Ranking Companies By Annual Sales Or Number of Employees Works Best For B2B Marketing Campaigns
Most b2b marketers want at least one client from the top rank: the sort of client name that everyone will recognise. Our series of mailing lists of the Top 1,000 Companies meets that need to target large firms; the companies with big ideas and big budgets to match.
To show the sort of companies you will find on a Top 1000 list, here is a list of the UK's top 100 companies, ranked firstly by turnover (best for marketing director, finance director and chief executive mailing lists) and then ranked by number of employees (best for mailing lists of personnel and training managers).
You will find that our lists differ from those on the financial pages of newspapers, which rank companies by market capitalisation (share price multiplied by number of shares issued). This method of ranking excludes privately owned companies, such as Mars, partnerships such as John Lewis (aka Waitrose) and companies quoted on European and US stock markets such as Nestle and Microsoft. The financial press rankings suit investors, while our rankings are better for marketing, emailing and telemarketing purposes.
| Top 100 Companies Ranked by Annual Turnover |
| Accenture Aegon AkzoNobel Aldi Stores Allergan Amec Foster Wheeler Anglo American Aon Asda Stores Associated British Foods AstraZeneca Aviva BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank BMW Booker Boots BP British Airways British American Tobacco British Gas British Telecommunications Bunzl Bupa Carnival Centrica Citigroup Coca-Cola Compass Group Co-operative Group Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank DHL Diageo Dixons Carphone EDF Energy EE Ferguson FirstGroup Ford Motor Company G4S GKN GlaxoSmithKline Goldman Sachs Hays Home Retail Group Honda HSBC Bank Imperial Brands Inchcape INEOS Jaguar Land Rover John Lewis Partnership Johnson Matthey Kingfisher Legal & General Group Lloyd's Lloyds Banking Group Marks & Spencer Morgan Stanley National Grid Nissan Motor Manufacturing Nomura International O2 Old Mutual Pendragon Prudential Reckitt Benckiser RELX Group Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Royal Bank of Scotland Group Royal Mail Group RSA Insurance Group Sainsbury's Santander ScottishPower Shell Sky Smith & Nephew Sophos SSE St James's Place Standard Chartered Bank Standard Life Aberdeen Sytner Group Tesco Thomson Reuters Total Travis Perkins Unilever Vedanta Resources Vodafone Volkswagen Group Waitrose Wm Morrison Supermarkets Wood Group WPP Group Zurich Insurance |
| Top 100 Companies Ranked By Employee Size |
| 2 Sisters Food Group Accenture AkzoNobel Aldi Stores Allergan Amazon Anglo American Aon Arcadia Group Asda Stores AstraZeneca Aviva B&M Retail B&Q BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank Bestway Boots BP British Airways British American Tobacco British Gas British Telecommunications Bupa Capita Group Centrica CGI Europe Compass Group UK & Ireland Co-operative Group Cordant Group Credit Suisse Debenhams Dentsu Aegis Network Deutsche Bank DHL Dixons Carphone Federal-Mogul Aftermarkets Ferguson FirstGroup Four Seasons Health Care G4S GKN GlaxoSmithKline Go-Ahead Group Greene King Greggs Hilton International Hotels Home Retail Group HSBC Bank Imperial Brands Interserve Intertek Group Jaguar Land Rover JD Wetherspoon John Lewis Partnership Kingfisher Lloyd's Lloyds Banking Group Manpower Marks & Spencer McDonald's Restaurants Mitchells & Butlers MITIE Group National Express Group Next OCS Group Old Mutual P&O Cruises Pearson Pentland Brands Pilkington Primark Stores Prudential Reckitt Benckiser RELX Group Rentokil Initial Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Royal Mail Group RSA Insurance Group Sainsbury's Serco Group Sky Smiths Group Sodexo Specsavers SSP Group Stagecoach Group Tesco Thomson Reuters Vodafone Group Waitrose Whitbread Group Wm Morrison Supermarkets WPP Group Yum Restaurants |