StarKist Moving Headquarters From Pittsburgh To NoVA In 2022

NORTHERN VIRGINIA — StarKist Co. plans to close its Pittsburgh headquarters office and relocate to Northern Virginia, the company said this week.

Known for its cartoon mascot Charlie the Tuna, StarKist said in a statement that the headquarters in Pittsburgh will close at the end of March 2022, “but the company will maintain a presence in the region,” the company said in a statement emailed to Patch.

The new headquarters will open in Virginia in the Washington, D.C., area next year, StarKist said.

StarKist, the world’s largest supplier of canned and packaged tuna with more than 40 percent of the market, was founded in California in 1917. The company was sold to Pittsburgh-based H.J. Heinz Co. in 1963. StarKist was acquired in 2002 by Del Monte Foods and was purchased by Dongwon Industries of South Korea in 2008.

StarKist has had an office on North Shore Drive in Pittsburgh for more than 10 years in a building that overlooks the Allegheny River and neighbors PNC Park, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.

The company did not disclose where in Northern Virginia its new headquarters will be.