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The pharmaceutical industry employs around 67,000 people in the UK and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development. [ 161 ] [ 162 ] In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3 ...
UK Finance - The trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector. Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) - Represents the UK offshore oil and gas industry. RenewableUK - Represents companies in the wind and marine energy industries. Association of British Insurers (ABI) - Represents companies in the insurance sector. The Publishers Association ...
The aerospace industry of the UK is the second- or third-largest aerospace industry in the world, depending upon the method of measurement. [108] [109] The industry employs around 113,000 people directly and around 276,000 indirectly and has an annual turnover of around £20 billion. [110]
This list displays all 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 2023/24. Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company. [1]
The influential S&P Global/CIPS UK services PMI survey showed a reading of 53.8 in February, as growth slowed marginally from 54.3 in January. ‘UK economy turned a corner’ as service industry ...
[citation needed] However, manufacturing remains an important sector of the modern British economy and the UK is one of the most attractive countries in the world for direct foreign industrial investment in 2003. [14] Yet, in 2023 the value of UK manufactering was worth £451.6 billion or $588 billion. According to the office of national ...
This is a list of largest United Kingdom employers. There are four main kinds of employers, public sector bodies; public listed companies (plc) such as those on the FTSE 100; private companies (ltd), partnerships (often LLP) or other traders; charitable sector organisations
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries [1] into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.