Companies in Bristol ranked by number of employees
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 1,603 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 1,603 of 66,715
- Ranked first
- MERAK UK HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Average employees of no. 1
- 2,006
- Data as of
Summary
1,603 companies with a registered office in Bristol reported average employees of 10 or more in their latest accounts.
MERAK UK HOLDINGS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with 2,006 average employees, followed by GLEN GROUP LTD. with 1,639.
The top three account for 34.3% of the combined average employees of the listed companies, which total 14,725. The median listed company was incorporated 18 years ago.
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50 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.
How this list was made
- Industry
- All industries: every company with a registered office in Bristol, whatever its SIC code.
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is Bristol.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts. The previous year's figure is shown for context and does not affect the ranking.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the average number of employees in the latest filed accounts. Companies with fewer than 10 employees are left out.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies registered in Bristol66,715Not active−9,320Dormant−5,378Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−28,457Average employees not filed in the latest accounts−7,802Average employees below 10−14,141Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−14Qualified for this list1,603