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Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
is home to the UK headquarters:
- Asda Walmart - Supermarket chain
- Arla FoodsArla FoodsArla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Århus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia. Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000.Arla Foods is the seventh...
- UK subsidiary of this Danish company - The Big Word - one of the UK's biggest translation and interpreting services companies
- CapitaCapita GroupThe Capita Group Plc , commonly known as Capita Group or Capita, is a business process outsourcing and recruitment company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest business process outsourcing company in the UK, with an overall market share of 27% in 2009, and has clients in...
- FTSE 100 listed company concerned with business process outscourcing - Careers Seeker - Online jobs board
- Carlsberg UK - formerly Carlsberg Tetley
- Country Style Foods - Food product manufacturer
- De Goodwill Education Limited - Educational Services, Leeds city centre
- Empiredirect.co.uk - online electrical warehouse
- Eaves & Co, Specialist Tax Advisors - A firm of specialist tax advisors based in LeedsLeedsLeeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
city centre - First DirectFirst DirectFirst Direct is a telephone and internet-based retail bank in the United Kingdom, a division of HSBC Bank plc. First Direct has headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and has 1.16 million customers....
- a subsidiary of HSBCHSBCHSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine... - Footprint Impression Management - a marketing and PR agency specialising in leisure and tourism
- GHDGood Hair DayGood Hair Day, commonly referred to as ghd, is a manufacturer of hair care products. It is based in Leeds, UK.- History :The company was founded in January 2001 by Martin Penny, Gary Douglas and Robert Powls, who collaborated to purchase the rights to produce a particular style of hair...
- Global HQ for Hair Fashion Company. - Groundcare Solutions LTD - www.lemal.co.uk - grounds maintenance company http://www.lemal.co.uk
- Goldenfry Foods - Food product manufacturer based in WetherbyWetherbyWetherby is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh...
. - - Hayward Commercial Chartered Surveyors - Chartered Surveyors and Commercial Property Agents based in Horsforth, Leeds
- House Wow Ltd www.HouseWow.co.uk - A Home stagingHome stagingHome staging is the act of preparing a private residence for sale in the real estate marketplace. The goal of staging is to make a home appealing to the highest number of potential buyers, thereby selling a property more swiftly and for more money...
, Declutter and Show home Company with Head office based in LeedsLeedsLeeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, West YorkshireWest YorkshireWest Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
http://www.housewow.co.uk - Ina4.com Web Designers In Leeds - Creative Web Design and Marketing Agency based in Pudsey, Leeds
- Jet2.comJet2.comJet2.com Limited is a British low-cost airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, England. It operates services from eight UK bases to 54 destinations. The airline also offers contract charter and air cargo services. Its main base and headquarters is at Leeds Bradford Airport, with smaller bases at...
- low cost airline - Leeds BreweryLeeds BreweryThe Leeds Brewery is an independent brewery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It should not be confused with the Tetley's Brewery on Hunslet Road in Leeds, which is sometimes known as "the Leeds brewery".-History:...
- Leeds Building SocietyLeeds Building SocietyLeeds Building Society was established as the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society in 1875 and is now the 5th largest in the UK and serves approximately 650,000 customers. The society was renamed to Leeds Building Society in September 2005. It has 70 branches across the UK, with 29 located in...
- formerly known as Leeds and Holbeck Building Society - Leeds City Television Ltd- www.leedstelevision.co.uk - Local TVLocal TVLocal TV LLC is a limited liability corporation, owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners , which operates 18 local network-affiliated television stations in the United States.-History:...
, LeedsLeedsLeeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, West YorkshireWest YorkshireWest Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
http://www.leedstelevision.co.uk - LiftPort - carbon nanotube technology
- Macfarlane Transport - a road haulage company
- Morrish Solicitors LLPMorrish Solicitors LLPMorrish Solicitors LLP is a law firm in the United Kingdom. It is the only Leeds-based firm to act nationally as Trade union specialists. First established in Leeds in 1882 by sole practitioner Harold James, the firm became HB James and Morrish circa 1915...
- firm of Solicitors in Leeds city centre, Yeadon and Pudsey - Nampak Cartons
- Northern FoodsNorthern FoodsNorthern Foods Ltd is a British food manufacturer headquartered in Leeds, England. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. The company was scheduled to merge with Greencore Group in 2011 to form Essenta Foods, the group being...
- ready meals & food brands - Northern Gas Networks LimitedNorthern Gas Networks LimitedNorthern Gas Networks Limited is the British company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria, England...
, Natural gas distributor and network - OptareOptareOptare plc is a bus manufacturer and importer based in Leeds and Blackburn, UK. The company operates from three main business units, Bus Manufacturing, Coach Sales and Unitec....
- a busBusA bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
manufacturer - Pickersgill Kaye - Manufacturers of locking mechanisms
- Premier HazardPremier HazardPremier Hazard is a manufacturer of emergency vehicle warning equipment, based in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.They develop and manufacture sirens, lightbars, beacons and other vehicle electrical equipment for emergency service vehicles such as Police, Fire, Ambulance, utility and...
– manufacturer of emergency vehicle warning equipment - Q Hotels
- Rockstar LeedsRockstar LeedsRockstar Leeds is a British video game developer. Based in the eponymous city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, Rockstar Leeds has primarily published handheld games for Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance , as well as developing Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and the Grand Theft Auto Stories games for the...
- Segway UK
- Supercook - Food product manufacturer based in Sherburn in Elmet.
- Town Centre Securities - property developer
- WITS Warehouse Solutions - Warehouse management systemWarehouse management systemA warehouse management system, or WMS, is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking...
programmers. - Wharfedale - Manufacturer of audio/visual consumer items.
- Whizz-Go - city centre Car Rental Club
- Yorkshire BankYorkshire BankYorkshire Bank is a commercial bank in England and Wales, a division of Clydesdale Bank, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank. It mostly operates in the North of England, especially in Yorkshire. In 2006 underlying profit rose 16.7 per cent to £454 million compared with a...
- a subsidiary of National Australia BankNational Australia BankNational Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation... - Yorkshire Post NewspapersYorkshire Post NewspapersYorkshire Post Newspapers are publishers of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post. They are based at offices in Wellington Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire...
- a subsidiary of Johnston Press plc - Yorkshire TelevisionYorkshire TelevisionYorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
- a subsidiary of ITV plcITV plcITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...
Companies formerly headquartered in Leeds
- Ainsleys - a bakers and sandwich retailer
- BurtonBurton (clothes retailer)Burton is a large United Kingdom high street clothing retailer. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but is now part of the Arcadia Group.-History:...
- a tailor currently owned by the Arcadia GroupArcadia GroupThe Arcadia Group Limited a British company that owns the high street clothing retailers Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop, Wallis and BHS, and the out of town chain Outfit, which sells lines from the other group chains...
that is headquartered in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... - J&H McLaren & Co.J&H McLaren & Co.J&H McLaren was a British engineering company in Hunslet, Leeds, England, that manufactured traction engines, stationary engines and later, diesel engines....
Steam tractionSteam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be...
and Diesel EngineDiesel engineA diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber...
Manufacturers, Taken over by Hawker Siddley & shut down in 1959. - John Fowler & Co.John Fowler & Co.thumb|right|John Fowler & Co. [[steam roller]] of 1923John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a...
Steam Traction and Ploughing engine manufacturers, Taken over by Marshall, Sons & Co.Marshall, Sons & Co.-External links:* – at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia... - J Hepworth & Son - formerly a tailor it was renamed Next in the 1980s and is now based in Enderby, LeicestershireLeicestershireLeicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
- Kitson & Co.Kitson & Co.Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-Early history:The company started as James Kitson at the Airedale Foundry, off Pearson Street, Hunslet in 1835 with Charles Todd as a partner...
- Former LocomotiveLocomotiveA locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
builders, Failed in the 1930s, & remains sold to Robert Stephenson and HawthornsRobert Stephenson and HawthornsRobert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd was a locomotive builder with works in North East England.-History:The company was formed in September 1937 when Robert Stephenson and Company, which was based in Darlington took over the locomotive building department of Hawthorn Leslie and Company, based in...
. - Leeds Permanent Building SocietyLeeds Permanent Building SocietyThe Leeds Permanent Building Society was a building society founded in Leeds, England in 1846 and was commonly known in a shortened form as The Leeds...
- also known as The Leeds it was bought by the Halifax in 1995 which in turn merged with Bank of ScotlandBank of ScotlandThe Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial and clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the second oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to...
. However there continues to be a significant HBOSHBOSHBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group having been taken over in January 2009...
office presence in the city of Leeds - Marks & SpencerMarks & SpencerMarks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...
- founded in Leeds Kirkgate MarketLeeds Kirkgate MarketLeeds Kirkgate Market is a market in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on Vicar Lane. It is the largest covered market in Europe. There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week.-History:...
as a penny bazaar it has long since been headquartered in London. - Planet OnlinePlanet OnlinePlanet Online was a UK business-to-business Internet Service Provider. Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995....
- latterly known as Energis Squared, business ISP bought by EnergisEnergisEnergis Communications Limited, briefly Telecom Electric, or more usually just Energis was a 'technology driven communications company' based in the UK and Ireland...
and now part of Cable & WirelessCable & WirelessCable & Wireless Worldwide PLC is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. Cable & Wireless specialises in providing communication networks and services to large corporates, governments, carrier customers and resellers...
. - Premier FarnellPremier FarnellPremier Farnell plc is a leading British distributor of electronic components supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally. Premier Farnell markets and distributes a comprehensive range of products and services throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific with...
- electronic component distributor worldwide (HQ now in London). - SchofieldsSchofields (department store)Schofields was a department store that operated on The Headrow in Leeds, England from 1901 to 1996. For much of the 20th century Schofields, alongside rival Lewis's, was regarded as being the pinnacle of shopping in Leeds city centre....
- a department store on The HeadrowThe HeadrowThe Headrow is an avenue in Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. It holds many of the city's premier shopping, civic and cultural attractions including Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Central Library, Leeds Art Gallery, The Henry Moore Institute and The Light...
in Leeds which was bought by House of FraserHouse of FraserHouse of Fraser is a British department store group with over 60 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891 it was known as Fraser & Sons. The company grew steadily during the early 20th century, but after the Second...
in 1988 and latterly closed in 1996. - Thurstons - a bakers and sandwich retailer which had been taken over by GreggsGreggsGreggs plc is the largest specialist retail bakery chain in the United Kingdom. It was established in the 1930s as a single shop but has approximately 1,500 outlets....
in the 1990s and subsequently rebranded as Greggs. - WaddingtonsWaddingtonsWaddingtons was a publisher of card and board games in the United Kingdom. The company was founded by John Waddington of Leeds, England and Wilson Barratt, under the name Waddingtons Limited...
- a maker of board games which was taken over by the American toy company HasbroHasbroHasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...
and has since had production of board games moved out of the city.