List of largest companies in the United Kingdom

This article lists the largest companies in the United Kingdom in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.

2022 Fortune list

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This list displays all 18 British companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2021. Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.[1]

Rank Fortune 500
rank
Name Industry Revenue
(USD millions)
Profits
(USD millions)
Assets
(USD millions)
Employees Headquarters
  1   15 Shell plc Oil and Gas   272,657   20,101 404,379 82,000 London
  2   35 BP Oil and Gas   164,195   7,565 287,272 65,000 London
  3   126 Tesco Retail   84,192   2,031 66,219 231,223 Welwyn Garden City
  4   149 HSBC Banking   77,330   13,917 2,957,939 219,697 London
  5   198 Aviva Insurance   64,240   2,703 485,481 22,062 London
  6   201 Rio Tinto Mining   63,495   21,094 102,896 49,345 London
 7   203 Legal & General Insurance   62,504   2,819 789,066 10,743 London
  8   205 Unilever Consumer goods   62,006   7,151 85,383 148,044 London
  9   222 Lloyds Banking Group Banking   58,476   7,954 1,200,620 57,955 London
  10   247 Vodafone Telecommunication   52,931   2,424 170,749 96,941 Newbury
  11   294 GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals   46,914   6,030 107,129 90,096 London
  12   331 Anglo American Mining   41,554   8,562 65,985 62,000 London
  13   342 Sainsbury's Retail   40,831   924 35,389 117,000 London
  14   374 Barclays Banking   37,561   9,872 1,874,737 81,600 London
  15  381 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals   37,417   112 105,363 83,100 Cambridge
  16   403 British American Tobacco Consumer goods   35,321   9,353 186,033 54,365 London
  17   426 Phoenix Group Insurance   33,749   −1,151 452,064 8,045 London
 18   463 Linde Chemicals   30,798   3,826 81,605 72,327 Guildford

2022 Forbes list

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This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2021. The 50 highest ranked companies from the United Kingdom are listed.[2]

Rank Forbes
2000 rank
Name Headquarters Revenue
(billions
US$)
Profit
(billions
US$)
Assets
(billions
US$)
Value
(billions
US$)
Industry
 1  16 Shell plc London  261.76  20.27  404.38  211.1 Oil and Gas
 2  38 HSBC London  59.33  12.58  2,957.94  135.3 Banking
 3  50 BP London  158.01  7.55  287.27  98.38 Oil and Gas
 4  82 Rio Tinto London  63.46  21.06  102.90  117.78 Mining
 5  96 Lloyds Banking Group London  58.48  7.36  1,200.75  31.34 Banking
 6  101 British American Tobacco London  35.32  9.34  186.05  97.49 Consumer goods
 7  125 Unilever London  62.00  7.15  85.40  116.16 Consumer goods
 8  129 GlaxoSmithKline London  46.92  6.03  107.14  112.09 Pharmaceuticals
 9  155 Barclays London  30.17  8.77  1,874.94  31.55 Banking
 10  181 Anglo American London  41.52  8.54  65.98  59.44 Mining
 11  187 Linde Guildford  30.79  3.83  81.61  157.26 Chemicals
 12  240 Legal & General London  62.51  2.79  779.43  19.63 Insurance
 13  247 NatWest Group Edinburgh  17.86  4.41  1,059.17  30.22 Banking
 14  277 National Grid London  20.77  2.07  119.92  54.88 Utilities
 15  287 Diageo London  19.00  4.19  44.91  116.05 Beverages
 16  296 LyondellBasell Industries London  46.15  5.6  36.74  34.94 Chemicals
 17  306 Tesco Welwyn Garden City  84.17  2.06  66.22  25.89 Retail
 18  351 Standard Chartered London  18.88  1.96  827.82  19.69 Finance
 19  410 BAE Systems London, Farnborough  26.85  2.42  36.75  30.15 Aerospace and defence
 20  412 BT Group London  28.84  1.43  69.55  23.74 Telecommunication
 21  429 Imperial Brands Bristol  22.66  3.88  39.22  20.62 Consumer goods
 22  435 CNH Industrial London  33.43  1.72  49.42  20.19 Industrials
 23  461 AstraZeneca Cambridge  38.68  0.09  105.36  204.56 Pharmaceuticals
 24  479 Vodafone Newbury  53.63  −0.29  178.59  46.36 Telecommunication
 25  499 London Stock Exchange London  9.27  0.83  1,066.1  52.66 Finance
 26  501 Aviva London  45.13  0.57  465.18  21.03 Insurance
 27  540 Prudential London  26.52  −1.98  189.35  36.7 Insurance
 28  557 Willis Towers Watson London  9.58  4.22  34.97  26.88 Insurance
 29  583 Liberty Global London  10.54  13.43  46.92  12.59 Telecommunication
 30  584 SSE Perth  10.33  3.52  31.56  24.88 Energy
 31  635 Coca-Cola Europacific Partners London  16.24  1.15  33.08  23.43 Beverages
 32  675 RELX London  9.95  2.02  18.77  59.18 Services
 33  686 Ferguson Wokingham  22.74  1.86  14.1  29.61 Construction materials
 34  725 Reckitt Benckiser Slough  18.2  −0.04  36.5  56.35 Consumer goods
 35  756 WPP London  17.61  0.87  38.05  14.80 Advertising
 36  820 Phoenix Group London  33.53  −1.18  440.48  7.93 Insurance
 37  826 St James's Place Cirencester  24.42  0.39  210.82  9.31 Insurance
 38  827 Segro London  0.75  5.58  24.09  21.23 Real estate
 39  848 Compass Group Chertsey  24.5  0.48  20.05  39.01 Services
 40  915 Associated British Foods London  18.99  0.65  22.78  16.58 Retail
 41  921 M&G London  23.38  0.11  294.55  6.99 Insurance
 42  942 Amcor Warmley  13.59  0.94  17.14  17.53 Packaging materials
 43  990 Centrica Windsor  20.28  0.80  36.69  5.96 Utilities
 44  1040 Ashtead Group London  7.65  1.18  14.78  26.45 Services
 45  1045 Antofagasta plc London  7.47  1.29  17.28  18.92 Mining
 46  1057 3i Group London  0.33  3.83  16.62  16.82 Finance
 47  1136 Sainsbury's London  40.82  0.38  34.62  7.17 Retail
 48  1147 Evraz London  13.49  3.04  9.85  1.52 Mining
 49  1150 Rolls-Royce London  15.43  0.21  38.84  9.84 Aerospace and defence
 50  1160 Kingfisher plc London  18.12  1.16  16.57  6.77 Retail

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
  2. ^ Murphy, Andrea; Contreras, Isabel. "The Global 2000". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-08-28.