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Bernard Matthews Farms Ltd

Bernard Matthews Farms Ltd is a British farming and food products business, which specialises in the farming of turkeys. Founded by Bernard Matthews in 1950, as Bernard Matthews Foods Ltd, the company is headquartered in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and has 56 farms throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire farming nearly 7 million turkeys each year. The company breeds and rears both indoor and free range turkeys on its farms, making Bernard Matthews an integrated agricultural business. read more

 

Harrods

Harrods is a high-end department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and Harrods Buenos Aires. The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m2) of selling space. The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous. Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1.5 billion. read more

 

Northern & Shell

Northern & Shell is a British publishing group owned by Richard Desmond; the group holding company is "Northern and Shell Network Ltd". Launched in 1974, it publishes the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and the magazines OK!, New!, and Star. Northern & Shell owns Channel Five and Portland TV, which owns the adult TV channels; Television X, Red Hot TV and others. Desmond founded Northern and Shell in 1974 and launched a magazine called International Musician and Recording World. read more

 

Countryside Properties

Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd is a property development company based in the United Kingdom. It is active in urban regeneration and creation of sustainable communities. It also carries out Design and Build contracts for housing associations. Its headquarters are in Brentwood, Essex. The largest concentration of its activity is in London and the Thames Gateway, but it also has divisions working in the South East, East and North West of England. read more

 

Murray International Trust - MYI

Murray International Trust (LSE: MYI) is a large British investment trust dedicated to investments in worldwide equities. Established in 1991, the company is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Chairman is John Trott and its fund manager is Bruce Stout of Aberdeen Asset Management. read more

 

Perrys Motor Sales

Perrys is a long established franchised automobile dealer in the United Kingdom, with its Head Office in Northampton, England. It represents many leading motor brands including Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Alf Romeo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Seat, Renault, Mazda, Kia, Chevrolet, and Ford. read more

 

Associated British Ports

Associated British Ports Holdings Ltd owns and operates 21 ports in the United Kingdom. As such, it manages around 25 per cent of the UK's sea borne trade. The company's activities cover transport, haulage and terminal operations, ship's agency, dredging and marine consultancy. read more

 

Formula One Group

The Formula One Group is a group of companies responsible for the promotion of the FIA Formula One World Championship and exploitation of the sport's commercial rights. The Group is owned ultimately by Delta Topco, a Jersey–based company owned by CVC Capital Partners' funds (approximately 70%) and JPMorgan (approximately 20%). Bernie Ecclestone's family trust owns the remainder apart from small shares held by financial advisers and Ecclestone himself. "Formula One Group" strictly refers to Formula One Management, Formula One Administration and Formula One Licensing BV, which are subsidiaries of the Formula One Holdings holding company. However Delta Topco owns other Formula One businesses which are referred to in the same way. read more

 

McCarthy & Stone Plc

McCarthy & Stone plc is a British residential property developer based in Bournemouth on the south coast of England which constructs and sells private retirement homes. read more

 

Morrison Facilities Services Plc

Morrison Facilities Services plc is a United Kingdom-based Public Limited Company that specialises in providing facilities services to private businesses and central and local government bodies. The core area of the business is the repairs and maintenance of social housing. Morrison is responsible for the maintenance of more than 400,000 properties in the UK. It is a subsidiary of Anglian Water Group. read more