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

Ranking of the top 1250 global 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 continuedSemtech, USA 21.86 12 20 79.4 15.7 20.1 28 -32 10 19.7 139 -6 15 211.6 -12 2 659 8 13 33.2 4 6 n/a 521 n/aZarlink Semiconductor, Canada 21.84 -42 -52 n/m 21.0 21.9 -7 n/m n/m -7.2 104 -16 -14 139.6 8 34 747 -22 -37 29.2 -26 -25 n/a 171 72Amkor Technology, USA 21.75 2 13 125.6 1.8 15.9 17 -78 n/a 1.4 1223 10 31 51.0 1 15 24000 9 14 0.9 -7 -1 66 624 n/aHutchinson Technology, USA 21.45 30 75 64.2 5.8 37.0 33 48 139 9.1 368 34 43 69.3 -3 -5 5310 38 51 4.0 -5 17 n/a 273 n/aSEZ, Switzerland 20.96 7 21 636.2 15.2 26.1 3 -79 -53 2.4 138 2 35 195.2 -4 30 705 6 3 29.7 0 17 78 230 n/aShindengen Electric Manufacturing, Japan 20.81 -15 -29 114.4 4.7 11.1 18 482 n/a 4.1 439 6 -4 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 9 263 n/aImagination Technologies, UK 20.65 7 40 n/m 58.5 61.6 -7 n/m n/m -20.3 35 15 49 105.0 4 15 336 11 32 61.5 -3 7 33 136 14Accton Technology, Taiwan 20.45 -14 6 >999.9 6.3 8.0 1 n/a n/a 0.4 325 -14 -6 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 168 n/aELMOS Semiconductor, Germany 20.41 15 38 n/m 20.2 35.6 -120 -766 -923 -118.5 101 3 22 98.2 -7 -4 1028 11 26 19.9 4 10 22 107 -39Asyst Technologies, USA 20.32 -4 -13 n/m 5.7 6.4 -8 n/m n/m -2.1 357 103 97 435.4 31 122 820 55 -21 24.8 -38 -4 82 188 n/aSilicon Integrated Systems, Taiwan 20.26 3 -32 188.1 10.1 11.0 11 n/a n/a 5.4 201 8 -14 306.1 9 36 657 -1 -47 30.8 4 16 n/a 371 n/aIntracom, Greece 19.98 -46 -53 49.7 4.7 4.7 40 15 -52 9.4 426 -3 -23 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 455 10Ess Technology, USA 19.79 -9 8 n/m 18.7 21.3 -58 n/m >-999 -55.0 106 -29 -27 205.0 -27 -31 517 -4 7 38.3 -6 -2 100 34 n/aTerayon Communication Systems, USA 19.78 -21 -46 n/m 22.6 24.4 -21 n/m n/m -24.5 88 13 -32 343.9 87 63 255 -40 -57 77.6 31 23 45 38 n/aInter-Tel, USA 19.37 15 52 146.6 7.5 9.5 13 -46 -45 5.1 258 6 14 128.0 7 2 2016 0 11 9.6 16 38 n/a 338 n/aDialog Semiconductor, UK 19.31 -3 -7 379.3 21.5 24.6 5 n/a n/a 5.7 90 13 41 373.1 31 64 241 -14 -14 80.1 13 9 n/a 39 -55Micros Systems, USA 19.31 22 56 41.8 5.5 7.3 46 37 175 13.3 348 23 51 106.9 9 25 3253 12 21 5.9 8 29 56 857 n/aAvanex, USA 19.29 -21 10 n/m 20.6 21.2 -61 n/m n/m -65.6 94 50 119 118.2 83 74 792 -18 35 24.4 -4 -26 n/a 157 n/a38 Tobacco 846.23 9.3 12.2 6.3 0.9 3.2 13523 19.6 13.7 14.4 94152 5.2 15.2 318.9 -5.4 6.8 295204 11.1 7.7 2.9 -1.7 4.1 n/a 148998 24.8Altria, USA 549.28 17 30 5.7 1.0 3.2 9671 9 1 17.0 56998 9 28 286.4 -14 6 199000 28 20 2.8 -9 7 n/a 97513 21Japan Tobacco, Japan 200.08 -4 -13 88.7 0.9 2.4 226 n/a -52 1.0 23020 1 3 705.3 21 24 32640 -17 -17 6.1 15 5 n/a 11069 36BAT, UK 66.00 -1 1 2.4 0.7 5.2 2739 41 31 29.4 9325 -13 -14 168.4 -5 -6 55364 -9 -9 1.2 8 11 n/a 29666 27Reynolds American, USA 30.87 10 -15 3.5 0.6 1.9 887 63 n/a 18.4 4809 28 25 586.5 47 33 8200 -13 -6 3.8 27 -10 n/a 10751 5239 Travel & leisure 442.40 12.8 22.3 22.5 3.5 12.4 1970 1.9 7.8 15.8 12484 3.4 1.5 214.0 -0.4 n/a 28516 5.1 n/a 13.4 -2.6 n/a n/a 22311 n/lAmadeus Global Travel, Spain † 125.18 19 32 43.8 7.6 11.2 286 24 42 17.2 1656 17 26 246.7 1 -13 6715 17 42 18.6 2 -9 34 n/l n/lInternational Game Technology, USA 80.62 7 51 20.9 5.8 15.0 385 -27 6 27.8 1386 -4 24 277.2 -6 26 5000 2 -2 16.1 5 52 n/a 7468 39Expedia, USA 65.40 32 n/a 30.7 5.3 7.8 213 58 n/a 17.2 1235 15 n/a 189.9 n/a n/a 6500 n/a n/a 10.1 n/a n/a n/a 2983 n/aWest Japan Railway, Japan 30.45 2 10 4.2 0.5 12.4 729 10 12 12.1 6025 0 2 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 5056 27WMS Industries, USA 29.30 12 56 163.8 13.0 31.5 18 n/a 158 7.9 226 69 83 185.3 61 n/a 1221 5 n/a 24.0 7 n/a 19 475 -14GTECH, USA 29.13 -18 3 14.7 3.8 15.1 198 9 40 26.0 760 4 21 143.4 4 n/a 5300 0 n/a 5.5 -18 n/a 49 2534 28Aruze, Japan 28.96 20 16 n/m 8.1 13.6 -7 -131 -104 -1.9 358 -28 -47 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 853 n/aAristocrat Leisure, Australia 28.11 11 9 18.5 5.1 7.8 152 31 209 27.4 554 14 35 258.8 11 37 2140 3 -3 13.1 8 11 n/a 2427 -14Alliance Gaming(now Bally Technologies), USA 25.26 18 98 n/m 8.9 11.4 -3 -105 -109 -1.1 285 0 -12 173.5 6 3 1640 -5 -20 15.4 25 126 6 514 n/a126 The 2006 R&D ScoreboardThe 2006 R&D Scoreboard 127