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JD Wetherspoon 'highest ranking' UK company
The highest ranked UK company, cited as such in research due to be published next week, is the pubs group JD Wetherspoon. The analysis, by the pan-European research organisation GrowthPlus, also shows that the 61 UK companies created nearly 25,000 jobs. JD Wetherspoon was placed ninth in the top 500 companies last year and claims to have created 10,000 jobs in the last five years. The survey also showed that the rate of job creation in 2000 was by far the highest in the UK, with the 61 companies increasing employment by 37 per cent, from a European average of 25 per cent. Roger Haywood, the UK director of GrowthPlus, says this year's survey continues to endorse the UK environment for new business and refutes allegations that British business is hampered by too much red tape,
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