki, Finland.
Where it started · 1837The Cincinnati waterfront in 1848, daguerreotype by Fontayne and Porter · Fontayne & Porter / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CincinnatiThe twin towers · Warren LeMay / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Brothers-in-law William Procter, a candle maker, and James Gamble, a soap maker, started the business in Cincinnati in 1837. Today: One Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
Source: Form 10-K FY2026, Item 1 · us.pg.com, Cincinnati Headquarters
Harness-maker Thierry Hermès opened his workshop on rue Basse-du-Rempart, in the Grands Boulevards district of Paris. Today: 24, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris.
Where it started · 1837John Deere House and Shop, Grand Detour · Teemu008 / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MolineAcross the pond · dwhartwig / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Blacksmith John Deere built a plow with a moldboard made from a broken steel saw blade near Grand Detour, Illinois. Today: One John Deere Place, Moline, IL 61265.
Where it started · 1846–47Carlsberg Museum, Valby Bakke, Copenhagen, 2011 · Orf3us / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CopenhagenThe Central Office from the street · C.F. Møller Architects / Photo: Adam Mørk
In 1846 J.C. Jacobsen bought a large plot on Valby Hill, west of central Copenhagen, and founded his brewery there in 1847. Today: J.C. Jacobsens Gade 1, 1799 Copenhagen V, Denmark.
Source: carlsberggroup.com, “The honorary residence” and “J.C. Jacobsen”
Where it started · 1847The first Siemens & Halske workshop in a Berlin back courtyard, 1847 · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MunichCourtyard arcade, Siemens headquarters, 2016 · Rufus46 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Werner von Siemens and precision mechanic Johann Georg Halske founded the Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske to build his pointer telegraph. Today: Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 1, 80333 München, Germany.
Source: siemens.com, History and Company development timeline
Where it started · 1849Pfizer's former Brooklyn plant at Flushing and Marcy Avenues, Williamsburg · Jim.henderson / CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New YorkThe Spiral's terraces, 2023 · Photo: Laurian Ghinitoiu / BIG
Cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart founded Charles Pfizer & Company with a $2,500 loan from Pfizer's father. Today: 66 Hudson Boulevard East, New York, NY 10001.
Source: pfizer.com company timeline · “In Celebrating 175 Years” article
Banco de Bilbao opened on August 24, 1857 in a modest head office at number 7 of what was then Calle Estufa, beside the river in Bilbao. Today: Calle Azul, 4, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Source: bbva.com, “A brief history of BBVA (I)” · “La memoria de BBVA, su Archivo Histórico”
Ferdinand de Lesseps founded the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez in Egypt — the root of the Suez name ENGIE carried for many years. Today: 67 rue Jules Ferry, 92250 La Garenne-Colombes, France.
Earlier home · 1859–64The Ciba works in Basel from the air, 1961 · Werner Friedli / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BaselAsklepios 8 on the Novartis Campus, 2015 · Photo: Herzog & de Meuron
Alexander Clavel began producing the synthetic dye fuchsine in his silk-dyeing factory in Basel in 1859, and in 1864 he opened the first dye factory in Klybeck — the site that became Ciba's. Today: Forum 3, Novartis Campus, CH-4056 Basel.
Source: novartis.com Company history · Novartis Live Magazine “The rise and fall of dye chemistry at Klybeck”
Bank in Winterthur, founded in 1862, is the historical starting point of today's UBS. It first rented rooms in the house “Zu den drei Blumen”, then moved into its own baroque building on Untere Museumsstrasse — today's Stadthausstrasse — where UBS still has an office. Today: Bahnhofstrasse 45, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland.
Where it started · 1863Plaque marking Friedrich Bayer's house, Heckinghauser Straße 162, Wuppertal-Barmen · Frank Vincentz GFDL (self made) / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · LeverkusenBayer headquarters and the round pool, Leverkusen · Photo: Roland Halbe
On August 1, 1863, dye salesman Friedrich Bayer and master dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott founded “Friedr. Today: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany.
Earlier home · 1863Bank of Toronto, Church and Wellington, 1868 · William Notman / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TorontoThe TD Centre from Bay and King · Dillan Payne / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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TD Bank Group (The Toronto-Dominion Bank) · 1863 → today
With a staff of 26 and five branches, The Bank of Toronto opened its head office at Church and Wellington Streets. Today: 66 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1A2, Canada.
The Omaha Shops were built in 1863 to build everything from locomotives to the furniture in passenger cars. Today: 1400 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE 68179.
On February 15, 1864, 22-year-old Gerard Adriaan Heineken took over De Hooiberg (the Haystack), a brewery on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam. Today: Tweede Weteringplantsoen 21, 1017 ZD Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Source: theheinekencompany.com, “Our heritage” · Heineken Collection Foundation
Where it started · 1864Bedford Row, Halifax, c. 1870 · W. Notman / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TorontoFrom Wellington Street · Jeff Hitchcock / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1865Wardley House and the first HSBC building, Hong Kong, 1865–1882 · Unknown. / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · London8 Canada Square · Barry Caruth / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Founded by Thomas Sutherland, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened on 3 March 1865 in rented offices in Wardley House, with sweeping views over the harbour. Today: 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, United Kingdom.
Source: hsbc.com history timeline · HSBC History, “There's no place like home”
Friedrich Engelhorn, owner of a coal gas company in Mannheim, founded the stock corporation “Badische Anilin- & Sodafabrik” in Mannheim on April 6, 1865. Today: Carl-Bosch-Straße 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.
Mining engineer Fredrik Idestam founded his first wood-pulp mill in southern Finland in 1865 — on the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, as Nokia's Finland careers page puts it. Today: Karakaari 7, FI-02610 Espoo, Finland.
American brothers Charles and George Page open Europe's first condensed-milk factory in Cham, using Switzerland's plentiful fresh milk. Today: Avenue Nestlé 55, 1800 Vevey, Switzerland.
Source: nestle.com history timeline · press release, Feb 12, 2013
Cadwallader C. Washburn built a mill on the west bank of the Mississippi in Minneapolis, founding the Washburn-Crosby Company. Today: Number One General Mills Boulevard, Minneapolis (Golden Valley), Minnesota 55426.
Where it started · 1869Pine Street, Manhattan · Clyde Charles Brown / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New York200 West Street · Photo: Jeff McCloud / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Marcus Goldman, a Bavarian-born immigrant, moved his family to New York and set up a one-room office on Pine Street, buying and selling promissory notes. Today: 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1869 founding · 1929 30 Pine Street
Where it started · 1870Standard Oil Company refinery on the Flats, Cleveland, 1889 · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · SpringThe Energy Center, ExxonMobil campus, Spring, Texas · Photo: Harvey Cleary
John D. Rockefeller and his associates form the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), whose combined plants were the largest refining capacity of any single firm in the world. Today: 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway, Spring, TX 77389.
Where it started · 1870Französische Straße, Berlin, 2024 · Karsten Hoffmeyer / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Frankfurt am MainThe twin towers on Taunusanlage · Thomas Wolf (Der Wolf im Wald) / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Deutsche Bank was founded on March 10, 1870 by 76 shareholders and opened for business on April 9, 1870 in rented rooms at Französische Straße 21, an ordinary-looking building near Unter den Linden. Today: Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Source: db.com History FAQ · country.db.com (Japan) history · bankgeschichte.de “Locations”
Where it started · 1872Ginza, Tokyo, 1910 · Shobido / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TokyoELEVEN, the forest-like 11th floor · Photo: Yukihide Nakano / ryokuensha
Arinobu Fukuhara, a former chief pharmacist of the Navy hospital, opened Japan's first private Western-style pharmacy in Ginza, Tokyo, at age 24. Today: 1-6-2 Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8310, Japan.
Earlier home · 1874Commerz- und Disconto-Bank, Hamburg, c. 1885 · Commerzbank AG / CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Frankfurt am MainThe tower above the city · Commerzbank AG / CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
A new head office designed by Martin Haller opened in April 1874 on the street Ness in Hamburg's old town. Today: Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Source: commerzbank.de History, 1870 to 1923 (photo caption)
Where it started · 1876Pearl Street, Indianapolis · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · IndianapolisLilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis · Momoneymoproblemz / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Colonel Eli Lilly, a chemist and Civil War veteran, opened his business on Pearl Street on May 10, 1876, with three employees. Today: Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285.
Where it started · 1876Drottninggatan at Strömgatan, Stockholm, 1860–1883 · Ole Tobias Olsen / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · StockholmTorshamnsgatan 21 at dusk · Photo: Ericsson
On April 1, 1876, Lars Magnus Ericsson opened his mechanical engineering shop in a courtyard building at Drottninggatan 15. Today: Torshamnsgatan 21, 164 83 Stockholm (Kista), Sweden.
Source: ericsson.com history: “Ericsson's first addresses”
On September 26, 1876, Fritz Henkel and two partners registered Henkel & Cie in Aachen and launched their first product, a universal detergent based on silicate. Today: Henkelstraße 67, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Source: henkel.com, Henkel's History (150 Years of Henkel)
Brothers William and James Lever, with their father's backing, set up a soap factory in Warrington as a branch of the family grocery business. Today: 100 Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars, London EC4Y 0DY, United Kingdom.
Source: Unilever Archives, “Formation of Unilever”
Under the name Louis Brandt & Fils, the company that became Omega moved from La Chaux-de-Fonds to larger premises in Biel/Bienne, first at 119 Route de Boujean, then at 96 Rue Jakob-Stämpfli — still Omega's home today. Today: Nicolas G. Hayek Strasse 2, 2502 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Source: omegawatches.com chronicle “1880: A New Home”
Where it started · 1884–1904Site of Royce's Cooke Street works, Hulme, Manchester, 2012 · Ceropegius / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · LondonKings Place from across the canal · Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Henry Royce founded the electrical and mechanical business Royce Limited in 1884 and built his first motor car in 1904. Today: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9FX.
Source: rolls-royce.com Our History · Rolls-Royce Motor Cars PressClub photo P90157854
On 25 February 1885 Alfred Bouvet and Louis Milcent created the “Caisse de crédit mutuel agricole de l'arrondissement de Poligny”. Today: 50 avenue Jean Jaurès, 92120 Montrouge, France.
Source: credit-agricole.com, “Crédit Agricole 140 years of history: 1880s – Creation in the Jura” (2025)
Pharmacist Charles Alderton mixed fruit flavours at the Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas; the drink became Dr Pepper. Today: 6425 Hall of Fame Lane, Frisco, TX 75034.
Where it started · 1886The first Johnson & Johnson building · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New BrunswickWorld headquarters, New Brunswick · Daderot / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
On a train from New York to Philadelphia, James Wood Johnson spotted a four-story red brick building with a “For Rent” sign beside the tracks in New Brunswick — the old Janeway & Carpender wallpaper factory. Today: One Johnson & Johnson Plaza, New Brunswick, NJ 08933.
Source: jnj.com “How a train ride sparked the founding of Johnson & Johnson”
In November 1886 Robert Bosch opened his “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering” in a courtyard building at 75B Rotebühlstrasse in western Stuttgart, with one journeyman and one errand boy. Today: Robert-Bosch-Platz 1, 70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany.
Source: bosch.com history “1886–1905” · History Blog “Robert Bosch becomes a factory owner”
Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda (flower cards) in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, in September 1889. Today: 11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8501.
Source: Nintendo Company History and Company Profile (nintendo.co.jp)
Édouard Michelin took over the struggling company and renamed it Michelin & Cie; his brother André joined him. Today: 23 Place des Carmes-Déchaux, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage” · BASE project page “Michelin: Campus & Place des Carmes”
In March 1890 Yanosuke Iwasaki, Mitsubishi's second president, bought about 110,000 tsubo (nearly 90 acres) of land next to the Imperial Palace and set out to build Japan's first modern business district. Today: 3-1, Marunouchi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8086, Japan.
On December 1, 1890, Kijuro Ito opened Itoki Shoten in Koraibashi, Higashi-ku, Osaka, to sell new inventions. Today: Nihonbashi Takashimaya Mitsui Building, 2-5-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-6113, Japan.
Source: itoki.jp, “ITOKI's history” (English and Japanese) · company outline
Where it started · 1891The Philips Museum, in the 1891 factory on the Emmasingel, Eindhoven · Michielverbeek / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · AmsterdamLounge, Philips Center, Amsterdam, 2025 · Photo: Keijsers Interiors
Earlier home · 1894Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana, Piazza della Scala, early 1900s · AnonymousUnknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TurinThe tower against the Alps at dawn · Maurizio Moro5153 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1896Replica of Henry Ford's Bagley Avenue workshop, Greenfield Village, 2024 · w_lemay / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · DearbornLobby, Ford World Headquarters, 2025 · Photo: Garrett Rowland / Ford Motor Company
Where it started · 1896F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., Grenzacherstrasse, Basel, 1918–1937 · Walter Mittelholzer / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BaselBuildings 1 and 2 from the Rhine, 2022 · Photo: Robert Hösl, Roman Weyeneth / Herzog & de Meuron
Where it started · 1898Bradham's Pharmacy, the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola, New Bern, 2023 · Indy beetle / CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · PurchaseCalder on the lawn, Purchase · User:Noroton / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
22-year-old Hans Søren Hansen steps off a train in the farming town of Lem on Denmark's west coast and buys the local blacksmith workshop. Today: Hedeager 42, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
Where it started · 1898Dommelstraat 9, Eindhoven · Michiel1972 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · UtrechtThe towers from the south · Ricodejong02 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Established on July 17, 1899 — the day Japan's revised treaties took effect — by Kunihiko Iwadare and W.T. Carleton of Western Electric's Tokyo branch, helped by Takeshiro Maeda. Today: 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8001.
Earlier home · 1901Head office on Mythenquai, 1905 · unbekannt; upload by sidonius 09:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC) / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ZurichPrism-glass wing between the old buildings, Mythenquai · Zurichmediarelations / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hoshio Mitsunaga started an advertising agency, Nippon Kokoku, in July 1901 to fund a news agency, which he set up in the same building that November. Today: 1-8-1 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7050, Japan.
Source: Dentsu Business History 1901 (English and Japanese pages)
Where it started · 1902The Dayton Company store, Minneapolis, postcard · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MinneapolisTarget Plaza South, 1000 Nicollet Mall · Drbcoaster / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1902The John Dwan office in Two Harbors, now the 3M Museum, 2026 · Myotus / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MaplewoodCafé, the Communication Loop, 2013 · Photo: Daici Ano / Atelier Hitoshi Abe
From 1903 to 1985 the Azumabashi Brewery made beer on the very site where the headquarters stands now — for more than 80 years. Today: 1-23-1 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-8602.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com “Asahi Group Headquarters and Asahi Group Hall”
Earlier home · 1904The Bank of Italy Building, 552 Montgomery Street, San Francisco · Sanfranman59 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CharlotteBank of America Corporate Center, Charlotte · No machine-readable author provided. Nopira assumed (based o / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1904Svendborg seen from the tower of Frue Kirke, c. 1900 · postkortforlag WKF 1017 / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CopenhagenEsplanaden 50 on the harbour · Johan Wessman / News Oresund / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A.P. Moller - Maersk was established on 16 April 1904 in the small town of Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, where A.P. Møller's family home, Villa Anna, stood. Today: Esplanaden 50, 1263 København K, Denmark.
The Union Bank of Finland's banking hall at Aleksanterinkatu 36 B received a fully furnished interior by architects Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen in 1904. Today: Aleksis Kiven katu 5, 00500 Helsinki, Finland.
Earlier home · 190656 rue de Provence, Paris · Boubloub / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ParisThe 18-metre stained-glass dome · Arthur Weidmann / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Overcrowded in its offices at 54-56 rue de Provence, the bank looked for a new head office and, competing with Galeries Lafayette, bought a block of buildings behind the Opéra on 2 April 1906. Today: 29 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris.
Source: societegenerale.com — “Innovation and Architecture” (2014)
Where it started · 1908Durant-Dort Carriage Company office, Flint · Andrew Jameson / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · DetroitAtrium, Hudson's Detroit, 2026 · Photo: General Motors
William C. Durant, who had built Buick into a leading carmaker in Flint, Michigan, incorporated General Motors on September 16, 1908. Today: 1240 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48265.
Source: gm.com Heritage, “GM Founder William Durant's Story”
Where it started · 1909Rue d'Alger, Paris · Mbzt / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ClichyLe Visionnaire, glass dome room, 2023 · Photo: Moatti-Rivière
Chemist Eugène Schueller founded the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux (“French Company of Harmless Hair Dyes”). Today: 41 rue Martre, 92110 Clichy, France.
Source: Founding: L'Oréal URD 2025 §1.1.5 and loreal.com history · Address: Wikipedia (French)
Where it started · 1910The Red Barn, Boeing's first factory building from the Heath shipyard, now at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, 2012 · InSapphoWeTrust / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ArlingtonLobby, Arlington · Photo: Harvey Cleary Builders
Timber businessman Bill Boeing bought Heath Shipyard, a small boatbuilder on the banks of the Duwamish River in South Seattle, near today's Georgetown neighborhood, taking on its debts. Today: 929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
Source: boeing.com feature “A fitting finale for Freedom Plane in the city that defines aviation” (Aug 2026)
After leaving his first company in 1909, Horch bought a former woodware factory at Lessingstraße 51 (today Audistraße 7/9), right next to the Horch works, and founded a new car company. Today: Auto-Union-Straße 1, 85057 Ingolstadt, Germany.
Source: audi.com — History of the Four Rings · City of Zwickau, “Audiwerke”
Where it started · 1911IBM in Endicott, New York · Rosemaryetoufee / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ArmonkIBM headquarters, Armonk, 2014 · Treesmittenex / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1913Former Astra head office, Södertälje, 2012 · Apotekarn / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CambridgeThe Discovery Centre, Cambridge, 2021 · Photo: Hufton + Crow / Herzog & de Meuron
Astra AB was founded in Södertälje by a group of doctors and apothecaries. Today: 1 Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0AA, United Kingdom.
Burberry moves to larger London premises on Haymarket, designed by the architect Walter Cave. Today: Horseferry House, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London SW1P 2AW.
Source: burberryplc.com History · Annual Report 25/26 (“The Burberry Clock”) · Address: The Architects' and Builders' Journal, 30 Dec 1913 (via Wikimedia Commons)
Earlier home · 1913Administration building, Vahrenwalder Straße, 1913 · Christian A. Schröder (ChristianSchd) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · HanoverThe bridge over Hans-Böckler-Allee · Photo: Continental AG (press use with source credit)
To make room for a fast-growing workforce, Continental built its first administrative building on Vahrenwalder Straße in 1913. Today: Continental-Plaza 1, 30175 Hanover, Germany.
Source: continental.com, “From Hanover into the World, for 150 Years” · Milestones
Construction of the Sun Life Building in Montreal began in 1914; the final phase was completed in 1933. Today: One York Street, Toronto, Ontario M5J 0B6.
On February 1, 1916, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, 24, bought Billund Maskinsnedkeri, the woodworking and carpentry shop in Billund, for DKK 10,000. Today: Aastvej 1, DK-7190 Billund, Denmark.
Source: lego.com/history, “Ole Kirk Kristiansen settles in Billund”
Where it started · 1916Gustav Otto's aircraft works by the Oberwiesenfeld airfield, Munich, 1911 · Flottweg / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MunichLobby, BMW Four-Cylinder, 2013 · Photo: BMW Group
BMW counts its birthday from the founding of Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW), the reorganised aircraft maker of Gustav Otto, on March 7, 1916. Today: Petuelring 130, 80788 München, Germany.
Source: bmwgroup.com, History · BMW Group Classic blog “Looking ahead. Into the past.”
Nippon Kogaku K.K. was formed from the optical-instrument division of Tokyo Keiki Seisakusho and the reflector division of Iwaki Glass, with investment from Koyata Iwasaki of Mitsubishi Goshi. Today: 1-5-20 Nishioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-8601, Japan.
Earlier home · 1917Caixa de Pensions, Via Laietana, Barcelona, 1917 · Jordiferrer / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ValenciaThe former Banco de Valencia building on its triangular plot · Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Enric Sagnier's head office at Via Laietana 56–58 closed the view along the new street, in Garraf stone over a concrete frame. Today: Calle Pintor Sorolla 2–4, 46002 Valencia, Spain.
Source: COAC, arquitecturacatalana.cat · CaixaBank, History of the Group
Brothers Frank and L.E. Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum Company, headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Today: 2331 CityWest Blvd., Houston, TX 77042.
Where it started · 1918Monument to Konosuke Matsushita's founding, Ohiraki Park, Osaka, 2016 · Pityuu3 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · KadomaTechnology CUBE at the Kadoma head office · Photo: Takenaka Corporation
On March 7, 1918, Konosuke Matsushita moved from a cramped home in Ikaino to a larger rented two-storey house in Ohiraki-cho (today Ohiraki 2-chome, Fukushima-ku) and founded Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works. Today: 1006 Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8501, Japan.
Source: Panasonic Group History, 1918 (English and Japanese pages)
Takeshi Yamashita founded the company as Takachiho Seisakusho on October 12, 1919 in the Hatagaya district of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, to make microscopes in Japan. Today: 2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-8507.
Source: Olympus, “Founding of Olympus” and chronology 1919–1945
McCormick's landmark building in Baltimore — then the largest steel and concrete structure south of New York City — held 12.5 acres of daylight floor space, a printing plant, a lab, an assembly hall, a cafeteria and a private railroad siding. Today: 24 Schilling Road, Suite 1, Hunt Valley, MD 21031.
Where it started · 1923The block on Kingswell Avenue, Los Angeles, 2015 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BurbankThe Dwarfs holding up the roof · Cory Doctorow / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
With a contract for the Alice Comedies, Walt Disney rented the unused back half of a real estate office a couple of blocks from his uncle's house in Hollywood and moved in in October 1923. Today: 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521.
After August Krogh brought permission to make insulin home from Toronto, he and Hans Christian Hagedorn began extracting it in Hagedorn's villa in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. Today: Novo Allé 1, 2880 Bagsværd, Denmark.
Source: novonordisk.com “Our heritage” · Novo Nordisk Foundation history
The bank moved its headquarters to the Paseo de Pereda building in Santander. Today: Avenida de Cantabria s/n, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain.
Source: santander.com, Our history · Form 20-F 2025
On 6 January 1926 Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft was founded at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, taking in Aero Hansa and large parts of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr. Today: Airportring, 60546 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
In 1919 the head office moved into a new building at Kyobashi (today Kitahama-Higashi 6-chome), and in June 1926 a new head-office building was completed there — the company's fourth. Today: 2-15-2 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Source: Obayashi corporate history · OBAYASHI Thinking, “Architecture connecting a city's past and future” (Shinya Hashizume, 2009)
The Netherlands Trading Society (NHM), founded by King William I in the early 19th century, opened its new head office on the Vijzelstraat in 1926. Today: Gustav Mahlerlaan 10, 1082 PP Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Source: abnamro.com, Onze geschiedenis · Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, monument 46509
Earlier home · 1927The Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company building · Roth, Arnold D / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CharlotteCafé, Honeywell Tower, Charlotte · Photo: HOK
J. Willard and Alice Sheets Marriott open an A&W root beer franchise in May 1927, which becomes the first Hot Shoppe, at 14th Street and Kenyon. Today: 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
Source: marriott.com “Our Story” and “Marriott Family History”
The new Yokohama Brewery (today's Kirin Brewery Yokohama Plant) was completed in June 1926, and in April 1928 the registered head office moved to Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku. Today: 4-10-2 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan.
Source: Kirin Group history 1885–1949 · Company overview
Where it started · 1929Scuderia Ferrari trucks in Modena, 1930s · Ferruccio Testi / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · MaranelloAssembly line, e-building, 2024 · Photo: Duccio Malagamba / MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects
Enzo Ferrari, then an Alfa Romeo driver, set up his racing team in Modena to race Alfa Romeo cars. Today: Via Abetone Inferiore 4, 41053 Maranello (MO), Italy.
Source: Form 20-F 2025, History of the Company · Ferrari Magazine, “16 November 1929”
Built from 1926 to 1929 to a design by Ignacio de Cárdenas with the American Louis S. Weeks: 89 metres, 13 floors and about 32,000 m² on a metal frame, then unprecedented in Spain. Today: Ronda de la Comunicación, s/n, 28050 Madrid, Spain.
Source: telefonica.com press releases (Dec 10, 2019; Sep 3, 2026) · blog “1920s: Telefónica is born”
Where it started · 1933Toyota Industries' headquarters in Kariya, the former Toyoda Automatic Loom Works · Aratsuku / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Toyota CityHead office, Toyota City · Chris 73 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Toyota began in 1933 as the automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (today Toyota Industries). Today: 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture 471-8571, Japan.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4.A · Toyota 75-year history, Part 1 Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Item 2
Dai Nippon Celluloid finished a film factory in Minami-Ashigara village, Kanagawa, in 1933; Fujifilm says this became the head office of Fuji Photo Film, founded on January 20, 1934 to make photographic film in Japan. Today: 9-7-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052.
Source: Fujifilm Holdings, 90th-anniversary history
In January 1934, just before the first Kurume plant was finished, the head office moved to the plant site at 105 Kyomachi, Kurume. Today: 1-1, Kyobashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8340, Japan.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 3 sec. 2
Nippon Gakki's own 1935 brochure for its Magna Organ shows the whole Hamamatsu headquarters and factory. Today: 10-1 Nakazawa-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 430-8650, Japan.
Source: Nippon Gakki brochure “Introduction of the Magna Organ” (October 1935), via Wikimedia Commons
Earlier home · 1936KOKUYO's head office on the Imazato site, Higashinari, Osaka, 2010 · Kansai explorer / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · OsakaGrand Green Osaka, south building · Kikucha / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
KOKUYO built a new three-storey head office with an attached factory in Imazato (Oimazato, Higashinari-ku) — the site that stayed its head office for 90 years. Today: Grand Green Osaka Park Tower 14F, 5-54 Ofukacho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8459, Japan.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle, “The era of prosperity” and the period that follows
On May 28, 1937 the “Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens” was founded in Berlin by the Nazi-era German Labour Front (DAF), with its first registered offices at Kaiserallee 25. Today: Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany.
In 1941 Delta moved its headquarters from Monroe to Atlanta, the center of its new 16-city route system. Today: 1030 Delta Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30354.
Source: Delta Flight Museum, timeline 1940s and “90 years to Atlanta!”
Where it started · 1945Shirokiya, Nihonbashi (1911) · Ogawa Kazumasa / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TokyoSony City, Shinagawa · Akonnchiroll / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In September 1945 the company that became Sony started out in a room of thirty-odd square metres on the third floor of the Shirokiya department store in Nihonbashi. Today: 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075.
Source: Sony History, Volume 1, Chapter 1 · Sony Corporate Data
When his military service ended in 1945, Sam Walton and his wife Helen moved to Newport, Arkansas — the start of the retail story that brought them to Bentonville five years later. Today: 1 Customer Drive, Bentonville, AR 72716.
In late summer 1946 a modest wooden building went up on a burned-out lot in Yamashita-cho, Hamamatsu — the small town factory where Honda's story begins. Today: Toranomon Alcea Tower, 2-2-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8404.
Source: Honda 75 Years of History, Chapter I, Section 1
Where it started · 1947Inside the first Hennes store in Västerås · Photo: H&M GroupToday · StockholmLounge in the Stockholm offices · Photo: Åsa Liffner
Inspired by a trip to New York the year before, Erling Persson opens a womenswear store called Hennes (“Hers”) in Västerås, Sweden. Today: Mäster Samuelsgatan 46A, SE-106 38 Stockholm, Sweden.
REPESA (Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras) was set up in 1948 to build a refinery in the Escombreras Valley near Cartagena. Today: Calle Méndez Álvaro, 44, Madrid, Spain.
Where it started · 1955McDonald's #1 Store Museum, Des Plaines, 2001 · Bruce Marlin / CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ChicagoWork Café stairs, 2018 · Photo: Garrett Rowland / IA Interior Architects
Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955 — the first McDonald's east of the Mississippi. Today: 110 N. Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607.
Source: corporate.mcdonalds.com Our History · mcdonalds.com FAQ “When was McDonald's founded?”
Marcello Nizzoli and Giuseppe Mario Olivieri designed the first office building at Piazza Vanoni as the representative seat of ENI's management, which still has offices there. Today: Piazzale Enrico Mattei 1, 00144 Rome, Italy.
Source: Lombardia Beni Culturali, “Primo Palazzo SNAM” · Eni Historical Archive, photo by Aldo Ballo (1961)
Where it started · 1958BankAmericard sign · jonrev / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoVisa HQ, Mission Rock · Missvain / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bank of America launched BankAmericard, the first card with a “revolving credit” feature. Today: Toni Stone Crossing at Dr. Maya Angelou Lane, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Source: corporate.visa.com, “What we do” timeline · city: Wikipedia
The head office moved into a new nine-storey building beside Hibiya Park, completed in January 1961: 75,489 m² (≈ 812,556 sq ft), with 6,000 m² floors, glass walls, wide balconies and full air conditioning, a first for Dendenkosha's offices. Today: 5-1, Otemachi 1-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8116, Japan.
Source: NTT FACILITIES, “Former Hibiya Denden Building Archives” · NTT press release, Dec 8, 2025
A 17-storey office building by architect Nils Holter was completed in two stages, in 1962 and 1971, as Televerket's headquarters by St. Today: Snarøyveien 30, N-1360 Fornebu, Norway.
Where it started · 1963Downtown Tupelo, Mississippi · Fredlyfish4 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · PhiladelphiaComcast Center at dusk, 2008 · Photo: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Ralph Roberts founded the company by buying American Cable Systems, a cable system with 1,200 subscribers in Tupelo. Today: 1701 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
State Street's 2003 annual report puts its headquarters in the State Street Bank Building, a 34-story tower built in 1965 in Boston's Financial District, where it leased about 529,000 sq ft — some 60% of the building. Today: One Congress Street, Boston, MA 02114.
The first real office: a small building in southeast Portland that was office, warehouse, sales office and shop at once. Today: One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005.
Earlier home · 1967Munkkiniemi Manor, Kartanontie 1, before 1957 · Eric Sundström / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · EspooThe KONE Building in Keilaniemi · Drefer / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
KONE took over the 1815 manor at Kartanontie 1 in Helsinki's Munkkiniemi in the 1960s and renovated it for office use as the company's headquarters; it has served as KONE's head office since 1967. Today: Keilasatama 3, 02150 Espoo, Finland.
Earlier home · 1967140 Broadway · Ken Lund / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New York1585 Broadway on Times Square · Ajay Suresh / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ancienne Mutuelle inaugurated a new headquarters in Belbeuf, outside Rouen: 22,000 m² (≈ 236,806 sq ft) of offices whose construction cost almost 10% of the company's assets — built to shed the image of a “small provincial mutual”. Today: 21–25 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, France.
Five years after opening the Nissan Gallery in Ginza (August 1963), Nissan moved its headquarters operations to its own new building in the Ginza area of Tokyo in January 1968. Today: 1-1, Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8686.
Jerry Sanders and seven others from Fairchild Semiconductor founded Advanced Micro Devices on May 1, 1969, in Sunnyvale, starting with logic chips. Today: 2485 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054.
Seven promoters, including founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee, met on December 30, 1968; Samsung Electronics was founded on January 13, 1969, in Suwon. Today: 129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu (Maetan-dong), Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Source: Samsung Newsroom “The History of Samsung Electronics (1)” · Wikipedia (place)
Where it started · 1969Gold Fields House, Circular Quay, 2012 · Gareth Edwards / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Sydney1 Elizabeth from above · Photo: Peter Bennetts / Brett Boardman for JPW
On December 10, 1969, Hill Samuel Australia, a subsidiary of the UK merchant bank Hill Samuel & Co., opened at Sydney's Gold Fields House with three employees. Today: 1 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.
Where it started · 1971Pike Place, circa 1977 · Pike Place Market. See File talk:Pike Place Market - Starbuc / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · SeattleStarbucks Center, SoDo · Mannivu / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Three friends — Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl — opened a 1,000 sq ft (≈ 93 m²) shop selling whole-bean coffee, tea and spices, with one paid employee. Today: 2401 Utah Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134.
Source: about.starbucks.com “Our Original Store” and “Our Founders” · address: Wikipedia
Five former IBM employees founded SAP in 1972 and set up its headquarters in Weinheim, with an office in nearby Mannheim. Today: Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany.
Source: sap.com company history 1972–1980 · founders' names: Wikipedia
The first A300B1 made its maiden flight in Toulouse on 28 October 1972 and landed back at Blagnac airport. Today: 2, rond-point Dewoitine, BP 90112, 31703 Blagnac Cedex, France.
Source: airbus.com, “50th Anniversary of the first flight of the Airbus A300” (2022)
Built from 1969 to 1972 as BHP's national headquarters: a 41-storey steel, concrete and glass tower by Yuncken Freeman Architects with engineers Irwin Johnson and Partners, the tallest building in Melbourne at the time. Today: 171 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Source: Victorian Heritage Database, “Former BHP House” (statement of significance)
U.S. National Archives photos from May 1973 show a Cummins corporate office “built in 1972” with interiors designed by Alexander Girard. Today: 500 Jackson Street, Columbus, IN 47202.
Source: NARA photo titles (Declan Haun, May 1973), via Wikimedia Commons
On April 17, 1973 Federal Express began operations in Memphis with 389 team members; that night 14 aircraft delivered 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities. Today: 942 South Shady Grove Road, Memphis, Tennessee.
On April 26, 1973, Cboe opened as the world's first exchange for listed options, with a handful of screens in a converted smoking lounge in the Chicago Board of Trade Building. Today: 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607.
Source: cboe.com · Cboe press release, June 6, 2022
KDD completed its own building among the Shinjuku skyscrapers in July 1974 — an international communications center with the latest equipment, built as KDD's head office. Today: 2-21-1 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8618, Japan.
Where it started · 1975Two Park Central Tower, Albuquerque, 2026 · Xnatedawgx / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · RedmondBuilding 92, Redmond, 2016 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Earlier home · 1975The first Zara store, Juan Flórez, A Coruña, 2012 · Nemigo / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ArteixoZara.com building, 2021 · Photo: Luis Díaz Díaz / Batlleiroig
Earlier home · 1975The DBS Towers on Shenton Way, Singapore · Unknown author / CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · SingaporeMarina Bay Financial Centre at night · Nicolas Lannuzel. / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
At 50 storeys, DBS Tower One at 6 Shenton Way was the tallest building in Singapore when completed. Today: 12 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982.
Where it started · 1976The first Price Club building in San Diego, now a Costco, 2020 · RightCowLeftCoast / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · IssaquahHeadquarters, Issaquah · Photo: Rodrigo DeMedeiros Photography / MG2
The membership-warehouse idea began with Sol Price's Price Club, opened in a converted airplane hangar on Morena Boulevard in San Diego. Today: 999 Lake Drive, Issaquah, WA 98027.
The first Home Depot stores opened in Atlanta in June 1979 — 60,000 sq ft warehouses with more items than any other hardware store. Today: 2455 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30339.
Source: corporate.homedepot.com, Georgia Historical Marker news (2026) and history page
Five years after Dallas Fort Worth International Airport opened in 1974, American moved its headquarters from New York to Fort Worth. Today: 1 Skyview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76155.
Source: news.aa.com, “Fueling half a century of growth at DFW” (2024) · Form 10-K 2017 and 2018
Masayoshi Son founded Nihon SoftBank in Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, in September 1981 to distribute packaged software for personal computers. Today: 1-7-1 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7537, Japan.
Source: Securities report (31st term) on group.softbank · SoftBank Group History
Where it started · 1981Model Colony, Pune, 2013 · Udaykumar PR / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BengaluruReflecting pool between office blocks · Ashlyak. / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 1982Adobe Creek, Los Altos, 2017 · Dicklyon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San JoseFounders Tower at dusk, 2023 · Photo: Jason O’Rear / Gensler
Eaton reaffirmed its commitment to Greater Cleveland by moving its headquarters from 100 Erieview to Eaton Center at 1111 Superior Avenue. Today: 30 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4, Ireland D04 Y0C2.
Where it started · 1983University Avenue at Waverley Street, Palo Alto, 2020 · Brian Sterling / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Mountain ViewThe atrium and its blue stair, Marine Way · Photo: Jeremy Bittermann / Clive Wilkinson Architects
Earlier home · 1983–84Southwestern Bell Telephone Company administration building, St. Louis, 1930s · Pub. by Chas. M. Monroe Co. "Tichnor Quality Views," Reg. U. / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · DallasThe Discovery District at the AT&T headquarters, Dallas · Photo: Gensler
Where it started · 1984The University of Texas at Austin, around 1980 · Larry D. Moore / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Round RockOne Dell Way, Round Rock · Photo: White Construction Company
Earlier home · 1985The Broadway, Newbury · Spudgun67 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · NewburyThe lake at the heart of the campus · Photo: Chris Gascoigne / Fletcher Priest Architects
Vodafone began life in 1985 in an office above a curry house in Newbury town centre. Today: Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN, United Kingdom.
Source: Vodafone UK News Centre (2023) · VodafoneThree Careers, Our Locations · vodafone.com, Our history
Namco completed a new headquarters building in Ota-ku, Tokyo; it had set up its Yaguchi plant there in 1970. Today: 5-37-8 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014.
A purpose-built headquarters completed one year after privatisation, on the site of the former Central Telegraph Office: a large granite and Portland stone building around an atrium, designed by the Property Services Agency. Today: 1 Braham Street, London E1 8EE.
Source: BT newsroom, Nov 26, 2021 (notes to editors) · BT Archives “Central Telegraph Office and BT Centre” · BT bt.com “Lest we forget”
NMB Bank chairman Wim Scherpenhuijsen Rom drove the move to a new head office in Amsterdam's southeast, far from the old financial centre. Today: Bijlmerdreef 106, 1102 CT Amsterdam.
Daikin moved its headquarters to the Umeda Center Building in Osaka's Kita ward. Today: Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South, 1-13-1 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001, Japan.
Earlier home · 1989Redwood Shores from Marine World Parkway, 2005 · Peter Kaminski / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · AustinThe Austin Waterfront Campus at night, 2018 · DronePhotographer / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
France Telecom's registered office at 6 place d'Alleray dates from January 1, 1991 in the French business register, which lists it as a former head office. Today: 111 quai du Président Roosevelt, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
Where it started · 1992–93The Denny’s on Berryessa Road, 2023 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Santa ClaraInside the headquarters today · Photo: Gensler (project page “NVIDIA”)
In late 1992 the three co-founders — Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem — decided to start the company over meals at this Denny’s on Berryessa Road in San Jose. Today: 2788 San Tomas Expy, Santa Clara 95051.
Source: Founding date: NVIDIA corporate timeline · Denny’s story as reported by NBC Bay Area and Fortune
Earlier home · 1993Building 10, Cisco's executive offices, San Jose, 2006 · Travis Wise / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San JoseThe Tasman Drive campus from the air, 2010 · Travis Wise / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cisco signed a five-year lease, with options to buy, on 46 acres in North San Jose beside the Guadalupe River, saying it intended to move its headquarters there. Today: 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134.
Mastercard moved its global headquarters into a three-story, 472,600 sq ft building in Purchase, New York. Today: 2000 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577.
Source: 2001 Form S-4 (size, purchase) · Pei Cobb Freed & Partners project list · move-in year: Wikipedia
Earlier home · 1995Autodesk's headquarters, San Rafael, 2009 · Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoAutodesk Gallery, One Market · Photo: Autodesk
Autodesk's earliest annual report on EDGAR gives its principal executive offices as 111 McInnis Parkway in San Rafael. Today: The Landmark @ One Market, Ste. 400, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Source: Form 10-K 1995 (cover) · Form 10-K FY2022 (cover)
Earlier home · 1995Electronic Arts, Redwood Shores, 2011 · King of Hearts / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Redwood CityGlass lobby of the phase 2 studio, 2002 · Photo: Timothy Hursley / SOM
In February 1995 EA signed a build-to-suit lease for land and new buildings in Redwood City, planned at about 350,000 sq ft, to replace the San Mateo offices. Today: 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065.
The second postal reform turns the post office of Deutsche Bundespost into Deutsche Post AG, a stock company in Bonn. Today: Platz der Deutschen Post, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Source: group.dhl.com History, “1995” · DHL Group press release “Besonderes Post Tower Jubiläum”, Dec 12, 2022
In October 1996 Pierre Omidyar and new president Jeff Skoll rented a small suite at 2005 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose — today Building 6 (“Music”) on the eBay campus. Today: 2025 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.
Suncorp, then owned by the Queensland Government, and QIDC merged with Metway Bank to form Suncorp Metway. Today: Heritage Lanes, 80 Ann Street, Brisbane, Queensland.
PNC's annual report for 1997 places the executive offices of the company and PNC Bank in One PNC Plaza, with more offices in the 34-story Two PNC Plaza next door. Today: 300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
Source: Form 10-K405 for 1997, Item 2 · Form 10-K 2008 and 2014, Item 2
Where it started · 1998232 Santa Margarita Ave, Menlo Park, 2011 · Jordiipa / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Mountain ViewGoogleplex, 2015 · Grendelkhan / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met at Stanford, incorporated Google in August 1998 and set up in a garage in suburban Menlo Park owned by Susan Wojcicki — 232 Santa Margarita Avenue. Today: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
Source: about.google, “Our story” · street address from the photo’s Wikimedia Commons caption
Where it started · 1998Shenzhen seen from Lianhuashan, 1998 · wanghongliu / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ShenzhenTencent Seafront Towers and their sky bridges, Shenzhen · Photo: Shao Feng / NBBJ
In June 1998 Richard Qiangdong Liu started his own business in Beijing, mainly distributing magneto-optical products. Today: No. 18 Kechuang 11 Street, BDA, Beijing 101111.
Operations moved to an all-new headquarters and warehouse in Baltimore, the city Under Armour has called home ever since. Today: 101 Performance Drive, Baltimore, MD 21230.
The principal executive office was about 5,000 sq ft (≈ 465 m²) at 575 Broadway. Today: 110 West 44th Street (also known as 1133 Avenue of the Americas), New York, NY 10036.
Earlier home · Before 1998Science and Technology Park, Nanshan, 2020s · Lint1729 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ShenzhenOx Horn Campus, Songshan Lake · CNHowey / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
As the business expanded, Huawei moved its offices to the Science and Technology Park in Nanshan District. Today: Huawei Base, Bantian, Longgang District, Shenzhen 518129, China.
Earlier home · 1998Kasumigaseki Building, 2006 · Joe Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TokyoShiodome City Center · Another Believer / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Until December 1998 ANA's sales headquarters was split between the Kasumigaseki Building and the Yanmar Building by Tokyo Station's Yaesu exit. Today: 1-5-2 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7140.
Source: ANA press release No. 10-136 (November 30, 1998)
Earlier home · 1999Rincon Center, San Francisco · Unknown author / CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoSalesforce Tower from above, 2022 · InvadingInvader / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
By the end of its first year Salesforce had 40 employees and moved into an 8,000 sq ft office at the Rincon Center. Today: 415 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Source: salesforce.com, “The History of Salesforce”
When it went public in 1999, BlackRock's principal executive offices were at 345 Park Avenue, where it occupied about 65,000 sq ft (≈ 6,039 m²), with more space in Philadelphia and Wilmington. Today: 50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001.
Source: Form S-1, 1999 (Facilities) · Form 10-K 2000
Earlier home · 2000In front of the Total tower, La Défense, 2020 · TCY / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CourbevoieThe Link, 2025 · Photo: PCA-STREAM
On March 22, 2000, after the merger with Elf Aquitaine, TotalFina became TotalFinaElf and moved its headquarters to Tour Coupole, 2 place de la Coupole, La Défense 6, in Courbevoie. Today: Cours Michelet, Esplanade Sud, 92800 Puteaux (Paris La Défense), France.
Source: TotalFinaElf Schedule 13D/A (SEC, October 2000) · Form 20-F 2002 and 2008
Where it started · 2000Zhongguancun, Beijing, 2004 · DF08 at en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BeijingThe wavy east façade of Baidu Campus · Photo: China Architecture Design & Research Group
Baidu was founded on January 1, 2000 in Zhongguancun, Beijing's technology district. Today: No. 10 Shangdi 10th Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China.
Source: home.baidu.com “Company introduction” · Form 20-F FY2025
In March 2000 CyberAgent listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market, and the same year moved its head office to Shibuya Mark City, beside Shibuya Station. Today: 40-1 Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042.
In November 2000 Pixar moves from leased offices in Richmond into its new headquarters and studio in Emeryville, about 215,000 sq ft (≈ 19,974 m²), designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson for a staff of 600. Today: 1200 Park Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608.
Source: Form 10-K405 for 2001 · Bohlin Cywinski Jackson project page
Earlier home · 2001731 Lexington Avenue, New York, 2024 · Kidfly182 / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New YorkThe ramp, Bloomberg London · The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
On May 1, 2001 Bloomberg signed a lease for about 695,000 sq ft (≈ 64,568 m²) of offices in the tower Alexander's, Inc. Today: 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022.
From January 2001 the company's registered office was 1 Kingsway, London WC2B 6XD, the address ASOS gave for its annual and interim reports in the mid-2000s. Today: Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7FB.
Source: Companies House filing history · ASOS RNS (2003 annual report notice, interim results) · final results 2006
Accenture Ltd, a Bermuda company, listed its principal executive offices at Cedar House, 41 Cedar Avenue, Hamilton. Today: 1 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, D02 P820, Ireland.
Earlier home · 2001Harumi Island Triton Square, Chuo-ku, Tokyo (head office 2001–2018) · Tak1701d / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TokyoOtemachi Place East Tower entrance · Photo: Forward Stroke Inc. / Sumisho Interior International
The “Osaka Head Office” and “Tokyo Head Office” were abolished and all head-office functions moved to Harumi Triton Square in Chuo-ku, Tokyo — a ¥300 billion development led by Sumitomo Corporation itself, then the largest commercial development project in Japan. Today: 3-2 Otemachi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8601, Japan.
Source: Annual Report 2016 “Our History” · sumitomocorp.com History
Netflix leased about 25,000 sq ft in Los Gatos for its executive offices, plus about 50,000 sq ft in San Jose for customer service and IT. Today: 121 Albright Way, Los Gatos, CA 95032.
Sanofi-Synthélabo's principal executive offices and registered office were at 174 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris. Today: 46-48 Avenue de la Grande Armée, 75017 Paris, France.
Where it started · 2003Former Tesla Motors HQ, San Carlos, 2008 · Tumbenhaur / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · AustinGigafactory Texas, 2022 · Larry D. Moore / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Earlier home · 2003One Discovery Place during Shark Week · Farragutful / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New York230 Park Avenue South · Photo: Meridian Design Associates
A headquarters building in Silver Spring, Maryland, where about 543,000 sq ft (≈ 50,446 m²) held executive offices and general office space. Today: 230 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003.
Source: Discovery press release, Jan 9, 2018 · Form 10-K FY2008, FY2014 and FY2018
Where it started · 2003University of Maryland dormitory area, College Park, 2010 · carmichaellibrary / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New YorkThe roof deck · Photo: Magda Biernat / A+I
A Danone SA administrative establishment at 7 rue de Téhéran was closed on October 20, 2003 — the day 17 boulevard Haussmann was registered as the head office. Today: 59-61 rue La Fayette, 75009 Paris, France.
A new 570,000 sq ft (≈ 52,955 m²) headquarters beside the Capital Beltway, first leased with an option to buy. Today: 1680 Capital One Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102.
With fewer than 20 employees, the company — now called CSN Stores — moved into its first office on Newbury Street in Boston. Today: 4 Copley Place, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02116.
Earlier home · 2003Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, where Square Enix was based from 2003 · Rs1421 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · TokyoShinjuku Eastside Square · Guilhem Vellut / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 2004Elgin Street, Ottawa, 2014 · Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · OttawaA log-cabin room, Ottawa (2014) · Photo: Union Eleven / Linebox Studio
Tobi Lütke launched Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop, in November 2004 without an office — he worked from the Bridgehead coffee shop on Elgin Street, Ottawa. Today: 151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2L8, Canada.
Source: Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2018 (incorporation) · Tobi Lütke interview, Ottawa Business Journal
SEGA's own website listed Head Office Buildings 1 and 2 at 1-2-12 Haneda, Ota-ku, with Building 3 and an annex in nearby Higashi-Kojiya and an office in Kamata. Today: Sumitomo Fudosan Osaki Garden Tower, 1-1-1 Nishi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0033.
The social network mixi opened on February 22, 2004 from E-Mercury's office in the Dogenzaka Sepia Building, known for its semicircular balconies, about six minutes' walk up Dogenzaka from SHIBUYA109. Today: 2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-6136.
Where it started · 2005Etsy's Brooklyn headquarters (the clocktower), 2008 · Jared Tarbell / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · BrooklynPublic ground-floor gallery, 2016 · Photo: Emily Andrews / Etsy
Etsy was founded in June 2005 in Brooklyn, New York, as a marketplace for handmade goods and craft supplies. Today: 117 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
YouTube was registered as a website on February 14, 2005, and its first offices were above a pizzeria in San Mateo. Today: 901 Cherry, San Bruno, California.
Source: YouTube Official Blog: “YouTube at 15” (Feb 14, 2020), “A step forward with the city of San Bruno” (Oct 13, 2021), “20 ways we're celebrating two decades of YouTube” (Apr 23, 2025)
The century-old partnership was dissolved and Shell came under a single holding company, Royal Dutch Shell plc. Today: Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom.
Source: shell.com, “Our company history” · Form 20-F 2020 (cover and registered office)
Where it started · 2006Amsterdam, 2006 · Eriksw / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · AmsterdamOn the Rokin · Bram Willems / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Adyen was founded in 2006 in Amsterdam by a group of entrepreneurs including Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff. Today: Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6-50, 1011 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Source: adyen.com/about · Press release “Co-founder and CTO Arnout Schuijff to step down”, Sep 23, 2020
Akzo Nobel's annual report to the SEC gave its principal executive offices as Velperweg 76, 6824 BM Arnhem. Today: Christian Neefestraat 2, 1077 WW Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Qualcomm opened its headquarters building N on Morehouse Drive, with the Irwin M. Jacobs auditorium and an executive floor looking out to the Pacific. Today: 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121.
Where it started · 2007Stratton Student Center, MIT, Cambridge, 2014 · Gunnar Klack / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoIndoor garden, Mission Bay HQ · Photo: Daniele Ansidei, Caitlin Atkinson / Johnston Marklee
In August 2007, ten years after starting, Rakuten moved its headquarters to Shinagawa Seaside Rakuten Tower, 4-12-3 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa City. Today: 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094.
Earlier home · 200777 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, 2016 · MusikAnimal / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ChicagoWillis Tower from the Chicago River · Big Blue Ocean / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
About 400 management employees, including senior management, moved to a new downtown headquarters at 77 West Wacker Drive, leased at about 250,000 sq ft (≈ 23,226 m²). Today: 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606.
In February 2007 the registered office moved to Level 1, Old Bank Arcade, 98 Customhouse Quay. Today: 19–23 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.
Source: NZ Companies Office, company 1830488 · Xero media factsheet
Booking.com B.V. leased about 102,000 sq ft in Amsterdam at the start of 2009; three years later it leased about 458,000 sq ft in Amsterdam and 39 other countries. Today: Oosterdokskade 163, 1011 DL Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In June 2007 Expedia signed a ten-year lease for about 348,000 sq ft (≈ 32,330 m²) for a new headquarters, and moved there in 2008 to make room for growth. Today: 1111 Expedia Group Way W, Seattle, WA 98119.
On November 3, 2008 the head office moves to 10 rue Marcel Dassault in Vélizy-Villacoublay, a new campus by Arte Charpentier on the edge of the Meudon forest, built with the developer Covivio. Today: 10 rue Marcel Dassault, 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France.
Source: French company register, SIRET 322 306 440 00213 · Arte Charpentier project page
Where it started · 20091601 California Ave, Palo Alto, May 2009 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Menlo ParkMeta HQ from the air, 2023 · InvadingInvader / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Earlier home · 2009Amsterdam office street · Ernest McGray, Jr. / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · SydneyAtlassian Central, nearly complete · Photo: courtesy of Dexus / SHoP Architects
Where it started · 2009–10University Avenue, downtown Palo Alto, 2020 · Brian Sterling / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoThe lava lamp wall · HaeB / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Where it started · 2010Financial District, San Francisco, 2010 · sailko / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoMB1 and MB2, joined by sky bridges · Photo: Jason O’Rear / Eric Laignel · RMW Architecture & Interiors
Uber's first space in San Francisco was a small cube for four people in the Financial District, subleased from another start-up, Zozi. Today: 1725 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Source: Uber Newsroom, “Office #7 in the 7×7” (2014)
Earlier home · 2010Davenport Building, 25 First Street, East Cambridge, 2013 · John Phelan / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CambridgeAtrium bar, Cambridge campus · Photo: Robert Benson Photography / IA Interior Architects
HubSpot moved from its bare-bones start-up space into a converted mill building in Cambridge: 38,000 sq ft (≈ 3,530 m²) with backlit surfaces, curtains, birch stalks and floor-to-ceiling glass inside the old brick-and-beam structure. Today: 2 Canal Park, Cambridge, MA 02141.
Source: ACTWO Architects project page “Hubspot” (completed by Vin Giambertone while principal of Architecture 3S)
Earlier home · 2010Conversion works at the former Laennec Hospital, 2012 · Celette / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · ParisThe main courtyard, 40 rue de Sèvres · Donnie28 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Work starts on the main buildings on either side of the Louis XIII chapel, after a study by Benjamin Mouton. Today: 40, rue de Sèvres, 75007 Paris, France.
Source: kering.com, “Architecture” and “History of 40, rue de Sèvres”
From late fall 2010 more than 300 employees moved into about 70,000 sq ft of a 130,000 sq ft former bottling plant at the foot of the Burrard Street Bridge. Today: 1818 Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 1C7.
Source: lululemon press release, Feb 15, 2011 · Form 10-K FY2010
Luis von Ahn, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. student Severin Hacker founded Duolingo; it was incorporated in August 2011. Today: 5900 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206.
Earlier home · 2012Norra Stationsgatan (then Solnavägen), Stockholm, 1925 · Axel Swinhufvud / Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsToday · StockholmLobby lounge · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm
A 2012 entry in France's public business register gives Klarna AB's head office as Norra Stationsgatan 61, 113 43 Stockholm. Today: Sveavägen 46, SE-111 34 Stockholm, Sweden.
In April 2012 DeNA moved its head office to Shibuya Hikarie, 2-21-1 Shibuya. Today: WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square, Shibuya Scramble Square, 2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-6140.
Source: dena.com, Corporate history · Fullswing by DeNA (Dec 24, 2021)
Earlier home · 20121140 Broadway · Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · New YorkThe New York Times Building · Kailash U / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Datadog's first offering filing with the SEC lists its address as 1140 Broadway, Suite 501, New York. Today: 620 8th Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
In June 2013 Airbnb opened its headquarters at 888 Brannan Street, a few blocks from the first listing on Rausch Street. Today: 888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Earlier home · Before 2013San Francisco Chronicle Building, 901 Mission Street · Nancy Wong / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · OaklandStair, former HQ at 1455 Market · Photo: Matthew Millman / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Earlier home · 2013Taobao City at Xixi Park, 2014 · Danielinblue / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · HangzhouPark C, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou, from the air · Photo: Nihon Sekkei via CREDAWARD
In April 2013 10gen moved its New York office to 29,391 sq ft at 229 West 43rd Street, the former New York Times building, with room for 162 staff. Today: 1633 Broadway, 38th Floor, New York, NY 10019.
Earlier home · 20142225 Lawson Lane · Satyaki.snow / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Santa ClaraThe “living room” coffee bar, Santa Clara · Photo: HGA (project page)
Earlier home · 2014The Pioneer Building, San Francisco, 2019 · HaeB / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · South San FranciscoThe atrium stairs, South San Francisco · Photo: Jason O'Rear / PritchardPeck Lighting
Stripe moved into 23,000 sq ft (≈ 2,137 m²) across three floors and two buildings of the landmark Pioneer Building. Today: 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080.
Source: Office Snapshots, Jan 27, 2014 · Studio BBA project page (which lists 28,000 SF)
On March 3, 2014 the head office moved from Ichigaya to the 13th floor of the Aoyama Oval Building at 5-52-2 Jingumae, and the registered name became Sansan, Inc. Today: Shibuya Sakura Stage SHIBUYA Tower 28F, 1-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-6228.
PayPal Holdings separated from eBay and listed on Nasdaq on July 20, 2015, with its headquarters at 2211 North First Street, San Jose — about 700,000 owned sq ft. Today: 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131.
Source: Form 10 (2015) · PayPal press release, Jul 20, 2015 · Form 10-K 2015, Item 2
In its third year, with about 50 employees and the app past 10 million downloads, Mercari rented a floor so large that it was mostly empty. Today: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6125.
HPE became an independent company on November 1, 2015, when Hewlett-Packard Company (renamed HP Inc.) spun it off. Today: 1701 East Mossy Oaks Road, Spring, TX 77389.
Source: Form 10-K FY2015 to FY2018, cover page and Item 2
On May 11, 2015 Money Forward moved to the 17th floor of the Morinaga Plaza Building, directly connected to the station. Today: 3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023.
Source: corp.moneyforward.com History · Money Forward Developers Blog, May 12, 2015
Earlier home · 2016The 2016 headquarters · Photo: Bruce Damonte / IwamotoScott ArchitectureToday · San FranciscoPinterest HQ under the timber ceiling, 2016 · Photo: Bruce Damonte / IwamotoScott Architecture
IwamotoScott and Brereton turned a four-storey former John Deere factory in Central SoMa into the headquarters, cutting an atrium through every floor for a perforated-steel stair that crosses itself. Today: 651 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Earlier home · 2016–17Beale Street, San Francisco, 2018 · Sevgonlernassau / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · San FranciscoReception, San Francisco, 2022 · Photo: Blitz / NOVO Construction
Dyson's second UK technology campus opened on a former Royal Air Force base, with its historic hangars restored as research labs. Today: 3 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098544.
Earlier home · 2018500 Howard Street (Studio O+A) · Photo: Garrett Rowland, Amy Young / Studio O+AToday · San FranciscoSalesforce Tower on the skyline · Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Studio O+A designed a multi-floor headquarters where each of 10 floors evokes a part of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Baja desert on floor 2 to glaciers. Today: 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
The merger of equals between Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium took effect on January 1, 2018, creating Nutrien. Today: Suite 1700, 211 19th Street East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 5R6.
At its IPO, Lyft's principal executive offices were at 185 Berry Street, Suite 5000, San Francisco. Today: 185 Berry Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Source: Prospectus (424B4), 2019 · Form 10-K 2019, Item 2
Figma's filings list 116 New Montgomery Street, Suite 400, from 2019, and Suite 700 by early 2021. Today: 760 Market Street, Floor 10, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Source: SEC Form D, February 2019, May 2020 and February 2021
DoorDash's IPO filing gives its principal executive offices as 303 2nd Street, South Tower, 8th Floor, San Francisco, under an operating lease that runs until 2032. Today: 303 2nd Street, South Tower, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Duke Energy's filings gave its principal executive offices as 550 South Tryon Street in Uptown Charlotte. Today: 525 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202.
Earlier home · 2021Reception, 3000 31st Street · Photo: Andrea Calo / IA Interior ArchitectsToday · Santa MonicaCouncil room, Santa Monica · Photo: Andrea Calo / IA Interior Architects
The headquarters address became 3000 31st Street, Santa Monica, and HQ space grew to about 603,000 sq ft; it peaked at about 720,000 sq ft in 2022. Today: 3000 31st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405.
Canva Space, a public café and free venue for nonprofits, opened at 110 Kippax Street, on the corner of the Sydney campus. Today: 110 Kippax Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia.
After a city-wide search, Revolut signed a ten-year lease on four floors of YY London, growing its London office footprint by over 40% to 113,000 sq ft. Today: 30 South Colonnade, London E14 5HX, United Kingdom.
Its last headquarters before the move was at 101 West Prospect Avenue in downtown Cleveland, which it owned. Today: 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113.
Source: Building Our Future FAQs · Form 10-K 2002 and 2016, Item 2
Where it started · The startCrist Drive, Los Altos · Mathieu Thouvenin / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · CupertinoInside the ring, 2026 · Nicolapps / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Apple's story is usually told from the garage of Steve Jobs' parents' house on Crist Drive in Los Altos, a few kilometres from today's campus. Today: One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014.
Source: Photo caption: Wikimedia Commons (“Garage of Steve Jobs’ parents on Crist Drive in Los Altos”)
Where it started · 60+ yearsBroadcom Corporation's headquarters, 2007 — one of the companies combined into today's Broadcom · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsToday · Palo AltoVMware's Hillview campus, 2008 · BrokenSphere / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Broadcom traces its history back more than 60 years to AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard, and grew through acquisitions including LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade, CA, Symantec's enterprise security business and VMware. Today: 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
60+ years · Roots in Bell Labs and Hewlett-Packard
Palo Alto, California
Questions
What did Boeing’s first office look like?
Long red wooden two-storey building with white-framed windows beside a lawn and a road. (The Red Barn, Boeing's first factory building from the Heath shipyard, now at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, 2012). Today Boeing is at 929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
What did The LEGO Group’s first office look like?
Sepia photo of a long white two-storey house and workshop beside a dirt road. (Carpentry workshop and house, Billund, before 1924). Today The LEGO Group is at Aastvej 1, DK-7190 Billund, Denmark.
What did Walmart’s first office look like?
Old black-and-white bird’s-eye view over the rooftops and streets of a small town. (Newport, Arkansas, seen from the court house tower, 1907). Today Walmart is at 1 Customer Drive, Bentonville, AR 72716.
What did Honda’s first office look like?
Black-and-white photo of low tiled-roof factory buildings behind a wall on a street corner. (Yamashita Plant, Hamamatsu, c. 1952). Today Honda is at Toranomon Alcea Tower, 2-2-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8404.
What did Intel’s first office look like?
Low pale building with an Intel sign behind lawn and trees, a dark sedan parked on the street in front. (Intel's first building, Mountain View, c. 1968). Today Intel is at 2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95054.
What did Microsoft’s first office look like?
Two Park Central Tower in Albuquerque. (Two Park Central Tower, Albuquerque, 2026). Today Microsoft is at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052.
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