2015 List of Largest Employers
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A list of the largest manufacturing and industrial companies in the UK based on the number of persons they employ in the UK.
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| Company | UK Employees |
Worldwide Employees |
Revenue | Notes |
| Aerospace and Defence | ||||
| Babcock International Group | 29,000 | 34,000 | ||
| Bombardier Aerospace | 6,000 | |||
| British Aerospace (BAe) | 33,800 | 82,500 | ||
| Cobham | 11,500 | |||
| Meggitt | 3,000 | 12,000 | ||
| QinetiQ | 6,250 | 6,250 worldwide but majority in the UK | ||
| Rolls-Royce | 23,200 | 50,500 | ||
| Ultra Electronics | 2,310 | 4,500 | ||
| Automotive | ||||
| Ford | 8,500 | |||
| GKN | 6,000 | |||
| Honda | 3,400 | |||
| Jaguar Land Rover | 20,000 | |||
| Nissan | 6,700 | |||
| TI Automotive | 23,000 | |||
| Toyota | 3,300 | |||
| Vauxhall | 2,770 | |||
| Engineering | ||||
| Bodycote | 5,400 | £567m | ||
| Smiths Group | 23,250 | |||
| IMI Group | 12,000 | Few employees in the UK | ||
| Weir Group | 14,720 | Few in UK | ||
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 4,800 | |||
| Food and Drink | ||||
| Premier Foods | 3,675 | |||
| Associated British Foods | 5,000 | |||
| Diageo | 11,000 in all Europe | |||
| 2 Sisters Food Group | 23,500 | Probable majority in the UK but also factories in Ireland, Netherlands and Poland | ||
| United Biscuits | 7,000 | |||
| Household products | ||||
| Reckitt Benckiser | 3,176 | 34,700 | ||
| Unilever | 172,000 | 2,000 at Port Sunlight | ||
| Pharmaceuticals | ||||
| AstraZeneca | 6,700 | |||
| GlaxoSmithKline | 13,000 | |||
| Utilities | ||||
| British Telecom | 70,900 | |||
| Centrica | 38,500 | |||
| EDF Energy | 14,000 | |||
| Network Rail | 35,000 | |||
| Others | ||||
| Bombardier Transportation | 3,500 | |||
| Tata Steel | 50,000 | Figure needs confirmation and likely to change considerably in the future | ||
| Coats Group | 20,253 | |||
| Johnson Matthey | 12,148 | |||
| Halma | 2,000 | 5,400 | ||
| Rotork | 3,800 | |||
| Spectris | 2,360 | |||
| Vesuvius | 10,900 | |||
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