Compass Group PLC is a food service company headquartered near London and operating in 50 countries worldwide. It came into being in 1941 with the name Factory Canteens Limited, and has always been associated with commercial...

Carnival Corporation and PLC is one of the largest holiday companies in the world, and covers many of the leading recognizable cruise ship brands, such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Cunard Line...

Centrica PLC is utility company with relatively recent origins, and is ranked around 26th in size on the London Stock Exchange. It was formed in 1997, and was one of the companies that came out of the demerging of British Gas PLC...

Capital Shopping Centers is now a property investment company, with properties valued at about £7 billion, but it can trace its origin back to 1980 when as the Transatlantic Insurance Holdings PLC it started off in the life...

When you start researching Capita, you will find extensive use of the acronym BPO. This stands for business process outsourcing, and is the fundamental role of the Capita group, which has attained FTSE 100 status with this...

Anglo American plc [AAL] is a multinational mining company based in London involved in the mining of coal, copper, nickel, platinum and diamonds. It has operations around the world, and is the world’s largest producer of...

Spread Betting Antofagasta If you look up Antofagasta [ANTO.L] online, you might find that it is a Chilean port city, a province, and a region in Chile. For obvious reasons, this is the origin of the company Antofagasta plc...

There can hardly be a person who has not heard of AMEC [AMEC.L] or been impacted by its work. It has been around for more than 160 years, and much of that time it was a construction company. In the 21st century, it has been in...

Spread Betting Aggreko PLC Aggreko PLC [AGK‎] is a major temporary power generation company, providing power and other services for large international events such as the US Open Golf Tournament, as well as the provision of...

Aberdeen Asset Management [ADN.L] is an international financial group, mainly based in the UK but with offices around the world. It employs nearly 2000 people. Its profits are growing substantially from an admittedly low point in...