List of Scottish companies
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List of Scottish companies is an incomplete list of companies with their corporate headquarters in Scotland, organised by industry sector.
- Blue Square Design - Advertising, design, corporate identity company based in Dundee
- G3 Creative Solutions - Advertising and graphic design company based in Glasgow
- AG Barr - Producers of soft drinks, including Irn Bru and Tizer
- Baxters - International food producer, notable for soups and other Scottish-themed goods
- Drambuie - Famous whisky producer
- Edrington Group
- McLelland's Dairy - Maker of Galloway and Seriously Strong cheese brands
- Grampian Country Food Group - Manufacturer of fresh foods, such as poultry
- Johnnie Walker - International whisky group, part of Diageo
- Mackies - ice cream company from Aberdeenshire area
- McCowan's - Confectionary manufacturer
- Mitchell's Dairy - Dairy firm in the Aberdeenshire area
- Robert Wiseman Dairies - Major milk supplier throughout the United Kingdom
- Scottish and Newcastle - International brewer, owners of the Kronenbourg 1664 and Newcastle Brown Ale brands
- Tennent's - Major brewing company
- Tunnock's - Biscuit & confectionery producer
- Walkers Shortbread - Renowned shortbread, biscuit and cracker company
- William Grant & Sons - Whisky producers
- Whyte and Mackay - Whisky producers
- Aberdeen Asset Management plc
- Airdrie Savings Bank
- Century Building Society
- Clydesdale Bank
- Dunfermline Building Society
- HBOS - Holding company of Bank of Scotland plc
- Lloyds TSB Scotland - subsidiary of Lloyds TSB
- Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Scott-Moncrieff- chartered accountants
- Scottish Building Society
- Scottish Equitable
- Scottish Life - Now a division of Royal London
- Scottish Widows - Life assurance arm of Lloyds TSB
- Standard Life - Formerly Europe's largest mutual life assurance company
- Tesco Personal Finance
- Gleneagles Hotel - Part of Diageo group
- MacDonald Hotels - International hotels group
- Blue Square E-business - Web design and e-commerce specialists based in Aberdeen and Dundee
- Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre
- Hillside Software Publishing Ltd - Information security and software quality management consultancy based in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire
- Hostroute.com Ltd - Internet service provider: web hosting, domain name registration
- Rockstar North (Formerly DMA Design) - A computer games developer, who are famous for their Grand Theft Auto series An autonomous division of Rockstar Games,
- SalesAgility.com Ltd - Scotland's CRM & Sales Force Automation experts
- Further information: Media in Scotland
- BBC Scotland - National public broadcaster
- D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd - Publisher of the Sunday Post, the Beano etc
- Johnston Press - Owner of The Scotsman
- Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited - A division of Gannett
- SMG plc (Scottish Media Group) - Owner of STV, Virgin Radio & Pearl & Dean
- Scottish Radio Holdings - Subsidiary of EMAP plc, quoted on [LSE]
- The Comedy Unit
- British Energy - The UK's primary nuclear power producer
- Scottish and Southern Energy plc - electricity and natural gas supplier
- Scottish Gas - Gas and now electricity supplier, Scottish arm of British Gas
- Scottish Power - Gas and electricity supplier
- SgurrEnergy - Engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy
- Halogen Communications - Edinburgh/Washington DC based consultancy
- Arnold Clark - New and used car dealerships, with over 135 locations throughout the UK
- d2 - Clothing retailer
- Edinburgh Woolen Mill
- Farmfoods - Large frozen food retailer
- Glenvarigill Group - Car dealerships
- Jenners - Now a subsidiary of House of Fraser
- John Clark - New and used car dealerships
- Kwik Fit - Car repairs, mechanics
- Lomo Watersport - Wetsuits, drysuits and other watersports equipment
- Internacionale - Clothing and homeware retailer
- Mackays Stores - Clothing and homeware retailer
- Original Shoe Company - Footwear and clothing retailer
- Peoples - Car dealerships
- Reid Furniture - Furniture retailer, stores across Scotland and Ireland
- Scotmid - Scotland-wide supermarket chain
- Schuh - Footwear company, stores throughout UK and Ireland
- Semi Chem - Nationwide pharmacy chain, owned by the Scotmid group
- Sterling Furniture Group - Furniture and homeware retailer
- USC - Fashion retailer
- The Ashvale - Fish and chip restaurants / take-aways
- Beanscene - Scottish coffee shop chain
- Howie's - Bistro style restaurants
- Jimmy Chung's - Scottish chain of Chinese restaurants
- BT Scotland - Scottish arm of British Telecom
- Thus plc - Formerly known as Scottish Telecom
- Further information: Transport in Scotland
- BMI regional - Airline based at Aberdeen Airport; subsidiary of BMI
- Caledonian MacBrayne - Ferry company operating mainly on the west coast of Scotland
- City Star Airlines - Growing international airline based at Aberdeen Airport
- Flyglobespan - Ambitious international airline based in Edinburgh
- Forth Ports plc - Port operator
- Highlands and Islands Airports Limited - Owned by the Scottish Executive
- Loganair - Operates flights between Scottish airports under the British Airways franchise
- Northlink Ferries - Operator of ferries to the Northern Isles
- ScotAirways - Operates flights from Edinburgh Airport and Dundee Airport to London City Airport
- Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd. - A Dunoon based operator of car and passenger ferry services on the River Clyde
- Arriva Scotland West - Regional bus operator
- Christian Salvesen Ltd - International Transport & Logistics company with its HQ in Edinburgh, founded there in 1846
- FirstGroup - Owner of the FirstBus brand, and First ScotRail, based in Aberdeen
- Irvine's Coaches - Local bus operator based in Law, South Lanarkshire
- John Menzies - International logistics and distribution company based in Edinburgh
- Lothian Buses - Regional bus operator owned by Edinburgh City Council
- Megabus - Low-cost inter-city bus operator. Part of the Stagecoach Group PLC
- Parks of Hamilton - Large Scottish coach operator. Along with Trathens and Trathens StarRiders of Plymouth, part of the Parks Motor Group
- Scottish Citylink - Inter-city coach operator
- Stagecoach Group plc - International bus and train operator, based in Perth, Perthshire
- Alliance Trust plc
- Asco plc
- City Refrigeration Holdings
- CJ Lang & Son
- Devro plc
- Direct Holidays
- Eastern Holdings
- J & J Denholm
- John Martin Holdings
- Portman Holdings
- Simclar Group
- Strathclyde (Pharmaceuticals)
- Turner & Co
- Wood Group plc
- The Scotsman Business 250 (2005), The Scotsman
- SCOTBIS, the Scottish Business Information Service, part of the National Library of Scotland