December 4, 2018

50 Largest Employee-Owned Firms in the United Kingdom

Executive Director

The UK’s Employee Ownership Association released its list of the 50 largest employee-owned companies. The EOA also reports that these 50 companies together had £19.8 billion ($2.5 billion) in annual revenue and employed 171,000 people. Their median change in profit from the prior year was an increase of 9.2%. The largest firm on the list is John Lewis & Partners (retail), followed by the Mott Macdonald Group (engineering and management consulting) and Arup Group (design and engineering consultants). Twenty-one companies on the list have more than 1,000 employees, and the smallest company on the list (Curtins Group Ltd) has 389.