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, IT and chief executive mailing lists) and then ranked by number of employees (best for mailing lists of HR, learning 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 lead generation.
| Top 100 Companies Ranked by Annual Turnover |
| Accenture Aegon AkzoNobel Aldi Stores Amazon Amec Foster Wheeler Anglo American Aon Asda Stores Associated British Foods AstraZeneca Aviva BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank BBC BMW Boots BP British Airways British American Tobacco British Gas British Telecommunications Bunzl Bupa Camelot Carnival Centrica Citigroup Coca-Cola Compass Group Computacenter Co-operative Group Credit Suisse Dentsu Aegis Network Deutsche Bank DHL Diageo Dixons Carphone DS Smith EDF Energy EG Group Ford Motor Company G4S GKN GlaxoSmithKline Goldman Sachs Greenergy Hays Honda HSBC Bank Imperial Brands Inchcape INEOS Jaguar Land Rover JD Sports John Lewis Partnership Johnson Matthey Kingfisher Legal & General Group Lidl Lloyd's Lloyds Banking Group Lookers Marks & Spencer Mondi Morgan Stanley National Grid NatWest Group Network Rail Nomura International Parcelforce Pentland Brands Prudential Quilter Reckitt Benckiser RELX Group Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Royal Mail Group RSA Insurance Group Sainsbury's Santander ScottishPower Sheffield Forgemasters Shell Sky SSE St James's Place Standard Chartered Bank Tesco Thomson Reuters Travis Perkins Unilever Vedanta Resources Virgin Media O2 Vodafone Volkswagen Group Wm Morrison Supermarkets Wood Group WPP Group Zurich Insurance |
| Top 100 Companies Ranked By Employee Size |
| 2 Sisters Food Group AkzoNobel Aldi Stores Amazon Anglo American Aon Arriva Asda Stores AstraZeneca Atalian Servest Aviva B&M Retail B&Q BAE Systems Bakkavor Foods Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank BBC Bestway Boots BP British Airways British American Tobacco British Telecommunications Bupa Capita Group Care UK Carnival Centrica Coats Group Coca-Cola Compass Group Co-operative Group Credit Suisse Deloitte Dentsu Aegis Network Deutsche Bank DHL Dixons Carphone EG Group FirstGroup G4S GKN GlaxoSmithKline Go-Ahead Group Greene King Greggs HSBC Bank Imperial Brands INEOS ABS Jaguar Land Rover JD Wetherspoon John Lewis Partnership Kingfisher Lidl Lloyd's Lloyds Banking Group Marks & Spencer McDonald's Restaurants McKesson Mitchells & Butlers MITIE Group Nando's National Express Group NatWest Group Network Rail Next OCS Group openreach P&O Cruises Parcelforce Pearson Pentland Brands Primark Stores Prudential Punch Pubs 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 SSE SSP Group Stagecoach Group Tesco Thomson Reuters TK Maxx Vodafone Group Whitbread Group Wm Morrison Supermarkets Wood Group WPP Group Yum! Restaurants |