Editing Glendale, California (section)

==Economy==
Several large companies have offices in Glendale, including the U.S. headquarters of [[IHOP (restaurant)|International House of Pancakes]]. The Los Angeles regional office of California's [[State Compensation Insurance Fund]] is in Glendale. Americas United Bank was founded in Glendale in 2006 and is still headquartered there. In August 2013, [[Avery Dennison]] Corp., a label maker for major brands, announced plans to move its headquarters from [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]] to Glendale.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 3, 2013 |title=Avery Dennison moving its headquarters from Pasadena to Glendale |url=http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_23779793/avery-dennison-moving-its-headquarters-from-pasadena-glendale |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130802045328/http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_23779793/avery-dennison-moving-its-headquarters-from-pasadena-glendale |archive-date=August 2, 2013 |website=Los Angeles Daily News}}</ref> Avery employs about 26,000 people.

{{As of|2024}}, the top employers in the city are (with number of employees):<ref>{{Cite web |title=Annual Comprehensive Financial Report: Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2024 |url=https://www.glendaleca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77178/638701178972670000 |access-date= |website=}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
|[[Glendale Unified School District]]
|4,000
|-
|2
|[[Adventist Health Glendale]]
|2,600
|-
|3
|City of Glendale
|1,904
|-
|4
|[[Bank of America Home Loans|Countrywide Home Loans]]
|1,815
|-
|5
|Glenair Inc.
|1,768
|-
|6
|[[Glendale Community College (California)|Glendale Community College]]
|1,500
|-
|7
|[[Walt Disney Imagineering]]
|1,011
|-
|8
|Alecto Healthcare Services
|900
|-
|9
|[[DreamWorks Animation]]
|847
|-
|10
|[[Keck Hospital of USC|USC Verdugo Hills Hospital]]
|750
|}

===Aviation===
[[Grand Central Airport (California)|Grand Central Airport]] was a municipal airport developed from 1923 which became the largest employer in Glendale for many years, and contributed to the development of aviation in the United States in many important ways. The main terminal building still stands and includes both Art Deco and Spanish-style architectural elements. The facility was the first official terminal for the Los Angeles area, as well as the departure point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by [[Charles Lindbergh]]. During [[World War II]], the Grand Central Air Terminal building was camouflaged to protect it from enemy targeting. It was closed down in 1959, and made way for the Grand Central Business Centre, an [[industrial park]].

===Film and television industry===
Glendale, along with neighboring [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], has served as a major production center for the [[Cinema of the United States|American film industry]] and especially [[animation]].

Located near [[Walt Disney]]'s Hyperion studio in [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]], the [[Alex Theatre]] was Disney's favorite place during the 1930s to gauge audience reactions to his [[cartoon]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2015 |title=Disney's Preview Palace: The Alex Theater |url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-alex-theater/ |access-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814232101/https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-alex-theater/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Following his death in 1966, Disney was interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greg Melville |date=September 29, 2022 |title=Inside the Disneyland of Graveyards |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-the-disneyland-of-graveyards-180980510/ |access-date=August 14, 2024 |website=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]}}</ref>

When [[The Walt Disney Company]] outgrew its Burbank studio lot in the early 1960s, it expanded to Glendale's [[Grand Central Airport (California)|Grand Central Business Centre]]. First came the headquarters for [[Walt Disney Imagineering|Imagineering]], and from 1985 to 1995, during the [[Disney Renaissance]], [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]] (then known as Walt Disney Feature Animation) was headquartered in the Grand Central Business Centre. [[Disneytoon Studios]], a division of WDAS, is still located in the Grand Central Business Centre near GC3, along with the Animation Research Library, Disney Animation's archive. Today, Disney's Grand Central Creative Campus (known as GC3 for short) is also home to [[Disney Consumer Products|Consumer Products]], [[Disney Interactive]], [[Marvel Animation]] and [[The Muppets Studio]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Patten |first=Dominic |date=September 19, 2012 |title=Marvel Studios Heading to Walt Disney Backyard |url=https://deadline.com/2012/09/marvel-studios-heading-to-walt-disney-company-backyard-the-avengers-thor-captain-america-339226/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110195308/http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/marvel-studios-heading-to-walt-disney-company-backyard-the-avengers-thor-captain-america/ |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |access-date=December 29, 2012 |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref> Disney-owned [[KABC-TV]] is located on Circle 7 Drive to the south of GC3.

Between 1991 and 2006,<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNIVERSAL CARTOON STUDIOS |url=http://www.animationguild.org/_Home/home_FRM1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310223635/http://www.animationguild.org/_Home/home_FRM1.html |archive-date=March 10, 2006}}</ref> [[Universal Animation Studios|Universal Cartoon Studios]] was located in Glendale.

In 1992, [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]] and [[Warner Bros. Animation|Warner Bros.]] animator and director [[Darrell Van Citters]] and his business partner [[Ashley Postlewaite]] founded [[Renegade Animation]] in neighboring Burbank, and it soon moved to Glendale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renegade Celebrates 25 Years! |url=http://www.renegadeanimation.com/history.html |access-date=August 19, 2024}}</ref>

In 1994, [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]], and [[David Geffen]] formed [[DreamWorks SKG]], a diversified entertainment company. [[DreamWorks Animation]] remains located in the city's Grand Central Business Centre on land formerly occupied by a helicopter landing base next to the old airfield (and next to KABC-TV). Following the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation by [[Comcast]] and its [[NBCUniversal]] subsidiary in 2016, Katzenberg said that "We will absolutely continue to make animated films here."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dave McNary |date=May 4, 2016 |title=Comcast Toppers: DreamWorks Animation Will Stay in Glendale |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/comcast-dreamworks-animation-glendale-1201767024/ |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |archive-date=August 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806223903/https://variety.com/2016/film/news/comcast-dreamworks-animation-glendale-1201767024/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2002, the city's redevelopment agency gave Animation Initiative Glendale six months to develop a viable plan for adapting the historic Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan building<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan (1956) |url=https://www.midcenturybanks.com/new-page-26 |access-date=August 6, 2024}}</ref> for use as an animation museum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patricia Ward Biederman |date=November 19, 2002 |title=Animation Center Vision Gets Glendale's Support |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-19-me-bank19-story.html |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814234812/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-19-me-bank19-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Patricia Ward Biederman |date=December 14, 2002 |title=Cartoon Fans Draw a Bead on Glendale |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-14-me-animation14-story.html |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814233010/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-14-me-animation14-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> These plans were ultimately unsuccessful.

Since 2014, television network [[Fuse (TV channel)|Fuse]] has been based in Glendale.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-glendalebased-nuvotv-buying-fuse-from-msg-20140404-story.html|work=[[Glendale News-Press]]|title=Glendale-based NUVOtv buying Fuse from MSG|date=April 4, 2014|access-date=November 26, 2024}}</ref>

Since 2016, [[LGBT+]] [[Streaming media|streaming network]] [[Revry]] has been headquartered in Glendale.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://members.laglcc.org/list/member/revry-inc-glendale-7046|title=Revry, Inc.|access-date=November 26, 2024}}</ref>

In 2024, East End Studios announced the completion of a [[Filmmaking#Production|film production]] complex, named "Glendale", featuring two [[sound stage]]s and ancillary facilities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Steven Sharp |date=June 5, 2024 |title=Rendering vs. Reality: East End Studios at 1239 S. Glendale Avenue |url=https://la.urbanize.city/post/rendering-vs-reality-east-end-studios-1239-s-glendale-avenue |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=Urbanize LA}}</ref> A second, much larger East End Studios facility in Glendale, named "Griffith", is currently being built.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Steven Sharp |date=April 5, 2023 |title=Renderings revealed: East End Studios development at 5426 San Fernando Road in Glendale |url=https://la.urbanize.city/post/renderings-revealed-east-end-studios-development-5426-san-fernando-road-glendale |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=Urbanize LA |archive-date=August 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806225317/https://la.urbanize.city/post/renderings-revealed-east-end-studios-development-5426-san-fernando-road-glendale |url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2024, Mayor [[Elen Asatryan]] travelled to [[South Korea]], where she struck an [[entertainment]] partnership deal with the [[Incheon Free Economic Zone]]. The agreement includes a new government-to-government platform jointly built by the governments of [[Incheon]] and Glendale and sharing it with entertainment companies in both cities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/10/129_384996.html|work=[[The Korea Times]]|title=Incheon-Glendale deal envisions K-pop-Hollywood collaboration|author=Ko Dong-hwan|date=October 25, 2024|access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>

===Technology industry===
Glendale Tech Week was created in 2016 to celebrate technology through [[panel discussion]]s, workshops, and [[Business networking|networking]] events.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glendaletechweek.com/about|title=About|access-date=September 9, 2024|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910070459/https://www.glendaletechweek.com/about|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, Glendale's City Council adopted the Glendale Tech Strategy, a roadmap for growing Glendale's technology-based sector.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chooseglendaleca.com/tech|title=Glendale's Tech Ecosystem|access-date=September 9, 2024}}</ref>

In 2023, Glendale and neighboring [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] partnered to launch Upstart Valley, a program to support [[Startup company|startups]], [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurs]], and the [[High tech|technology industry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/8762/16|title=Cities of Glendale and Burbank Collaborate to Launch 'Upstart Valley' Hub|date=April 18, 2023|access-date=September 9, 2024|archive-date=September 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910070459/https://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/8762/16|url-status=live}}</ref>

Notable technology companies in Glendale include:
* [[Evite]]
* [[LegalZoom]]
* [[ServiceTitan]]