Brands
Concorde was an iconic Franco-British turbojet-powered supersonic airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound, at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde ...
Burberry is a British luxury fashion house headquartered in London, England. It currently designs and distributes ready to wear, including trench coats (for which it is most famous), leather goods, footwear, fashion accessories, eyewear, fragrances, and cosmetics.
Cadbury Dairy Milk is a British brand of milk chocolate manufactured by Cadbury. It was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1905 and now consists of a number of products. Every product in the Dairy Milk line is made with exclusively milk chocolate. In 2014, Dairy Milk was ranked the best-selling ...
Rolls-Royce is the most distinguished automobile marque in the world. Founded in 1906, it has achieved such high standards of engineering excellence and luxury that the very brand name has come to personify perfection in the other product categories, viz, "that Patek Philippe is the Rolls-Royce ...
Dr. Martens, also commonly known as Doc Martens, Docs or DMs, is an iconic British footwear brand, headquartered in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England, though with its design origins in resource-starved post-war Germany. Although famous for its footwear, Dr. Martens also makes a range of access...
Harrods Limited is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England since 1851. It is owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of com...
Durex is a brand of condoms and personal lubricants owned by Reckitt Benckiser. It was initially developed in London under the purview of the London Rubber Company and British Latex Products Ltd, where it was manufactured between 1932 and 1994. The London Rubber Company was formed in 1915, and th...
The best-selling biscuit manufacturer in the United Kingdom, McVitie's produces chocolate digestives, Hobnobs and Rich tea (ranked the three favourite biscuits to dunk into tea), and Jaffa Cakes (the best selling cake in the UK). In 2020, sales of McVitie's biscuits in the UK were more than five ...
Reebok is a German fitness footwear and clothing manufacturer. It was established in 1958 in Great Britain as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, a sporting goods company which had been founded in 1895 in Bolton, Lancashire. Until 1986, the brand featured the Union Jack in its logo to si...
Dunhill is a British brand of cigarettes, founded in 1907, and owned and manufactured since 1999 by British American Tobacco. The brand name commemorates the English tobacconist and inventor Alfred Dunhill, and has subsequently been extended over an exclusive line of fine tailoring and accessori...
JCB is a British manufacturer of equipment for construction, agriculture, waste handling, and demolition, founded in 1945 and based in Rocester, Staffordshire, England. The word "JCB" is also often used colloquially as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators and now appears i...
Schweppes is a beverage brand that originated in Geneva, but was built out of its London home from 1792 onwards, and developed into a brand that is now sold around the world. It sold the world's first soft drink, bottled soda water, in 1783. The company sells a variety of lemonade, carbonated wat...
Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry. Jaguar Cars was the company responsible for producing Jaguar cars until its operations were fully merged by owner Tata Motors with those of Land Rover to...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest in the world by number of employees. Over the 100 years of its history, it has built a reputation for fair and balanced reporting, and is of...
Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in 1759. During the Second World War, the demand for Guinness among the British was one of the main reasons why the UK lifted commerce restrictions imposed in 1941 to force Ire...
Mulberry is a luxury fashion company founded in the United Kingdom in 1971, known internationally for its leather goods.
Twinings is the original English marketer of tea (and now other beverages, including coffee, hot chocolate and malt drinks). It holds the world's oldest continually-used company logo, and is London's longest-standing ratepayer, having occupied the same premises on the Strand since 1706. That year...
Vodafone is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. As of November 2020, Vodafone owns and operates networks in 22 countries, with...
Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer, established in 1983 by John Bloor after the original company Triumph Engineering went into receivership. The new company, initially called Bonneville Coventry Ltd, continued Triumph's lineage of motorcycle production since 1...
Gordon's is a brand of London dry gin first produced in 1769. It has been the UK's number one gin since the late 19th century, and today is the world's best-selling London dry gin. Gordon's Gin is specified by name in the recipe for the Vesper Cocktail given by James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1953 ...
The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier Jump Jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL). Named after a bird of prey, it was originally developed by British manufacturer Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s. The Harrier emer...
Colman's (est. 1814) is an English manufacturer of mustard, produced for 160 years at Carrow, in Norwich, Norfolk. Colman's is one of the oldest existing food brands, and in 1855 it introduced its distinctive yellow packaging and bull's-head logo. In 1866 was granted a Royal Warrant as manufactur...
Sir Paul Brierley Smith CH CBE RDI (born 5 July 1946) is a British fashion designer. His reputation is founded on his designs for men's clothing, but his business has expanded into other areas as well. Smith was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1991.
Lea & Perrins (L&P)is best known as the maker of Lea & Perrins brand of Worcestershire sauce, which was first sold in 1837 by John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, dispensing chemists from Broad Street, Worcester. Bloody Marys don't taste quite right without it! It is a United Kingdom-bas...
The Land Rover Range Rover (generally known simply as the Range Rover) is a 4x4 motor car produced by Land Rover, a marque and sub-brand of Jaguar Land Rover. The Range Rover line was launched in 1970 by British Leyland and is now in its fifth generation.
Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of York, United Kingdom, now produced globally by Nestlé (which acquired Rowntree's in 1988), except in the United States. It was launched in September 1935 in the UK and the name was shortened to just Kit Kat after World W...
Chivas Regal is a blended Scotch whisky manufactured by Chivas Brothers, which is now part of Pernod Ricard. It was founded in 1786, with its home being in the Strathisla distillery at Keith, Moray in Speyside, Scotland, and is the oldest continuously operating Highland distillery.
Lipton is a British brand of tea, named after its founder Sir Thomas Lipton, and now owned by Unilever. Its Lipton Yellow Label has been sold since 1890, when Thomas Lipton introduced the first version of the Yellow pack with a red Lipton shield, still in use. It is sold in 150 countries worldwid...
J. Barbour & Sons Ltd is a British luxury and lifestyle brand founded by John Barbour in 1894, that designs, manufactures and markets waxed cotton outerwear, ready-to-wear, clothing, footwear. Founded in South Shields, England, as an importer of oil cloth, J. Barbour and Sons Ltd has become well...
Benson & Hedges is a British brand of cigarettes owned by American conglomerate Altria. Cigarettes under the Benson & Hedges name are manufactured worldwide by different companies such as Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, Philip Morris USA,British American Tobacco, or Japan Tobacco, depending on the reg...
BP plc (formerly The British Petroleum Company) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas "supermajors", vertically integrated in all areas including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power ge...
Barclays is a British multinational bank, headquartered in London, which traces its origins to the goldsmith banking business established in the City of London in 1690. James Barclay became a partner in the business in 1736. In 1896, several banks in London and the English provinces, united as a ...
Dettol is a British brand of cleaning supplies and disinfectant and antiseptic, first introduced in 1932. In 1933, Dettol antisptic was invented for doctors and needed when millions of mothers and babies were dying from sepsis following childbirth. The company educated UK healthcare professionals...
