The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie" , is a

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of the 100

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listed on the

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with (in principle) the highest

market capitalisation Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. Market capitalization is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. Since outstanding sto ...

. The index is maintained by the

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, a subsidiary of the

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Overview

The index is maintained by the FTSE Group, now a wholly owned subsidiary of the

, which originated as a joint venture between the ''

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'' and the London Stock Exchange. It is calculated in real time and published every second when the market is open. The FTSE 100 Index was launched on 3 January 1984. The market capitalisation weighted FTSE 100 index replaced the price-weighted FT30 Index as the performance benchmark for most investors. The FTSE 100 broadly consists of the largest 100 qualifying UK companies by full market value. The total market value of a company is calculated by multiplying the share price of the company by the total number of shares they have issued. Many of these are internationally focused companies, however, so the index's movements are a fairly weak indicator of how the UK economy is faring and are significantly affected by the

exchange rate In finance Finance is the study of financial institutions, financial markets and how they operate within the financial system. It is concerned with the creation and management of money and investments. Savers and investors have money availa ...

s of the pound sterling. A better indication of the UK economy is the

FTSE 250 Index The FTSE 250 Index ( ) is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London The City of London ...

, as it contains a smaller proportion of international companies. Even though the

FTSE All-Share IndexThe FTSE All-Share Index, originally known as the FTSE Actuaries All Share Index, is a capitalization-weighted index, capitalisation-weighted index, comprising around 600 of more than 2,000 companies traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Since 2 ...

is more comprehensive, the FTSE 100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which includes the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the

FTSE 350 IndexThe FTSE 350 Index is a market capitalization weighted stock market index made up of the constituents of the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 index. companies by capitalization which have their primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It is a combination o ...

(which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250),

FTSE SmallCap Index The FTSE SmallCap Index is an index of small market capitalisation companies consisting of the 351st to the 619th largest-listed companies on the London Stock Exchange main market. The index, which is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the ...

and the

FTSE Fledgling IndexThe FTSE Fledgling Index comprises companies listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) which qualify as eligible for inclusion in the FTSE UK series but are too small to be included in the FTSE All-Share Index. There is no liquidit ...

. The FTSE All-Share aggregates the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and FTSE SmallCap. To be included in the index, a company must meet a number of requirements set out by the

, including having a full listing on the London Stock Exchange with a sterling or Euro denominated price on the Stock Exchange Electronic Trading Service, and meeting certain tests on nationality,

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, and

liquidity Liquidity is a concept in economics involving the convertibility of assets and obligations. It can include: * Market liquidity In business Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling ...

. Continuous trading on the London Stock Exchange starts at 08:00 and ends at 16:30 (when the closing auction starts), and closing values are taken at 16:35.

Weighting

In the FTSE indices, share prices are weighted by free-float capitalisation, so that the larger companies, with more of their stock "floating", make more of a difference to the index than smaller companies. The basic formula for these indices is:

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The free float adjustment factor represents the percentage of all issued shares that are readily available for trading, rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5%. The free-float capitalisation of a company is its

multiplied by its free float adjustment factor. It therefore does not include restricted stocks, such as those held by company insiders.

Record values

The index reached the following record values: The index began on 3 January 1984 at the base level of 1000. The highest closing value of 7,877.45 was reached on 22 May 2018. The highest intra-day value of 7,903.50 was reached on 22 May 2018.

Annual returns

The following table shows the annual development of the FTSE 100 Index, which was calculated back to 1969.

Constituents in December 2021

The following table lists the FTSE 100 companies after the changes on 17 December 2021.

Past constituents

All changes are due to market capitalisation unless noted otherwise. * Abbey Life (became subsidiary of

Lloyds TSB Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland ...

in 1996, then sold to

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG () is a German multinational investment bank To invest is to allocate money Image:National-Debt-Gillray.jpeg, In a 1786 James Gillray caricature, the plentiful money bags handed to King George III are contrasted with the ...

in 2007) *

Abbey National The Abbey National Building Society was formed in 1944 by the merger of the Abbey Road and the National building societies. It was the first building society in the United Kingdom to demutualise, doing so in July 1989. The bank expanded throu ...

(acquired by

Banco Santander Central Hispano

, now part of its

Santander UK Santander UK plc (, ) is a British bank, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group. Santander UK plc manages its affairs autonomously, with its own local management team, responsible solely for its performance. Santander UK is one of the le ...

subsidiary) *

Aberdeen Asset Management Aberdeen Asset Management was an international investment management Investment management is the professional asset management of various securities, including shareholdings, bonds, and other asset In financial accountancy, financial accou ...

* African Barrick Gold *

Aggreko Aggreko plc is a supplier of temporary power generation equipment and of temperature control Temperature control is a process in which change of temperature of a space (and objects collectively there within), or of a substance, is measured o ...

Alliance & Leicester Alliance & Leicester plc was a British bank and former building society, formed by the merger in 1985 of the Alliance Building Society and the Leicester Building Society. The business Demutualisation, demutualised in the middle of 1997, when it ...

(acquired by

Banco Santander Central Hispano

, now part of its

subsidiary) *

Alliance Boots Alliance Boots GmbH was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland ,german: Schweizer(in),french: Suisse(sse), it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Feder ...

(acquired by private equity fund controlled by

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR & Co. Inc. (formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and KKR & Co. L.P.) is an American global investment company An investment company is a financial institution principally engaged in investing in security (finance), securities. The ...

) *

Alliance Trust Alliance Trust plc () is a publicly traded Investment company, investment and financial services company, established in 1888 and headquartered in Dundee, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Ind ...

Allied Domecq Allied Domecq PLC was an international , headquartered in , United Kingdom, that operated , , and businesses. It was once a constituent but has been acquired by . They had one distillery in India. History Allied Domecq was the result of a 1994 ...

(acquired by

Pernod Ricard Pernod Ricard () is a French company best known for its anise Anise (, ; '), also called aniseed or rarely anix, is a flowering plant Flowering plants include multiple members of the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. T ...

) * Allied Zurich (dual holding company along with Zurich Allied, companies unified in 2000 to form

Zurich Financial Services Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. is a Swiss insurance company, commonly known as Zurich, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland ,german: Schweizer(in),french: Suisse(sse), it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Federali ...

) *

Amec Amec Foster Wheeler plc was a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinationa ...

Amersham Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbury and from High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt. ...

(acquired by GE, now part of its

GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a subsidiary of American multinational conglomerate General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate incorporated in New York Stat ...

division) *

Amstrad Amstrad was a British electronics company, founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician, and political adviser. In 1968, he starte ...

Amstrad

(acquired by

British Sky Broadcasting Sky UK Limited company, Limited is a British broadcasting, broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United K ...

) *

Argos Argos usually refers to: * Argos, Peloponnese Argos (; Greek language, Greek: Άργος ; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος ) is a city in Argolis, the Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited ci ...

(acquired by GUS) *

Argyll Group The Argyll Group is a thick sequence of Metamorphism, metamorphosed Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks that outcrop across the Scottish Highlands, Central Highlands of Scotland, east of the Great Glen, as well as appearing in the north of Ireland. I ...

(renamed Safeway in 1996, then taken over by

Morrisons Wm Morrison Supermarkets trading as Morrisons, is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in Bradford Bradford is a city A city is a large human settlement.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin D ...

in 2004) * Arjo Wiggins Appleton (acquired by

Worms & Cie Sequana Capital was a List of companies of France, French pulp and paper company. History The company was founded as a coal importing business known as Worms and Cie in 1848. After diversifying into banking and finance it acquired Arjo Wiggins, a p ...

) *

ARM Holdings Arm Ltd. (stylized as arm) is a Great Britain, British semiconductor and Computer software, software design company based in Cambridge, England. Its primary business is in the design of ARM architecture, ARM Central processing unit, processors ...

(acquired by

SoftBank Group is a Japan, Japanese multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, and focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energ ...

) * ASDA Group (acquired by

Wal-Mart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarket Asian hypermarket in the Philippines, a branch of SM Hypermarket in SM Mall of Asia">SM_Hypermarket.html ...

) * BAA (acquired by

Ferrovial Ferrovial, S.A. (), previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple cou ...

) *

Babcock International Babcock International Group plc is a British multinational corporation A multinational company (MNC) is a corporation, corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home c ...

Balfour Beatty Balfour Beatty plc () is a British multinational infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. The Guardian' an ...

Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies was a leading Irish internet security firm, with its headquarters in Dublin Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was briefly part of the FTSE 100 Index during 2000. History The compa ...

(acquired by Oryx International Growth Fund) *

Bank of Scotland The Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial Commercial may refer to: * a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television) ** Radio advertisement ** Television advertisement * (adjective for:) commerce, a ...

(merged with

Halifax Halifax commonly refers to: *Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada *Halifax, West Yorkshire, England *Halifax (bank), a British bank Halifax may also refer to: Places Australia *Halifax, Queensland *Halifax Bay, North Queensland Canada Nova Scotia *Hali ...

to form

HBOS HBOS plc was a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. The Guardian' and Telegraph' use Brit ...

, now part of the

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group plc is a British financial institution Financial institutions, otherwise known as banking institutions, are corporation A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by ...

) *

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish) Bass () is a name shared by many species of fish Fish are Aquatic animal, aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack Limb (anatomy), limbs with Digit (anatomy), digits. Included in thi ...

(became

Six Continents Six Continents was a large United Kingdom, British-based hotel and hospitality business which was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The company was formed in June 2000 when the brewing b ...

and then

InterContinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group plc, marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, and informally referred to as InterContinental Hotels or IHG, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Denham, Buckinghamshire Denham is a village ...

) *

Beecham Group The Beecham Group plc was a British pharmaceutical company. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie" , is a sh ...

(merged with SmithKline and then with Glaxo to become

GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinati ...

) * Berisford (renamed Enodis, subsequently acquired by

The Manitowoc Company The Manitowoc Company, Inc. was founded in 1902 and, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitowoc ...

) * BET, formerly

British Electric Traction British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, F ...

(acquired by Rentokil) *

BG Group BG Group plc was a British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and comm ...

(acquired by

Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc (to be renamed Shell plc effective 24 January 2022), commonly known as Shell, is a British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overs ...

) * BICC (renamed

) *

Blue Arrow Blue Arrow Limited is a United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. The Guardian' and Telegraph' use Britain as a synonym for the United Kin ...

(acquired by Corporate Services Group) *

Blue Circle Industries Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement Cement block construction examples from the Multiplex Manufacturing Company of Toledo, Ohio in 1905 A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that set ...

(acquired by Lafarge) * BOC (acquired by

Linde

) * Bowater (renamed

Rexam Rexam plc was a British-based multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinational state, a ...

) * Bookham Technology (renamed Oclaro and now traded on

Nasdaq The Nasdaq Stock Market () is an American stock exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange Exchange may refer to: Places United States * Exchange, Indiana Exchange is an Unincorporated area, unincorpora ...

) * BPB Industries (acquired by

Saint-Gobain Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation A multinational company (MNC) is a corporate A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal per ...

) *

Bradford & Bingley Bradford & Bingley plc was a British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people The British people, or Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overs ...

(branch network acquired by

Banco Santander Central Hispano

, now part of its

subsidiary; loans book nationalised) *

Brambles Industries Brambles Limited is an Australian company that specialises in the pooling of unit-load equipment, pallets, crates and containers. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. History Brambles traces its history to 1875, when Walter Bramb ...

(now only listed on the

Australian Securities Exchange The Australian Securities Exchange is Australia's primary securities exchange. It is owned and operated by ASX Limited, with the exchange also commonly referred to as the ASX. While the exchange and the operating companies are separate, they ar ...

) *

British Aerospace British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft manufacturer, aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer. Its head office was at Warwick House in the Farnborough Aerospace Centre in Farnborough, Hampshire. Formed in 1977, in 1999 ...

(merged with

Marconi Electronic Systems Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC and bought by British Aerospace (BAe) on 30 November 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC then renamed ...

to form

BAE Systems BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinationa ...

) *

British Airways British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier A flag carrier is a transport Transport (commonly used in the U.K.), or transportation (used in the U.S.), is the Motion, movement of humans, animals and cargo, goods from one location to a ...

(merged with

Iberia The Iberian Peninsula , ** * Aragonese language, Aragonese and Occitan language, Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a penin ...

to form

International Airlines Group International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A., usually shortened to IAG, is an Anglo-Spanish multinational airline holding company with its registered office in Madrid Madrid (, ) is the capital and most-populous city of Spain , ...

) *

British Home Stores British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store A department store is a retail Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or Service (economics), services to custom ...

(acquired by Storehouse and then sold to

Philip Green Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company the Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. Green wa ...

) * British Steel (merged with

Koninklijke Hoogovens Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. The IJmuiden steelworks based in IJmuiden, the Netherlands was built bet ...

to become Corus Group, now

Tata Steel Europe Tata Steel Europe Ltd. (formerly Corus Group plc) is a steelmaking Steelmaking is the process of producing steel Steel is an alloy of iron with typically a few tenths of a percent of carbon to improve its strength of materials, strength a ...

) * British & Commonwealth (collapsed in 1990) * Britoil (acquired by

) * BTR (merged with Siebe to form BTR Siebe, subsequently renamed

Invensys Invensys Ltd. was a multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinational state, a sovereign ...

) *

Burmah Oil The Burmah Oil Company was a leading British oil business which was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie" , is a St ...

(renamed Burmah Castrol and acquired by

) *

Burton Group Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1997, Burton Group plc) was a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force ...

(renamed

Arcadia Arcadia may refer to: Places Australia * Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney * Arcadia, Queensland * Arcadia, Victoria Greece * Arcadia (region) Arcadia ( el, Ἀρκαδία) is a region in the central Peloponnese. It takes its name ...

and acquired by

) *

Cable & Wireless Worldwide Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC (informally Cable & Wireless) was a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. It was formed in 2010 by the split of Cable & Wi ...

Cadbury Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multip ...

Cadbury

(acquired by

Kraft Foods The second incarnation of Kraft Foods (legal name Kraft Foods Group) is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate ( ...

) *

Cairn Energy Cairn Energy plc is one of Europe's leading independent oil and gas exploration and development companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange in the City of London The City of London is a ...

Capita Capita plc (), commonly known as Capita, is an international business process outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity that is or could be done inte ...

Capita

Carlton Communications Carlton was a British media company. It was led by Michael P. Green and listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1983 until 2 February 2004, when it was bought by Granada plc in a Takeover, corporate takeover to form ITV plc. Carlton shareholders ...

(merged with

Granada Granada ( , ,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the ...

to form

ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: **ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands ...

) *

Carnival Corporation & plc Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator, currently the world's largest travel leisure company, with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across 10 cruise line A cruise line is a company (law), company that operates cruis ...

Carphone Warehouse The Carphone Warehouse Ltd. is a mobile phone retailer based in London London is the and of and the . It stands on the in south-east England at the head of a down to the , and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The , its ...

* Celltech (acquired by

UCBUCB may stand for: Banking * UCB Home Loans, a mortgage lender in the UK * Uganda Commercial Bank, a former state-owned bank in Uganda * United Carolina Bank, a former bank based in North Carolina, USA * Union Commercial Bank, former name of Mauriti ...

in 2004) *

Centrica Centrica plc is a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinational state, a so ...

CMG CMG may refer to: Companies * Capitol Music Group, a music label * China Media Group, the predominant state radio and television broadcaster in the PRC * China Media Group Co., Ltd., publicly listed Chinese holding company in the media sector * Ch ...

(merged with Logica to form

LogicaCMG Logica plc was a Multinational corporation, multinational information technology, IT and Management consulting, management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, Berkshire, Reading, United Kingdom. Founded in 1969, the compa ...

) * Coats Viyella (acquired by

Guinness Peat Group Guinness Peat Group was an investment holding company with interests in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. History The company, which had been formed as an investment offshoot of London based investment bank Guinness Mahon in the 1980s, was acqui ...

and renamed Coats) * Cobham *

Colt Group Colt Technology Services Group Limited (formerly COLT Telecom Group S.A.) is a Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constitu ...

* Commercial Union Assurance (merged with General Accident to form CGU, itself now part of

Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational Multinational may refer to: * Multinational corporation, a corporate organization operating in multiple countries * Multinational force, a military body from multiple countries * Multinational state, a so ...

Aviva

) *

Consolidated Gold Fields Consolidated Gold Fields was a British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people The British people, or Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overs ...

(acquired by Hanson) * ConvaTec * Cookson Group * Corus Group (acquired by Tata Steel, now forming its

division) * Courtaulds (demerged into two businesses acquired by Sara Lee Corporation, Sara Lee and Akzo Nobel) * Daily Mail and General Trust * Dalgety plc, Dalgety (renamed PIC International and then Sygen International and subsequently acquired by Genus plc, Genus) * Darktrace * Debenhams * De La Rue * Dimension Data Holdings (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) * Direct Line Group * Distillers Company, Distillers (acquired by Guinness and now part of Diageo) * Dixons Carphone * Dixons Group (renamed to DSG International and then Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low)DSG, formerly known as Dixons, is now renamed ... Dixons
''The Telegraph'', 25 June 2010 * Dowty Group (acquired by TI Group, itself now part of Smiths Group) * DSG International (renamed Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low) * Eagle Star Insurance, Eagle Star (acquired by British American Tobacco, BAT Industries and then demerged as part of

) * Eastern Electricity, Eastern Group (acquired by Hanson, renamed Eastern Energy, The Energy Group; acquired by Texas Utilities)Texas raises Energy bid to £4.46bn
BBC News, 3 March 1998 * EasyJet * English China Clays, ECC Group (acquired by Imerys, Imetal) * Edinburgh Investment Trust * Electrocomponents * Ascential, EMAP (acquired by Apax Partners and the Guardian Media Group) * EMI, EMI Group (acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners, now owned by Citigroup) * Energis (acquired by Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Cable and Wireless) * Enterprise Inns * Enterprise Oil (acquired by

) * Essar Energy * Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation * Eurotunnel * Evraz * Exco International (acquired by British & Commonwealth Holdings) * Exel (acquired by Deutsche Post) * Ferranti, Ferranti International (collapsed in 1993)Ferranti Timeline
– ''Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester), Museum of Science and Industry (Accessed 17 February 2009)'' * Ferrexpo * FirstGroup * Fisons (acquired by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, now Sanofi-Aventis) * Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust * Forte Group, Forte (acquired by

, now

) * Freeserve (acquired by France Télécom, now Orange S.A., Orange) * Friends Life Group, Friends Life (acquired by

) * Friends Provident (acquired by Friends Life Group) * G4S * Gallaher Group (acquired by Japan Tobacco) * Gateway Corporation (renamed Somerfield, subsequently acquired by The Co-operative Group) * GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi, broken up, remnant renamed Telent) * General Accident (merged with Commercial Union to form CGU, itself now part of

) * George Wimpey (merged with Taylor Woodrow to form Taylor Wimpey) * Glaxo Wellcome (merged with SmithKline Beecham to form

) * Globe Investment Trust (acquired by British Coal Pension Fund) * Granada Compass (split in 2001 to leave

and Compass Group) *

(merged with

to form

) * Greenall's Group (renamed De Vere Group and then acquired by a joint venture of private investors) * Grand Metropolitan (merged with Guinness to form Diageo)Spirits soar at Diageo
''Food & Drug Packaging'', July 2005 * Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance, Guardian Royal Exchange (acquired by Axa) * Guinness (merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo) * GUS (now demerged into Home Retail Group and Experian) * GVC Holdings * Mothercare, Habitat Mothercare (merged with

to form Storehouse and subsequently renamed Mothercare again) * Halifax (bank), Halifax Group (merged with the

to form

) * Hambro Life (renamed Allied Dunbar and acquired by British American Tobacco, BAT Industries and then demerged as part of

) * Hammerson * Hanson (acquired by Heidelberg Cement) * Harrisons & Crosfield (renamed Elementis) * Hawker Siddeley (acquired by BTR, now

) * Hays plc, Hays * HBOS, HBOS Group plc (acquired by

) * Hillsdown Holdings (acquired by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst and then sold on as Premier Foods) * Hiscox * Home Retail Group * Homeserve * House of Fraser (acquired by Baugur Group, Baugur) * ICAP (company), ICAP * IMI plc, IMI * Imperial Chemical Industries (acquired by Akzo Nobel) * Imperial Continental Gas Association (broke up into Calor Gas, Calor and Contibel) * Inchcape plc, Inchcape * Inmarsat * Innogy Holdings (renamed Npower (United Kingdom), Npower and acquired by RWE) * International Power (acquired by GDF Suez) * Intu *

* Invesco (moved primary listing to New York Stock Exchange, NYSE) * Investec * Jaguar Cars, Jaguar (acquired by Ford Motor Company, Ford and then by Tata Motors) * Johnson Matthey * Just Eat Takeaway (nationality reassigned to the Netherlands) * Kazakhmys * Kelda Group (acquired by Saltaire Water consortium) a consortium of investment companies including Citigroup and HSBC. * Kingfisher plc, Kingfisher * Kingston Communications (renamed KCOM Group and market capitalisation fell too low) * Kwik Save, Kwik Save Group (merged with Somerfield) * Ladbrokes * Laporte plc, Laporte (major divisions acquired by

) * Lasmo (acquired by Eni) * Lattice Group (merged with National Grid to form National Grid plc, National Grid Transco) * Logica * London Electricity Board, London Electricity (acquired by Électricité de France, now part of its EDF Energy division) * Lonmin, Lonhro (renamed Lonmin) * Lonmin * Lucas Industries (merged with Varity to form LucasVarity, then acquired by TRW Inc., TRW) * LucasVarity (acquired by TRW Inc., TRW) * Magnet Kitchens, Magnet and Southerns (acquired by Enodis, Berisford) * Man Group * Marks & Spencer * Maxwell Communications Corporation (collapsed in 1991) * MB-Caradon (renamed Caradon and then Novar plc, Novar, then acquired by Honeywell) * Mediclinic International * Melrose plc, Melrose * MEPC plc, MEPC (acquired by Leconport Estates) * Mercury Asset Management (acquired by Merrill Lynch) * Merlin Entertainments * MFI Group, MFI Furniture (renamed Howden Joinery, Galiform and then Howden Joinery and market capitalisation fell too low) * Micro Focus, Micro Focus International * Midlands Electricity (acquired by Acquila Sterling, now part of E.ON Energy UK) * Midland Bank (acquired by HSBC) * Misys * Mitchells & Butlers *

(acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice) * NatWest, National Westminster Bank (acquired by NatWest Group, Royal Bank of Scotland Group) * National Freight Corporation, NFC (merged with Ocean Group to form Exel, now part of Deutsche Post) * NMC Health * Northern Foods (market capitalisation fell too low, before being acquired by Ranjit Boparan) * Northern Rock (market capitalisation fell too low, before being nationalised) * Norwich Union (merged with CGU to form CGNU, now

) * Amersham plc, Nycomed Amersham (acquired by GE) * O2 (renamed Telefónica Europe following acquisition by Telefónica) * Old Mutual (managed separation of the business) * Orange (UK), Orange (acquired by Mannesmann and then by France Télécom, now Orange S.A., Orange) * PartyGaming (market capitalisation fell too low, before merging with Bwin to become bwin.party digital entertainment) * P&O (company), P&O (acquired by Dubai Ports World) * P&O Cruises, P&O Princess Cruises (merged with Carnival Corporation and re-listed as

) * Pennon Group * Petrofac * Pilkington (acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass) * Plessey (acquired by General Electric Company, GEC and Siemens) * Polly Peck (collapsed in 1990) * PowerGen (acquired by E.ON Energy UK) * Provident Financial * Psion (computers), Psion * Punch Taverns * Racal, Racal Electronics (acquired by Thomson-CSF and then Thales Group) * Railtrack (collapsed in 2001) * Randgold Resources (merged with Barrick Gold, Barrick Gold Corp) * Rank Hovis McDougall (acquired by Premier Foods) * Reckitt and Coleman (merged with Benckiser to form Reckitt Benckiser) * Redland plc, Redland (acquired by Lafarge) * Reed International (merged with Elsevier to form Reed Elsevier) * Renishaw plc, Renishaw * Rentokil Initial * Resolution Limited (changed its name to Friends Life Group) * Resolution plc (acquired by Pearl Group) *

(acquired by Ball Corporation) * RMC Group (acquired by Cemex) * Rothmans International (acquired by British American Tobacco) * J Rothschild (renamed St. James's Place and market capitalisation fell too low) * Rowntree's (acquired by Nestlé) * Royal Insurance (merged with Sun Alliance Group to form Royal & SunAlliance)Smooth merger of Sun Alliance and Royal Insurance
''The Banker'', June 1996 * RSA Insurance Group (acquired by Danish insurer Tryg and Canada's Intact Financial, Intact Financial Corporation in May 2021). * Saatchi & Saatchi (acquired by Publicis) * Safeway (acquired by

) * SABMiller (acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev) * Scottish & Newcastle (acquired by a consortium formed of Heineken International, Heineken & Carlsberg Group, Carlsberg) * Scottish Hydro Electric (merged with Southern Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy)Two electric suppliers in Britain to merge
''New York Times'', 2 September 1998 * Scottish Power (acquired by Iberdrola) * Sears plc, Sears (acquired by January Investments – itself controlled by

) * Securicor (merged with Group 4 Falck to form G4S) * Sedgwick Group, Sedgwick (acquired by Marsh & McLennan) * Sema Group (acquired by Schlumberger) * Serco * Shell Transport and Trading Company (now re-organised with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company as

) * Shire (pharmaceutical company), Shire (acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company) * Siebe (merged with BTR to form

) * Sky Group, Sky (acquired by Comcast) * SmithKline Beecham (merged with Glaxo Wellcome to form

) * Smiths Industries (renamed to Smiths Group) * Southern Electric (merged with Scottish Hydro Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy) * Spirent * Sports Direct * Stagecoach Group * Standard Telephones and Cables (renamed STC and acquired by Nortel) * Storehouse (renamed Mothercare) * Sun Alliance Group (merged with Royal Insurance to form Royal & Sun Alliance) * Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, Sun Life Assurance (acquired by Axa)Sun Life Stock soars as Axa ups bid to £24bn for remaining stake
Independent, 3 May 2000 * Sun Life & Provincial Holdings (acquired by Axa) * Tarmac (company), Tarmac (acquired by Anglo American plc, Anglo American) * Tate & Lyle * Taylor Wimpey * Taylor Woodrow (merged with George Wimpey to form Taylor Wimpey) * Telewest, Telewest Communications (merged with NTL Ireland, NTL to form NTL:Telewest now Virgin Media) * Thames Water (acquired by RWE and then sold to Macquarie Group) * The Energy Group (acquired by Texas Utilities) * Thomas Cook Group * Thomson Reuters (delisted shares from the London Stock Exchange as it ceased to be a dual-listed company) * Thorn Electrical Industries, Thorn (acquired by Nomura Group)Normura will buy Thorn plc
The Boston Globe, 1 July 1998 * Thorn EMI (renamed EMI Group and then acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners) * Thus (company), Thus (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by

) * TI Group (acquired by Smiths Group) * Tomkins plc, Tomkins (acquired by Onex Corporation and Canada Pension Plan, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) * Trafalgar House (company), Trafalgar House (acquired by Kværner) * Travis Perkins * Trustee Savings Bank, TSB Group (merged with Lloyds Bank (historic), Lloyds Bank to form Lloyds Bank, Lloyds TSB) * Forte Group, Trusthouse Forte (acquired by

) * TUI Group * TUI Travel * Tullow Oil * Ultramar plc, Ultramar (acquired by Lasmo and now part of Eni) * Unigate (renamed Uniq plc, Uniq, then market capitalisation fell too low) * United Biscuits (acquired by consortium of financial investors) * UBM plc, United Business Media * Vedanta Resources * S. G. Warburg & Co., Warburg SG (acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, now part of UBS) * Wellcome (merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome, then with SmithKline Beecham to form

) * Weir Group * WH Smith * William Hill (bookmaker), William Hill * Williams Holdings (demerged into Kidde and Chubb Fire & Security, both now part of United Technologies) * Willis Corroon (acquired by ''Trinity Acquisition'' on behalf of

and renamed Willis Group) * Willis Faber (acquired by ''Trinity Acquisition'' on behalf of

and renamed Willis Coroon and then Willis Group) * John Wood Group, Wood Group * Worldpay Group, Worldpay (acquired by Worldpay, Inc., Vantiv) * The Woolwich, Woolwich (acquired by Barclays) * Hibu, Yell Group * Zeneca (merged with Astra to form AstraZeneca) Source
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FT 30

The oldest continuous index in the UK is the FT 30, also known as the Financial Times Index or the FT Ordinary Index (FTOI). It was established in 1935 and nowadays is largely obsolete due to its redundancy. It is similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and companies listed are from the industrial and commercial sectors. Financial sector companies and government stocks are excluded. Of the original constituents, three are currently in the FTSE 100: Tate & Lyle, Imperial Tobacco and Rolls-Royce, although Rolls-Royce has not been continuously listed and Imperial Tobacco was a subsidiary of Hanson plc, Hanson for a number of years, and is now renamed as Imperial Brands. Only one of the original FT 30 companies is still in that index: Tate & Lyle (membership is not strictly based on market capitalisation, so this does not mean they are necessarily among the top thirty companies in the FTSE 100). The best performer from the original lineup has been Imperial Tobacco.Eckett, Stephen (ed.) (2004), ''The UK Stock Market Almanac 2005'', Petersfield, Harriman House.

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{{Authority control Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, 1 Lists of companies of the United Kingdom, FTSE 100 Index FTSE Group stock market indices 1984 establishments in the United Kingdom British stock market indices

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Constituents in December 2021

Past constituents

FT 30

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