The 50 Largest Employee-Owned Businesses in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom's Employee Ownership Association published a list of the 50 largest private companies with at least 25% of shares owned by a broad group of employees. The list was compiled by Capital Strategies, which also creates the UK Employee Ownership Index of public companies with substantial employee ownership. These companies collectively employ 151,000 people and have annual revenues of £20.5 billion ($33.3 billion USD).

The Employee Ownership Top 50 includes wholly owned UK subsidiaries of large non-UK employee-owned companies, provided the parent companies are at least 75% employee-owned. Two U.S. companies, CH2M Hill (#5) and W.L. Gore (#32), are on the list. If your company should be on this list, please contact Loren Rodgers ([email protected]; 510-208-1307).