Britain’s biggest companies

The list of the biggest companies in the UK gives insight into the makeup of the UK’s economy, which is the sixth or seventh largest economy in the world (depending on what statistics you take)

• HSBC Holdings (Market cap – £134 billion)
• Unilever (£132.9 billion)
• BP (£110.8 billion)
• BHP (£108.7 billion)
• AstraZeneca (£82.6 billion)
• Rio Tinto (£81.6 billion) …
• GlaxoSmithKline (£81 billion)
• Diageo (£80.4 billion)
• British American Tobacco (£66.7 billion
• Reckitt Benckiser Group (£46.8 billion)

Source: IG Index

 

 

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