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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.

2020 Fortune list

This list displays all 22 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 2019.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.

Rank Fortune 500
rank 		Name Industry Revenue
(USD millions) 		Profits
(USD millions) 		Employees Headquarters
Steady 1 Decrease 8 BP Oil and Gas Decrease 282,616 Decrease 4,026 72,500 London London
Steady 2 Increase 73 HSBC Banking Increase 98,673 Decrease 7,383 235,351 London London
Increase 3 Increase 80 Prudential plc Insurance Increase 93,736 Decrease 783 18,125 London London
Increase 4 Steady 85 Legal & General Group Insurance Decrease 90,615 Decrease 2,340 8,542 London London
Increase 5 Steady 88 Aviva Insurance Increase 89,647 Increase 3,251 31,181 London London
Decrease 6 Steady 103 Tesco Retail Decrease 82,700 Decrease 1,240 293,963 Hertfordshire Welwyn Garden City
Increase 7 Increase 170 Lloyds Banking Group Banking Increase 64,297 Decrease 3,733 63,069 London London
Decrease 8 Decrease 185 Unilever Consumer goods Decrease 58,179 Decrease 6,296 149,867 London London
Decrease 9 Decrease 228 Vodafone Telecommunication Decrease 49,960 Negative increase −1,022 95,219 Newbury
Increase 10 Increase 280 Rio Tinto Group Mining Increase 43,165 Decrease 8,010 46,007 London London
Decrease 11 Increase 282 GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Increase 43,073 Increase 5,927 99,437 London London
Increase 12 Steady 299 M&G Insurance Decrease 41,076 Decrease 1,429 8,021 London London
Decrease 13 Decrease 327 Barclays Banking Increase 38,337 Increase 4,178 80,800 London London
Increase 14 Steady 338 Phoenix Group Insurance Increase 37,215 Decrease 109 4,417 London London
Decrease 15 Increase 344 Sainsbury's Retail Decrease 36,831 Decrease 193 111,900 London London
Steady 16 Increase 379 British American Tobacco Consumer goods Increase 33,021 Decrease 7,279 59,989 London London
Steady 17 Increase 395 Compass Group Services Increase 31,736 Decrease 1,416 596,452 Surrey Chertsey
Steady 18 Increase 419 Anglo American plc Mining Increase 29,870 Decrease 3,547 63,000 London London
Decrease 19 Decrease 432 BT Group Telecommunication Decrease 29,097 Decrease 2,203 105,300 London London
Decrease 20 Decrease 440 Centrica Utilities Decrease 28,934 Negative increase−1,305 29,147 Berkshire Windsor
Increase 21 Steady 444 Linde plc Chemicals Increase 28,677 Decrease 2,285 79,886 Surrey Surrey
Decrease 22 Decrease 446 International Airlines Group Airline Decrease 28,548 Decrease 1,920 66,034 London London

2020 Forbes list

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 2019. 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 44 HSBC London 67.2 3.8 2,197.8 105.3 Banking
2 91 British American Tobacco London 33.0 7.3 186.8 88.8 Consumer goods
3 97 GlaxoSmithKline London 44.7 6.8 104.6 104.4 Pharmaceuticals
4 114 Rio Tinto Group London 43.2 8.0 87.8 175.5 Mining
5 115 Lloyds Banking Group London 64.3 3.1 1,104.7 28.6 Banking
6 178 Linde plc Guildford 28.2 2.3 86.6 96.6 Chemicals
7 181 Barclays London 28.8 2.6 1,790.9 23.1 Banking
8 192 Legal & General Group London 85.2 2.3 735.0 15.3 Insurance
9 207 Royal Bank of Scotland Edinburgh 23.5 4.5 957.8 16.8 Banking
10 213 Aviva London 89.5 3.2 593.1 12.0 Insurance
11 220 Prudential plc London 94.5 0.8 440.4 36.9 Insurance
12 232 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles London 121.1 3.2 110.1 13.8 Automotive
13 237 AstraZeneca Cambridge 26.2 1.5 57.2 137.7 Pharmaceuticals
14 253 Standard Chartered London 24.7 1.9 720.4 16.2 Finance
15 254 Tesco Welwyn Garden City 82.7 1.2 66.8 29.0 Retail
16 262 National Grid plc London 19.0 1.9 81.7 41.3 Utilities
17 273 Diageo London 16.8 3.9 42.0 81.0 Beverages
18 274 Anglo American plc London 29.9 3.5 56.2 22.0 Mining
19 314 BT Group London 29.6 2.8 63.3 14.5 Telecommunication
20 336 LyondellBasell Industries London 34.7 3.4 30.4 19.3 Chemicals
21 357 BP London 271.6 −3.3 273.9 79.4 Oil and Gas
22 389 BAE Systems plc London, Farnborough 23.4 1.9 34.5 20.6 Aerospace and defense
23 425 Imperial Brands Bristol 20.5 1.3 41.6 20.0 Consumer goods
24 465 Vodafone Newbury 49.4 −2.5 174.4 37.9 Telecommunication
25 505 Compass Group Chertsey 31.7 1.4 16.4 26.8 Services
26 518 M&G London 41.7 1.4 283.9 4.3 Insurance
27 528 CNH Industrial London 28.1 1.4 47.4 8.4 Industrials
28 559 RELX London 10.0 1.9 18.3 43.6 Services
29 574 Willis Towers Watson London 9.2 1.1 37.7 23.0 Insurance
30 591 Associated British Foods London 20.3 0.9 20.5 18.9 Retail
31 610 Coca-Cola European Partners London 13.4 1.2 21.0 18.1 Beverages
32 624 International Airlines Group London 28.6 1.9 40.0 5.6 Airline
33 636 SSE plc Perth 9.0 1.6 25.8 16.3 Energy
34 650 Reckitt Benckiser Slough 16.4 −4.7 42.6 59.4 Consumer goods
35 665 WPP plc London 16.9 0.7 41.5 9.5 Advertising
36 670 London Stock Exchange London 3.0 0.5 1,064.6 33.0 Finance
37 712 Ferguson plc Wokingham 22.1 1.0 12.6 16.1 Construction materials
38 826 Phoenix Group London 37.1 0.08 311.6 5.5 Insurance
39 880 Liberty Global London 11.5 −0.8 49.0 12.3 Telecommunication
40 889 St. James's Place plc Cirencester 21.1 0.2 155.3 5.7 Insurance
41 920 Rolls-Royce Holdings London 21.2 −1.7 42.7 8.0 Aerospace and defense
42 985 IHS Markit London 4.4 0.9 16.4 26.8 Services
43 992 Amcor Warmley 11.1 0.4 16.8 14.4 Packaging materials
44 1058 Sainsbury's London 37.0 0.2 35.7 5.5 Retail
45 1065 Ashtead Group London 6.4 1.0 13.4 12.3 Services
46 1104 Mylan Hatfield 11.5 0.02 31.3 8.7 Pharmaceuticals
47 1107 Investec London 5.8 0.6 73.6 2.0 Finance
48 1188 Schroders London 3.3 0.6 28.2 9.2 Finance
49 1189 Mondi Surrey 8.1 0.9 9.6 8.6 Paper products
50 1191 Quilter plc London 10.0 0.05 84.4 2.8 Finance

See also

References

  1. ^ "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-01-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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