British brands

British engineering company

British light fixture

brand of cleaning products

Halfords Group PLC is a UK retailer of motoring and cycling products and services. Through Halfords Autocentre, they provide vehicle servicing, MOT, maintenance and repairs in the United Kingdom.

B&Q Limited (short for Block & Quayle after the company's two founders) is a British multinational DIY, home improvement and garden centre retailing company, with headquarters in Eastleigh, England. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc. It was founded on 5 March 1969 by Richard Block and David Quayle.

British motorcycle manufacturer

Kangol is a British clothing company famous for its headwear. The name Kangol reflects the original materials for production, the K coming from the word 'silK' (a recent attribution to 'Knitting' is incorrect), the ANG from 'ANGora', and the OL from 'woOL'. Although no Kangol hat has ever been manufactured in Australia, the Kangaroo logo was adopted by Kangol in 1983 because Americans commonly asked where they could get "the Kangaroo hat".

Domestos is a British brand of household cleaning range which contains bleach (primarily sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl). It is manufactured by Unilever. Domestos (and Chlorox, essentially a 10–25% solution of sodium hypochlorite) contains 100,000 ppm (10%) of the active component, available chlorine; many other bleaches contain 50,000 or less.

Plaxton is a builder of bus and coach vehicle bodies based in Eastfield, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1907 by Frederick William Plaxton, it became a subsidiary of Alexander Dennis in May 2007. In 2019, the maker was acquired by Canadian bus manufacturer New Flyer which then became NFI Group.

Travelex International Limited is a foreign exchange company founded by Lloyd Dorfman and headquartered in Peterborough, United Kingdom. Its main businesses are foreign currency exchange, issuing prepaid credit cards for use by travellers, supplying central banks with foreign currency and global remittance. Travelex operates more than 600 stores and 700 ATMs in over 20 countries.

British animation studio

United Kingdom manufacturing and research company

Britvic Ltd is a British producer of soft drinks based in Hemel Hempstead, England. It produces soft drinks under the Britvic name, including the famous Britvic Orange, as well as several other brands. The original Britvic Company was founded during the 1930s as the British Vitamin Products Company, but had initially been started in a chemists in Chelmsford during 1850. In 1968 it became part of Allied Breweries, before being merged into Britannia Soft Drinks, a company jointly owned by Allied, Bass and Whitbread in 1986.

Gymshark Ltd is a British multinational athletic apparel retailer with head office in Solihull, England. Founded in June 2012 by Ben Francis and Lewis Morgan, the company was initially operating from a garage, using basic equipment such as a sewing machine and screen printer to produce garments. Since then, Gymshark has grown into a multinational retailer with a presence in over 230 countries through its online platforms.

British brewery and pub retailer

cigarette brand

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filling station brand used in Europe by Phillips 66

Hedkandi is an English record label and dance music events brand that is owned by Ministry of Sound. Its back catalogue includes both artist albums and compilations.

British software developer and publisher

company

British-based multinational agribusiness

brand made by John Marston Ltd. of Wolverhampton, UK

Family business based in Yorkshire, England

Brand name of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (the state-owned public transport provider in Northern Ireland).

Berghaus Limited is a British outdoor clothing and equipment brand founded in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, and now headquartered in nearby Sunderland. It was founded in 1966 by climbers and mountaineers Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products. Lockey and Davison's outdoor store in Newcastle upon Tyne, went by the name of the LD Mountain Centre. In 1972 they began designing and manufacturing their own products for sale in their shop. They gave their brand the German name 'Berghaus' which translates as 'mountain house'.

English bicycle manufacturer

British clothing manufacturer that specializes in sailing and yachting

stove and cooker system

hair salon chain

Sports equipment company

British manufacturer of household appliances

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Hiwatt (stylized in all caps) is a British company that manufactures amplifiers for electric guitars and electric basses. Founded in the mid-1960s by Dave Reeves, Hiwatt helped define the sound of rock music of the era, alongside fellow British brands Marshall and Vox. Pink Floyd, The Who, and The Rolling Stones all prominently used Hiwatt amplifiers, which were popular for their "big punchy" tone, high headroom, and durability.

thumb|DAKS flagship store on 10 Old Bond Street thumb|Looks from DAKS' SS13 shows DAKS is a British luxury fashion house, founded in 1894 by Simeon Simpson in London. It has held royal warrants from three members of the Royal Family. Officially granted to DAKS' Simpson Piccadilly store in 1956 was the royal warrant of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, followed by that of the Queen in 1962 and Charles, Prince of Wales in 1982.

British defense industry manufacturing company

English sportswear company

British bathroom & plumbing manufacturer

Blackwell UK, also known as '''Blackwell's and Blackwell Group''', is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones. It was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, after whom the chain is named, on Broad Street, Oxford. The brand now has a chain of 18 shops, and an accounts and library supply service. It employs around 1000 staff in its divisions.

thumb|xCORE XS1-AnA processor XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops generative systems-on-chips designed to integrate control, input/output, digital signal processing, and artificial intelligence functions. The company's XCORE platform enables users to generate customizable system-on-chips with real-time reconfigurability and deterministic parallel architecture, enabling developers to execute multiple tasks simultaneously.

British hotel chain

Thorntons Limited is a British chocolate manufacturer owned by the Italian confectionery company, Ferrero. It was established in 1911 by William Joseph Thornton and Joseph Thornton, his father, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

British motorcycle manufacturer

Wileyfox was a British smartphone manufacturer founded in 2015. It went into administration on 6 February 2018. On 19 March 2018 it was announced that Santok Group had agreed a licensing deal covering sales of handsets in Europe and South Africa.

Tannoy is a British manufacturer of loudspeakers and public address systems founded in 1926. Today the company is part of the Music Tribe group of brands.

British clothing brand

brand of vertical axis helical turbine

Berol (stylised as Bẽrol) is a British stationery brand of Newell Brands and former stationery manufacturing company, based in Lichfield, Staffordshire. The company was established in 1856 and manufactured a wide range of products including writing implements and art materials. It was acquired by Sanford L.P. in 1995, a division of Newell Brands, becoming a subsidiary of it until the last factory closed in 2010. Since then, Berol has survived as a brand of imported products, though the head office remains in Lichfield.

brand of household soap

British radio manufacturer

Fabric softener brand

PECO is a UK-based manufacturer of model railway accessories, especially trackwork, based at Pecorama, Beer in South Devon, England.

former British charter airline

thumb|An example of Smythson's work: an engraved, monogrammed visiting card|calling card thumb|A Smythson store located at the Royal Exchange, London Frank Smythson Limited, commonly known as Smythson (), is a British manufacturer and retailer of luxury stationery, leather goods, diaries, and fashion products based in London, England. The company's founder, Frank John Smythson, was born in 1847 at Holborn and was a son of Marcus Alfred Smythson, a professor of music. He opened his first store on 29 September 1887 at 133 New Bond Street in London. Smythson's flagship store, which closed in 2024

Sanex is a brand of personal care products owned by Colgate-Palmolive. It is sold in multiple European countries (including the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Poland and Croatia) and in South Africa.

British record label

British chocoltier

orange chocolate snack from England

Homebase was a British home improvement and garden centre retailer that operated across the United Kingdom and Ireland.