| This year's position |
Last year's position |
Company name |
| Auto
& Aero Engineering |
| 1 |
(2) |
GKN 65.1 |
| 2
|
(4) |
Smiths Industries 64.6 |
| 3
|
(1) |
BAE Systems * 63.2 |
| 4
|
(3) |
Rolls-Royce 62.9 |
| Banks |
| 1
|
(2) |
HSBC 62.0 |
| 2
|
(1) |
Lloyds TSB 61.2 |
| 3
|
(3) |
Royal Bank of Scotland 59.1 |
| 4
|
(4) |
Bank of Scotland 58.0 |
| Building
Materials & Merchants |
| 1
|
(8) |
Aggregate Industries 60.6 |
| 2
|
(1) |
Hanson 59.9 |
| 3
|
(4) |
BPB Industries 59.4 |
| 4
|
(2) |
Wolseley 58.7 |
| Business
Services |
| 1
|
(1) |
Hays 59.6 |
| 2
|
(8) |
Capita Group 58.5 |
| 3
|
(5) |
Serco Group 58.1 |
| 4
|
(2) |
Rentokil Initial 52.0 |
| Chemicals
& Plastics |
| 1
|
(1) |
BOC 57.6 |
| 2
|
- |
Johnson Matthey 57.4 |
| 3
|
- |
Croda International 53.9 |
| 4
|
(9) |
ICI 52.3 |
| Construction |
| 1
|
(2) |
Wilson Bowden 56.9 |
| 2
|
- |
Berkeley Group 53.1 |
| 3
|
(3) |
Bovis Homes 52.3 |
| 4
|
(1) |
Redrow 50.7 |
| Drinks |
| 1
|
(3) |
Wetherspoon JD 61.2 |
| 2
|
(4) |
Diageo 59.6 |
| 3
|
(7) |
Pizza Express 59.4 |
| 4
|
(2) |
Scottish & Newcastle 59.2 |
| Electricity |
| 1
|
(2) |
Centrica 63.1 |
| 2
|
(4) |
National Grid 62.8 |
| 3
|
(1) |
Scottish Power 59.6 |
| 4
|
(3) |
PowerGen 56.0 |
| Engineering
& Metals |
| 1
|
- |
BBA 63.3 |
| 2
|
(9) |
Cookson 54.3 |
| 3
|
(2) |
TI Group 54.1 |
| 4
|
- |
FKI 53.5 |
| Financial
Sector |
| 1
|
(1) |
3i 63.3 |
| 2
|
(5) |
Amvescap 61.4 |
| 3
|
(8) |
Provident Financial 61.2 |
| 4
|
(9) |
Man (ED&F) 55.3 |
| Food
Manufacturing |
| 1
|
(1) |
Cadbury Schweppes 70.0 |
| 2
|
(2) |
Unilever 65.1 |
| 3
|
(3) |
Northern Foods 52.7 |
| 4
|
(8) |
Dairy Crest 51.6 |
| Food
Retailing |
| 1
|
(1) |
Tesco 69.0 |
| 2
|
(3) |
Iceland 63.8 |
| 3
|
(2) |
Morrison W 59.6 |
| 4
|
(4) |
Sainsbury (J) 56.5 |
| Health
& Household |
| 1
|
(1) |
GlaxoSmithKline * 73.6 |
| 2
|
(3) |
AstraZeneca 66.1 |
| 3
|
(4) |
Nycomed Amersham 63.8 |
| 4
|
(5) |
Alliance UniChem 56.3 |
| Insurance |
| 1
|
(1) |
Legal & General Group 63.4 |
| 2
|
(3) |
CGNU 58.7 |
| 3
|
(2) |
Prudential Corporation 57.8 |
| 4
|
(8) |
Britannic Assurance 55.3 |
| Leisure
& Hotels |
| 1
|
- |
Manchester United 61.3 |
| 2
|
(1) |
Granada Group 60.4 |
| 3
|
(5) |
Millennium & Copthorne 58.6 |
| 4
|
- |
Hilton 57.3 |
| Media |
| 1
|
- |
Pearson 64.1 |
| 2
|
(2) |
BSkyB 62.4 |
| 3
|
(1) |
WPP Group 60.0 |
| 4
|
- |
Reuters 59.9 |
| Oil,
Gas & Extractive Sector |
| 1
|
(1) |
BP 71.1 |
| 2
|
(2) |
Shell Transport & Trading 70.8 |
| 3
|
(4) |
Rio Tinto 63.2 |
| 4
|
(3) |
BG 59.7 |
| Property |
| 1
|
- |
Capital Shopping Centres 60.3 |
| 2
|
- |
Liberty International 54.0 |
| 3
|
- |
Canary Wharf 53.8 |
| 4
|
(2) |
Hammerson 51.8 |
| Retailers |
Clothing |
| 1
|
(1) |
Next 64.2 |
| 2
|
(5) |
Selfridges 57.4 |
| 3
|
- |
French Connection 53.4 |
| 4
|
- |
Matalan 48.6 |
| Retailers |
General |
| 1
|
(2) |
Dixons 62.0 |
| 2
|
(1) |
Boots 61.8 |
| 3
|
(3) |
Kingfisher 57.1 |
| 4
|
(4) |
Smith (WH) 53.4 |
| Software
& Computer Services |
| 1
|
(1) |
Sage Group 65.5 |
| 2
|
(2) |
Logica 62.4 |
| 2
|
(4) |
CMG 62.4 |
| 4
|
- |
Kewill Systems 57.1 |
| Telecommunications |
| 1
|
(1) |
Vodafone Group * 63.9 |
| 2
|
(3) |
Energis 59.4 |
| 3
|
- |
Kingston Communications 56.3 |
| 4
|
(5) |
COLT Telecom 55.9 |
| Transport |
| 1
|
- |
Exel * 68.6 |
| 2
|
(5) |
Ocean Group * 64.6 |
| 3
|
(1) |
BAA 54.5 |
| 4
|
(3) |
P&O 52.5 |
| Water |
| 1
|
(4) |
Thames Water 61.3 |
| 2
|
(2) |
Severn Trent Water 59.1 |
| 3
|
(1) |
Anglian Water 56.7 |
| 4
|
(3) |
United Utilities 54.6 |
