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Leeds is home to the UK headquarters:
- Asda Walmart - Supermarket chain
- Arla Foods - UK subsidiary of this Danish company
- The Big Word - one of the UK's biggest translation and interpreting services companies
- Capita - FTSE 100 listed company concerned with business process outscourcing
- Careers Seeker - Online jobs board
- Carlsberg UK - formerly Carlsberg Tetley
- Country Style Foods - Food product manufacturer
- De Goodwill Education Limited - Educational Services, Leeds city centre
- Empiredirect.co.uk - online electrical warehouse
- Eaves & Co, Specialist Tax Advisors - A firm of specialist tax advisors based in Leeds city centre
- First Direct - a subsidiary of HSBC
- Footprint Impression Management - a marketing and PR agency specialising in leisure and tourism
- GHD - Global HQ for Hair Fashion Company.
- Groundcare Solutions LTD - www.lemal.co.uk - grounds maintenance company [1]
- Goldenfry Foods - Food product manufacturer based in Wetherby.
- - Hayward Commercial Chartered Surveyors - Chartered Surveyors and Commercial Property Agents based in Horsforth, Leeds
- House Wow Ltd www.HouseWow.co.uk - A Home staging, Declutter and Show home Company with Head office based in Leeds, West Yorkshire [2]
- Ina4.com Web Designers In Leeds - Creative Web Design and Marketing Agency based in Pudsey, Leeds
- Jet2.com - low cost airline
- Leeds Brewery
- Leeds Building Society - formerly known as Leeds and Holbeck Building Society
- Leeds City Television Ltd- www.leedstelevision.co.uk - Local TV, Leeds, West Yorkshire [3]
- LiftPort - carbon nanotube technology
- Macfarlane Transport - a road haulage company
- Morrish Solicitors LLP - firm of Solicitors in Leeds city centre, Yeadon and Pudsey
- Nampak Cartons
- Northern Foods - ready meals & food brands
- Northern Gas Networks Limited, Natural gas distributor and network
- Optare - a bus manufacturer
- Pickersgill Kaye - Manufacturers of locking mechanisms
- Premier Hazard – manufacturer of emergency vehicle warning equipment
- Q Hotels
- Rockstar Leeds
- Segway UK
- Supercook - Food product manufacturer based in Sherburn in Elmet.
- Town Centre Securities - property developer
- WITS Warehouse Solutions - Warehouse management system programmers.
- Wharfedale - Manufacturer of audio/visual consumer items.
- Whizz-Go - city centre Car Rental Club
- Yorkshire Bank - a subsidiary of National Australia Bank
- Yorkshire Post Newspapers - a subsidiary of Johnston Press plc
- Yorkshire Television - a subsidiary of ITV plc
[edit] Companies formerly headquartered in Leeds
- Ainsleys - a bakers and sandwich retailer
- Burton - a tailor currently owned by the Arcadia Group that is headquartered in London
- J&H McLaren & Co. Steam traction and Diesel Engine Manufacturers, Taken over by Hawker Siddley & shut down in 1959.
- John Fowler & Co. Steam Traction and Ploughing engine manufacturers, Taken over by Marshall, Sons & Co.
- J Hepworth & Son - formerly a tailor it was renamed Next in the 1980s and is now based in Enderby, Leicestershire
- Kitson & Co. - Former Locomotive builders, Failed in the 1930s, & remains sold to Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns.
- Leeds Permanent Building Society - also known as The Leeds it was bought by the Halifax in 1995 which in turn merged with Bank of Scotland. However there continues to be a significant HBOS office presence in the city of Leeds
- Marks & Spencer - founded in Leeds Kirkgate Market as a penny bazaar it has long since been headquartered in London.
- Planet Online - latterly known as Energis Squared, business ISP bought by Energis and now part of Cable & Wireless.
- Premier Farnell - electronic component distributor worldwide (HQ now in London).
- Schofields - a department store on The Headrow in Leeds which was bought by House of Fraser in 1988 and latterly closed in 1996.
- Thurstons - a bakers and sandwich retailer which had been taken over by Greggs in the 1990s and subsequently rebranded as Greggs.
- Waddingtons - a maker of board games which was taken over by the American toy company Hasbro and has since had production of board games moved out of the city.
