2006 The top 800 UK & 1250 Global companies by R&D investment

Ranking of the top 800 UK companies by R&D investment within industry sectors–––––––––––––––––– 2005/06 R&D investment –––––––––––––––––– ——–—–– Operating profit ——–—–– ––––––––––––––––– Sales and employees ––––––––––––––––– ————––—–––—— R&D and employees ——–—––——––––—–––––––––– Sales –––––––––– ––––– Sales / employee ––––– ––––––––– Employees ––––––––– ––––– R&D / employee ––––– Sales––––– Growth ––––– operating R&D + ––––– Growth ––––– ––––– Growth ––––– –––––– Growth ––––– ––––– Growth ––––– –––––– Growth ––––– outside –––Market cap –––change change profit sales capex as change change sales change change change change change change change change region changeCompany £m 1 yr % 4 yr % % % % sales £m 1 yr % 4 yr % % £m 1 yr % 4 yr % £000 1 yr % 4 yr % number 1 yr % 4 yr % £000 1 yr % 4 yr % % £m %37 Technology hardware & equipment continuedRemec Europe ** † 1.49 -3 -1 287.3 4.6 4.7 1 n/a n/a 1.6 33 115 209 793.4 141 515 41 -11 -63 36.4 9 118 0 n/l n/lCeloxica 1.28 -15 -16 n/m 29.9 31.7 -2 n/m n/m -57.3 4 24 59 74.9 24 97 57 0 -29 22.4 -15 -1 70 14 n/aTelspec 1.28 -49 -72 n/m 15.6 16.8 -3 n/m n/m -36.1 8 -18 -72 94.4 71 -7 87 -52 -68 14.7 7 -10 n/a 2 -78Concurrent Technologies 1.18 11 20 86.9 11.0 13.7 1 940 339 12.7 11 51 50 184.1 38 48 58 9 1 20.3 1 19 n/a 24 71i-mate 1.03 223 n/a 8.3 0.9 1.3 12 49 n/a 10.4 120 51 n/a 916.1 -23 n/a 131 96 n/a 7.9 65 n/a 64 0 n/aCadence Design Systems ** 0.83 4 53 14.9 3.4 6.5 6 812 -35 22.8 24 -32 -37 169.4 -20 -2 144 -15 -39 5.8 22 124 n/a n/l n/lScotty 0.69 -44 -55 n/m 16.9 22.0 -5 n/m n/m -127.1 4 296 109 58.5 132 93 70 71 2 9.9 -67 -59 52 12 -20Axeon 0.57 -30 -40 n/m 235.0 242.4 -1 n/m n/m -419.3 0 98 170 16.2 190 328 15 -32 -46 38.1 3 11 n/a 16 45Azzurri Communications 0.55 106 n/a 7.5 0.7 2.2 7 102 348 9.0 82 34 118 146.9 7 38 556 24 68 1.0 65 n/a 0 n/l n/lCyan 0.50 362 n/a n/m >999.9 >999.9 -2 n/m n/a >-999.9 0 150 n/a 1.3 -6 n/a 24 167 n/a 20.8 73 n/a n/a 13 n/aIQE 0.50 -40 -79 n/m 2.4 6.5 -4 n/m n/m -21.2 21 36 -16 92.0 48 30 227 -8 -33 2.2 -35 -67 82 48 71Synchronica 0.42 n/a n/a n/m 13.7 16.7 -3 n/m n/m -94.1 3 27 -24 47.4 4 -18 65 23 -6 6.5 n/a n/a n/a 5 n/aTower 0.38 n/a n/a n/m 6.7 7.1 -2 n/m n/a -40.6 6 n/m n/a 378.1 n/m n/a 15 650 n/a 25.2 n/a n/a 100 2 n/a38 Tobacco 66.00 -1.5 1.1 2.4 0.7 5.2 2739 41.3 30.8 29.4 9325 -13.4 -13.9 168.4 -4.6 -5.8 55364 -9.2 -8.6 1.2 8.5 10.8 n/a 29666 27.1BAT 66.00 -1.5 1.1 2.4 0.7 5.2 2739 41.3 30.8 29.4 9325 -13.4 -13.9 168.4 -4.6 -5.8 55364 -9.2 -8.6 1.2 8.5 10.8 n/a 29666 27.139 Travel & leisure 31.61 16.7 -85.5 12.9 1.4 33.1 244 -12.5 -96.8 10.6 2296 19.2 -26.3 170.8 7.8 55 13444 10.6 -4.9 2.4 5.5 -4.8 63 n/l n/lJordan Grand Prix (now Midland F1) 12.40 14 -16 n/m 37.8 38.5 -14 n/m -831 -41.4 33 -34 -44 160.6 -36 -39 204 3 -9 60.8 11 -6 0 n/l n/l888 6.59 65 n/a 22.9 4.2 5.6 29 15 n/a 18.2 158 52 n/a 178.2 18 n/a 886 29 n/a 7.4 28 n/a 63 549 n/aSporting Exchange 3.78 37 152 20.6 3.5 12.0 18 54 166 17.1 107 61 308 253.2 9 56 423 47 260 8.9 -7 -3 n/a n/l n/lBETonSports 2.56 221 n/a 28.9 0.3 0.6 9 -6 n/a 1.2 736 2 n/a 370.7 -7 n/a 1985 10 n/a 1.3 193 n/a 100 104 n/aFun Technologies (now part of Liberty) 1.66 75 262 n/m 12.1 19.1 -7 n/m n/m -53.8 14 >999 >999 118.9 735 >999 115 60 311 14.4 9 -48 100 n/l n/lPartyGaming 1.28 -41 n/a 0.7 0.2 4.0 193 -13 n/a 33.9 569 63 n/a 479.0 0 n/a 1189 63 n/a 1.1 -64 n/a 92 4800 n/aLeisure Link 1.24 -39 -53 14.5 0.8 40.7 8 245 80 5.2 163 1 11 69.0 2 8 2358 -1 3 0.5 -38 -53 0 n/l n/lebookers (now part of Cendant) 0.79 -20 -10 n/m 1.1 8.4 -22 n/m n/m -29.4 75 11 -9 41.4 12 -63 1801 -1 84 0.4 -19 -63 0 n/l n/lVanguard Car Rental EMEA ** 0.79 -61 -47 4.1 0.3 226.4 19 -20 -5 7.1 270 13 26 78.2 2 3 3459 10 22 0.2 -65 -56 0 n/l n/lCivil Aviation Authority 0.53 -1 -86 5.1 0.3 7.2 10 88 -27 6.0 172 4 -41 168.0 5 22 1024 -1 -58 0.5 1 -41 0 n/l n/l32 The 2006 R&D ScoreboardThe 2006 R&D Scoreboard 33