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Unit 7. Economy in britain Top 10 uk Firms listed by market capitalisation

Rank Company

Capitalisation (£m)

Purpose

1 Royal Dutch Shell

117,078.16

Petrol, oil, extraction

2 BP

110,754.50

Petrol, oil, extraction

3 HSBC

106,791.58

Banking

4 GlaxoSmithKline

78,131.02

Pharmaceutical industry

5 Vodafone Group

74,470.37

phones and communication

6 Royal Bank of Scotland Group

63,032.80

Banking including Halifax

7 Barclays plc

47,239.09

Banking

8 HBOS

42,883.30

Banking

9 AstraZeneca

42,557.86

Chemicals (Zeneca used to be part of ICI

10 Anglo American

36,931.36

Mining