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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]
Statistics on staff numbers were compiled in the Sunday Times ' "Top Track 100" of private companies for 2012. [9] The three largest private employers in that list were John Lewis Partnership, Swire Group and Alliance Boots.
Note: A few UK based law firms have merged with another entity which may be located outside of the UK for example London's Allen & Overy merged with New York's Shearman in May of 2024, the result of this is the removal of the US revenue and number of lawyers from the list to just account for its UK operations.
This list comprises the largest companies currently in Europe by revenue as of 2023, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies and Forbes. In 2023, largest company in Europe was the Volkswagen Group with revenue of US$348 billion. [1] Volkswagen Group headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen is Europe's largest and the world's ...
This list comprises the world's largest companies by consolidated revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500 2024 rankings and other sources. [2] American retail corporation Walmart has been the world's largest company by revenue since 2014. [ 1 ]
RSK Group was established in 1989 in Aberdeen by Alan Ryder, [2] and has grown both organically and through an accelerating programme of acquisitions. [3] Today based in Helsby in Cheshire, it aimed to become Europe's largest privately owned environmental and engineering business with a £1 billion turnover and employing 10,000 people worldwide by 2025. [3]
In that year the sector had a turnover of £52.5 billion, generated £26.6 billion of exports [153] and produced around 1.45 million passenger vehicles and 203,000 commercial vehicles. [152] The UK is a major centre for engine manufacturing, and in 2008 around 3.16 million engines were produced in the country. [152]
A constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, the company is active across the UK, US and Hong Kong. In terms of turnover, Balfour Beatty was ranked in 2021 as the biggest construction contractor in the United Kingdom. [4] It was formed on 12 January 1909 by the engineer George Balfour and the accountant Andrew Beatty.