How many British companies can you name?

[Margarita Ma]

The FTSE 100 is the 100 largest British companies. FTSE 250 the 101st to the 350th largest, etc.

 

Take your pick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index

 

Yes but: Are they just registered in Britain and owned by who knows ?

 

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Oreo ?

 

 

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Twentieth century. The "Oreo Biscuit" was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912 at its Chelsea, Manhattan factory in the current-day Chelsea Market complex, located on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets.

Oreo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikip

Guess what city names its streets after numbers.

Clue: It aint on this side of the pond.

[RonJeremy]

Yes but: Are they just registered in Britain and owned by who knows ?

 

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Oreo ?

 

 

Image result for oreo history

Twentieth century. The "Oreo Biscuit" was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912 at its Chelsea, Manhattan factory in the current-day Chelsea Market complex, located on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets.

Oreo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikip

Guess what city names its streets after numbers.

Clue: It aint on this side of the pond.

 

Could be Milton Keynes or a bit of Trafford - yes I know it isnt, but it could be

[Margarita Ma]

Jaguar Land Rover, owned by an Indian company.

 

Bentley is owned by Volkswagen.

 

Mini is owned by BMW.

 

Rolls Royce is owned by BMW.

 

MG is owned by a Chinese company.

 

Here is who owned the water companies in 2013.

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/05/21/who-really-owns-our-water-companies/

 

And the energy companies.

http://www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity/guides/which-energy-suppliers-are-british/

 

Volkswagen also owns: Audi, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT and Skoda, as well as Ducati motorcycles.

 

25 years ago a Tory MP called Nick Ridley said that the European single market was "A racket, designed to end up with the Germans owning everything". He swiftly recanted, presumably after the thumbscrews had been applied, but all these years later you can see that he had a point.

 

Or at least that the single market is designed to let the big fish eat the little fish more easily.

 

Margaret Thatcher did that by making it possible for large companies to take over other companies and compel minority shareholders to sell their shares. compulsory purchase happened with BAA. when Ferrovial bought out the majority shareholding I had to sell the shares bought by my late husband and it broke my heart for a second time. And yes it does matter who owns companies, foreign companies often do not pay taxes here, we lose out on income through this and through the income taken out of the country in profits spent elsewhere. Margaret Thatcher betrayed the people she claimed to support by encouraging them to buy shares in former Nationalised concerns then enabling this travesty whereby almost every Major profitable company has been taken over by foreign concerns leaving the country bankrupt of money as well as morals. Conservatives they couldn't conserve a caramel in an airtight tin. Dont get me started:rant:

 

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I've got a few shares in a small company called Astra Zeneca. I think they may still be British. I wish they weren't. I'd have made a killing.

 

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AstraZeneca

Pharmaceutical company

astrazeneca.co.uk

AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Wikipedia

Stock price: AZN (LON) 3,957.54 GBX +25.04 (+0.64%)

4 Apr, 17:01 BST - Disclaimer

Headquarters: London

Customer service: 0800 783 0033

CEO: Pascal Soriot

Founded: April 6, 1999

Parent organization: Investor AB

[BluePolo]

How about Swann-Morton on Penistone Road? They make Scalpels & export all over the world.

[Margarita Ma]

Good to know we still make world class medical instruments.

 

http://www.swann-morton.com/pages/history.php

Edited April 4, 2016 by Margarita Ma
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[Quik]

Yes but: Are they just registered in Britain and owned by who knows ?

 

---------- Post added 04-04-2016 at 21:09 ----------

 

Oreo ?

 

 

Image result for oreo history

Twentieth century. The "Oreo Biscuit" was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912 at its Chelsea, Manhattan factory in the current-day Chelsea Market complex, located on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets.

Oreo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikip

Guess what city names its streets after numbers.

Clue: It aint on this side of the pond.

 

There's a very good book about RJR Nabisco 'Barbarians at the gates' which will be an eye opener for people who think company owners are 'American' or 'British'

[Margarita Ma]

There's a very good book about RJR Nabisco 'Barbarians at the gates' which will be an eye opener for people who think company owners are 'American' or 'British'

 

Still registered in America but owned by Multinational Kraft with a very south american Sounding name Mondelez International as a front name.