List of British companies
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This is a list of companies from the United Kingdom.
See lists of companies for lists of companies from other countries.
See FTSE 100 Index for the top 100 quoted companies.
- 3i
- Aegeanet System (http://www.aegeanet-system.com/index_e.html)
- Alliance & Leicester
- Alliance Unichem
- AMVESCAP
- Anglo American plc
- ARM Holdings
- AstraZeneca plc (Anglo-Swedish)
- ASDA
- Aviva
- BAA plc (formerly British Airports Authority)
- BAE Systems (merger of Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace)
- Barclays Bank
- British_American_Tobacco
- BHP Billiton (Anglo-Australian)
- The BOC Group (formerly Brin Oxygen Company, British Oxygen Company)
- Boots the Chemist
- BP (formerly "British Petoleum" and "BP Amoco")
- Bradford & Bingley
- Brambles
- Brintons
- British Airways
- British Land
- BSkyB
- BT Group plc (formerly "British Telecommunications")
- Cable & Wireless
- Cadbury-Schweppes
- Cameron Balloons
- Carnival Plc (Anglo-American)
- Centrica
- Compass Group
- Corus (Anglo-Dutch)
- Daily Mail and General Trust plc
- Diageo
- Dixons Group
- EasyGroup
- EasyJet
- EMAP
- Focus (DIY) Ltd
- Gallagher
- GKN plc
- GlaxoSmithKline
- GUS
- HBOS
- Hilton Group (separate from the US Hilton company)
- HSBC
- Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
- Imperial Tobacco
- ITV
- Jardine Matheson
- John Taylor Bellfounders
- Johnson Matthey
- Kangol
- KESA Electricals
- Kingfisher
- Land Securities
- Laura Ashley
- Legal & General
- Lloyds TSB Group plc
- Lunn Poly
- Marconi plc (formerly The General Electric Company plc)
- Marks and Spencer plc
- Manganese Bronze
- MFI
- MG Rover Group
- mmO2
- Moneynet
- Morrisons
- National Grid Transco
- Nationwide Building Society (a mutual)
- Northern Rock
- Orange
- Prudential
- Rank Group
- Reed Elsevier (Anglo-Dutch)
- Remarkable
- Rio Tinto (Anglo-Australian)
- Rolls Royce
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Royal & Sun Alliance
- Royal Mail
- Sage
- J Sainsbury plc
- Salmonbones Marketing
- Save a Cup Recycling Company
- Shell Oil (Anglo-Dutch)
- Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
- Smith & Nephew
- Smiths Industries
- Somerfield
- Standard Chartered
- Standard Life
- Swire
- Tate & Lyle
- Tesco
- Telewest Communications plc
- Tomkins
- Unilever (Anglo-Dutch)
- Uniross
- Vestey Group
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
- Vodafone
- W H Smith
- William Grant & Sons
- Wolesley
- Woolworths
- Xrefer
Former companies, including acquired and merged ones
- Computers Ltd, acquired by Olivetti
- AEI
- Ariel
- Austin
- BEA
- Blue Star Line
- British Aerospace
- British Caledonian airline
- East India Company
- British Leyland Motor Corporation
- British Motor Corporation
- British Motor Holdings
- British Rail
- British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH)
- BSA
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- Daimler
- Dan-Air
- David Brown Limited
- Dowlais Iron Company
- E Gomme
- English Electric
- Great Western Railway
- Hawker Siddeley Company
- Lanchester
- Leyland Motors (commercial vehicles)
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- Marston's
- Metropolitan Vickers
- MG
- Morris Motor Company
- Napier & Son
- Nettlefolds Limited
- Nuffield Organisation
- Patent Nut and Bolt Company
- Qualiton Records
- Rank Organisation
- Rank Xerox
- Railtrack
- Riley
- Rover
- South Sea Company
- Standard
- Standard Triumph
- Triumph Motor Company
- Vanden Plas
- Wolseley