List of companies of Scotland

List of Scottish companies is a list of companies with their corporate headquarters in Scotland, organised by industry sector. The list includes notable companies as defined under the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies Act 2006, as well as other bodies such as limited liability partnerships and building societies.

Broadcast electronics

• Clyde Broadcast

Construction

• Barr Construction Ltd

Oil and gas exploration/extraction

• Britoil
• Cairn Energy
• Dana Petroleum
• Wood Group

Food and beverages

• AG Barr - producers of soft drinks, including Irn Bru and Tizer
• Baxters - international food producer, notable for soups and other Scottish-themed goods
• Caledonian Brewing Company
• Drambuie - whisky producer
• Drumchapel - whisky producers
• Edrington Group
• Highland Spring - bottled water supplier
• Johnnie Walker - international whisky group, part of Diageo
• Justerini & Brooks Whisky - part of Diageo
• Robert Wiseman Dairies - major milk supplier throughout the United Kingdom
• Tennent's - major brewing company
• Tunnock's - biscuit and confectionery producer
• Walkers Shortbread - shortbread, biscuit and cracker company
• William Grant & Sons - whisky producers
• Whyte and Mackay - whisky producers

Financial services

• Aberdeen Asset Management
• Airdrie Savings Bank
• Alliance Trust
• Century Building Society
• Clydesdale Bank
• Dunfermline Building Society
• Lloyds Banking Group
  • HBOS - holding company of the Bank of Scotland
  • Scottish Widows
  • TSB Bank
• The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
  • Adam and Company
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland
• Scottish Building Society
• Scottish Equitable
• Scottish Friendly
• Standard Life - formerly Europe's largest mutual life assurance company
• Tesco Personal Finance

Hotels

• Apex Hotels
• Gleneagles Hotel

IT

• Agenor Technology - an information and communications technology company; specialises in deploying technology and business change in high-pressured environments
• Cupid plc - owner and operator of online mainstream and niche dating websites
• MindGenius - software developer who produce an application of the same name
• Real Time Worlds Ltd - games and entertainment company founded by David Jones
• Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) - computer games developer, known for their Grand Theft Auto series; autonomous division of Rockstar Games
• Skyscanner - flight aggregator website

Manufacturing

• Aggreko plc
• Albion Motors
• Alexander Dennis
• BVT Surface Fleet - part of BAE Systems and VT Group
• Cashmaster International Ltd
• Doosan Babcock
• Edesix
• Kelvin Diesels
• Linn Products
• Pelamis Wave Power
• Pringle of Scotland
• Robert Noble
• Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) Ltd
• Wavegen
• Weir Group plc
• Wolfson Microelectronics

Media

• BBC Scotland - national public broadcaster
• The Comedy Unit
• D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd - publisher of the Sunday Post, the Beano
• Deep Fried Film
• Johnston Press - owner of The Scotsman
• STV Group plc (formerly SMG plc, or Scottish Media Group plc) - owner of STV

Energy and utilities

• British Energy
• Scotia Gas Networks
• Scottish and Southern Energy plc - electricity and natural gas supplier
• Scottish Gas - gas and electricity supplier, Scottish arm of Centrica plc
• Scottish Power - gas and electricity supplier, Scottish arm of Iberdrola
• Scottish Water
  • Business Stream - subsidiary of Scottish Water
• SgurrEnergy - engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy

Retail

• Arnold Clark - car dealerships, with over 145 locations throughout the UK
• Edinburgh Woolen Mill - clothing, knitwear
• Farmfoods - frozen food supermarkets
• Jenners - now a subsidiary of House of Fraser
• Kwik Fit - car repairs, mechanics
• M&Co - clothing
• Schuh - footwear, stores throughout UK and Ireland
• Scotmid - Scotland-wide supermarket chain
• Semi Chem - nationwide pharmacy chain, owned by the Scotmid group

Restaurants

• The Ashvale - fish and chip restaurants / take-aways

Telecommunications

• Thus - formerly known as Scottish Telecom

Domiciliary care

• Visioncall - domiciliary eye care company, branches throughout the UK

Transport

Air and sea

• BMI regional - airline based at Aberdeen Airport; subsidiary of BMI
• Caledonian MacBrayne - ferry company operating mainly on the west coast of Scotland
• Forth Ports plc - port operator
• Highlands and Islands Airports Limited - owned by the Scottish Government
• Loganair - operates flights between Scottish airports under the FlyBE franchise
• NorthLink Ferries - operator of ferries to the Northern Isles
• ScotAirways - operates flights from Edinburgh Airport and Dundee Airport to London City Airport
• Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd. - Dunoon-based operator of car and passenger ferry services on the River Clyde

Road and rail

• Abellio ScotRail - national rail operator
• Arriva Scotland West - regional bus operator
• Christian Salvesen - international transport and logistics company with its HQ in Edinburgh, founded there in 1846, now part of Norbert Dentressangle
• FirstGroup - owner of the FirstBus brand based in Aberdeen
• John Menzies - international logistics and distribution company based in Edinburgh
• Lothian Buses - regional bus operator owned by Edinburgh City Council
• Megabus - low-cost inter-city bus operator; part of the Stagecoach Group PLC
• Parks of Hamilton - large Scottish coach operator; with StarRiders of Plymouth, part of the Parks Motor Group
• Scottish Citylink - inter-city coach operator
• Stagecoach Group - international bus and train operator, based in Perth, Perthshire

Miscellaneous

• Wood Group
• Wood Mackenzie

See also

• Economy of Scotland
• List of restaurants in Scotland

External links

• The Scotsman Business 250 (2005), The Scotsman
• SCOTBIS, the Scottish Business Information Service, part of the National Library of Scotland