from James Wilcox
The Times on June 21st published a most remarkable table of profits of industrial firms. It was the main finding of a survey of Britain's top companies, Entitled "The Times 300", this survey is to be published each year and the full findings will be published in The Times Review of Industry and Technology. .I have extracted the most important figures from the main table covering the top 100 industrial companies,
Net profit before interest and tax Rank Company Employees total % to capital per employee 1 "Shell" Transport 75,200 179,228 14.9 2,383.35 2 I.Cele 159,910 117,200 12.9 732.91 3 British Petroleum = 217,200 26.0 - 4 Unilever é - 59,607 13.7 - 5 B.A. Tobacco 90,000 76,892 19.7 854.36 6 Courtauls 72,000 37,101 15.4 515.29 7 Imperial Tobacco 45,000 39,107 15.5 869.04 & Guest, Keen & N. 99,237 34,506 14.2 347-71 9 Esso Petroleum 12,700 11,933 5.1 939.61 La: Distillers - 39,838 19.6 - 12 - Bowater Paper Corp. 29,000 18,270 9.0 630.00 13 Ford Motor 62,418 24,194 14.0 1 A.E.I. 93,000 13,905 725 ° 15 Vickers 56,078 9,378 4.8 167.23 1 Tube Investments 60,580 18,019 10.1 297.44 17 Hawker Siddeley 123,000 13,449 T4 109.34 18 Steel Co. of Wales 24,000 35736 2.0 155.67 19 Dunlop Rubber 103,700 —— oe 220.19 20 Burmah Oil - 29,167 ‘ - 21 Colvilles 19,800 8,824 5.8 445.66 22 Stewarts & Lloyds 59,000 19,171 13.6 524.93 25 United Steel 41.375 14,967 10.2 361.74 24 Allied Breweries 26,500 19,287 1567 727.81 25 F.W. Woov.orth - ST, TST 272 - 27 English Electric 75,000 14,648 11.3 195.31 28 Marks & Spencer 25,500 pity ors <6
B.I.C.C. 50,000 16, J °
J & P Coats P & B 44,000 17,117 14.6 389.02 31 British Motor Corp. 93,000 21,804 20.3 at: 32 Reed Paper 26,000 11,425 «12.2 439.4 33 Ass, Portland Cement - 14,605 15.0 : = + 34 Gallaher 15,000 20,837 19.9 — 35 -General Electric 64,000 12,966 13.0 202.59 36 Ranks Hovis - McD. 58,000 15,373 ©1729 265.05 37 Sears Holdings - 13,646 16.1 ms 38 British Oxygen 28,000 125647 2213.3 451. : 39 Turner & Newall 38,660 abe nan 390.9
Leyland Motor - ’ ° * : tains Mann 19,500 ped Te 649.08 2 Tate & Lyle ~ P ° - 5 Whitbread . - 8,477 11.9 ~