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List of Scottish companies is an incomplete list of companies with their corporate headquarters in Scotland, organised by industry sector.

The list includes companies as defined under the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies Act 2006, as well as other bodies such as Limited Liability Parterships and Building Societies.

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Broadcast Electronics

• Clyde Broadcast

Construction

• Barr Construction Ltd
• Elphinstone

Creative Companies

• The Union - Graphic design company based in Edinburgh
• 21nine Advertising & Design - Advertising, Marketing, Graphic Design company based in Edinburgh
• G3 Creative Solutions - Graphic design company based in Glasgow

Oil and Gas Exploration/Extraction

• Abbot Group plc
• Cairn Energy
• Dana Petroleum
• Britoil
• Wood Group

Food and Beverges

• AG Barr - Producers of soft drinks, including Irn Bru and Tizer
• Aldomak - Producers of confectionery, including Tablet (confectionery) , Macaroon and Fudge
• Highland Spring
• Baxters - International food producer, notable for soups and other Scottish-themed goods
• Drambuie - Famous whisky producer
• Edrington Group
• 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
• Caledonian Brewing Company
• Tunnock's - Biscuit & confectionery producer
• Walkers Shortbread - Renowned shortbread, biscuit and cracker company
• William Grant & Sons - Whisky producers
• Whyte and Mackay - Whisky producers
• Drumchapel - Whisky Producers

Financial services

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

Hotels

• Gleneagles Hotel - Part of Diageo group

IT

• Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre
• Real Time Worlds Ltd - Games and entertainment company founded by David Jones
• Rockstar North (Formerly DMA Design) - A computer games developer, who are famous for their Grand Theft Auto series An autonomous division of Rockstar Games,
• IT Group International - Microsoft Dynamcs NAV & CRM, SharePoint Development based in Glasgow focusing primarily on Construction-based Software Solutions.
• MindGenius - Software developer who produce an application of the same name.

Manufacturing

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

Media

• BBC Scotland - National public broadcaster
• D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd - Publisher of the Sunday Post, the Beano etc
• Johnston Press - Owner of The Scotsman
• Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited - A division of Gannett
• STV Group plc (formerly SMG plc, or Scottish Media Group plc) - Owner of STV, & Pearl & Dean
• The Comedy Unit
• Deep Fried Film

Energy and Utilities

• 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
• SgurrEnergy - Engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy
• British Energy
• Scotia Gas Networks

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
• Scotmid - Scotland-wide supermarket chain
• Schuh - Footwear, stores throughout UK and Ireland
• Semi Chem - Nationwide pharmacy chain, owned by the Scotmid group

Restaurants

• The Ashvale - Fish and chip restaurants / take-aways
• Jimmy Chung's - Scottish chain of Chinese restaurants

Semiconductors

• 4i2i Communications

Telecommunications

• Thus plc - Formerly known as Scottish Telecom

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. - A Dunoon based operator of car and passenger ferry services on the River Clyde

Road and rail

• Arriva Scotland West - Regional bus operator
• Christian Salvesen Ltd - International Transport & Logistics company with its HQ in Edinburgh, founded there in 1846
• FirstGroup - Owner of the FirstBus brand, and First ScotRail, 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. Along with Trathens and Trathens StarRiders of Plymouth, part of the Parks Motor Group
• Scottish Citylink - Inter-city coach operator
• First ScotRail - National Rail Operator
• Stagecoach Group plc - International bus and train operator, based in Perth, Perthshire

Miscellaneous

• Direct Holidays
• Simclar Group
• Wood Group plc

See also

• Economy of Scotland

External links

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

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