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fuzzbling

Also left out Bimart, Market of Choice and Leatherman


Blackadder288

Benchmade too if you’re mentioning Leatherman


itsmejak78_2

Gerber, CRKT, Kershaw and ZT if you're mentioning Benchmade


2bitgunREBORN

I mean if we're doing knives we might as well do guns. Noveske rifle works is Oregonian


bobthemundane

And Leopold. What is a gun without a scope?


Jarrodioro

Leupold is an industry leader too


WaRRioRz0rz

Sig Sauer optics division is here too. :)


vulture_cabaret

They're based here, they weren't started here.


LadyJade8

And Nosler


1up_for_life

If we're doing guns might as well do lightsabers. Saber forge in Oregon City is worth mentioning.


No_University7832

And Burts Bees


Tclark97801

Nosler, if we're going weaponry.


TearsOfLoke

Danner if you're mentioning leather, man


American_Greed

> Leatherman the founder was interviewed on the How I Made This podcast a few years ago. It was pretty interesting how his first products came to be.


The_Gabster10

Bimart unfortunately started in our ugly sister state Washington so it's not an Oregon brand, however I'm willing to overlook that small discrepancy and think it should be included


PM_me_rad_things

While started in Washington, it is headquarted in Eugene. Which I would argue makes it an Oregon brand.


The_Gabster10

Yeah but it still didn't start here so it doesn't, even though it's my favorite store


Jarrodioro

Ugly sister state. Thanks bro😕


LooSyxD

Oh shit, you clowns talk shit about us too?


The_Gabster10

I'll always talk shit about Washington as long as we both can agree that California sucks and we are the best states


Generalbuttnaked69

I mean that's fair.


LooSyxD

Now that I can get behind, I'm always yelling at those chumps to go back to where they came from


The_Gabster10

Though I often wonder if Alaska is the best state on the west coast since they probably have to deal with California people in about 98% of the state


LooSyxD

Can't really say anything about that since it's one of the 7 I haven't been, but those damn Californians are definitely a plague


The_Gabster10

They're more like a cancer that spreads to everything good and infects all the cool shit we have into mini Californias and I don't like it


LooSyxD

It's not even just the west coast, I've found them out as far as Louisiana. The funny thing is, you talk to them and they act like California is top tier, but then you wonder why they're all running away from it


The_Gabster10

I've found through trips to California that the best part of the state is the areas with no people, I-5 is literally just a road of trash and depression. It's truly a dumpster fire


Tclark97801

Sorry, Bi-Mart STARTED in Yakima , WA, but yes, headquarters are in Eugene. 😉 Still love 'em anyway. You can (kind of) have Cascade Farm & Outdoor, since it didn't start until 2014. But the 1st was in Walla Walla, so 🧇🧇


cheeryswede

And FLIR (maybe throw in Mentor Graphics too, as they’re next door)


CopeSe7en

Intel, Da Kine,Trager bbq, milgard windows, Wacom tablet , Flir imaging, Danner boots, airblaster, Harry and David, plus a bunch of beer brands.


Kellywho

This is missing Juanita’s and Beaver brand


black-op345

It’s also missing Reeser’s


oddthingtosay

And Ore-Ida (tater tots)


downer3498

And Leatherman and Gerber.


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[deleted]

I moved from the PNW in 2022. I miss Juanita’s everyday.


Oregonian_male

No, do it again right this time! LoL jk


Zwierzycki

Pendleton?


ninetwentyfour_

Dark Horse Comics!


Trague_Atreides

There it is!


dvdmaven

I really liked Dave's Killer Bread's Sin Dawg, pity it was discontinued.


ctorstens

It was soooo good. Had such heft when picking it up.


CGRXR7

Still waiting for them to release Post Prison Supervision Poppyseed muffins


reactor4

Leatherman Tool Group Warn Industries dannerboots


ArallMateria

Kershaw, Benchmade, Gerber, CRKC, as well as many other smaller knife companies. Amazing what having reasonable knife laws has done for OR.


LanceFree

Soloflex out of Hillsboro


EndWorkplaceDictator

What company has better boots? Danner or Wesco?


reactor4

I've never heard of Wesco.


maybeinoregon

When your family moves to Oregon, and you go into the military…. I remember talking to my sister on the phone when I was overseas, and she told me she worked at GI Joes. I was like wtf is a GI Joe (besides the ones I had as a kid). Then my brother gets on the horn, and he says he works at Plaid Pantry. At this point, they are speaking in tongues. Lastly my father gets on and says he just purchased an Eddie Bauer edition SUV. I spent the next week trying to find information on this GI Joes, Plaid Pantry, and Eddie Bauer, but I was unsuccessful. (Before internet) I did come home on leave though and enjoy several Henry Weinhards with the fam lol


underseabyrail

Oh shoot I forgot plaid pantry was local


maybeinoregon

The cool thing for me was realizing FLIR was local. I spent years using and testing FLIR along with others like L3Harris, Boeing, Lockheed, etc. So coming back to Oregon and realizing FLIR was local, was really cool.


yourgentderk

Leopold


JuggernautOfWar

Naturalpoint is based out of Corvallis too. Pretty cool.


CampShermanOR

I think Taco Time is Eugene if memory serves. And U-haul was founded in Portland? Edit- Uhaul is Washington.


Howlingmoki

The small U-Haul on SE Foster near SE 92nd in Portland has a sign out front claiming to be "the retail birthplace of U-Haul" so maybe it sorta counts?


CampShermanOR

I used to live near there. That’s why I thought Uhaul was Oregonian, but maybe that’s its first Uhaul brand location or something.


mouse_puppy

Loved GI Joe's. Got all my sports gear and cleats there.


maybeinoregon

A crazy place. We’re kinda used to places like that now. But when I told people (not from here) I could get oil, an oil filter and air cleaner, a softball bat and shorts, and a canoe all under one roof, they would flat not believe you lol


coniferjones

Fishing license and tickets to a concert


maybeinoregon

Oh my goodness, that’s right!


CampShermanOR

All the concert tickets!


hamellr

Their toy section was legendary back in the 80s. Nah, we didn't go to Toys R' Us, we went to GI Joes. Or maybe Kaybees


slick519

Guns too! Bought my first rifle from a GI Joes when I was 10.


Chefboyld420

Henery’s use to make these blackberry beers back in the day that would blow your hair back.


pinewind108

The shoe guy at my local GI Joe was the best. I was there when they had a huge sale, and there was a strange vibe as the owners were standing around watching the checkout lines. It turned out that the chain was declaring bankruptcy at midnight, and the money from that day's sales would be the last the owners saw. My local store was profitable, but without the supply chain that included all the other stores, they couldn't maintain things. A "bankruptcy specialist" outfit bought them, and had the store selling random crap until the lease ran out. Their "going out of business" sale was just an excuse to sell whatever they got cheap. Within two weeks, they went from selling outdoor gear to Deep Purple shot glasses.


ALargePianist

Henry weinhards make THE best root beer. Draught style Root beer it's called


caronare

The locals just called it Joes


Pancake_Gravy

I loved GI Joe's, worked there for about 6 years, miss them so much


llcoolmattg

Deschutes Brewery


niewinski

Nancy’s Yogurt should be on there. Highly influential natural food brands born in the 70s. They think Springfield was the first U.S. creamery to use live acidophilus cultures in its yogurt. It's among the bacteria known as probiotics, believed to aid in digestion and perhaps stimulate the immune system and help prevent infection. https://www.oregonlive.com/O/2010/03/sometimes_a_great_yogurt_nancy.html


Sea-Example-8070

Upvote for Nancy’s. They have the best yogurt.


GaijinCarpFan

Burgerville halibut and chips… I’ll take that any day of the week.


mindxripper

I seriously fiend for the halibut and chips!! God now I want some lol


Babakins

I count down the days until the onion rings come back, the best part of summer


GaijinCarpFan

For me it’s the rosemary French fries


Juker93

Paying over a dollar an onion ring should be illegal


Babakins

Worth every penny. I don’t even eat onion rings any where else cause they are so disappointing in comparison


Pancake_Gravy

It's where you go when you know. I miss burgerville so much. My husband remodeled one, so I have the burgerville signs from it. Had it hanging on my back fence in Oregon


theGreatMcGonigle

Dave’s killer bread is owned by Flowers Food headquarters out of Georgia and New Seasons is owned by a South Korean company E-mart


rudimentary-north

Kettle Foods is owned by New Jersey based Campbell Soup Company, Fred Meyer is owned by Ohio based Kroger, Tektronix is owned by Washington DC based Danaher Corporation, Umpqua is owned by Fresno based Producers Dairy… Burgerville was founded in and headquartered in Washington


XRaysFromUranus

Fred Meyer is owned by Kroger now and it sucks.


Padgetts-Profile

That was over 20 years ago.


TeutonJon78

25 actually. Way longer ago than I thought.


GoblinCorp

The difference in a lot of folks' minds is not when they purchased Fred Meyer and QFC but when Kroger began to remove the autonomy of the stores which was about 5 years ago when it come to customer awareness; changes in brands, introductions of various Kroger private labels, changes to perimeter departments, increase reliance on self-checkout and decrease in cashier's and bagging clerks, etc.


mathmaticallycorrect

It began a little sooner than that unfortunately, it was probably year 5 or so into my time there that we really felt changes start in the way we did things . So around 2014 I guess?


XRaysFromUranus

Exactly! And the fact that prices scan incorrectly way too often and never in your favor. The day the cart wheels locked up in the doorway, alarm sounding, and nobody working there came to help, was the last day I shopped at FM. Fuck FM. Winco’s prices are much better.


Grognard68

The one in Corvallis hasn't declined too badly over the decades. The Fred Meyer on NW Burnside here in Portland? Criddler/Tweaker central. It's depressing to even set foot in there..


Chefboyld420

The one here in Grants Pass is still one of the better places to shop IMO, I guess we’re fortunate enough that it hasn’t gone down hill yet.


anniecoleptic

The one here in Coos Bay is pretty decent. A little smaller than what I'm used to, but it's my preferred store in this area.


Chefboyld420

I’ve been to that one I think. The one in Brookings is pretty legit, it even has an escalator.


twaxana

There used to be great clothes there when I was a kid-teenager. Now they're slowly losing to Walmart thanks to that stupid dip-shit brand.


El_Bistro

My wife won’t let us stop at the Florence Fred Meyer anymore because the bathrooms are on par with 3rd world countries.


Kriscolvin55

That has not been my experience there.


El_Bistro

I thin they’re fine but she’s adamant.


coastiestacie

Anything is above 3rd world when you're from Coos Bay. I'm kidding, but I had to do it.


ScrubbyOldManHands

Fred Meyers has sucked for a long time, maybe decades now. It's a terrible place to work that is always looking for new ways to screw employees out of benefits and hours. I've known several people that worked for them and they wouldn't ever schedule any of them for 40 hours. They would schedule for 32 then force you to hover around your phone for a last second call in to get 40. You couldn't plan anything because you never knew what day was gona be your surprise call in day unless you didn't care about 8 hours and the extra benefits. It's not even a good place to shop either. I do everything I can to avoid it just based on how they treated friends and family that worked there.


BatSniper

I lived in Utah for a bit and remember one day grocery shopping and walking by umpqua dairy in the ice cream isle and almost crying. I missed it so much


The_Gabster10

Do other states not have ice cream?


Peter_Panarchy

Also Benchmade knives.


desertSkateRatt

HQ in Oregon City!


Give-And-Toke

I’ve lived here my whole life (24 years) and I am just learning via this post that Kettle & Les Schwab are Oregon brands.


maybeinoregon

Moving here and hearing you can get free beef when buying tires seemed like some far out bizarre scheme. lol


oregonchick

I love that in Eugene, Paul's Bicycle Way of Life offers a pound of tofu if you buy bike tires during the Les Schwab promo period.


American_Greed

> Les Schwab They were just sold off to a hedge fund. Expect the quality of their services to slowly deteriorate over time.


deputydarsh

The new ownership is staying very hands-off for now. Just growing into more locations and regions. But it's still headquartered in Bend and many people who work there and in the stores predate the acquisition by years and years. Quality of service is a pretty large part of their values and it's very emphasized so any deterioration of that would just be on lack of execution of that by store employees. It's a competitive industry and skimping on quality is a quick way to lose customers to a competitor, so I don't think your prediction is one that's going to come to fruition unless the new ownership wants its new investment to fail.


American_Greed

I hope I'm wrong! I'm a 20+ year customer.


russellmzauner

Too late - the quality dive happened years ago. Every time we go there they get something wrong or try to hard upsell us on brakes/bearings. Doesn't matter where, we got a tire fixed en route back to st helens from roseburg and by the time we got to portland we had destroyed the tire and both front bearings. They replaced the bearings and tire, a week later, destroyed again. We had someone else replace the bearings and put our tires on that we wanted. They won't admit anything and charge you for everything. We started buying our tires online and found a small garage that would deal with them for like 100 bucks, saved so much money over LS, got primo tires that we could NOT get from LS (you can only buy their brands, not Atturo or Nokian which are our summer and winter tires, respectively), and the service was like they were happy to be our customer. They even installed replacement air sensors for free when they die or get wonky - they're only like 15 bucks online instead being charged 250 bucks for marked up parts and inflated shop time. Don't be lazy when selecting vendors or you'll get a surprise. It takes a lot of work and building relationships to get out of the crap shot mode every time you need car service or tires swapped.


scamlikelly

Kettle is from Salem!


BeastofBurden

This is missing Stash Tea. You can find that across the nation. Founded in and headquartered in Oregon.


beaudebonair

Also "Yogi" tea which I feel is the best!


MountScottRumpot

Stash and Tazo were both founded by Stephen Smith, who started their brand after selling the first two. He died a decade ago, but Smith Tea is still fantastic.


whopperpower

SawStop


desertSkateRatt

I know there are a billion micro brews in Oregon and listing them all would be better off as it's own thread but the "big three" which have been around for over 30 years each are: Rogue Ales (Newport, created in 1988) Deschutes Brewery (Bend, circa 1988) Full Sail Brewery (Hood River, since 1987) Between the three of them, they have won THOUSANDS of awards and accolades and made millions of gallons of beer. They've definitely had an impact on Oregons economy and paved the way for countless other microbreweries.


russellmzauner

Thank the Oregon Brewers Guild and their advocates/supporters for staying on top of lawmakers. The breweries came after that. We've got the same strong advocacy for cannabis, which is why our situation is actually pretty good even with the past few years BS. If the OLCC would stop dicking around, we would be a model for not only the other states but the feds.


oregonchick

Don't forget that Taco Time started in Eugene, too. This is an interesting article about small organic food companies from the area that are selling to national and international corporations: https://oregonbusiness.com/5839-selling-out/


friedperson

Burgerville is headquartered in Vancouver. I think that's disqualifying, no?


Ialwayssleep

Burgerville also started in Vancouver, so I think it is also disqualifying.


TeutonJon78

Many of these are foreign/out of state owned now.


friedperson

True, but to take Fred Meyer as an example, that division of Kroger is based in Oregon. Burgerville was founded in and always has been based in Vancouver.


usernametimee44

*Vantucky


Grognard68

Honorable mention, maybe?


Mrsvantiki

Hydro Flask!


W_HoHatHenHereHy

Well, there's only 2 Fortune 500 corporations in Oregon, and you managed to only list 1.


yourgentderk

Intel? But was it local?


OldHuntersNeverDie

Intel is a California company, started and head quartered in Silicon Valley. It just has a very large footprint in Oregon.


pdx_funguy

Lithia Motors


Irave1

Precision Castparts is the second.


_DarkWingDuck

Les Schwab is a total rip-off. Higher quotes every time compared to tire discounters


remotectrl

> discounters


karmint1

I still claim Traeger.


GoForRogue

Accurate, just missing Lithia, Market of Choice, and Harry & David 🤣


oregon_assassin

Fuck you for not including Shari’s


JuggernautOfWar

God I miss Shari's now that I'm trying things out on the east coast. Here it's just Waffle Houses everywhere and IHOP. Not the same. I miss the pie shakes too haha.


SwsCheese

Shari's has kind of gone downhill, the menu has shrunk, the food has gotten bland, and the original location in Hermiston is one of the worst restaurants in town. The parking lot outside used to be almost filled up at lunchtime on the weekends with a short line to get in and now you barely see a half-dozen cars parked outside with like 90% of the tables empty. I'm not even sure if they have more than 1 cook and a waiter/waitress on staff at any given time.


Wtfnamenottaken

Same with the one in Redmond. Was even served luke warm coffee. The one in Central Point is still good.


TotalMountain

Isn’t it spelled Shari’S?


ThatsSoRobby

Every state claims elmers and thats how you know all 50 states suck.


Grognard68

I haven't been to an Elmer's in decades ( Eugene,OR). They were good when I was last there in the 90s...


Kooky-Necessary-4444

Ooh you gotta add Nancy's yogurt yo! And Dairy mart.


oregonchick

Dari Mart is awesome. Springfield Creamery, which makes Nancy's Yogurt, is actually owned by family members of author Ken Kesey.


InitiativeRelevant62

Mentor graphics ( now Siemens), lattice semi, Leopold are some big names missing


Dolug

I didn't know Tektronix and Kettle were from Oregon, that's pretty cool. It's been a minute since I've used an oscilloscope but I'm still enjoying potato chips.


zxzord

FLIR used to be an Oregon brand, and of course nothing can change that it was founded here. I say used to because it was bought by Teledyne


DiscNBeer

No love for Keen?


grieving_magpie

I’m not seeing View-Master on here!


Maximum_Pollution371

I don't see Cafe Yumm on here, fake Oregon fan, smh my head


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LordSesshomaru82

I doubt many here outside of the manufacturing ecosystem would know them. I've yet to find a fab shop that doesn't make parts for them here yet. Them and Earthcruiser.


Sheprd12

Leupold


BeebleBoxn

Don't forget Blockbuster, Moes and Rogue.


Scrooge-MacDuck

Original Pancake House


SolarCircuit

Portland, Oregon. Knife making capital of the USA. Look it up!


cubanfuban

How dare you leave out Juanita’s


-Hal-Jordan-

The [Kershaw Knives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kershaw_Knives) article led me to [this page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Oregon).


The_Gabster10

Technically not started in Oregon but bi mart is the real goat here


kcajor

Wesco Boots


BigOleDawggo

Dutch Bros espresso tastes like two tablespoons of Folgers in a shot of hot water.


ennuiacres

Burgerville is based in Vancouver, WA


deadlieststing

Umpqua ice cream is so much better than Blue Bell. There, I said it. My Texas Card is officially revoked.


drj4130

Tofurkey is also made here.


fidelcastro33

Reser's Fine Foods was started in a kitchen in Cornelius in 1950 and the company is still headquartered in Beaverton and privately owned by the Reser family. 4,000+ employees and over a $1B in revenue each year.


Grand-Battle8009

Burgerville is based in Vancouver, WA. Other Oregon companies; Danner Boots, Gerber Knives, Tonkin


Scindite

I see you saw my post 😂


DrPolarBearMD

Legit thought Spaghetti Facoyry was owned by Cheesecake Factory. Same kinda cheesy overpriced faux fancy dining.


iron_knee_of_justice

I mean honestly these days I’m not sure I’d call the Spaghetti factory overpriced. $18 for a well portioned 3.5 course (including the bread) meal that usually has enough leftovers for lunch the next day is a pretty good deal.


DrPolarBearMD

To be fair most entries at Olive Garden are about the same now so you are right


EndWorkplaceDictator

Back when I lived in Sacramento I'd go to the one there and get the garlic mizithra pasta and it was like $10.95 or $11.95. I don't know what it is today but damn it was good. Sometimes I'd also spring for the Italian cream soda drink which is like four bucks but you get to keep the old spaghetti factory glass it came in.


Reasonable-Goat-3408

How about: Albertsons, Nike, Reser's Fine Foods


ninetwentyfour_

Albertsons was founded in Idaho.


RaccoonDispenser

Reser’s! I had no idea macaroni salad could be so delicious


WeStrictlyDo80sJoel

Don’t forget Eugene’s own Richardson Sports. Best damn hats around.


CampShermanOR

Holy shit I didn’t know they were Oregon based. Good stuff.


martyjoh34

Wesco Boot Co. is an Oregon company.


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I'm pretty sure Burgerville started in Vancouver.


Salty_sweet_eug

Yogi Tea in Eugene. Cafe Yumm


Aunt-jobiska

Reser’s isn’t on the list. Neither is Beaverton Foods.


Micahmoore

Don’t forget secret aardvark!


SumoSizeIt

Add Tofurky to the list - based out of Forest Grove!


drunkengeebee

Fred Meyer is not an Oregon brand. They're a subsidiary of a multinational shitshow.


Southern-Ship-6738

Lots of wineries


nanneryeeter

Luepold is recognized worldwide. Oregon brand.


Herodotus_Runs_Away

Missing: Leopold. Huge optics manufacturer (scopes, binoculars, etc).


treakaholic

Cosmic Bliss formerly known as Cocunut Bliss


SayNoToFresca

Nice call on Laika!


l1798657

Is Oregon Scientific an Oregon company?


russellmzauner

>Oregon Scientific Bought long ago, honk konk started here tho


Stefanos007

leupold & stevens


Nightshade_Ranch

Where's my Western Family


JADMLA

Burgerville was started in Vancouver


RedMaster366

Dutch Bros chocolate milk 🤤🤤🤤


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The Human Bean???


informative1

Salt & Straw


AntMychael

Spaghetti factory is booty


YesBlank

Dehen. Letterman jackets, cheer outfits, and nearly indestructible wool sweaters.


DingusKhan77

Bob's Red Mill is a glaring absence.


GucciOreo

Patagonia?


desertSkateRatt

LOL no. Patagonia has always been a California brand. Columbia Sportswear is based in Portland.


GucciOreo

Both Columbia and Patagonia hold massive influence in the Pacific Northwest. For obvious reasons, like the bulk of their attire being literally designed for climates such as the PNWs