Rank Fortune 500 rank Name Industry Revenue (USD millions) Profits (USD millions) Employees Headquarters 1 8 BP Oil and Gas 282,616 4,026 72,500 London 2 73 HSBC Banking 98,673 7,383 235,351 London 3 80 Prudential plc Insurance 93,736 783 18,125 London 4 85 Legal & General Group Insurance 90,615 2,340 8,542 London 5 88 Aviva Insurance 89,647 3,251 31,181 London 6 103 Tesco Retail 82,700 1,240 293,963 Welwyn Garden City 7 170 Lloyds Banking Group Banking 64,297 3,733 63,069 London 8 185 Unilever Consumer goods 58,179 6,296 149,867 London 9 228 Vodafone Telecommunication 49,960 −1,022 95,219 Newbury 10 280 Rio Tinto Group Mining 43,165 8,010 46,007 London 11 282 GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals 43,073 5,927 99,437 London 12 299 M&G Insurance 41,076 1,429 8,021 London 13 327 Barclays Banking 38,337 4,178 80,800 London 14 338 Phoenix Group Insurance 37,215 109 4,417 London 15 344 Sainsbury's Retail 36,831 193 111,900 London 16 379 British American Tobacco Consumer goods 33,021 7,279 59,989 London 17 395 Compass Group Services 31,736 1,416 596,452 Chertsey 18 419 Anglo American plc Mining 29,870 3,547 63,000 London 19 432 BT Group Telecommunication 29,097 2,203 105,300 London 20 440 Centrica Utilities 28,934 −1,305 29,147 Windsor 21 444 Linde plc Chemicals 28,677 2,285 79,886 Surrey 22 446 International Airlines Group Airline 28,548 1,920 66,034 London