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 |
| Aldi Stores Amazon Anglo American Aon Asda Stores Associated British Foods AstraZeneca Aviva BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank Barratt Developments Boots BP British Airways British American Tobacco BT Bunzl Bupa Carnival Centrica Citigroup Coca-Cola Compass Group Computacenter Co-operative Group Credit Suisse Currys Dentsu Deutsche Bank DHL Diageo Drax Power DS Smith easyJet EDF Energy EG Group Ford Motor Company Frasers Group G4S Goldman Sachs Greenergy GSK Haleon Hallo Healthcare Group 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 London Stock Exchange M&G Marks & Spencer Mondi Morgan Stanley National Grid NatWest Group Nomura International Phoenix Life Reckitt Benckiser RELX Group Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Royal London Group Royal Mail Group RSA Insurance Group Sainsbury's Santander ScottishPower Shell Sky Smith & Nephew Sony SSE St James's Place Standard Chartered Bank Tesco Thomson Reuters TUI Unilever Virgin Media O2 Vodafone Volkswagen Group Wm Morrison Supermarkets Wood Group WPP Group Zurich Insurance |
| Top 100 Companies Ranked By Employee Size |
| AkzoNobel Aldi Stores Amazon Amey Anglo American Aon Arriva Asda Stores AstraZeneca Atalian Servest AtkinsRealis Aviva B&M Retail B&Q Babcock International Group BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Barclays Bank Boots British Airways British American Tobacco BT Group Bunzl Bupa Capita Group Care UK Centrica Coats Group Compass Group Co-operative Group Credit Suisse Currys Deloitte Dentsu Deutsche Bank DHL Dominos Pizza EG Group FirstGroup Four Seasons Health Care G4S GKN GlaxoSmithKline Go-Ahead Group Greene King Greggs GSK Haleon Hallo Heathcare Group HSBC Bank Imperial Brands INEOS ABS ISS Jaguar Land Rover JD Sports 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 Nationwide Building Society NatWest Group Next Ocado OCS Group openreach P&O Cruises Parcelforce Pearson Pentland Brands Poundland Practice Plus Group PricewaterhouseCoopers Primark Stores Punch Pubs Rentokil Initial Rolls-Royce Royal Mail Group RSA Insurance Group Santander Sainsbury's Serco Group Sky Smith & Nephew Smiths Group Sodexo Specsavers SSP Group Stagecoach Group Tesco Thomson Reuters TK Maxx Travis Perkins TUI Whitbread Group Wincanton Wm Morrison Supermarkets Wood Group WPP Group Yum! Restaurants |