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.
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Current companies
- Alvis (no longer makes cars)
- Ariel
- AstraZeneca PLC (Anglo-Swedish)
- BAE SYSTEMS (merger of Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace)
- BP (Amoco)
- Barclays Bank
- BOC (formerly Brin Oxygen Company, British Oxygen Company)
- Brintons
- British Airways
- British Rail
- Cameron Balloons
- Civil_Aviation_Authority
- Easyjet
- GKN plc
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Go Fly Limited
- HSBC
- ICI
- Jardine Matheson
- J Sainsbury (formally J Sainsbury and Son)
- Kangol
- Laura Ashley
- Lloyds TSB plc
- Marconi plc (formerly The General Electric Company plc)
- Marks and Spencer plc
- MG Rover Group
- Orange
- Railtrack
- Rolls Royce
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Save a Cup Recycling Company
- Shell Oil (Anglo-Dutch)
- Tate & Lyle
- Tesco
- Triumph Motor Company
- Unilever (Anglo-Dutch)
- Vestey Group
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
- Vodafone
- W H Smith (formally W H Smith and Son)
- Woolworths
- Xrefer
Former companies, including acquired and merged ones
- Acorn, Ltd, acquired by Olivetti
- AEI
- Austin
- Blue Star Line
- British Aerospace
- East India Company
- British Leyland Motor Corporation
- British Motor Corporation
- British Motor Holdings
- British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH)
- BSA
- Daimler
- Dowlais Iron Company
- English Electric
- Great Western Railway
- Hawker Siddeley Company
- Lanchester
- Leyland Motors (commercial vehicles)
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- Metropolitan Vickers
- MG
- Morris Motor Company
- Napier & Son
- Nettlefolds Limited
- Nuffield Organisation
- Patent Nut and Bolt Company
- Riley
- Rover
- South Sea Company
- Standard
- Standard Triumph
- Vanden Plas
- Wolseley
See Also
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_British_companies" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_companies, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
