Largest 100 companies (by turnover)

Latest
Previous Company or
Financial
rank
rank
trading name
year end

1
New
Royal Mail
2 1 DHL
3
4
Kuehne + Nagel
4
3
Norbert Dentressangle Group
5 2 Wincanton
6 6 UPS
7
5
TNT UK
8
11
GeoPost UK
9
9
Eddie Stobart
10
7
Whistl UK
11
10
UK Mail Group
12
8
Yodel Delivery Network
13 13 Gist
14
12
Ceva Logistics
15
15
Hermes Parcelnet
16
19
DX Group
17
14
City Link
18
16
Bibby Distribution Services (Holdings)
19
17
Turners (Soham)
20
18
Yusen Logistics
21
20
FedEx UK
22
21
DSV Road
23
22
W H Malcolm
24
23
Culina Logistics
25
24
NFT Distribution Operations
26
26
Harry Yearsley
27
25
Fowler Welch
28
27
Maritime Transport
29
28
Great Bear Distribution
30
30
Gregory Distribution (Holdings)
31
31
Tuffnells Parcels Express
32
29
Gefco UK
33
34
Hoyer Petrolog UK
34
32
CM Downton (Haulage Contractors)
35
35
Hargreaves Services - Transport
36
36
Clipper Logistics Group
37
33
Canute Haulage
38
37
ECM (Vehicle Delivery Service)
39
38
Langdon Group
40
42
Pentalver Transport
41
39
Europa Worldwide Logistics
42
40
Goldstar Transport
43
41
Sutton and Son (St. Helens)
44
New
PCL Transport 24/7
45
44
Geodis UK
46
47
Solstor UK
47
45
Reed Boardall Group
48
48
Howard Tenens Storage & Distribution
49
43
John G Russell (Transport)
50
46
RT Keedwell (Holdings)
28 MotorTransport
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Latest year
turnover
(000s)

Latest year
Latest year
pre-tax profit
employees
(000s)

Mar-14
7,787,000
309,000
Dec-13
4,774,757 79,773
Dec-13
1,315,736
32,084
Dec-13
1,033,568
23,713
Mar-14
1,008,300 34,900
Dec-13
758,021
39,575
Dec-13
742,880
-6,413
Dec-13
671,612
90,058
Feb-14 559,661 21,015
Dec-12
554,584
5,745
Mar-14
481,384
22,198
Jun-13
441,615
-102,445
Dec-13
401,096
34,408
Dec-13
385,252
12,917
Feb-13 316,564 31,859
Jun-14
312,000
7,100
Dec-13
289,472
-21,138
Dec-13
252,386
4,630
Dec-13
242,105
22,788
Mar-14
234,613
3,037
May-13
219,374
31,908
Dec-13
185,265
13,881
Jan-14
179,704
8,851
Dec-13
170,626
5,762
Mar-13
169,729
3,142
Mar-14
155,879
4,605
Mar-13
155,200
4,331
Dec-13
133,554
2,825
Dec-13
132,250
10,204
Sep-13
130,291
4,618
Dec-13
127,801
10,423
Dec-13
118,610
1,957
Dec-13
96,142
3,586
Jun-13
94,237
5,334
May-13
89,000
4,500
Apr-13
88,609
4,032
Jul-13
87,809
955
Dec-13
86,183
780
Dec-13
85,025
4,432
Dec-13
83,525
4,082
Dec-13
71,664
665
Jul-13
69,174
1,540
Apr-13
66,224
1,582
Sep-13
59,160
9,230
Dec-13
58,026
-2,665
Sep-13
58,001
1,441
Mar-13
57,960
3,523
Sep-13
57,127
3,927
Mar-13
54,892
934
Oct-13
54,765
1,942

148,000
41,254
9,094
12,993
15,500
5,114
9,484
5,727
5,247
1,228
2,639
5,587
4,080
4,729
1,453
3,869
4,780
2,419
2,390
1,407
1,894
807
1,809
2,318
1,856
1,048
1,337
1,134
1,563
1,209
2,029
406
833
892
583
1,518
1,109
654
996
583
492
466
645
531
347
171
658
445
691
427

Previous year
turnover
(000s)

Previous year
pre-tax profit
(000s)

7,633,000
294,000
4,481,145
67,592
1,138,840
36,629
998,728
6,835
1,086,800
-47,400
697,347
20,368
782,865
13,843
470,899
52,570
540,644 15,164
474,713
4,098
447,344
17,042
606,441
-52,765
394,783
33,492
406,948
20,376
261,709 22,200
305,700
-1,900
321,731
-35,917
254,874
-5
235,785
23,508
218,826
2,477
201,777
23,799
179,367
5,683
177,404
9,045
156,398
5,749
152,418
2,274
143,629
3,220
150,899
4,104
130,744
2,530
117,557
9,459
116,464
-4,796
114,647
9,877
116,796
-461
85,530
4,270
93,075
6,312
82,700
4,000
82,565
3,764
81,776
866
75,123
868
74,169
2,847
84,705
2,702
71,580
424
71,092
2,189
63,436
1,365
30,394
4,175
58,545
-1,342
53,201
1,132
54,770
5,451
55,265
4,644
48,685
1,642
53,323
198
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