FTSE 100 Index - Past Constituents

Past Constituents

• 3i Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Abbey Life (became subsidiary of Lloyds TSB in 1996, then sold to Deutsche Bank in 2007)
• Abbey National (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary)
• African Barrick Gold (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Alliance & Leicester (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary)
• Alliance Boots (acquired by private equity fund controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
• Alliance Trust (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Allied Domecq (acquired by Pernod Ricard)
• Allied Zurich (dual holding company along with Zurich Allied, companies unified in 2000 to form Zurich Financial Services)
• Amersham (acquired by GE, now part of its GE Healthcare division)
• Amstrad (acquired by British Sky Broadcasting)
• Argos (acquired by GUS and now owned by Home Retail Group)
• Argyll Group (renamed Safeway in 1996, then taken over by Morrisons in 2004)
• Arjo Wiggins Appleton (acquired by Worms & Cie)
• ASDA Group (acquired by Wal-Mart)
• BAA (acquired by Ferrovial)
• Balfour Beatty (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Baltimore Technologies (acquired by Oryx International Growth Fund)
• Bank of Scotland (merged with Halifax to form HBOS, now part of the Lloyds Banking Group)
• Barratt Developments (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Bass (became Six Continents and then InterContinental Hotels Group)
• Beecham Group (merged with SmithKline and then with Glaxo to become GlaxoSmithKline)
• Berisford (renamed Enodis, subsequently acquired by The Manitowoc Company)
• BET, formerly British Electric Traction (acquired by Rentokil, now Rentokil Initial)
• BICC (renamed Balfour Beatty)
• Blue Arrow (acquired by Corporate Services Group)
• Blue Circle Industries (acquired by Lafarge)
• BOC (acquired by The Linde Group)
• Bowater (renamed Rexam)
• Bookham Technology (remamed Oclaro and now traded on Nasdaq)
• BPB Industries (acquired by Saint-Gobain)
• Bradford & Bingley (branch network acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary; loans book nationalised)
• Brambles Industries (now only listed on the Australian Securities Exchange)
• British Aerospace (merged with Marconi Electronic Systems to form BAE Systems)
• British Airways (merged with Iberia to form International Airlines Group)
• British Home Stores (acquired by Storehouse and then sold to Philip Green)
• British Steel (merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V. to become Corus Group, itself now part of Tata Steel)
• British & Commonwealth (collapsed in 1990)
• Britoil (acquired by BP)
• BTR (merged with Siebe to form BTR Siebe, subsequently renamed Invensys)
• Burmah Oil (renamed Burmah Castrol and acquired by BP)
• Burton Group (renamed Arcadia and acquired by Philip Green)
• Cable & Wireless Worldwide (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Cadbury (acquired by Kraft Foods)
• Cairn Energy (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Carlton Communications (merged with Granada to form ITV)
• Carphone Warehouse Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Celltech (acquired by UCB in 2004)
• CMG (merged with Logica to form LogicaCMG)
• Coats Viyella (acquired by Guinness Peat Group and renamed Coats)
• Cobham (market capitalisation fell too low)
• COLT Telecom Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Commercial Union Assurance (merged with General Accident to form CGU, itself now part of Aviva)
• Consolidated Gold Fields (acquired by Hanson)
• Cookson Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Corus Group (acquired by Tata Steel, now forming its Tata Steel Europe division)
• Courtaulds (demerged into two businesses acquired by Sara Lee and Akzo Nobel)
• Daily Mail and General Trust (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Dalgety (renamed PIC International and then Sygen International and subsequently acquired by Genus)
• Debenhams (market capitalisation fell too low)
• De La Rue (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Dimension Data Holdings (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)
• Distillers (acquired by Guinness and now part of Diageo)
• Dixons Group (renamed to DSG International and then Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low)
• Dowty Group (acquired by TI Group, itself now part of Smiths Group)
• DSG International (renamed Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low)
• Eagle Star (acquired by BAT Industries and then demerged as part of Zurich Financial Services)
• Eastern Group (acquired by Texas Utilities and then Powergen, now part of E.ON UK)
• ECC Group (acquired by Imetal)
• Edinburgh Investment Trust (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Electrocomponents (market capitalisation fell too low)
• EMAP (acquired by Apax and the Guardian Media Group)
• EMI Group (acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners, now owned by Citigroup)
• Energis (acquired by Cable and Wireless)
• English China Clays (acquired by Imetal)
• Enterprise Inns (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Enterprise Oil (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)
• Essar Energy (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Eurotunnel (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Exco International (acquired by British & Commonwealth Holdings)
• Exel (acquired by Deutsche Post)
• Ferranti International (collapsed in 1993)
• Ferrexpo (market capitalisation fell too low)
• FirstGroup (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Fisons (acquired by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, now Sanofi-Aventis)
• Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Forte (acquired by Granada, now ITV)
• Freeserve (acquired by France Telecom)
• Friends Provident (acquired by Resolution Limited)
• Gallaher Group (acquired by Japan Tobacco)
• Gateway Corporation (renamed Somerfield, subsequently acquired by The Co-operative Group)
• GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi and then Telent)
• General Accident (merged with Commercial Union to form CGU, itself now part of Aviva)
• George Wimpey (merged with Taylor Woodrow to form Taylor Wimpey)
• Glaxo Wellcome (merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline)
• Globe Investment Trust (acquired by British Coal Pension Fund)
• Granada Compass (split in 2001 to leave Granada and Compass Group)
• Granada (merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV)
• Greenall's Group (renamed De Vere Group and then acquired by a joint venture of private investors)
• Grand Metropolitan (merged with Guinness to form Diageo)
• Guardian Royal Exchange (acquired by Axa)
• Guinness (merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo)
• GUS (now demerged into Home Retail Group and Experian)
• Habitat Mothercare (merged with British Home Stores to form Storehouse and subsequently renamed Mothercare again)
• Halifax Group (merged with the Bank of Scotland to form HBOS)
• Hambro Life (renamed Allied Dunbar and acquired by BAT Industries and then demerged as part of Zurich Financial Services)
• Hanson (acquired by Heidelberg Cement)
• Harrisons & Crosfield (renamed Elementis)
• Hawker Siddeley (acquired by BTR, now Invensys)
• Hays (market capitalisation fell too low)
• HBOS Group plc (acquired by Lloyds TSB, now Lloyds Banking Group)
• Hillsdown Holdings (acquired by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst and then sold on as Premier Foods)
• Home Retail Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• House of Fraser (acquired by Baugur)
• Imperial Chemical Industries (acquired by Akzo Nobel)
• Imperial Continental Gas Association (broke up into Calor and Contibel)
• Inchcape (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Innogy Holdings (renamed Npower and acquired by RWE)
• Inmarsat (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Invensys (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Invesco (moved primary listing to NYSE)
• Investec (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Jaguar (acquired by Ford and then by Tata Motors)
• Kelda Group (acquired by Saltaire Water consortium) a consortium of investment companies including Citigroup and HSBC.
• Kingston Communications (renamed KCOM Group and market capitalisation fell too low)
• Kwik Save Group (merged with Somerfield)
• Ladbrokes (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Laporte (major divisions acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
• Lasmo (acquired by Eni)
• Lattice Group (merged with National Grid to form National Grid Transco)
• Logica (market capitalisation fell too low)
• London Electricity (acquired by Électricité de France, now part of its EDF Energy division)
• London Stock Exchange Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Lonhro (renamed Lonmin)
• Lonmin (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Lucas Industries (merged with Varity to form LucasVarity, then acquired by TRW)
• LucasVarity (acquired by TRW)
• Magnet and Southerns (acquired by Berisford)
• Man Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Maxwell Communications Corporation (collapsed in 1991)
• MB-Caradon (renamed Caradon and then Novar, then acquired by Honeywell)
• MEPC (acquired by Leconport Estates)
• Mercury Asset Management (acquired by Merrill Lynch)
• MFI Furniture (renamed Galiform and then Howden Joinery and market capitalisation fell too low)
• Midlands Electricity (acquired by Acquila Sterling, now part of E.ON UK)
• Midland Bank (acquired by HSBC)
• Misys (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Mitchells & Butlers (market capitalisation fell too low)
• National Westminster Bank (acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
• NFC (merged with Ocean Group to form Exel, now part of Deutsche Post)
• Northern Foods (market capitalisation fell too low, before being acquired by Ranjit Boparan)
• Northern Rock (market capitalisation fell too low, before being nationalised)
• Norwich Union (merged with CGNU to form Aviva)
• Nycomed Amersham (acquired by GE)
• O2 (renamed Telefónica Europe following acquisition by Telefónica)
• Orange (acquired by Mannesmann AG and then by France Télécom)
• PartyGaming (market capitalisation fell too low, before merging with Bwin to become bwin.party digital entertainment)
• P&O (acquired by Dubai Ports World)
• P&O Princess Cruises (merged with Carnival Corporation and re-listed as Carnival PLC)
• Pennon Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Persimmon (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Petrofac (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Pilkington (acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass)
• Plessey (acquired by GEC and Siemens)
• Polly Peck (collapsed in 1990)
• PowerGen (acquired by E.ON UK)
• Provident Financial (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Psion (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Punch Taverns (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Racal Electronics (acquired by Thomson-CSF and then Thales Group)
• Railtrack (collapsed in 1993)
• Rank Hovis McDougall (acquired by Premier Foods)
• Reckitt and Coleman (merged with Benckiser to form Reckitt Benckiser)
• Redland (acquired by Lafarge)
• Reed International (merged with Elsevier to form Reed Elsevier)
• Rentokil Initial (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Resolution plc (acquired by Pearl Group)
• RMC Group (acquired by Cemex)
• Rothmans International (acquired by British American Tobacco)
• J Rothschild (renamed St. James's Place and market capitalisation fell too low)
• Rowntree's (acquired by Nestlé)
• Royal Insurance (merged with Sun Alliance Group to form Royal & SunAlliance)
• Saatchi & Saatchi (acquired by Publicis)
• Safeway (acquired by Morrisons)
• Scottish & Newcastle (acquired by a consortium formed of Heineken & Carlsberg)
• Scottish Hydro Electric (merged with Southern Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy)
• Scottish Power (acquired by Iberdrola)
• Sears (acquired by January Investments - itself controlled by Philip Green)
• Securicor (merged with Group 4 Falck to form G4S)
• Sedgwick (acquired by Marsh & McLennan)
• Segro (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Sema Group (acquired by Schlumberger)
• Shell Transport and Trading Company (now re-organised with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company as Royal Dutch Shell)
• Siebe (merged with BTR to form Invensys)
• SmithKline Beecham (merged with Glaxo Wellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline)
• Smiths Industries (renamed to Smiths Group)
• Southern Electric (merged with Scottish Hydro Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy)
• Spirent (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Stagecoach Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Standard Telephones and Cables (renamed STC and acquired by Nortel)
• Storehouse (renamed Mothercare)
• Sun Alliance Group (merged with Royal Insurance to form Royal & Sun Alliance)
• Sun Life Assurance (acquired by Axa)
• Sun Life & Provincial Holdings (acquired by Axa)
• Tarmac (acquired by Anglo American)
• Taylor Wimpey (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Taylor Woodrow (merged with George Wimpey to form Taylor Wimpey)
• Telewest Communications (merged with NTL to form NTL:Telewest now Virgin Media)
• Thames Water (acquired by RWE and then sold to Macquarie Bank)
• The Energy Group (acquired by Texas Utilities and then by E.ON UK)
• Thomas Cook Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Thomson Reuters (delisted shares from the London Stock Exchange as it ceased to be a dual-listed company)
• Thorn (acquired by Nomura Group)
• Thorn EMI (renamed EMI Group and then acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners)
• Thus (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by Cable & Wireless Worldwide)
• TI Group (acquired by Smiths Group)
• Tomkins (acquired by Onex Corporation and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board)
• Trafalgar House (acquired by Kværner)
• TSB Group (merged with Lloyds Bank to form Lloyds TSB)
• Trusthouse Forte (acquired by Granada)
• TUI Travel (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Ultramar (acquired by LASMO and now part of Eni)
• Unigate (renamed Uniq, then market capitalisation fell too low)
• United Biscuits (acquired by consortium of financial investors)
• United Business Media (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Warburg SG (acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, now part of UBS)
• Wellcome (merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome, then with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline)
• W H Smith (market capitalisation fell too low)
• William Hill (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Williams Holdings (demerged into Kidde and Chubb Security, both now part of United Technologies Corporation)
• Willis Corroon (acquired by Trinity Acquisition on behalf of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and renamed Willis Group)
• Willis Faber (acquired by Trinity Acquisition on behalf of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and renamed Willis Coroon and then Willis Group)
• Wood Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Woolwich (acquired by Barclays)
• Yell Group (market capitalisation fell too low)
• Zeneca (merged with Astra to form AstraZeneca)

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