As of February 2025, Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc was the leading company in the industrial goods and services sector on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), with a market capitalization of 63 billion British pounds. Second on the list was CRH Plc, with a value of 51.8 billion British pounds.

In 2023, agriculture contributed around 0.58 percent to the United Kingdom’s GDP, 17.5 percent came from the manufacturing industry, and 72.53 percent from the services sector. The UK is not a farmer’s marketThe vast majority of the UK’s GDP is generated by the services sector, and tourism in particular keeps the economy going. In 2017, almost 214 billion British Pounds were contributed to the GDP through travel and tourism – about 277 billion U.S. dollars – and the forecasts see an upwards trend. For comparison, only an estimated 10.3 billion GBP were generated by the agriculture sector in the same year. But is it a tourist’s destination still? Though forecasts are not in yet, it is unclear whether travel and tourism can keep the UK’s economy afloat in the future, especially after Brexit and all its consequences. Higher travel costs, having to wait for visas, and overall more complicated travel arrangements are just some of the concerns tourists have when considering vacationing in the UK after Brexit. Consequences of the referendum are already observable in the domestic travel industry: In 2017, about 37 percent of British travelers said Brexit caused them to cut their holidays short by a few days, and about 14 percent said they did not leave the UK for their holidays because of it.

Employment by industry and sex, UK, published quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

Compass Group had by far the highest number of global employees among companies based in the United Kingdom as of 2024, at approximately 500,000 employees. Tesco had the second-highest number of employees at 345,000, followed by HSBC Holdings which had 213,978 employees. As of the same year, HSBC Holdings had an annual revenue of 144.9 billion U.S. dollars, the third-highest among UK-based companies. The oil and gas giant Shell had the highest annual revenue at 289.7 billion dollars, ahead of BP at 202.8 billion dollars. How many businesses are there in the UK? In 2024, there were approximately 5.5 million business enterprises in the UK, down from a peak of 5.98 million in 2020. Although there were just 1,930 large firms that employed 1,000 people or more, these firms employed more than a quarter of the UK's private sector workforce, and made a combined turnover of approximately 1.69 trillion British pounds. As of this year, the construction industry had the highest number of enterprises by sector, at over 870,000. The sector with the most workers was that of wholesale and retail, which collectively employed just under 4.9 million people in 2024, and also had the highest turnover compared to other sectors, at over 1.8 trillion pounds. Current UK economic climate In some ways, the UK economy is in a reasonably good position in 2024. There was moderate economic growth in the first half of the year, inflation has returned to more usual levels, and unemployment has remained low. According to the business confidence index, however, the current sentiment among businesses in September 2024 was lower than it has been since early 2021. Furthermore, the number of company insolvencies in England and Wales has steadily been increasing, with 25,000 taking place in 2023, and 22,000 in 2022, compared with just 14,000 in 2021. When SME leaders were asked in 2023, what the main obstacles to running their business were, 36 percent said increasing costs. The precarious state of the UK's government finances, and potential tax rises in the next budget, are also likely feeding into this pessimistic mood.

This dataset is about companies in the United Kingdom. It has 244,925 rows. It features one column called company.

Numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 8 March 2024.

This industry involves the publishing of lists of facts and information like databases that are protected in their form, but not in their content. These lists can be published in printed or electronic form.

This statistic shows the revenue of the industry “publishing of directories and mailing lists“ in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2019, with a forecast to 2025. It is projected that the revenue of publishing of directories and mailing lists in the United Kingdom will amount to approximately 87.06 million U.S. Dollars by 2025.

The 20,000+ registered companies with a registered address in Glasgow. The information is extracted from Companies House. It includes the company name, number, category (private limited, partnership), registered address, postcode, industry (SIC code), status (ex: active or liquidation), incorporation date... It is likely that some companies may just lie off Glasgow City Council's boundary. If you find a problem in the data, you can check the source either in the full UK list or by looking up a company or let us know. The data dictionary supplied by Companies House can be viewed here. There is also a data dictionary with field names and meanings contained in the resources. This dataset does not imply: - a partnership with Companies House - an endorsement by Companies House - a product approval by Companies House Licence: None glasgow-post-codes-py.txt - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cc57ac4b-12d5-43b1-ad25-434638eec18c/Dataset/3093e34f-6dcb-4980-840b-965421c1b091/File/c2634107-bd43-4537-adb8-9046aeed844e/Version/c8fde78e-5396-4293-ac35-6f6c96a5d642

Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by broad industry group Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

A list of fast facts on the performance of each sector of the UK economy.

These data were generated as part of a two-and-a-half-year ESRC-funded research project examining the digitalisation of higher education (HE) and the educational technology (Edtech) industry in HE. Building on a theoretical lens of assetisation, it focused on forms of value in the sector, and governance challenges of digital data. It followed three groups of actors: UK universities, Edtech companies, and investors in Edtech. The researchers first sought to develop an overview of the Edtech industry in HE by building three databases on Edtech companies, investors in Edtech, and investment deals, using data downloaded from Crunchbase, a proprietary platform. Due to Crunchbase’s Terms of Service, only parts of one database are allowed to be submitted to this repository, i.e. a list of companies with the project’s classification. A report offering descriptive analysis of all three databases was produced and is submitted as well. A qualitative discursive analysis was conducted by analysing seven documents in depth. In the second phase, researchers conducted interviews with participants representing three groups of actors (n=43) and collected documents on their organisations. Moreover, a list of documents collected from Big Tech (Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce) were collected to contextualise the role of global digital infrastructure in HE. Due to commercial sensitivity, only lists of documents collected about investors and Big Tech are submitted to the repository. Researchers then conducted focus groups (n=6) with representatives of universities (n=19). The dataset includes transcripts of focus groups and outputs of writing by participants during the focus group. Finally, a public consultation was held via a survey, and 15 participants offered qualitative answers.

This statistic shows the revenue of leading software companies in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2011. Sage was the top performing software company in the United Kingdom with 1,871.63 million U.S dollars in revenue. Out of all the companies featured in the list for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Sage ranked 5th.

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UK Manufacturers’ Sales by Product Survey (ProdCom) is a European Union (EU) wide survey of production mainly for the manufacturing industries collected under Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91. PRODCOM is classified to the Commerce Energy and Industry National Statistics Theme Group. Manufacturing (excluding recycling) and mineral extraction are sub-divided into a list of around 3,800 products. Companies selected for ProdCom supply value sales data (as a proxy for production) for the products they manufacture, as well as non-manufacturing income. In addition, companies in approximately three quarters of the covered industries supply volume sales data.

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These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. You may consider applying for other business data to assist your research.

Latest Edition Information
For the sixteenth edition (May 2025), annual data for 2011 and 2018-2022 have been updated and a new data file for 2023 has been added to the study. A new Variable Catalogue for the same time period has been added, along with a Question Library file for 2023.

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Businesses are asked for the value of sales for all of their products. Some industries are also asked for the volume of products they manufacture. They are also asked for merchanted goods (goods purchased for resale without processing), work done (work done on material supplied by a customer), waste products (value of sales of waste products) and non-production income (income derived from provision of services and non-production activities). If sales of a particular product are less than £25,000, these can be recorded as ‘other sales’ rather than being split by product.

With 10.12 billion U.S. dollars in sales revenue, DS Smith topped the list of paper manufacturing companies in the UK in 2023. The next two spots were taken by Kimberly-Clark Europe Limited and Essity UK Limited, who earned 1.71 billion and 1.15 billion U.S. dollars, respectively. DS Smith is a London-based global leader in sustainable packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services.

The Ice Cream Manufacturing industry is dominated by large brands, with major players like Froneri Ice Cream and Unilever UK holding more than four-fifths of the market. Ice cream sales are susceptible to changes in weather conditions, disposable incomes and diet trends. The cost-of-living squeeze, which has plagued the UK economy since 2022-23, has led to a hike in cheaper discount products, shifting the industry heavily. Unilever ice cream has been most affected, and the shortfall in sales due to discount supermarket alternatives has led the company to list its ice cream segment. Rising health consciousness has spurred growth in the frozen yoghurt segment more recently, but top players have also brought out low-calorie and vegan ranges of popular products to cater to the increasingly health-conscious markets. Over the five years through 2024-25, industry revenue is expected to edge downwards at a compound annual rate of 0.2% to £578.6 million, mainly because of import competition and rising health consciousness. Fluctuating input costs have continued to affect profit levels; however, the easing cost-of-living crisis should aid sales over the year through 2024-25, with revenue growing by 2.6% as consumer confidence is set to improve with inflation and GDP improving. Ice cream makers' revenue is forecast to dip at a compound annual rate of 0.3% over the five years through 2029-30 to reach £571 million. Producers' ongoing efforts to mitigate seasonal fluctuations in demand will help stabilise growth. However, weather conditions and input prices will likely still weigh down on revenue and profitability. Rising health consciousness will continue to hurt sales, but innovation is on track to be a notable driver of expansion in the coming years, with new and unique recipes growing in popularity.

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