List of companies of Scotland

List of Scottish companies is an incomplete list of companies with their corporate headquarters in Scotland, organised by industry sector.

The list includes notable companies as defined under the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies Act 2006, as well as other bodies such as limited liability partnerships and building societies.

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Broadcast Electronics

• Clyde Broadcast

Construction

• Barr Construction Ltd
• Elphinstone

Creative Businesses

• Hollinger Creative LTD - Multimedia Design Studio specialising in corporate communications and broadcast motion graphics.
• Merchant Soul - Full service, marketing, brand, design and sponsorship agency.
• TBDA (Scotland) Ltd
• G3 Creative Solutions- Graphic design studio.
• Evolution Design Ltd- Website & Graphic design consultancy, based in Edinburgh.

Oil and Gas Exploration/Extraction

• Abbot Group plc
• Cairn Energy
• Dana Petroleum
• Britoil
• Wood Group

Food and Beverages

• AG Barr - Producers of soft drinks, including Irn Bru and Tizer
• Highland Spring - Bottled water supplier
• Baxters - International food producer, notable for soups and other Scottish-themed goods
• Drambuie - Famous whisky producer
• Edrington Group
• Johnnie Walker - International whisky group, part of Diageo
• Justerini & Brooks Whisky, part of Diageo
• Robert Wiseman Dairies - Major milk supplier throughout the United Kingdom
• Tennent's - Major brewing company
• Caledonian Brewing Company
• Tunnock's - Biscuit & confectionery producer
• Walkers Shortbread - Renowned shortbread, biscuit and cracker company
• William Grant & Sons - Whisky producers
• Whyte and Mackay - Whisky producers
• Drumchapel - Whisky Producers

Financial services

• Aberdeen Asset Management
• Airdrie Savings Bank
• Alliance Trust
• Century Building Society
• Clydesdale Bank
• Dunfermline Building Society
• Lloyds Banking Group
  • HBOS - Holding company of Bank of Scotland
  • Lloyds TSB Scotland
  • Scottish Widows - Life assurance arm of Lloyds TSB
• Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Adam and Company
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
• Scottish Building Society
• Scottish Equitable
• Scottish Friendly
• Standard Life - Formerly Europe's largest mutual life assurance company
• Tesco Personal Finance

Hotels

• Gleneagles Hotel
• Macdonald Hotels Group
• Apex Hotels

IT

• brightsolid online innovation - offers cloud based solutions and publishes numerous genealogy websites. Wholly owned by DC Thomson
• Grok Innovations- Founded by Sushil Saini - Grok innovations offers Sharepoint and Business intelligence development. Also involved in Data Migrations, System integration and technology migration. Works on Agile, Scrum, TDD and Propotyping models of application lifecycle management approaches. Company started in year 2010 from Glasgow and its major client is Doosan Power Systems.
• Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre
• Real Time Worlds Ltd - Games and entertainment company founded by David Jones
• Rockstar North (Formerly DMA Design) - A computer games developer, who are famous for their Grand Theft Auto series An autonomous division of Rockstar Games,
• MindGenius - Software developer who produce an application of the same name.
• App Nation - Security Software company primarily focusing on iOS Apps.
• ShopForCloud - http://www.ShopForCloud.com - Cloud computing cost comparison and forecasting tools based in Edinburgh.

Manufacturing

• Babcock International Group Plc , Rosyth, Faslane, Dounreay

Aggreko plc

• Weir Group plc
• Doosan Babcock
• Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) Ltd
• Linn Products
• Wolfson Microelectronics
• BVT Surface Fleet, part of BAE Systems and VT Group.
• Kelvin Diesels
• Albion Motors
• Alexander Dennis
• Pringle of Scotland
• Pelamis Wave Power
• Wavegen

Media

Further information: Media in Scotland

• BBC Scotland - National public broadcaster
• D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd - Publisher of the Sunday Post, the Beano etc
• Johnston Press - Owner of The Scotsman
• STV Group plc (formerly SMG plc, or Scottish Media Group plc) - Owner of STV
• The Comedy Unit
• Deep Fried Film
• Up Next Studios

Energy and Utilities

• Scottish and Southern Energy plc - electricity and natural gas supplier
• Scottish Gas - Gas and electricity supplier, Scottish arm of Centrica plc
• Scottish Power - Gas and electricity supplier, Scottish arm of Iberdrola
• Scottish Water
• SgurrEnergy - Engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy
• British Energy
• Scotia Gas Networks

Retail

• Arnold Clark - Car dealerships, with over 145 locations throughout the UK
• Edinburgh Woolen Mill - Clothing, knitwear
• Farmfoods - Frozen food supermarkets
• Jenners - Now a subsidiary of House of Fraser
• Kwik Fit - Car repairs, mechanics
• Scotmid - Scotland-wide supermarket chain
• Schuh - Footwear, stores throughout UK and Ireland
• Semi Chem - Nationwide pharmacy chain, owned by the Scotmid group

Restaurants

• The Ashvale - Fish and chip restaurants / take-aways
• Jimmy Chung's - Scottish chain of Chinese restaurants

Semiconductors

• 4i2i Communications

Telecommunications

• Thus - Formerly known as Scottish Telecom
• incovo Scottish based Telecommunications and ICT Specialists
• Rustyice Solutions Limited - Business Telecommunications and IT services

Domiciliary Care

• Visioncall - Domiciliary eye care company, branches throughout UK

Transport

Air and sea

• BMI regional - Airline based at Aberdeen Airport; subsidiary of BMI
• Caledonian MacBrayne - Ferry company operating mainly on the west coast of Scotland

• Forth Ports plc - Port operator
• Highlands and Islands Airports Limited - Owned by the Scottish Government
• Loganair - Operates flights between Scottish airports under the FlyBE franchise
• Northlink Ferries - Operator of ferries to the Northern Isles
• ScotAirways - Operates flights from Edinburgh Airport and Dundee Airport to London City Airport
• Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd. - A Dunoon based operator of car and passenger ferry services on the River Clyde

Road and rail

• Arriva Scotland West - Regional bus operator
• Christian Salvesen Ltd - International Transport & Logistics company with its HQ in Edinburgh, founded there in 1846
• FirstGroup - Owner of the FirstBus brand, and First ScotRail, based in Aberdeen
• John Menzies - International logistics and distribution company based in Edinburgh
• Lothian Buses - Regional bus operator owned by Edinburgh City Council
• Megabus - Low-cost inter-city bus operator. Part of the Stagecoach Group PLC
• Parks of Hamilton - Large Scottish coach operator. Along with StarRiders of Plymouth, part of the Parks Motor Group
• Scottish Citylink - Inter-city coach operator
• First ScotRail - National Rail Operator
• Stagecoach Group plc - International bus and train operator, based in Perth, Perthshire

Miscellaneous

• Direct Holidays
• Simclar Group
• Wood Group plc

See also

• Economy of Scotland
• The Market Specialists

External links

• The Scotsman Business 250 (2005), The Scotsman
• SCOTBIS, the Scottish Business Information Service, part of the National Library of Scotland