Capita Group plc is the UKs leading professional and support service organisation, providing an integrated range of services across the UKs public and private sectors. Its capabilities encompass customer services, human resource services, software services, systems and strategic support and property services. It aims to improve our clients service quality, reduce their costs of delivery and enable them to transform the way they deliver services to their customers. Established in 1984, the company now counts both private and public sector businesses among its customers and is perhaps best known for its involvement in Londons congestion charging scheme.

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Mitchells & Butlers is the leading operator of managed pubs, owning and operating approximately 2,000 high quality pubs in prime locations nationwide. The groups predominantly freehold estate is biased towards large pubs in residential locations. With some 3% of the pubs in the UK, Mitchells & Butlers has 9% of industry sales, and average weekly take per pub of over three times the industry average. Same outlet like for like sales include all managed pubs that were trading for the two periods being compared. Approximately 95% of the estate is included in this measure. Uninvested like for like sales include only those managed pubs that have not received expansionary investment of more than 30k in either year being compared. Approximately 85% of the estate is included in this measure. Mitchells & Butlers has apparently fought off several bid attempts already in its short life as an independent. Spun out of Six Continents in 2002, MAB brands include ONeills and All Bar One.

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Reckitt and Benckiser both began life in the 19th century eventually merging over 100 years later in 1999 to become the worlds largest household cleaning products group. It is the world leader in household cleaning, excluding laundry, and has a major presence in health and personal care. Over half the groups revenues are generated from its Fabric Care and Surface Care divisions, with the majority of its business centred in Western Europe. The Company is truly global, with over 60 operating companies and close to 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide and has sales in 180 countries. The Company employes 20,000 people around the world. Amongst the Companys leading brands are Lysol, the world leader in disinfecting cleaning, Calgonit & Finish & Electrasol, the world leaders in automatic dishwashing, Woolite, world leader in fine fabrics, Vanish & Spray nWash, world leaders in fabric treatment, Veet, the world number one depilatory and Dettol the worlds leading antiseptic. In 2005 Reckitt added the Nurofen, Strepsil and Clearasil brands to its portfolio with the 1.9bn acquisition of Boots Healthcare International.

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Standard Life plc is a UK insurer that has been in operation for nearly 200 years. The company was reincorporated as a mutual assurance company in 1925 and remained so until it was deumutualised and floated on the stock market on 10th July 2006. The company has operations in a number of regions from Edinburgh to Hong Kong and currently over 7m customers. It is a holding company who divisions include: Standard Life Assurance, Standard Life Investment Funds & Standard Life Bank.

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Tesco is one of the worlds leading international retailers. Since the company first the trading name of Tesco, in the mid 1920s, the group has expanded into different formats, different markets and different sectors. The UKs leading retailer Tesco was floated on the stock exchange in 1947 and in 1995 took over rival Sainsburys position as the UK number one. The principal activity of the group is food retailing, with over 2,000 stores worldwide. Tesco has a long term strategy for growth, based on four key parts: growth in the Core UK business, to expand by growing internationally, to be as strong in non-food as in food and to follow customers into new retailing services. The company launched a home shopping service in 2000, allowing customers to order their shopping online. Tesco is now expanding its convenience stores and overseas into areas such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Poland, the US and Ireland.

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