Top 7 Most Important Companies Listed On The London Stock Exchange (LSE)
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#1 AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is voted the first most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 178 votes.
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company. In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, UK, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge; Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals; and Mölndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation.The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the English Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993).
#2 Alent
Alent is voted the second most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 171 votes.
Alent
Alent plc is a supplier of surface treatment plating chemicals and electronics assembly materials. The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until it was acquired by Platform Specialty Products in November 2015. The company was established as a supplier of materials which facilitate electrical connectivity.
#3 A.G. Barr
A.G. Barr is voted the third most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 166 votes.
A.G. Barr
A.G. BARR p.l.c., commonly known as Barr's, is a Scottish soft drink manufacturer, based in Cumbernauld, Scotland. It manufactures the popular Scottish drink, Irn-Bru.
#4 John Wood Group
John Wood Group is voted the fourth most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 163 votes.
John Wood Group
John Wood Group PLC is a multinational energy services company with headquarters in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The business was founded by Sir Ian Wood in 1982, when it split away from JW Holdings, the largest fishing company in Scotland.
#5 Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon is voted the fifth most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 159 votes.
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (LSE: BGS) is a publicly traded investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange. The Trust invests in Japanese smaller companies. The Trust is managed by Baillie Gifford & Co Limited, the Edinburgh-based investment management partnership.
#6 Bank Of Georgia
Bank Of Georgia is voted the sixth most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 153 votes.
Bank Of Georgia
Bank of Georgia (abbreviated as BOG or BoG) is a Georgian bank headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia. It is the largest bank in Georgia by assets.99.52% of the share capital of Bank of Georgia is held by BGEO Group PLC, a public limited liability company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number 07811410. The shares of BGEO were admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange PLC’s main market for listed securities on 28 February 2012.Bank of Georgia has credit ratings from: S&P: ‘BB -’,Moody's: ‘B1/Ba3’ (foreign and local currency), and Fitch Ratings: ‘BB-’; outlooks are ‘Stable’.The bank was established in 1903, nationalized by the communists and became known as Binsotsbank before it was privatized again and renamed the Bank of Georgia in 1994.Bank of Georgia was first listed on the Georgian Stock Exchange in 2001 and then merged with Tbiluniversalbank in 2004.
#7 John Laing Infrastructure Fund
John Laing Infrastructure Fund is voted the seventh most important companies listed on the london stock exchange (lse) with 151 votes.
John Laing Infrastructure Fund
John Laing Infrastructure Fund (LSE: JLIF) was a investment fund company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. JLIF was a Guernsey registered closed-end investment company that raised capital in the equity market. Established in November 2010, the company acquired a Seed Portfolio of 19 low risk operational public–private partnership (PPP) projects from John Laing plc.