Forbes Global 2000: UK’s Largest Companies
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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of British companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 95 British companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $2.319 trillion, with $13.984 trillion in assets; generating $2.169 trillion in revenues and $115 billion in profits.
The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of British companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 95 British companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $2.319 trillion, with $13.984 trillion in assets; generating $2.169 trillion in revenues and $115 billion in profits.
Click on the companies’ names to find out more information on the company, including the type of industry it is in and its listing name in the stock exchange.
Alternatively, you can browse other Forbes Global 2000 companies, by country, at the end of this article.
| Global Rank | Company | Sales ($billion) |
Profits ($billion) |
Assets ($billion) |
Market Value ($billion) |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings | 104.9 | 14.3 | 2684.1 | 201.3 |
| 18 | BP | 370.9 | 11.6 | 301 | 130.4 |
| 33 | Vodafone | 74.4 | 11.1 | 219.9 | 135.7 |
| 65 | Prudential | 90.2 | 3.6 | 489.4 | 44.7 |
| 98 | Standard Chartered | 26.9 | 4.9 | 636.5 | 64.4 |
| 105 | Tesco | 102.8 | 4.5 | 81.1 | 46.9 |
| 112 | GlaxoSmithKline | 43 | 7.4 | 63.5 | 111.1 |
| 149 | AstraZeneca | 28.6 | 6.4 | 52.5 | 58 |
| 159 | British American Tobacco | 24.1 | 6.1 | 44.2 | 102 |
| 163 | BG Group | 19.3 | 4.6 | 64.4 | 60.6 |
| 179 | National Grid | 21.7 | 3.3 | 75.6 | 40.7 |
| 188 | SABMiller | 16.7 | 4.3 | 55 | 84.1 |
| 208 | Legal & General Group | 56.9 | 1.3 | 562.9 | 15.5 |
| 221 | BT Group | 30.9 | 3.2 | 37.3 | 32.5 |
| 224 | Old Mutual | 32.2 | 1.9 | 230.4 | 15.5 |
| 242 | Diageo | 16.9 | 3 | 34.5 | 76.4 |
| 245 | Centrica | 38.9 | 2.1 | 35.4 | 27.7 |
| 287 | Standard Life | 31.2 | 1.1 | 283 | 13.5 |
| 291 | Rolls-Royce Holding | 19.8 | 3.7 | 28.9 | 30.7 |
| 296 | Imperial Tobacco Group | 23.7 | 1.1 | 44.4 | 35.2 |
| 319 | Reckitt Benckiser Group | 15.6 | 3 | 24.4 | 51.2 |
| 325 | BAE Systems | 26.3 | 1.7 | 36.2 | 18.8 |
| 355 | WPP | 16.9 | 1.3 | 40.3 | 20.7 |
| 390 | Lloyds Banking Group | 75.6 | -2.3 | 1495.9 | 53.8 |
| 400 | Barclays | 55.7 | -1.7 | 2422.5 | 62.3 |
| 420 | Royal Bank of Scotland | 42.1 | -9.4 | 2133.1 | 52 |
| 435 | Rio Tinto | 51 | -3 | 117.6 | 98.5 |
| 471 | Compass Group | 27.3 | 1 | 14.4 | 23.1 |
| 473 | Aon | 11.5 | 1 | 30.5 | 18.7 |
| 493 | Associated British Foods | 19.8 | 0.9 | 16.2 | 22.7 |
| 502 | Reed Elsevier | 9.9 | 1.7 | 17.9 | 25.6 |
| 520 | J Sainsbury | 35.7 | 1 | 19.7 | 10.4 |
| 520 | Aviva | 69 | -5.1 | 512.7 | 14.5 |
| 522 | Anglo American | 29.4 | -1.5 | 78.1 | 39.9 |
| 539 | SSE | 50.8 | 0.3 | 31.1 | 21.2 |
| 576 | Wim Morrison Supermarkets | 28.8 | 1 | 16.6 | 9.5 |
| 642 | Ensco | 6.8 | 1.8 | 18.5 | 14.1 |
| 643 | Kingfisher | 16.8 | 0.9 | 15.6 | 10.3 |
| 679 | Delphi Automotive | 15.5 | 1.1 | 10.2 | 13.6 |
| 700 | British Sky Broadcasting | 10.7 | 1.4 | 8.6 | 21.6 |
| 731 | RSA Insurance Group | 14.4 | 0.6 | 33.4 | 6.3 |
| 753 | Pearson | 8.2 | 0.5 | 18.1 | 14.9 |
| 756 | Antofagasta | 6.7 | 1 | 12.9 | 16.1 |
| 759 | Marks & Spencer | 15.9 | 0.8 | 11.6 | 9.1 |
| 900 | London Stock Exchange | 1.1 | 0.8 | 163.6 | 5.7 |
| 912 | International Airlines | 23.9 | -1.2 | 25.6 | 7.6 |
| 923 | Evraz Group | 16.4 | 0.5 | 17 | 5.4 |
| 924 | Investec | 5.8 | 0.4 | 82.1 | 6.5 |
| 979 | GKN | 10.6 | 0.8 | 9.7 | 6.8 |
| 999 | Land Securities Group | 1.1 | 0.8 | 17.3 | 9.8 |
| 1006 | Johnson Matthey | 19.3 | 0.5 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
| 1013 | Subsea 7 | 6.3 | 0.8 | 10.5 | 8.3 |
| 1076 | Vedanta Resources | 14 | 0.1 | 45.4 | 4.7 |
| 1098 | Schroders | 2.3 | 0.4 | 23.8 | 9.2 |
| 1120 | Next | 5.6 | 0.8 | 3 | 10 |
| 1133 | Tullow Oil | 2.4 | 0.6 | 9.4 | 17.2 |
| 1202 | Petrofac | 6.5 | 0.6 | 5.3 | 8.1 |
| 1206 | British Land | 0.6 | 0.8 | 13 | 7.5 |
| 1277 | United Utilities | 2.5 | 0.5 | 16 | 7.1 |
| 1283 | Smith & Nephew | 4.2 | 0.7 | 5.5 | 10.2 |
| 1293 | Polyus Gold International | 2.8 | 0.9 | 5.6 | 9.8 |
| 1318 | Essar Energy | 16.7 | -0.6 | 17.4 | 2.9 |
| 1350 | Eurasian Natural Resources | 6.3 | -0.8 | 20.2 | 6.8 |
| 1414 | Rexam | 7 | 0.3 | 9.9 | 6.3 |
| 1451 | Direct Line Insurance | 6.1 | 0.3 | 18.8 | 4.7 |
| 1464 | Capita | 5.4 | 0.4 | 6.3 | 8.7 |
| 1487 | Mondi | 7.7 | 0.3 | 8.7 | 6.4 |
| 1489 | Bunzl | 8.7 | 0.3 | 4.8 | 6.5 |
| 1498 | G4S | 11.9 | 0.1 | 9.1 | 6.4 |
| 1517 | EasyJet | 6.2 | 0.4 | 6.9 | 6.4 |
| 1526 | Travis Perkins | 7.9 | 0.4 | 7.1 | 5 |
| 1540 | InterContinental Hotels | 1.9 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 8.1 |
| 1551 | Weir Group | 4.1 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 7.9 |
| 1554 | ICAP | 2.7 | 0.2 | 129.9 | 3.2 |
| 1571 | Burberry Group | 3 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 9.7 |
| 1602 | Smiths Group | 4.7 | 0.4 | 5.3 | 7.8 |
| 1636 | ARM Holdings | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 19.6 |
| 1647 | Serco Group | 7.8 | 0.4 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 1654 | Tate & Lyle | 4.9 | 0.5 | 4.6 | 5.8 |
| 1664 | Aggreko | 2.6 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 8 |
| 1671 | FirstGroup | 10.7 | 0.3 | 8.4 | 1.5 |
| 1680 | Balfour Beauty | 15.4 | 0.1 | 9.2 | 2.9 |
| 1683 | Thomas Cook Group | 15.3 | -0.9 | 9.2 | 1.6 |
| 1704 | ITV | 3.6 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 7.8 |
| 1726 | Carphone Warehouse | 0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| 1778 | Whitbread | 2.8 | 0.4 | 4.7 | 7 |
| 1779 | AMEC | 6.8 | 0.4 | 4 | 4.8 |
| 1812 | Vesuvius | 2.5 | 0.9 | 3 | 1.7 |
| 1813 | Sage Group | 2.2 | 0.5 | 4 | 6.1 |
| 1843 | Inchcape | 9.6 | 0.3 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
| 1854 | Willis Group Holdings | 3.5 | -0.4 | 15.1 | 6.6 |
| 1892 | Dixons Retail | 13.3 | -0.3 | 4.7 | 1.9 |
| 1941 | Severn Trent | 2.8 | 0.3 | 12.3 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | Aberdeen Asset Management | 1.4 | 0.3 | 6.5 | 7.5 |
| 1987 | IMI | 3.5 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 6.6 |
All Forbes Global 2000 Companies – By Country
