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This is a list of largest United Kingdom employers. There are four main kinds of employers, public sector bodies; public listed companies (plc) such as those on the FTSE 100; private companies (ltd), partnerships (often LLP) or other traders; charitable sector organisations
List of largest financial services companies by revenue; List of the largest software companies; List of largest Internet companies; List of largest technology companies by revenue; List of private-equity firms; List of largest companies by revenue; List of public corporations by market capitalization; List of largest corporate profits and losses
Pie chart of UK government spending, 2023–24. [2]The most significant area of government spending is welfare (£341 billion in financial year 2023-24), [2] with the largest single element of this being for the State Pension, which totals £124 billion.
In 2007, the UK had the world's third largest current account deficit, due mainly to a large deficit in manufactured goods. In May 2008, the IMF advised the UK government to broaden the scope of fiscal policy to promote external balance. [89] The UK's output per hour worked was on a par with the average for the "old" EU-15 countries. [90]
J.P. Morgan Chase does not operate bank branches in the UK but has offices in London (which serves as the headquarters), Bournemouth, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Bournemouth office is the largest private sector employer in Dorset, while in Glasgow J.P. Morgan is one of the largest technology employers in Scotland. [8]
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ...
The city's top 10 private employers include companies in health care, manufacturing, clothing, food, printing, banking and transportation.
During the 1980s, the company was Britain's largest private employer with over 250,000 employees; becoming one of the first companies in the new FTSE 100 Index in 1984. It made profits in excess of £1 billion per year at its peak in the 1990s. In June 1998, GEC sold its share of the joint venture GEC-Alsthom on the Paris stock exchange. [1]