Top 7 Most Witty Companies Listed On The London Stock Exchange (LSE)
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#1 St. James's Place Plc
St. James's Place Plc is voted the first most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 168 votes.
St. James's Place Plc
St. James's Place plc (branded as St. James's Place Wealth Management) is a UK-based wealth management business based in Cirencester, England.
#2 Agriterra
Agriterra is voted the second most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 166 votes.
Agriterra
Agriterra Limited (formerly: White Nile Limited) is a Guernsey-registered agricultural investment company operating in Africa. The company is listed on the AIM London Stock Exchange. It is not to be confused with the agrarian development cooperation organisation Agriterra.White Nile Limited was established by Phil Edmonds, a former England cricketer.
#3 Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group is voted the third most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 159 votes.
Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group plc is a UK merchant banking group, providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management and securities trading. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Close Brothers was founded in 1878 by William Brooks Close and his brothers Fred and James Close, who started offering farm mortgages in Sioux City, Iowa.In 1897, William Brooks Close paid £10,000 to the US government for the right to build Alaska's first railway the White Pass and Yukon Route.It was the subject of a management buy-out in 1978 and was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984.In the 1980s and 1990s the company began a phase of significant expansion through the acquisition of a large number of specialist businesses which included Winterflood Securities in 1993,Hill Samuel's Corporate Finance Division in 1996 and Rea Brothers in 1999.In March 2008 Close Brothers acquired UK short-term and bridging lender Commercial Acceptances Group for around £31m.
#4 LG Electronics
LG Electronics is voted the fourth most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 158 votes.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics Inc. (Hangul: LG 전자; RR: LG Jeonja) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is part of the fourth-largest chaebol in South Korea (LG Corporation) and in 2014 global sales reached $55.91 billion (₩ 59.04 trillion), LG comprises four business units: Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliances & Air Solutions, and Vehicle Components, with Starion India as its main production vendor for refrigeration and washing machines in the Indian sub-continent.
#5 Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's is voted the fifth most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 158 votes.
Sainsbury's
Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°06′30″W / 51.51722°N 0.10833°W / 51.51722; -0.10833 Sainsbury's is the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 16.9% share of the supermarket sector. Founded in 1869, by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company became the largest retailer of groceries in 1922, was an early adopter of self-service retailing in the United Kingdom and had its heyday during the 1980s. In 1995, Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the market leader, and Asda became the second largest in 2003, demoting Sainsbury's to third place for most of the subsequent period until January 2014, when Sainsbury's regained second place.
#6 Berendsen
Berendsen is voted the sixth most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 157 votes.
Berendsen
Berendsen plc (formerly The Davis Service Group Plc) was a major British-based provider of textile maintenance services with headquarters in London. In September 2017 the French company Elis completed the acquisition of Berendsen.The business was formed in 1920 as Godfrey Davis renting out automobiles. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1959.
#7 Abcam
Abcam is voted the seventh most witty companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 156 votes.
Abcam
Abcam is a life-science e-commerce company which facilitates public customer feedback on products using reviews and ratings submitted by customers. Since 2011, through acquisition, the company has moved into direct production of biotechnological products.The company was founded in 1998 by Jonathan Milner with co-founders professor Tony Kouzarides and David Cleevely, with the idea of making it easier for research scientists to buy antibodies across the web. Milner was a postdoctoral researcher studying the newly discovered breast cancer protein BRCA2 in Kouzarides' Cambridge University laboratory.