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The FTSE 100 Index (often called the FTSE 100, FTSE or occasionally footsie) is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies....
. The index began on 3 January 1984 with a base level of 1000; the highest value reached to date is 6950.6, on 30 December 1999.

It is the most widely used of the FTSE Group
FTSE Group

FTSE Group is a British provider of stock market index and associated data services, operating out of premises in Canary Wharf.Products...
's indices, and is frequently reported (e.g. on UK news bulletins) as a measure of business prosperity.

index is maintained by the FTSE Group, an independent company which originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 and the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies....
.






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The FTSE 100 Index (often called the FTSE 100, FTSE or occasionally footsie) is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies....
. The index began on 3 January 1984 with a base level of 1000; the highest value reached to date is 6950.6, on 30 December 1999.

It is the most widely used of the FTSE Group
FTSE Group

FTSE Group is a British provider of stock market index and associated data services, operating out of premises in Canary Wharf.Products...
's indices, and is frequently reported (e.g. on UK news bulletins) as a measure of business prosperity.

Overview

The index is maintained by the FTSE Group, an independent company which originated as a joint venture between the Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 and the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies....
. It is calculated in real-time
Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing is the study of Computer hardware and computer software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"?i.e., operational deadlines from event to system response....
 and published every 15 seconds.

FTSE 100 companies represent about 81% of the market capitalisation of the whole London Stock Exchange. Even though the FTSE All-Share Index
FTSE All-Share Index

The FTSE All-Share Index, originally known as the FTSE Actuaries All Share Index, is a capitalisation-weighted index, comprising around 800 of more than 2,000 companies traded on the London Stock Exchange....
 is more comprehensive, the FTSE 100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index
FTSE 250 Index

The FTSE 250 Index is a market capitalisation-weighted index of 250 UK companies on the London Stock Exchange. They are selected quarterly as being the 101st to 350th largest companies with their primary listing on the exchange....
 (which lists the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the FTSE 350 Index
FTSE 350 Index

The FTSE 350 Index index is a market capitalisation weighted stock market index incorporating the largest 350 companies by capitalisation which have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange....
 (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), FTSE SmallCap Index
FTSE SmallCap Index

The FTSE SmallCap Index consists of 300 UK companies outside of the FTSE 350 Index and was valued at ?36 billion as of 30th September 2008 .This Index is calculated in Real-time_computing and published every minute....
 and FTSE Fledgling Index. The FTSE All-Share aggregates the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap. As of 30th September 2008, the net market capitalisation of FTSE 100 Index was £1,171 billion.

The constituents of the index are determined quarterly; the largest companies in the FTSE 250 Index are promoted if their market capitalisation would place them in the top ninety firms of the FTSE 100 Index. , the threshold for inclusion is about £1.7 billion. As of December 2008, the five largest constituents of the index were BP
BP

BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
, HSBC Holdings
HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales, headquartered in London. As of 2008, it is both the world's largest banking group and the world's largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine....
, the Vodafone Group, GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
, and Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell public limited company, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational corporation oil company of Netherlands and United Kingdom origins....
 which were each valued at more than £
Pound sterling

----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
60 billion.

Component companies must meet a number of requirements set out by the FTSE Group
FTSE Group

FTSE Group is a British provider of stock market index and associated data services, operating out of premises in Canary Wharf.Products...
, including having a full listing on the London Stock Exchange with a Sterling or Euro dominated price on SETS, and meeting certain tests on nationality, free float
Float (finance)

The free float of a public company is an estimate of the proportion of share s that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions ....
, and liquidity.

With only historical exceptions, the companies listed on this index must by law include the abbreviation 'plc' at the end of their name, indicating their status of public limited company
Public limited company

A public limited company is a type of limited company which is permitted to offer its stock to the public. The designation was introduced in the UK by the Companies Act 1980, and in the Republic of Ireland by the Companies Act 1983....
.

Trading lasts from 08.00–16.29 (when the closing auction starts), and closing values are taken at 16.35.

Weighting

They involve the total market capitalization of the companies weighted by their effect on the index, so the larger stocks would make more of a difference to the index as compared to a smaller market cap company. This is also called the free float method. The basic formula for any index is (be it capitalization weighted or any other stock index):

  • Index level= S(Price of stock* Number of shares)*Free float factor/ Index Divisor.


The Free float Adjustment factor represents the proportion of shares that is floated as a percentage of issued shares and then its rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5% for calculation purposes. To find the free-float capitalization of a company, first find its market cap (number of outstanding shares x share price) then multiply its free-float factor. The free-float method, therefore, does not include restricted stocks, such as those held by company insiders.

List of FTSE 100 companies

This reflects the replacement of HBOS
HBOS

HBOS plc is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009....
 with Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is a London-based construction, civil engineering and rail services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world....
 on 19 January 2009.

There are 100 companies in the index, but a total of 102 listings as two classes of shares are included for Royal Dutch Shell and Schroders.

  1. 3i
    3i

    3i Group PLC is a leading venture capital and private equity firm. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  2. Admiral Group
    Admiral Group

    Admiral Group plc is a motor insurance company with its head office in Cardiff, Wales. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  3. Alliance Trust
    Alliance Trust

    Alliance Trust plc is a publicly-traded Investment company and financial services company, headquartered in Dundee, Scotland. Established in 1888, the firm operates the largest investment trust in Britain....
  4. AMEC
    AMEC

    AMEC plc is a British company, headquartered in London. It carries out high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services for the oil and gas, mining, power generation, nuclear, process and water industries....
  5. Amlin
    Amlin

    Amlin plc is an insurance underwriting company headquartered in London, specialising in the insurance of commercial enterprises. Roger Taylor is the company's chairman and Charles Phillipps is the chief executive....
  6. Anglo American
  7. Antofagasta
    Antofagasta plc

    Antofagasta plc is a Chilean business that operates in various sectors of the economy. It is one of the most important conglomerates of Chile with equity participation in Antofagasta Minerals, the railroad from Antofagasta to Bolivia, Aguas Antofagasta in Chile, Tethian in Australia and other investments in different parts from t...
  8. Associated British Foods
    Associated British Foods

    Associated British Foods plc is a British multinational food, ingredients and retail group with sales of ?8.235 billion and over 96,000 employees in 44 countries....
  9. AstraZeneca
    AstraZeneca

    AstraZeneca plc , is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group plc....
  10. Autonomy Corporation
    Autonomy Corporation

    Autonomy Corporation PLC is an enterprise software company with joint head quarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and San Francisco, USA. The company uses a combination of technologies borne out of research at the University of Cambridge ....
  11. Aviva
    Aviva

    Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
  12. BAE Systems
    BAE Systems

    BAE Systems plc is a British defense contractor and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc....
  13. BG Group
    BG Group

    BG Group plc is an integrated oil and gas company which has its headquarters in Reading, England. BG Group has use of the trading name "British Gas" outside the United Kingdom; Centrica owns the rights to use it within the UK....
  14. BHP Billiton
    BHP Billiton

    BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company. It was created in 2001 by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the United Kingdom's Billiton, which had a Dutch and South African background....
  15. BP
    BP

    BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
  16. BT Group
    BT Group

    BT Group plc , is the privatisation UK state telecommunications operator. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the United Kingdom....
  17. Balfour Beatty
    Balfour Beatty

    Balfour Beatty plc is a London-based construction, civil engineering and rail services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world....
  18. Barclays
  19. British Airways
    British Airways

    British Airways plc is an airline of the United Kingdom. The airline has the largest fleet of aircraft of any United Kingdom airline, but is only second in terms of international passengers carried....
  20. British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco

    British American Tobacco Plc is a leading global tobacco company. It is based in London, United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  21. British Land Company
    British Land

    British Land Company PLC is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. It converted to a Real Estate Investment Trust when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007....
  22. British Sky Broadcasting Group
    British Sky Broadcasting

    British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
  23. Bunzl
    Bunzl

    Bunzl plc is a multinational corporation distribution and outsourcing business based in London, England. Founded in 1940 as a manufacturing of cigarette filters, Cr?pe paper and tissue paper, Bunzl is today primarily a distributor of a diverse range of products including food packaging, cleaning and hygiene supplies, personal protective eq...
  24. Cable & Wireless
    Cable & Wireless

    Cable & Wireless is a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom ....
  25. Cadbury
  26. Cairn Energy
    Cairn Energy

    Cairn Energy plc is an independent oil exploration and extraction of petroleum company. Its headquarters are in Edinburgh, Scotland and it is listed on the London Stock Exchange....
  27. Capita Group
    Capita Group

    Capita is a British company with its headquarters in London which specialises in business process outsourcing, having clients in central and local government, and in the private sector....
  28. Carnival
    Carnival Corporation & plc

    Carnival Corporation & PLC, a British-American-Panamanian corporation, is the world's largest cruise operator, comprising 11 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P&O Cruises, Cunard Line and Ocean Village in the United Kingdom; AIDA Cruises in Germany...
  29. Centrica
    Centrica

    Centrica plc is a large multinational utility company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  30. Cobham
    Cobham plc

    Cobham plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing company based in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  31. Compass Group
    Compass Group

    Compass Group plc , a United Kingdom company, is a leading food service business. It provides catering services to many types of institutions, for example schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, companies and resident healthcare homes....
  32. Diageo
    Diageo

    Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
  33. Drax Group
    Drax Group

    Drax Group plc is a United Kingdom based Electrical power industry company. The company's principal subsidiary is Drax Power Limited, owner of the Drax power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the largest coal-fired power station in Europe which supplies about 7% of UK electrical consumption....
  34. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
    Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation

    Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is a diversified natural resources group with integrated mining, processing, energy and logistical operations....
  35. Experian
    Experian

    Experian plc , formerly known as CCN Systems, is a global credit information group, with operations in 36 countries.The company employs 15,500 people....
  36. FirstGroup
  37. Friends Provident
    Friends Provident

    Friends Provident plc manages a life assurance business mainly based in the United Kingdom and with offices throughout the world.The head office is now located at 100 Wood Street in London....
  38. G4S
  39. GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
  40. HSBC
  41. Hammerson
    Hammerson

    Hammerson REIT is a major United Kingdom property development and investment company. Formerly a plc, it switched to Real Estate Investment Trust status when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007....
  42. Home Retail Group
  43. ICAP
    ICAP (company)

    ICAP plc is a UK based inter-dealer money broker, the largest in the world, carrying out transactions for financial institutions rather than private individuals....
  44. Imperial Tobacco
    Imperial Tobacco

    Imperial Tobacco Group Public limited company is the world's fourth largest international tobacco company. It is the second largest UK-based tobacco company by global sales....
  45. Inmarsat
    Inmarsat

    Inmarsat plc is an international telecommunications company originally operating as an intergovernmental organization. It provides telephony and data services to users worldwide, via special terminals which communicate to ground stations through twelve geosynchronous telecommunications satellites....
  46. InterContinental Hotels Group
    InterContinental Hotels Group

    InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. It is the largest hotel company by number of rooms , and is headquartered in Denham,_Buckinghamshire just outside Greater London....
  47. International Power
    International Power

    International Power plc is an international electricity generator formed in 2000 by the demerger of National Power. It is headquartered at Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London....
  48. Invensys
    Invensys

    Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
  49. Johnson Matthey
    Johnson Matthey

    Johnson Matthey plc is a United Kingdom chemical company which has its headquarters near Holborn in central London. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  50. Kazakhmys
    Kazakhmys

    Kazakhmys Plc is a UK-registered copper mining company whose main assets are located in Kazakhstan. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom....
  51. Kingfisher
    Kingfisher plc

    Kingfisher plc is a UK-based international retailer, which has owned a wide variety of retail chains in its history but is now focused on the DIY business....
  52. Land Securities Group
  53. Legal & General
    Legal & General

    Legal & General Group Plc is a United Kingdom based financial services company that provides life insurance, health insurance and other insurance, as well as pensions and investments....
  54. Liberty International
    Liberty International

    Liberty International is United Kingdom property investment company. Formerly a plc, it switched to Real Estate Investment Trust status when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007....
  55. Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group

    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a leading global United Kingdom based financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009....
  56. London Stock Exchange Group
  57. Man Group
    Man Group

    Man Group plc is a leading alternative investment management business. It provides a range of funds for institutional and private investors globally....
  58. Marks & Spencer
    Marks & Spencer

    Marks & Spencer is a major United Kingdom retailer, with over 840 stores in Marks & Spencer#International stores around the world, over 600 domestic and 285 international....
  59. Wm Morrison Supermarkets
    Morrisons

    Wm Morrison Supermarkets Public Limited Company is the TNS Worldpanel chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies....
  60. National Grid
    National Grid plc

    National Grid plc is an international, London-based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States....
  61. Next
  62. Old Mutual
    Old Mutual

    Old Mutual plc is an international insurance company and investment management company. Originally based in South Africa and focused on the South African market, it is now London based....
  63. Pearson
    Pearson PLC

    Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
  64. Pennon Group
    Pennon Group

    Pennon Group plc is a United Kingdom water utility and waste management company based in Exeter, Devon. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  65. Prudential
    Prudential plc

    Prudential plc is a United Kingdom-based financial services company. The company has over 21 million customers worldwide. As well as the UK arm of its operations it has operations in 12 countries in Asia and owns Jackson National Life in the United States....
  66. RSA Insurance Group
  67. Randgold Resources
    Randgold Resources

    Randgold Resources is an Jersey-based gold mining business operating mainly in Mali. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  68. Reckitt Benckiser
    Reckitt Benckiser

    Reckitt Benckiser plc is a leading United Kingdom-based manufacturer of cleaning products. It is headquartered in the town of Slough to the west of London....
  69. Reed Elsevier
    Reed Elsevier

    Reed Elsevier is a global publisher and information provider. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. The Reed Elsevier group is a dual-listed company consisting of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV....
  70. Rexam
    Rexam

    Rexam plc is a United Kingdom corporation with a focus in Aluminum can manufacturing. The company's headquarters are in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  71. Rio Tinto Group
    Rio Tinto Group

    Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. It is the third-largest coal mining company in the world as of late 2008....
  72. Rolls-Royce Group
    Rolls-Royce plc

    Rolls-Royce Public limited company is a United Kingdom aircraft engine maker, and the second-largest in the world, behind GE Aviation. The company has related businesses in the defence aerospace, marine and energy markets....
  73. Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  74. Royal Dutch Shell
    Royal Dutch Shell

    Royal Dutch Shell public limited company, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational corporation oil company of Netherlands and United Kingdom origins....
  75. SABMiller
    SABMiller

    File:SABMiller beers.JPGSABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers; the company has brewing interests and distribution agreements on six continents....
  76. Sage Group
    The Sage Group

    The Sage Group plc is engaged in the development, distribution and support of business management software and related products and services for medium-sized and smaller businesses....
  77. J Sainsbury
  78. Schroders
    Schroders

    Schroders plc is a leading global, asset management company, with over two hundred years of experience in the world's financial markets. Headquartered in the City of London, it is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  79. Scottish and Southern Energy
    Scottish and Southern Energy

    Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a leading United Kingdom-based energy company. Its headquarters are in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  80. Serco Group
    Serco Group

    Serco Group plc is a Service company based in Hook, North Hampshire in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  81. Severn Trent
    Severn Trent

    Severn Trent plc is a United Kingdom public utility. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.Severn Trent is a group of companies employing more than 15,000 people across the UK, US and mainland Europe....
  82. Shire Pharmaceuticals Group
  83. Smith & Nephew
    Smith & Nephew

    Smith & Nephew is a United Kingdom medical devices company headquartered in London and active internationally. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  84. Smiths Group
    Smiths Group

    Smiths Group is a leading United Kingdom engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering activities. It is based in London....
  85. Standard Chartered Bank
    Standard Chartered Bank

    Standard Chartered Bank is a United Kingdom bank headquartered in London with operations in more than seventy countries. It operates a network of over 1,700 branches and outlets and employs 73,000 people....
  86. Standard Life
    Standard Life

    Standard Life plc is a financial services institution based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Formerly a Mutual insurance, since 10 July 2006, the company has been listed on the London Stock Exchange....
  87. Tate & Lyle
    Tate & Lyle

    Tate & Lyle plc is a United Kingdom-based multinational agri-processor. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index as of 22 December 2008....
  88. Tesco
    Tesco

    Tesco Public limited company is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share with profits exceeding ?2 billion....
  89. Thomas Cook Group
    Thomas Cook Group

    Thomas Cook Group plc is a travel company created on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel Group . At flotation on the London Stock Exchange 52% of the shares in the new company were held by the German mail order and department store corporation Arcandor and 48% owned by the shareholders of MyTravel....
  90. Thomson Reuters
    Thomson Reuters

    Thomson Reuters is an information company created by The Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters on 17 April 2008. It is a dual listed company with two parent companies: Thomson Reuters plc is a British company and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, and Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian company and a constituent of the S&P...
  91. TUI Travel
  92. Tullow Oil
    Tullow Oil

    Tullow Oil plc is a United Kingdom-based oil and gas exploration and production business headquartered in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
  93. Unilever
    Unilever

    Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of United Kingdom-Netherlands parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brand names in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  94. United Utilities
    United Utilities

    United Utilities is a United Kingdom utility company with its headquarters in Warrington which operates mainly in the North West England England, with 9,000 employees....
  95. Vedanta Resources
    Vedanta Resources

    Vedanta Resources plc is a global diversified and integrated metals and mining group headquartered in London, England. Headed by Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal , most of Vedanta's operations are located in India....
  96. Vodafone
    Vodafone

    Vodafone is a mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about ?75 billion ....
  97. WPP Group
    WPP Group

    WPP Group plc , based in London, United Kingdom, is the world's largest communications services group employing 100,000 people working in more than 2,000 offices in 106 countries....
  98. Whitbread
    Whitbread

    Whitbread Group plc is a United Kingdom-based hospitality company, managing several popular brands in hotels, restaurants and coffee houses, including Premier Inn, Table Table, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns, Beefeater and Costa Coffee....
  99. Wolseley
    Wolseley (builders' merchant)

    Wolseley plc is a United Kingdom company which has engaged in a disparate range of activities over its long history. It is now one of the largest distributors of building equipment in the world, with particular strength in plumbing and heating supplies....
  100. Xstrata
    Xstrata

    Xstrata plc , is an international mining company, listed on both the London Stock Exchange and the SWX Swiss Exchange. Its headquarters are in Zug in Switzerland and it is a member of the FTSE 100 Index....


Market capitalisation

The following table lists the 38 FTSE 100 companies which had a market capitalisation of £5 billion or more on 31 January 2009, the last trading day of January 2009.

RankCompanyBusiness typeCapitalisation (£m)
(from stock exchange listing)  
1Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell public limited company, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational corporation oil company of Netherlands and United Kingdom origins....
Energy (Oil/Gas)106,415
2BP
BP

BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
Energy (Oil/Gas)93,177
3Vodafone Group
Vodafone

Vodafone is a mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about ?75 billion ....
Telecommunications (mobile)68,260
4HSBCFinancial (bank)65,427
5GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
Pharmaceuticals (inc. research)63,899
6AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca plc , is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group plc....
Pharmaceuticals (inc. research)38,980
7British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco Plc is a leading global tobacco company. It is based in London, United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
Tobacco37,934
8BG Group
BG Group

BG Group plc is an integrated oil and gas company which has its headquarters in Reading, England. BG Group has use of the trading name "British Gas" outside the United Kingdom; Centrica owns the rights to use it within the UK....
Energy (Oil/Gas)32,024
9Tesco
Tesco

Tesco Public limited company is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share with profits exceeding ?2 billion....
Consumer goods/food28,193
10BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company. It was created in 2001 by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the United Kingdom's Billiton, which had a Dutch and South African background....
Mining26,065
11Diageo
Diageo

Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
Consumer goods/drinks23,777
12Unilever
Unilever

Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of United Kingdom-Netherlands parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brand names in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
Food production19,655
13Imperial Tobacco Group
Imperial Tobacco

Imperial Tobacco Group Public limited company is the world's fourth largest international tobacco company. It is the second largest UK-based tobacco company by global sales....
Tobacco19,246
14Reckitt Benckiser
Reckitt Benckiser

Reckitt Benckiser plc is a leading United Kingdom-based manufacturer of cleaning products. It is headquartered in the town of Slough to the west of London....
Consumer goods/household18,949
15SABMiller
SABMiller

File:SABMiller beers.JPGSABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers; the company has brewing interests and distribution agreements on six continents....
Consumer goods/drinks16,939
16Anglo AmericanMining16,787
17Standard CharteredFinancial (bank)16,543
18National Grid
National Grid plc

National Grid plc is an international, London-based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States....
Energy (distribution)15,861
19Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. It is the third-largest coal mining company in the world as of late 2008....
Mining15,082
18Lloyds TSB
Lloyds TSB

In January 2009, Lloyds TSB Group changed its name to Lloyds Banking Group. This article is now about the brand Lloyds TSB which is still operated as part of the Lloyds Banking Group....
Financial (bank)14,825
19BAE Systems
BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British defense contractor and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc....
Aerospace and defence14,184
20Centrica
Centrica

Centrica plc is a large multinational utility company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
Energy (consumer distribution)13,154
21Scottish and Southern Energy
Scottish and Southern Energy

Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a leading United Kingdom-based energy company. Its headquarters are in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
Energy (consumer distribution)11,407
22Barclays BankFinancial (bank)8,881
23Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a majority part-nationalised British people banking and insurance holding company in which HM Treasury holds an 74% controlling shareholding, through the UK Financial Investments Limited....
Financial (bank)8,730
24British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting

British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
Media (broadcasting)8,712
25Prudential
Prudential

Prudential is the name of two companies, and buildings named after them:...
Financial (insurance)8,302
26Aviva
Aviva

Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
Financial (insurance)8,290
27British Energy GroupEnergy (electricity)8,120
28BT Group
BT Group

BT Group plc , is the privatisation UK state telecommunications operator. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the United Kingdom....
Telecommunications8,112
29Cadbury PlcFood production7,594
30Morrisons
Morrisons

Wm Morrison Supermarkets Public Limited Company is the TNS Worldpanel chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies....
Consumer goods/food7,266
31Compass Group
Compass Group

Compass Group plc , a United Kingdom company, is a leading food service business. It provides catering services to many types of institutions, for example schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, companies and resident healthcare homes....
Travel and leisure6,384
32Rolls-Royce Plc
Rolls-Royce plc

Rolls-Royce Public limited company is a United Kingdom aircraft engine maker, and the second-largest in the world, behind GE Aviation. The company has related businesses in the defence aerospace, marine and energy markets....
Aerospace and defence6,083
33Sainsbury
Sainsbury

Sainsbury is a surname, brand name, company name and organisation name. The name may refer to:* Sainsbury Individuals with the surname Sainsbury...
Consumer goods/food5,784
34Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier is a global publisher and information provider. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. The Reed Elsevier group is a dual-listed company consisting of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV....
Media5,722
34Shire PlcPharmaceuticals (inc. research)5,655
35Xstrata
Xstrata

Xstrata plc , is an international mining company, listed on both the London Stock Exchange and the SWX Swiss Exchange. Its headquarters are in Zug in Switzerland and it is a member of the FTSE 100 Index....
Mining5,534
36Tullow Oil
Tullow Oil

Tullow Oil plc is a United Kingdom-based oil and gas exploration and production business headquartered in London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
Energy (oil and gas)5,524
37Pearson
Pearson

Pearson may refer to:In places:*Pearson, California, an unincorporated community in the US*Pearson, Georgia, a US city*Pearson, Texas, an unincorporated community in the US...
Media5,354
38Associated British Foods
Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods plc is a British multinational food, ingredients and retail group with sales of ?8.235 billion and over 96,000 employees in 44 countries....
Food production5,251
Source: File linked from on the London Stock Exchange's official site. Companies which do not have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange are not eligible for membership of the FTSE 100 Index and have been excluded.

Former members of the FTSE 100 index

  • Abbey Life
    Abbey Life

    Abbey Life plc was a leading life assurance business based in London. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (became subsidiary of Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB

    In January 2009, Lloyds TSB Group changed its name to Lloyds Banking Group. This article is now about the brand Lloyds TSB which is still operated as part of the Lloyds Banking Group....
     in 1996, then sold to Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank

    Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft is an international Universal bank with a broad private clients franchise, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany....
     in 2007)
  • Abbey National
    Abbey (bank)

    Abbey, formerly Abbey National, is one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom.Abbey will be rebranded as Santander by 2011 in line with other subsidiaries....
     (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano)
  • Alliance & Leicester
    Alliance & Leicester

    Alliance & Leicester is a United Kingdom bank and former building society owned by Grupo Santander. Alliance & Leicester will be rebranded as Santander by 2011 in line with other subsidiaries....
     (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano)
  • Alliance Boots
    Alliance Boots

    Alliance Boots Limited is a United Kingdom based Pharmaceutical company company, operating as a high street retailer, pharmacist and pharmaceutical wholesaler....
     (acquired by private equity fund controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
  • Allied Domecq
    Allied Domecq

    Allied Domecq PLC was an international corporation, headquartered in Bristol, UK that operated Distilled beverage, wine, and quick service restaurant businesses....
     (acquired by Pernod Ricard
    Pernod Ricard

    Pernod Ricard is a France company that produces alcoholic beverages. The company's most famous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both pastis, and often referred to as simply Ricard or Pernod....
    )
  • Allied Zurich (dual holding company along with Zurich Allied, companies unified in 2000 to form Zurich Financial Services
    Zurich Financial Services

    Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group based in Z?rich, Switzerland....
    )
  • Amersham
    Amersham plc

    Amersham plc is a United Kingdom pharmaceutical company, specializing in medical diagnostics and life science products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by General Electric....
     (acquired by GE
    General Electric

    The General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational corporation United States technology and Service s conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York....
    )
  • Amstrad
    Amstrad

    Amstrad is an electronics firm based in Brentwood, Essex in Essex, England and founded in 1968 by Sir Alan Sugar in the United Kingdom. The name is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading....
     (acquired by British Sky Broadcasting
    British Sky Broadcasting

    British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
    )
  • Argos
    Argos (retailer)

    Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland with over 700 stores. Argos is unique amongst major retailers in the U.K....
     (now owned by Home Retail Group)
  • Argyll Group (renamed Safeway
    Safeway (UK)

    Safeway was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in the United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Wm Morrison Supermarkets in March 2004: most of its 479 stores were rebranded as Morrisons, with some being sold off....
     in 1996, then taken over by Morrisons
    Morrisons

    Wm Morrison Supermarkets Public Limited Company is the TNS Worldpanel chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies....
     in 2004)
  • Arjo Wiggins Appleton
    Arjo Wiggins

    Arjo Wiggins is a leading producer of paper products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and used to be a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by Worms & Cie....
     (acquired by Worms & Cie
    Worms & Cie

    Worms & Cie is a France pulp and paper company, the 17th largest in the world in ....
    )
  • ARM Holdings
    ARM Holdings

    ARM Holdings is a technology company headquartered in Cambridge, England, UK. The company is best known for its processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, Platform , system-on-a-chip infrastructure and software....
  • ASDA Group
    ASDA

    Asda is a United Kingdom supermarket chain which retails food, clothing, toys and general merchandise. It became a subsidiary of the United States retail giant Wal-Mart, the world?s largest retailer, in 1999, and is the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco, having overtaken Sainsbury's in 2003....
     (acquired by Wal-Mart
    Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American Public company that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune Global 500....
    )
  • BAA (acquired by Ferrovial
    Ferrovial

    Grupo Ferrovial, S.A. is one of the world?s leading infrastructure and Multinational corporation Economy of Spain involved in the design, build, financing, operation and maintenance of transport, urban and services infrastructure....
    )
  • Baltimore Technologies
    Baltimore Technologies

    Baltimore Technologies was a leading United Kingdom internet security firm. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was briefly part of the FTSE 100 Index during 2000....
     (acquired by Oryx International Growth Fund)
  • Bank of Scotland
    Bank of Scotland

    The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial bank and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to remain in existence....
     (merged with Halifax
    Halifax (bank)

    Halifax is a brand name of Bank of Scotland, a subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group. In the United Kingdom, the Halifax is used as brand for Bank of Scotland branches in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and for savings and mortgages in Scotland....
     to form HBOS
    HBOS

    HBOS plc is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009....
    , now part of the Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group

    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a leading global United Kingdom based financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009....
    )
  • Barratt Developments
    Barratt Developments

    Barratt Developments PLC is one of the largest residential property development companies in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1958 by Sir Lawrie Barratt and has always been based in Newcastle upon Tyne....
  • Bass (became Six Continents
    Six Continents

    Six Continents was a large United Kingdom-based retail business which was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     and then InterContinental Hotels Group
    InterContinental Hotels Group

    InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. It is the largest hotel company by number of rooms , and is headquartered in Denham,_Buckinghamshire just outside Greater London....
    )
  • Beecham Group
    Beecham (pharmaceutical company)

    Beecham was a British pharmaceutical company. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by GlaxoSmithKline.History...
     (now part of GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
    )
  • Berisford (renamed Enodis
    Enodis

    Enodis plc is a United Kingdom company headquartered in Central London which manufactures foodmaking equipment. A former FTSE 250 Index constituent, since October 2008 the company has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American machinery manufacturer The Manitowoc Company....
    )
  • BET, formerly British Electric Traction
    British Electric Traction

    British Electric Traction Company plc, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial Conglomerate . It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rentokil Initial....
     (acquired by Rentokil, now Rentokil Initial
    Rentokil Initial

    Rentokil Initial is a major United Kingdom-based business services group. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • British Home Stores (acquired by Storehouse
    Storehouse plc

    Storehouse plc was a large United Kingdom retail business formed through the merger of various high street chains. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it was renamed Mothercare in 2000....
     and then sold to Philip Green
    Philip Green

    Sir Philip Green is a United Kingdom billionaire businessman who owns some of the United Kingdom's largest retailers, including Bhs and the Arcadia Group....
    )
  • BICC
    British Insulated Callender's Cables

    British Insulated Callender's Cables was a 20th century British cable manufacturer and construction company, now renamed after former subsidiary Balfour Beatty....
     (renamed Balfour Beatty
    Balfour Beatty

    Balfour Beatty plc is a London-based construction, civil engineering and rail services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world....
    )
  • Blue Arrow
    Blue Arrow

    Blue Arrow Limited is an employment and recruitment agency in the United Kingdom. It provides temporary work and more permanent staff to office, industrial, catering, driving, construction and IT industries....
     (acquired by Corporate Services Group)
  • Blue Circle Industries
    Blue Circle Industries

    Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement. It was founded in 1900, and was bought out by the France company Lafarge in 2001....
     (acquired by Lafarge
    Lafarge

    Lafarge is a France industrial company specialising in four major products: cement, construction aggregates, concrete and gypsum wallboard. It currently is the world's second-largest cement manufacturer by mass shipped behind Holcim....
    )
  • BOC
    The BOC Group

    The BOC Group plc was the official name of the multinational industrial gas and British based company more commonly known as BOC, and now a part of The Linde Group....
     (acquired by The Linde Group
    The Linde Group

    The Linde Group, registered as Linde Aktiengesellschaft is an international industrial gases and engineering company founded in 1879. Linde shares are traded on all the German stock exchanges and also in SWX Swiss Exchange, and the Linde share price is included in the DAX 30 index....
    )
  • Bowater (renamed Rexam
    Rexam

    Rexam plc is a United Kingdom corporation with a focus in Aluminum can manufacturing. The company's headquarters are in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
    )
  • Bookham Technology
    Bookham Inc.

    Bookham, Inc. is a leading United States-based business manufacturing and selling optical. It is used to be listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (now traded on Nasdaq
    NASDAQ

    The NASDAQ is an United States stock exchange. It is the largest Electronic trading screen-based Stock trading market in the United States....
    )
  • BPB Industries
    BPB plc

    BPB plc is a United Kingdom building materials business: it is the world's largest manufacturer of plasterboard. It used to be a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005....
     (acquired by Saint-Gobain
    Saint-Gobain

    Saint-Gobain SA is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris at La D?fense. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of construction and high-performance materials....
    )
  • Bradford & Bingley
    Bradford & Bingley

    Bradford & Bingley plc is a United Kingdom bank with Bradford and Bingley head office in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley. In 2008, partly due to the Subprime mortgage crisis, the bank was split into two parts; the mortgage book which was nationalised, and the deposits and branch network which was sold to Abbey , owned by the Spanish bank G...
     (branch network acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano; loans book nationalised)
  • British Aerospace
    British Aerospace

    British Aerospace was a United Kingdom aircraft manufacturer, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer. In 1999 it purchased Marconi Electronic Systems, the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc to form BAE Systems....
     (now part of BAE Systems
    BAE Systems

    BAE Systems plc is a British defense contractor and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc....
    )
  • British & Commonwealth
    British and Commonwealth Holdings

    British and Commonwealth Holdings plc was a financial services company which used to be a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (collapsed in 1990)
  • Brambles Industries
    Brambles Industries

    Brambles Limited is a support services business which, with effect from 27 November 2006 has a primary listing on the Australian Securities Exchange and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange....
  • British Steel
    British Steel

    British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated as a nationalization industry, the British Steel Corporation , formed in 1967. This was converted to a limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988....
     (acquired by Corus Group
    Corus Group

    Corus is the world's fifth steel producers, headquartered in London, England.The Company was formed from the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V....
    , itself now part of Tata Steel
    Tata Steel

    Tata Steel , formerly known as TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, is the world's sixth largest steel company, with an annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tonnes....
    )
  • Britoil
    Britoil

    Britoil was originally a privatised British oil company operating in the North Sea. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by BP
    BP

    BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
    )
  • BTR (renamed Invensys
    Invensys

    Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
    )
  • Burmah Oil (renamed Burmah Castrol and acquired by BP
    BP

    BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
    )
  • Burton Group (acquired by Arcadia
    Arcadia Group

    The Arcadia Group Limited is a United Kingdom retail company that owns the high street clothing retailers Burton , Dorothy Perkins, Evans , Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop, and Wallis , and the out of town chain Outfit, which sells lines from the other group chains....
    )
  • Carlton Communications
    Carlton Communications

    Carlton Communications Limited was a United Kingdom media company. It was led by Michael Green and listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1983 until 2 February 2004, when it merged with Granada plc to form ITV plc....
     (merged with Granada to form ITV
    ITV plc

    ITV plc is a United Kingdom media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Carphone Warehouse Group
    The Carphone Warehouse

    The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC , known as The Carphone Warehouse, claims to be Europe's largest independent mobile phone retailer, with over 1,700 stores across Europe....
  • Celltech
    Celltech

    Celltech Group plc was a leading United Kingdom-based biotechnology business based in Slough. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by UCB
    UCB (company)

    UCB , is a biopharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Brussels ....
     in 2004)
  • CMG
    CMG (company)

    CMG was a consulting company focused on telecommunications and computing and based in London, United Kingdom. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Logica in 2002....
     (merged with Logica to form LogicaCMG
    LogicaCMG

    Logica is a UK-based global information technology and Management consulting company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Euronext and is a member of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Coats Viyella (taken private and renamed Coats)
  • COLT Telecom Group
    COLT Telecom Group

    COLT Telecom Group SA is a telecommunications company providing services to major city-based customers throughout Europe. The group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Compass Group
    Compass Group

    Compass Group plc , a United Kingdom company, is a leading food service business. It provides catering services to many types of institutions, for example schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, companies and resident healthcare homes....
  • Commercial Union Assurance (merged with General Accident to form CGU
    CGU plc

    CGU plc was a large insurance group, created by the merger of Commercial Union and General Accident. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange....
    , itself now part of Aviva
    Aviva

    Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
    )
  • Consolidated Goldfields
    Consolidated Goldfields

    Consolidated Goldfields was a United Kingdom gold-mining company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Hanson plc in 1988....
     (acquired by Hanson
    Hanson plc

    Hanson plc is a United Kingdom based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. Traded on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index for many years, the company was acquired by a division of Germany rival Heidelberg Cement in August 2007....
    )
  • Cookson Group
    Cookson Group

    Cookson Group plc is a leading materials technology company headquartered in London which provides materials, processes and services to customers worldwide....
  • Corus Group
    Corus Group

    Corus is the world's fifth steel producers, headquartered in London, England.The Company was formed from the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V....
     (acquired by Tata Steel
    Tata Steel

    Tata Steel , formerly known as TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, is the world's sixth largest steel company, with an annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tonnes....
    )
  • Courtaulds
    Courtaulds

    Courtaulds was an England based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals....
     (demerged into two businesses acquired by Sara Lee and Akzo Nobel
    Akzo Nobel

    Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a multinational company, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals....
    )
  • Daily Mail and General Trust
    Daily Mail and General Trust

    Daily Mail and General Trust plc is one of the Europe largest media companies and has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio....
  • Dalgety
    Dalgety plc

    Dalgety plc was a major United Kingdom conglomerate. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (renamed Sygen International and acquired by Genus
    Genus plc

    Genus plc is a leading United Kingdom-based business selling products manufactured using biotechnology to cattle and pig farmers. It is headquartered in Basingstoke and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Debenhams
    Debenhams

    Debenhams plc is a major United Kingdomretailing operating under a department store format in the United Kingdom and Franchising stores in other countries....
  • De La Rue
    De La Rue

    De La Rue plc is a United Kingdom security printing, papermaking and cash handling systems company headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire. It also has a factory on the Team Valley, Gateshead....
  • Dimension Data Holdings
  • Distillers
    Distillers Company Limited

    The Distillers Company Limited was a leading United Kingdom drinks and pharmaceutical company which at one time was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Guinness
    Guinness

    Guinness is a popular dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness' first brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare but it then moved to its present home at St....
    ; now part of Diageo
    Diageo

    Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
    )
  • Dixons Group (renamed to DSG International
    DSG International (retailer)

    DSG international plc is one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe. The company operates the Dixons , Dixons Tax Free, Currys, Currys.digital, PC World and Electro World stores along with many other brands across Europe....
    )
  • Dowty Group
    Dowty Group

    Dowty Group was a leading United Kingdom manufacturer of aircraft. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by TI Group in 1992....
     (acquired by TI Group
    TI Group

    TI Group plc was a holding company for various specialised engineering companies. It was based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Smiths Group in 2000....
    , itself now part of Smiths Group
    Smiths Group

    Smiths Group is a leading United Kingdom engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering activities. It is based in London....
    )
  • DSG International
    DSG International (retailer)

    DSG international plc is one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe. The company operates the Dixons , Dixons Tax Free, Currys, Currys.digital, PC World and Electro World stores along with many other brands across Europe....
  • Eagle Star
    Eagle Star Insurance

    The Eagle Star Insurance Company plc was a leading United Kingdom insurance business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by BAT Industries
    British American Tobacco

    British American Tobacco Plc is a leading global tobacco company. It is based in London, United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     and then demerged as part of Zurich Financial Services
    Zurich Financial Services

    Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group based in Z?rich, Switzerland....
    )
  • Eastern Group
    Eastern Electricity

    Eastern Electricity was an electricity supply and distribution utility serving eastern England, including East Anglia and part of Greater London....
     (acquired by Texas Utilities and then Powergen, now part of E.ON UK
    E.ON UK

    E.ON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company. As Powergen it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but since January 2002 has been owned by by E.ON....
    )
  • ECC Group (acquired by Imetal
    Imerys

    Imerys is a France multinational company listed on the Euronext Paris exchange . It is a constituent of the CAC Next 20 index....
    )
  • Edinburgh Investment Trust
    The Edinburgh Investment Trust

    The Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC, a member of the The Association of Investment Trust Companies is an investment trust company with a focus on investing in "larger" companies. It is currently a constituent of the FTSE 250....
  • Electrocomponents
    Electrocomponents

    Electrocomponents plc is a leading United Kingdom-based distributor of electronic components. It is headquartered in Oxford and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • EMAP
    EMAP

    EMAP is a United Kingdom media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences....
  • EMI Group
    EMI

    The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
     (acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners
    Terra Firma Capital Partners

    Terra Firma Capital Partners is a European private equity firm with offices in London and Frankfurt am Main employing over 100 people. It was formed as a spin-off company from Nomura Group's Principal Finance Group in 2002 by Guy Hands and has invested ?11 billion since 1994....
    )
  • Energis
    Energis

    Energis Communications Limited, briefly Telecom Electric, or more usually just Energis was a 'technology driven communications company' based in the United Kingdom and Ireland....
     (acquired by Cable and Wireless)
  • English China Clays (acquired by Imetal
    Imerys

    Imerys is a France multinational company listed on the Euronext Paris exchange . It is a constituent of the CAC Next 20 index....
    )
  • Enterprise Inns
    Enterprise Inns

    Enterprise Inns Plc is a United Kingdom Leasing and tenanted Public house company, headquartered in Solihull, West Midlands in the United Kingdom....
  • Enterprise Oil
    Enterprise Oil

    Enterprise Oil was a major UK independent exploration and production company based in Europe, with core areas of activity in United Kingdom and Ireland, mainland Europe, Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico....
     (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell
    Royal Dutch Shell

    Royal Dutch Shell public limited company, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational corporation oil company of Netherlands and United Kingdom origins....
    )
  • Eurotunnel
    Eurotunnel

    Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France. The Company operates the Eurotunnel Shuttle services and earns revenue on other trains passing through the tunnel....
  • Exco International
    Exco International

    Exco International was a leading United Kingdom money brokering company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by British & Commonwealth Holdings in 1986....
     (acquired by British & Commonwealth Holdings)
  • Exel
    Exel

    DHL Exel Supply Chain is a division of Deutsche Post World Net providing contract logistics and value-added services. As Exel plc the business was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Deutsche Post
    Deutsche Post

    Deutsche Post Aktiengesellschaft , operating under the trade name Deutsche Post World Net, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 470,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of ? 63.5 billion in 2007....
    )
  • Ferranti International
    Ferranti

    Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm known primarily for defence electronics and power grid systems....
     (collapsed)
  • Ferrexpo
    Ferrexpo

    Ferrexpo plc is a leading Switzerland-based iron-ore producer operating in Ukraine. It sells most of its product to the steel mills of Eastern Europe....
  • Fisons
    Fisons

    Fisons Plc was a well diversified United Kingdom pharmaceutical, scientific instrument and horticultural chemical manufacturer. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Rhone-Poulenc in 1995....
     (acquired by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, now Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi-Aventis

    Sanofi-Aventis , headquartered in Paris, France, is a multinational pharmaceutical company. The company is the world's fourth largest List of pharmaceutical companies....
    )
  • Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust
    Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust

    Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust is a publicly-traded investment trust. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Forte (acquired by Granada, now ITV
    ITV plc

    ITV plc is a United Kingdom media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Freeserve
    Freeserve

    Freeserve was a United Kingdom Internet Service Provider, founded in 1998. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but merged into the Wanadoo group in 2000, itself a subsidiary of France Telecom....
     (acquired by France Telecom
    France Télécom

    France T?l?com is the main telecommunication company in France and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 191,000 people and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide ....
    )
  • Fresnillo
    Fresnillo plc

    Fresnillo plc is a Mexico-based precious metals mining company incorporated in the United Kingdom and headquartered in Mexico City. Fresnillo is the world's largest producer of silver from ore and Mexico's second-largest gold miner....
  • Gallaher Group
    Gallaher Group

    Gallaher Group is a major United Kingdom based multinational tobacco company. It was traded on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index prior to its April 2007 acquisition by Japan Tobacco....
     (acquired by Japan Tobacco
    Japan Tobacco

    , JT for short, is a cigarette manufacturing company. It is part of the Nikkei 225 index....
    )
  • Gateway Corporation (renamed Somerfield
    Somerfield

    Somerfield is a chain of small to medium-sized supermarkets operating in the United Kingdom. The company was taken over by The Co-operative Group on 2 March 2009 in a ?1.57 billion deal, creating the UK's fifth largest food retailer....
    )
  • GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi and then Telent)
  • General Accident (merged with Commercial Union to form CGU
    CGU plc

    CGU plc was a large insurance group, created by the merger of Commercial Union and General Accident. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange....
    , itself now part of Aviva
    Aviva

    Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
    )
  • George Wimpey
    George Wimpey

    George Wimpey Limited is one of the United Kingdom's largest housebuilders with corporate headquarters in London, England and UK operational headquarters in High Wycombe since 2001....
     (merged with Taylor Woodrow
    Taylor Woodrow

    Taylor Woodrow Holdings Limited is one of the largest United Kingdom based housebuilding and general construction companies. Its corporate headquarters are in London and its UK construction headquarters are in Watford....
     to form Taylor Wimpey
    Taylor Wimpey

    Taylor Wimpey plc is the largest United Kingdom based house building and general construction company and the fifth largest in the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a past constituent of both the FTSE 250 Index and FTSE 100 Index indices....
    )
  • GKN
    GKN

    GKN plc is a leading United Kingdom engineering company. The Company was formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and can trace its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution....
  • Glaxo Wellcome (merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
    )
  • Globe Investment Trust
    Globe Investment Trust

    The Globe Investment Trust plc was a very large United Kingdom investment trust. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by British Coal Pension Fund)
  • Granada Compass (split in 2001 to leave Granada and Compass Group
    Compass Group

    Compass Group plc , a United Kingdom company, is a leading food service business. It provides catering services to many types of institutions, for example schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, companies and resident healthcare homes....
    )
  • Granada (merged with Carlton Communications
    Carlton Communications

    Carlton Communications Limited was a United Kingdom media company. It was led by Michael Green and listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1983 until 2 February 2004, when it merged with Granada plc to form ITV plc....
     to form ITV
    ITV plc

    ITV plc is a United Kingdom media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Greenall's Group (renamed De Vere Group)
  • Grand Metropolitan
    Grand Metropolitan

    Grand Metropolitan plc was a United Kingdom-based company operating hotels, holiday centres, entertainment centres, public houses and casinos. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997....
     (merged with Guinness
    Guinness

    Guinness is a popular dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness' first brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare but it then moved to its present home at St....
     to form Diageo
    Diageo

    Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
    )
  • Guardian Royal Exchange
    Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance

    Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance plc was a very large United Kingdom insurance company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Axa
    AXA

    AXA is a France global insurance company group headquartered in Paris. AXA is not the name of a single company but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the regulations of many different countries....
    )
  • Guinness
    Guinness

    Guinness is a popular dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness' first brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare but it then moved to its present home at St....
     (merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo
    Diageo

    Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
    )
  • GUS
    GUS (retailer)

    GUS plc was a FTSE 100 retailing group based in the United Kingdom. GUS is an abbreviation of Great Universal Stores, the company's former name before 2001....
     (now demerged into Home Retail Group and Experian
    Experian

    Experian plc , formerly known as CCN Systems, is a global credit information group, with operations in 36 countries.The company employs 15,500 people....
    )
  • Habitat
    Habitat (retailer)

    Habitat is a retailer of household furnishings in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and has franchised outlets in other countries. Founded in 1964 by Terence Conran, it is now part of the IKANO Group....
     Mothercare
    Mothercare

    Mothercare plc is a United Kingdom retailer which specialises in products for Pregnancy and in general merchandise for children up to 8 years old....
     (later became part of merger forming Storehouse
    Storehouse plc

    Storehouse plc was a large United Kingdom retail business formed through the merger of various high street chains. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it was renamed Mothercare in 2000....
    )
  • Halifax Group (merged with the Bank of Scotland
    Bank of Scotland

    The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial bank and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to remain in existence....
     to form HBOS
    HBOS

    HBOS plc is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009....
    )
  • Hambro Life (renamed Allied Dunbar
    Allied Dunbar

    Allied Dunbar was a large United Kingdom insurance company. In its early years as Hambro Life Assurance it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     and acquired by BAT Industries
    British American Tobacco

    British American Tobacco Plc is a leading global tobacco company. It is based in London, United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     and then demerged as part of Zurich Financial Services
    Zurich Financial Services

    Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group based in Z?rich, Switzerland....
    )
  • Hanson
    Hanson plc

    Hanson plc is a United Kingdom based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. Traded on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index for many years, the company was acquired by a division of Germany rival Heidelberg Cement in August 2007....
     (acquired by Heidelberg Cement)
  • Harrisons & Crosfield (renamed Elementis
    Elementis

    Elementis plc is one of the United Kingdom's largest speciality chemicals business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange....
    )
  • Hawker Siddeley (acquired by BTR, now Invensys
    Invensys

    Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
    )
  • Hays
    Hays plc

    Hays plc is a United Kingdom company providing recruitment and human resources services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • HBOS Group plc
    HBOS

    HBOS plc is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009....
     (acquired by Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB

    In January 2009, Lloyds TSB Group changed its name to Lloyds Banking Group. This article is now about the brand Lloyds TSB which is still operated as part of the Lloyds Banking Group....
    , now Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group

    Lloyds Banking Group plc is a leading global United Kingdom based financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009....
    )
  • Hillsdown Holdings (acquired by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst and then sold on as Premier Foods
    Premier Foods

    Premier Foods plc is a United Kingdom-based food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • House of Fraser
    House of Fraser

    House of Fraser is a United Kingdom department store group with 63 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The flagship London store is House of Fraser on Oxford Street in London whilst the retailer has recently undertaken its largest new store opening in Belfast....
     (acquired by Baugur)
  • Imperial Chemical Industries
    Imperial Chemical Industries

    Imperial Chemical Industries is a United Kingdom Chemistry subsidiary of a Netherlands Conglomerate and one of the largest chemical producers in the world....
     (acquired by Akzo Nobel
    Akzo Nobel

    Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a multinational company, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals....
    )
  • Imperial Continental Gas Association
    Imperial Continental Gas Association

    Imperial Continental Gas Association plc was a leading United Kingdom gas utility operating in various cities in Continental Europe . It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (broke up into Calor
    Calor

    Calor Gas is a brand of bottled butane and propane which is available in Britain. It comes in gas cylinders, which have a special gas Flow control valve....
     and Contibel)
  • Inchcape
    Inchcape plc

    Inchcape plc is a large automotive retail group operating in developed and emerging countries. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Innogy Holdings (renamed Npower
    Npower (UK)

    Npower is a UK based electricity and natural gas supply company, formerly known as Innogy plc. As Innogy plc it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it is now owned by RWE of Germany....
     and acquired by RWE
    RWE

    RWE Aktiengesellschaft , is a German electric power and natural gas public utility company based in Essen, Germany. Through its various subsidiaries, the energy company contributes electricity and gas to more than 20 million electricity customers and 10 million gas customers, principally in Europe....
    )
  • Invesco, moved primary listing to NYSE
    New York Stock Exchange

    New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
  • ITV
    ITV plc

    ITV plc is a United Kingdom media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom....
  • Jaguar (acquired by Ford)
  • Kelda Group
    Kelda Group

    Kelda Group is a United Kingdom utility company. It is based in Bradford, England. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but was taken private in February 2008 by Saltaire Water, a consortium of investment companies including Citigroup and HSBC....
     (acquired by Saltaire Water consortium)
  • Kingston Communications
    Kingston Communications

    KCOM Group is a UK communications and IT services provider. It is headquartered in Kingston upon Hull, where subsidiary business unit Kingston Communications serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telephony services....
     (renamed KCOM Group)
  • Kwik Save Group
    Kwik Save

    Kwik Save was a discount supermarket chain in the United Kingdom until 2007. Its stores were small to medium sized high street supermarkets, mainly located in areas with below average incomes....
     (merged with Somerfield)
  • Ladbrokes
    Ladbrokes

    Ladbrokes plc is a United Kingdom based gambling company. It is based in Rayners Lane in Harrow, London. From 14 May 1999 to 23 February 2006, when it owned the Hilton Hotels hotel brand outside the United States, it was known as Hilton Group plc....
  • Laporte
    Laporte plc

    Laporte plc was a leading United Kingdom chemicals business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (major divisions acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
  • Lasmo
    Lasmo

    Lasmo plc was a leading United Kingdom oil and gas exploration and production business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Eni
    ENI

    ENI may refer to:* Eni, the Italian oil and gas corporation ENI S.p.A.* Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia, an Argentine intelligence academy* El Nido Airport, an airport in the Philippines with IATA code ENI...
    )
  • Lattice Group
    Lattice group

    In mathematics, the term lattice group is used for two distinct notions:* a lattice , a discrete subgroup of Rn and its generalizations....
     (merged with National Grid to form National Grid Transco
    National Grid plc

    National Grid plc is an international, London-based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States....
    )
  • Logica
  • London Electricity
    London Electricity Board

    The London Electricity Board was the public sector utility company responsible for electricity generation and electrical infrastructure maintenance in London prior to 1990....
     (acquired by Electricite de France
    Électricité de France

    ?lectricit? de France is the main electricity generation and distribution company in France. It was founded on April 8, 1946, as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors by the minister of industrial production Marcel Paul....
    )
  • Lonhro
    Lonmin

    Lonmin plc , formerly Lonrho plc, is a producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
     (renamed Lonmin
    Lonmin

    Lonmin plc , formerly Lonrho plc, is a producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Lucas Industries (merged with Varity
    Varity

    HistoryThe company was created in 1986 from the remains of Massey-Ferguson of Toronto, Ontario and moved to Buffalo, New York in 1991 and ceased to be a Canadian corporation....
     to form LucasVarity
    LucasVarity

    LucasVarity plc was a United Kingdom automotive parts manufacturer, created by a merger of the British Lucas Industries plc, and the North American Varity Corporation in August 1996....
    , then acquired by Northrop Grumman
    Northrop Grumman

    Northrop Grumman Corporation is an aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the fourth largest defense contractor in the world, and the largest builder of Naval ship....
    )
  • LucasVarity
    LucasVarity

    LucasVarity plc was a United Kingdom automotive parts manufacturer, created by a merger of the British Lucas Industries plc, and the North American Varity Corporation in August 1996....
     (acquired by Northrup Grumman)
  • Magnet and Southerns
    Magnet Kitchens

    Magnet is a British kitchens retailer operating in over 200 locations across the United Kingdom supplying products under the Magnet and Magnet Trade brands....
     (taken private)
  • Maxwell Communications Corporation
    Maxwell Communications Corporation

    Maxwell Communications Corporation plc was a leading United Kingdom Mass media business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (collapsed)
  • MB-Caradon (renamed Caradon and then Novar
    Novar plc

    Novar plc was an international group based in the United Kingdom with core activities in Security Systems, Aluminium Extrusion and Cheque Printing....
    , then acquired by Honeywell
    Honeywell

    Honeywell is a major United States multinational corporation list of conglomerates company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
    )
  • MEPC
    MEPC plc

    MEPC plc is a leading United Kingdom-based property investment and development business. It is headquartered in London. It used to be listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Leconport Estates)
  • Mercury Asset Management
    Mercury Asset Management

    Mercury Asset Management plc was a leading United Kingdom investment business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch

    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. is a global financial services firm which was acquired by Bank of America. This article describes both the historical Merrill Lynch and its ongoing operations as a subsidiary of the bank....
    )
  • MFI Furniture (renamed Galiform
    Galiform

    Galiform plc is a leading United Kingdom-based kitchen cabinet business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Midlands Electricity
    Midlands Electricity

    The Midlands Electricity Board was the public sector utility company responsible for electricity generation and electrical infrastructure maintenance in the Midlands of England prior to 1990....
     (acquired by Acquila Sterling, now part of E.ON UK
    E.ON UK

    E.ON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company. As Powergen it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but since January 2002 has been owned by by E.ON....
    )
  • Midland Bank
    Midland Bank

    Midland Bank was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836....
     (acquired by HSBC)
  • Misys
    Misys

    Misys plc is a leading United Kingdom-based software company providing products, solutions, and services to the financial services and healthcare sectors....
  • Mitchells & Butlers
    Mitchells & Butlers

    Mitchells & Butlers plc runs over 2,000 managed public house, bar s and restaurants throughout the United Kingdom. The Company's headquarters are in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom....
  • NatWest (now part of Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
  • NFC (merged with Ocean Group to form Exel
    Exel

    DHL Exel Supply Chain is a division of Deutsche Post World Net providing contract logistics and value-added services. As Exel plc the business was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
    , now part of Deutsche Post
    Deutsche Post

    Deutsche Post Aktiengesellschaft , operating under the trade name Deutsche Post World Net, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 470,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of ? 63.5 billion in 2007....
    )
  • Northern Foods
    Northern Foods

    Northern Foods plc is a United Kingdom food manufacturer headquartered in Leeds in the north of England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Northern Rock
    Northern Rock

    Northern Rock Public limited company is a United Kingdom bank, under public ownership from 2008. It is based at Regent Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England in the United Kingdom....
     (market capitalisation fell too low, before being nationalised)
  • Norwich Union
    Norwich Union

    Norwich Union is an insurance company in the United Kingdom. It is the biggest life insurance in the UK, and has a strong position in motor insurance....
     (merged with CGNU to form Aviva
    Aviva

    Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
    )
  • Nycomed Amersham
    Amersham plc

    Amersham plc is a United Kingdom pharmaceutical company, specializing in medical diagnostics and life science products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by General Electric....
     (acquired by GE
    General Electric

    The General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational corporation United States technology and Service s conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York....
    )
  • O2 (renamed Telefónica Europe following acquisition by Telefónica
    Telefónica

    Telef?nica, S.A., is a Spain Telephone company. Operating globally, it is one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world: List of mobile network operators in terms of number of clients only behind China Mobile and Vodafone, and in the top five in market value....
    )
  • Orange
    Orange UK

    Orange UK is a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by France T?l?com....
     (acquired by France Telecom
    France Télécom

    France T?l?com is the main telecommunication company in France and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 191,000 people and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide ....
    )
  • PartyGaming
    PartyGaming

    PartyGaming Plc is an online gambling company, best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com. It is headquartered in Gibraltar and quoted on the London Stock Exchange....
  • P&O
    Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

    The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which is usually known as P&O, was a British shipping and logistics company which dated from the early 19th century....
     (acquired by Dubai Ports World
    Dubai Ports World

    DP World is a subsidiary of Dubai World, a holding company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.In March 2006, it purchased the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company of the United Kingdom, which was then the fourth largest ports operator in the world, for ?3.9 billion , beating a bid from Singapore's PSA...
    )
  • P&O Princess Cruises
    Princess Cruises

    Princess Cruises is a United States of America cruise line, with offices in the Valencia, California section of the city of Santa Clarita, California, California, and operating cruise ships....
     (acquired by Carnival
    Carnival Corporation & plc

    Carnival Corporation & PLC, a British-American-Panamanian corporation, is the world's largest cruise operator, comprising 11 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P&O Cruises, Cunard Line and Ocean Village in the United Kingdom; AIDA Cruises in Germany...
    )
  • Persimmon
    Persimmon plc

    Persimmon plc is a United Kingdom housebuilding company, headquartered in York, England, at a building called Persimmon House. The Company is named after Persimmon which won the 1896 Epsom Derby and St....
  • Petrofac
    Petrofac

    Petrofac is a group of companies involved in Petroleum industry, Natural gas, and Energy industry industries. It is registered in Jersey , with its main corporate office in Jermyn Street, London....
  • Pilkington
    Pilkington

    Pilkington plc is the largest glass manufacturer in the United Kingdom. It is based in St Helens, Merseyside, Merseyside. It was formerly an independent company listed on the London Stock Exchange and for a time was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but in 2006 it was taken over by Nippon Sheet Glass of Japan....
     (acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass
    Nippon Sheet Glass

    is a Japanese glass manufacturer. In 2006 it purchased Pilkington of the United Kingdom. This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside with another Japanese company Asahi Glass, Saint-Gobain, and Guardian Industries Corp.....
    )
  • Plessey
    Plessey

    The Plessey Company plc was a United Kingdom-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics....
     (acquired by GEC
    GEC

    The three-letter acronym GEC may mean* Goa Engineering College, Goa,India* Government Engineering College, Thrissur* Gwalior Engineering College, Gwalior,India...
     and Siemens
    Siemens

    Siemens AG is a German electrical and telecommunications companysiemens may refer to*siemens , the SI unit of electrical conductance, equivalent to 1 ampere/volt...
    )
  • Polly Peck
    Polly Peck

    Polly Peck International was a small and barely profitable United Kingdom Textile industry which expanded rapidly in the 1980's and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it collapsed in 1991....
     (collapsed)
  • PowerGen (acquired by E.ON UK
    E.ON UK

    E.ON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company. As Powergen it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but since January 2002 has been owned by by E.ON....
    )
  • Provident Financial
    Provident Financial

    Provident Financial plc is a financial services group based in Bradford, UK. It specialises in moneylender, but also owns Vanquis Bank which offers credit cards....
  • Psion
  • Punch Taverns
    Punch Taverns

    Punch Taverns plc is the largest public house and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 8,400 leased, tenanted and managed pubs. It is headquartered in the traditional brewing centre of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire....
  • Racal Electronics
    Racal

    Racal Electronics plc was once the third-largest, United Kingdom electronics firm. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before being purchased by Thomson-CSF in 2000 thereby giving the France firm access to the lucrative UK defence and armaments market....
     (acquired by Thales Group
    Thales Group

    The Thales Group is a French electronics company delivering information technology and services for the Aerospace, defence , and Security markets....
    )
  • Railtrack
    Railtrack

    Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the railroad, Railway signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the train station of the Rail transport in the United Kingdom from its formation in April 1994 until 2002....
     (collapsed)
  • Rank Hovis McDougall (now part of Premier Foods
    Premier Foods

    Premier Foods plc is a United Kingdom-based food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Reckitt and Coleman (merged with Benckiser to form Reckitt Benckiser
    Reckitt Benckiser

    Reckitt Benckiser plc is a leading United Kingdom-based manufacturer of cleaning products. It is headquartered in the town of Slough to the west of London....
    )
  • Redland
    Redland plc

    Redland plc was a leading United Kingdom building materials business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Lafarge
    Lafarge

    Lafarge is a France industrial company specialising in four major products: cement, construction aggregates, concrete and gypsum wallboard. It currently is the world's second-largest cement manufacturer by mass shipped behind Holcim....
    )
  • Reed International (merged with Elsevier to form Reed Elsevier
    Reed Elsevier

    Reed Elsevier is a global publisher and information provider. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. The Reed Elsevier group is a dual-listed company consisting of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV....
    )
  • Rentokil Initial
    Rentokil Initial

    Rentokil Initial is a major United Kingdom-based business services group. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Resolution
    Resolution plc

    Resolution plc was a UK insurance company headquartered in the City of London. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by the Pearl Group in May 2008....
  • RMC Group (acquired by Cemex
    Cemex

    Cemex S.A. de C.V. is the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. Founded in Mexico in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico and has operations extending around the world, including production facilities in 50 countries in North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa....
    )
  • Rothmans International (acquired by British American Tobacco
    British American Tobacco

    British American Tobacco Plc is a leading global tobacco company. It is based in London, United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
    )
  • J Rothschild (renamed St. James's Place
    St. James's Place

    St. James's Place plc is a leading United Kingdom-based life assurance and unit trust business. It is headquartered in Cirencester and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
    )
  • Rowntree's
    Rowntree's

    Rowntree's was a confectionery business based in York. It is now a historic brand currently owned by Nestl? SA that is used to market a range of fruit gums and pastilles formerly owned by that business....
     (acquired by Nestlé
    Nestlé

    Nestl? is a Multinational corporation packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with a turnover of over 87 billion Swiss francs....
    )
  • Royal Insurance (merged with Sun Alliance Group to form Royal & SunAlliance
    Royal & SunAlliance

    RSA Insurance Group plc is a United Kingdom general insurance company which rebranded under the RSA brand in April 2008. The company formally changed its name from Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc on 20 May 2008....
    )
  • Saatchi & Saatchi
    Saatchi & Saatchi

    Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but in 2000 it was acquired by Publicis which is headquartered in Paris....
     (acquired by Publicis
    Publicis

    Publicis Groupe is a France multinational corporation advertising and Telecommunications company. It is one of the big four global advertising holding companies ....
    )
  • Safeway
    Safeway (UK)

    Safeway was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in the United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Wm Morrison Supermarkets in March 2004: most of its 479 stores were rebranded as Morrisons, with some being sold off....
     (acquired by Morrisons
    Morrisons

    Wm Morrison Supermarkets Public Limited Company is the TNS Worldpanel chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies....
    )
  • Scottish & Newcastle
    Scottish & Newcastle

    Scottish & Newcastle plc was one of the world?s leading "long Alcoholic beverage" companies with strong positions in 15 countries, including leadership in the United Kingdom, France and Russia....
     (acquired by a consortium formed of Heineken & Carlsberg)
  • Scottish Hydro Electric
    Scottish Hydro Electric

    Scottish Hydro-Electric plc was a Public Electricity Suppliers formed on 1 August 1989 after a change of name from North of Scotland Electricity plc on that date....
     (merged with Southern Electric
    Southern Electric

    Southern Electric plc was an electricity company in the UK. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but merged with Scottish Hydro-Electric plc in 1998....
     to form Scottish and Southern Energy
    Scottish and Southern Energy

    Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a leading United Kingdom-based energy company. Its headquarters are in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
    )
  • Scottish Power
    Scottish Power

    Scottish Power Limited is a vertically integrated energy company with its headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but in 2006 it became a subsidiary of the Spanish utility Iberdrola....
     (acquired by Iberdrola
    Iberdrola

    Iberdrola, S.A., is one of the leading private electric public utility worldwide and the largest renewable energy operator in the world. Its services reach 16 million customers, over nine million in Spain....
    )
  • Sears
    Sears plc

    Sears plc was a large United Kingdom-based conglomerate. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Sir Philip Green in 1999....
     (acquired by January Investments - itself controlled by Philip Green
    Philip Green

    Sir Philip Green is a United Kingdom billionaire businessman who owns some of the United Kingdom's largest retailers, including Bhs and the Arcadia Group....
    )
  • Securicor (merged with Group 4 Falck to form G4S)
  • Sedgwick
    Sedgwick Group

    Sedgwick Group plc was a very large United Kingdom insurance broker. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Marsh & McLennan)
  • SEGRO
  • Sema Group
    Sema Group

    Sema Group plc was an Anglo-French Information technology services company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Schlumberger in 2001....
     (acquired by Schlumberger
    Schlumberger

    Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services corporation operating in approximately 80 countries, with about 87,010 people of 140 nationalities....
    )
  • Shell Transport and Trading Company (now re-organised with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company as Royal Dutch Shell
    Royal Dutch Shell

    Royal Dutch Shell public limited company, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational corporation oil company of Netherlands and United Kingdom origins....
    )
  • Siebe (merged with BTR to form Invensys
    Invensys

    Invensys plc is a United Kingdom engineering company, headquartered in London, England. The company is multinational with operations in over 60 countries, employing around 23,000 employees....
    )
  • SmithKline Beecham (merged with Glaxo Wellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
    )
  • Smiths Industries, renamed to Smiths Group
    Smiths Group

    Smiths Group is a leading United Kingdom engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering activities. It is based in London....
  • Southern Electric
    Southern Electric

    Southern Electric plc was an electricity company in the UK. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but merged with Scottish Hydro-Electric plc in 1998....
     (merged with Scottish Hydro Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy
    Scottish and Southern Energy

    Scottish and Southern Energy plc is a leading United Kingdom-based energy company. Its headquarters are in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
    )
  • Spirent
    Spirent

    Spirent Communications plc is a United Kingdom telecommunications company based in Crawley, West Sussex. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Stagecoach Group
    Stagecoach Group

    Stagecoach Group plc is an international transport group operating buses, trains, trams, express Coach es and ferry. The group was founded in 1980 by the current chairman, Brian Souter, his sister, Ann Gloag, and her former husband Robin Gloag....
  • Standard Telephones and Cables
    Standard Telephones and Cables

    Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd was a British telephone, telegraph, radio, telecommunications and related equipment research and development manufacturer....
     (renamed STC and acquired by Nortel
    Nortel

    Nortel Networks Corporation , formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, is a Multinational corporation telecommunications equipment manufacturing headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
    )
  • Storehouse
    Storehouse plc

    Storehouse plc was a large United Kingdom retail business formed through the merger of various high street chains. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it was renamed Mothercare in 2000....
     (renamed Mothercare
    Mothercare

    Mothercare plc is a United Kingdom retailer which specialises in products for Pregnancy and in general merchandise for children up to 8 years old....
    )
  • Sun Alliance Group (merged with Royal Insurance to form Royal & SunAlliance
    Royal & SunAlliance

    RSA Insurance Group plc is a United Kingdom general insurance company which rebranded under the RSA brand in April 2008. The company formally changed its name from Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc on 20 May 2008....
    )
  • Sun Life Assurance
    Sun Life & Provincial Holdings

    Sun Life & Provincial Holdings plc was a very large United Kingdom insurance company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Axa
    AXA

    AXA is a France global insurance company group headquartered in Paris. AXA is not the name of a single company but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the regulations of many different countries....
    )
  • Sun Life & Provincial Holdings
    Sun Life & Provincial Holdings

    Sun Life & Provincial Holdings plc was a very large United Kingdom insurance company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by Axa
    AXA

    AXA is a France global insurance company group headquartered in Paris. AXA is not the name of a single company but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the regulations of many different countries....
    )
  • Tarmac
    Tarmac (company)

    Tarmac is a company that is based at Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and operates internationally. The company produces aggregates and road-surfacing materials, including Tarmac, from which the company's name is derived....
     (acquired by Anglo American)
  • Taylor Wimpey
    Taylor Wimpey

    Taylor Wimpey plc is the largest United Kingdom based house building and general construction company and the fifth largest in the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a past constituent of both the FTSE 250 Index and FTSE 100 Index indices....
  • Taylor Woodrow
    Taylor Woodrow

    Taylor Woodrow Holdings Limited is one of the largest United Kingdom based housebuilding and general construction companies. Its corporate headquarters are in London and its UK construction headquarters are in Watford....
     (merged with George Wimpey
    George Wimpey

    George Wimpey Limited is one of the United Kingdom's largest housebuilders with corporate headquarters in London, England and UK operational headquarters in High Wycombe since 2001....
     to form Taylor Wimpey
    Taylor Wimpey

    Taylor Wimpey plc is the largest United Kingdom based house building and general construction company and the fifth largest in the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a past constituent of both the FTSE 250 Index and FTSE 100 Index indices....
    )
  • Telewest Communications (merged with NTL
    NTL

    NTL may refer to:* NTL Ireland, a cable television and MMDS company in the Republic of Ireland*...
     to form NTL:Telewest now Virgin Media)
  • Thames Water
    Thames Water

    Thames Water, known originally as the Thames Water Authority and after Water privatization in England as Thames Water Utilities Limited, is the Public utility responsible for water supply and wastewater treatment in parts of Greater London, Surrey, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and the Thames Valley in the United Kingdom....
     (acquired by RWE
    RWE

    RWE Aktiengesellschaft , is a German electric power and natural gas public utility company based in Essen, Germany. Through its various subsidiaries, the energy company contributes electricity and gas to more than 20 million electricity customers and 10 million gas customers, principally in Europe....
     and then sold to Macquarie Bank
    Macquarie Bank

    ----Macquarie Group Limited is a global investment banking and diversified financial services group, providing banking, financial, advisory and investment services to investors, corporations and governments....
    )
  • The Energy Group
    The Energy Group

    The Energy Group plc was a United Kingdom power generator and distributor. After it was demerged from Hanson plc in 1996 it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Texas Utilities in 1998....
     (acquired by Texas Utilities and then by E.ON UK
    E.ON UK

    E.ON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company. As Powergen it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but since January 2002 has been owned by by E.ON....
    )
  • Thorn
    THORN Electrical Industries

    Thorn Electrical Industries, Limited was an electrical engineering business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange but it merged with EMI Group to form Thorn EMI in 1979....
     (acquired by Nomura Group
    Nomura Group

    The formerly Nomura zaibatsu isone of the major industrial and financial conglomerate groupings of Japan. Osaka Nomura bank was founded by Tokushichi Nomura II in 1919 after many successful business ventures and established on the Mitsui zaibatsu model....
    )
  • Thorn EMI
    Thorn EMI

    Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979 when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it demerged again in 1996....
     (renamed EMI Group and then acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners
    Terra Firma Capital Partners

    Terra Firma Capital Partners is a European private equity firm with offices in London and Frankfurt am Main employing over 100 people. It was formed as a spin-off company from Nomura Group's Principal Finance Group in 2002 by Guy Hands and has invested ?11 billion since 1994....
    )
  • Thus
  • TI Group
    TI Group

    TI Group plc was a holding company for various specialised engineering companies. It was based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Smiths Group in 2000....
     (acquired by Smiths Group
    Smiths Group

    Smiths Group is a leading United Kingdom engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering activities. It is based in London....
    )
  • Tomkins
  • Trafalgar House
    Trafalgar House (company)

    Trafalgar House Public Limited Company was a United Kingdom conglomerate with interests in property, real estate developer, engineering, construction, shipping, hotel, energy and newspaper....
     (acquired by Kværner
    Kværner

    Kv?rner was a Norway-based engineering and construction services company in existence between 1853 and 2005 when it was merged with Aker ASA. The Kv?rner name was used in the subsidiary Aker Kv?rner until April 3rd, 2008 when it changed name to Aker Solutions....
    )
  • TSB Group
    Trustee Savings Bank

    The Trustee Savings Bank, or TSB as it was commonly known, was a British financial institution which specialised in accepting savings deposits from the poor....
     (merged with Lloyds Bank
    Lloyds Bank

    Lloyds Bank Plc was a United Kingdom commercial bank which operated in England and Wales from 1765 until its merger into Lloyds TSB in 1995....
     to form Lloyds TSB
    Lloyds TSB

    In January 2009, Lloyds TSB Group changed its name to Lloyds Banking Group. This article is now about the brand Lloyds TSB which is still operated as part of the Lloyds Banking Group....
    )
  • Trusthouse Forte (acquired by Granada)
  • Ultramar
    Ultramar plc

    Ultramar plc was a leading United Kingdom oil and gas exploration and production business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (acquired by LASMO
    Lasmo

    Lasmo plc was a leading United Kingdom oil and gas exploration and production business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     and now part of Eni
    ENI

    ENI may refer to:* Eni, the Italian oil and gas corporation ENI S.p.A.* Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia, an Argentine intelligence academy* El Nido Airport, an airport in the Philippines with IATA code ENI...
    )
  • Unigate
    Unigate

    Uniq plc is a United Kingdom food manufacturer. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (renamed Uniq)
  • United Biscuits
    United Biscuits

    __FORCETOC__United Biscuits is a United Kingdom Multinational corporation food manufacturer, makers of McVitie's biscuits, KP Snacks, Hula Hoops, The Real McCoy's crisps, Phileas Fogg snacks, Jacob's Cream cracker, and Twiglets....
     (acquired by consortium of financial investors)
  • United Business Media
    United Business Media

    United Business Media is a business providing business information services principally to the technology, healthcare, media, automotive and financial services industries....
  • Warburg SG (acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation
    Swiss Bank Corporation

    Swiss Bank Corporation is the name of a bank that existed between 1856 and 1998, when it merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS AG....
    , now part of UBS
    UBS AG

    UBS Aktiengesellschaft is a diversified global financial services company, with its main headquarters in Basel and Z?rich, Switzerland. It is the world's largest manager of private wealth assets, "the world's biggest manager of other people's money" and is also the second-largest bank in Europe, by both market capitalisation and profitabil...
    )
  • Wellcome (merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome, then with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
    )
  • W H Smith
    W H Smith

    W H Smith plc is a United Kingdom retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is best known for its chain of high street, train station, airport, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products....
  • William Hill
    William Hill (bookmaker)

    William Hill plc is one of the largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are in the north London suburb of Wood Green and in Leeds, West Yorkshire....
  • Williams Holdings
    Williams Holdings

    Williams Holdings was a major United Kingdom conglomerate. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
     (demerged into Kidde
    Kidde

    Kidde is a business that manufactures and distributes fire alarm and fire extinguisher equipment....
     and Chubb Security
    Chubb Security

    Chubb Security is an electronic security and fire safety business. It is owned by United Technologies Corporation....
    , both now part of United Technologies Corporation
    United Technologies Corporation

    United Technologies Corporation is an United States multinational corporation list of conglomerates based in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut....
    )
  • Willis Corroon (renamed Willis Group
    Willis Group Holdings

    Willis Group Holdings is an insurance broker operating throughout the world. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange instead....
    )
  • Willis Faber (renamed Willis Coroon and then Willis Group
    Willis Group Holdings

    Willis Group Holdings is an insurance broker operating throughout the world. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange instead....
    )
  • Wood Group
    Wood Group

    John Wood Group PLC is an international energy business based in Aberdeen. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Woolwich
    The Woolwich

    The Woolwich was the trading name of the Woolwich Building Society. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Barclays in 2000....
     (acquired by Barclays)
  • Yell Group
    Yell Group

    Yell Group plc is a leading publisher of international telephone directories based in Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire. The Company has its origins in the division of the privatised former British state telecommunications operator BT Group plc which produced the UK version of Yellow Pages....
  • Zeneca (merged with Astra to form AstraZeneca
    AstraZeneca

    AstraZeneca plc , is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group plc....
    )
source:

FT 30

The oldest continuous index in the UK, the FT 30, also known as the Financial Times Index or the FT Ordinary Index (FTOI), which began in 1935 is now largely redundant. It is similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of several stock market index, created by nineteenth-century The Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow....
, and companies listed are from the industrial and commercial sectors. Financial sector companies and government stocks are excluded.

Of the original constituents, three are currently in the FTSE 100: Imperial Tobacco, Tate & Lyle and Rolls-Royce, although Rolls-Royce has not been continuously listed and Imperial Tobacco was a subsidiary of Hanson
Hanson plc

Hanson plc is a United Kingdom based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead. Traded on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index for many years, the company was acquired by a division of Germany rival Heidelberg Cement in August 2007....
 for a number of years. ICI was removed when it was taken over by Akzo Nobel in January 2008. A further company, Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN
GKN

GKN plc is a leading United Kingdom engineering company. The Company was formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and can trace its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution....
), is still listed but not in the FTSE 100. Two of the original FT 30 companies are still in that index: GKN and Tate & Lyle (membership is not strictly based on market capitalisation, so this does not mean they are necessarily among the top thirty companies in the FTSE 100). The best performer from the original line-up has been Imperial Tobacco.

See also

  • FTSE 250 Index
    FTSE 250 Index

    The FTSE 250 Index is a market capitalisation-weighted index of 250 UK companies on the London Stock Exchange. They are selected quarterly as being the 101st to 350th largest companies with their primary listing on the exchange....
  • FTSE techMARK 100
    FTSE techMARK 100

    The FTSE techMARK 100 is an index derived from the FTSE techMARK All-Share Index, which represents the performance of innovative and technology companies that are listed on the London Stock Exchange "techMARK" market....
  • Stock market index
    Stock market index

    A stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are cited by news or financial services firms and are used to benchmark the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds....
  • Dow Jones
    Dow Jones Industrial Average

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of several stock market index, created by nineteenth-century The Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow....
  • DAX
    DAX

    DAX 30 The L-DAX Index is an indicator of the German benchmark DAX 30 Index's performance after the Xetra electronic-trading system closes based on the floor trading at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange....
  • AEX index
    AEX index

    The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market index composed of Netherlands companies that trade on Amsterdam Stock Exchange, formerly known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange....
  • Top Track 100
    Top Track 100

    The Top Track 100 is a list published by United Kingdom newspaper The Sunday Times each year ranking Britain's top 100 private companies by their turnover over the previous year, from published accounts....
     Sunday Times list of the 100 largest private (non-listed) companies in the UK.
  • Top Track 250
    Top Track 250

    The Top Track 250 is a list published by United Kingdom newspaper The Sunday Times each year ranking Britain's top 250 Mid-market private companies by their turnover over the previous year, from published accounts....
     Sunday Times list of the 250 mid-market (non-listed) companies in the UK.


External links

    • on Yahoo
      Yahoo!

      Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
       Finance
    • FTSE 100 profile on Wikinvest