The following companies are either headquartered or have significant bases in Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

, South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

, England.

Sheffield based

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• Ancon Building Products
  Ancon
  Ancon Building Products is a company that designs and manufactures Stainless steel products for the construction industry founded and still based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The main products being "Wall Tie", and brickwork support systems. Ancon is part of Tyco International...
  
   - Specialist Stainless steel brickwork supports
• Appy Feet - Gurra Fish foot-spa company who work with the welfare of the fish in mind.
• Arnold Laver
  Arnold Laver
  Arnold Laver Ltd is a timber merchant based in Sheffield. The company was founded by Arnold Laver in 1920. They have 12 Depots, Employ approximately 550, and with a turnover in excess of £87 million per year.-History:...
  
   - UK HQ - timber importer & merchants
• Apollo Distribution Solutions. - Specialist Sameday Couriers
• Arthur Price & Co.
  Arthur Price
  Arthur Price & Co. is a British manufacturer and distributor of cutlery based in Sheffield.- Arthur Price :Arthur Price, founder of Arthur Price of England, Master Cutlers & Silversmiths, was born on 3 March 1865. He left school at the age of 14 and worked for various cutlery companies in...
  
   - cutlery manufacturers
• Border and Immigration Agency
  Border and Immigration Agency
  The Border and Immigration Agency was an executive agency of the British Home Office, created on 1 April 2007. The Agency assumed the responsibilities of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate for managing immigration control in the UK...
  
  , an executive agency of the Home Office
  Home Office
  The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security, and order. As such it is responsible for the police, UK Border Agency, and the Security Service . It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs,...
  
  
• Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
  Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
  The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire is a trade guild of metalworkers based in Sheffield, England. It was incorporated in 1624 by an Act of parliament. The head is called the Master Cutler...
  
  
• Department of Work and Pensions -- civil service
• Department of Family and Education -- civil service
• EBuyer
  Ebuyer
  Ebuyer is a UK-based electronic commerce retailer based in Howden, United Kingdom. It is the largest independent online retailer of computer and electrical goods in the United Kingdom.-History:...
  
   -- retailing online
• DavyMarkham Ltd
  Markham & Co.
  Markham & Co. is an ironworks and steelworks company near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.- History :The Victoria Foundry near Chesterfield, Derbyshire was owned and successfully run by father and son partnership John and William Oliver from the mid-1850s until 1862 when, following the death of...
  
   - HQ - Construction engineering
• Forgemasters
  Forgemasters
  Sheffield Forgemasters International is a heavy engineering firm located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England...
  
  - HQ for Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd.
• Gripple
  Gripple
  A Gripple is a device used to join and tension wire, and also to terminate and suspend wires and wire ropes, and to support false ceilings, cable baskets, and similar items. They are manufactured in Sheffield, England by Gripple Ltd...
  
   - Producers of the award winning hanger and wire rope joining device, used on the Australian Dingo Fence
  Dingo Fence
  The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885, to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. It is one of the longest structures in the...
  
   (longest fence in the world)
• Henderson's (Sheffield) Ltd., makers of Henderson's Relish
  Henderson's Relish
  Henderson's Relish, known locally as Hendo's, 'Hendies' 'Enderson's or simply "Relish", is a spicy and fruity condiment, similar in appearance to Worcestershire sauce, but as it contains no anchovies, it is vegan. Produced in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, some adherents favour it due to its unique...
  
  
• Henry Boot Plc
  Charles Boot
  Charles Boot of Sheffield, England was the creator and builder of Pinewood Studios on the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath in the parish of Iver in Buckinghamshire, England.- Basic biography :...
  
   - FTSE
  FTSE
  FTSE may refer to:* The FTSE Group* Stock market indices published by the FTSE Group, particularly the FTSE 100 Index on the London Stock Exchange* The Fundamental theorem of software engineering...
  
   Listed Construction Company
• Irwin Mitchell
  Irwin Mitchell
  Irwin Mitchell LLP is a firm of solicitors in the United Kingdom, with offices in nine British cities, and two in Spain. The firm has 113 partners, 900 fee-earners and employs over 2,100 people....
  
   - HQ of Top 50 law firm
• Kelham island brewery
  Kelham Island Brewery
  The Kelham Island Brewery is an independent brewery based in Sheffield, England. The brewery currently owns one public house in Sheffield, the Fat Cat...
  
   - Micro brewery
• Land Instruments International
  Land Instruments International
  Land Instruments is a manufacturer of industrial infrared temperature measurement devices and gas analysers for monitoring combustion efficiency, pollutant emissions, dust, particulates and fire detection with headquarters in the United Kingdom and has offices and distributors worldwide.Land has...
  
   - Manufacturer of industrial infrared temperature measurement devices and gas analysers for monitoring combustion efficiency, pollutant emissions, dust, particulates and fire detection
• Little Chef
  Little Chef
  Little Chef is a chain of roadside restaurants in the United Kingdom, founded in 1958 and owned by the UK private equity group RCapital. Little Chef's previous owners were The People's Restaurant Group Ltd., a company belonging to British catering entrepreneurs Simon Heath and Lawrence Wosskow,...
  
   - HQ of fast-food restaurant chain
• NAVCA
  NAVCA
  NAVCA, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, is the national body for local support and development organisations in England. Local support and development organisations are often known as Voluntary Action, Community Action or Council for Voluntary Service...
  
   - National Association for Voluntary and Community Action - the national body for Third Sector local infrastructure organisations in England
• Outokumpu
  Outokumpu
  Outokumpu is a group of companies headquartered in Espoo, Finland, aimed at stainless steel. The company has approx. 8 000 employees in about 30 different countries worldwide...
  
   (Avesta Polarit) - UK HQ - Stainless Steel Distributor
• Pressure Technologies plc - Specialist Seamless Steel fabricator
• Ronseal
  Ronseal
  Ronseal is a British wood stain and preservative manufacturer, responsible for the "Does exactly what it says on the tin" phrase, an advertising slogan created by agency HHCL which has since entered popular culture....
  
   - HQ - Wood sealants & stains, a division of Sherwin-Williams Company
  Sherwin-Williams Company
  The Sherwin-Williams Company is an American Fortune 500 company in the general building materials industry. The company primarily engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of paints, coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers primarily in...
  
  
• SIG plc
  SIG plc
  SIG plc is a British-based international supplier of insulation, roofing, commercial interiors and specialist construction products. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
  
   - HQ - European supplier of insulation, roofing and commercial interiors
• Spear & Jackson
  Spear & Jackson
  -Formation:In 1760, Alexander Spear and John Love formed a company in Sheffield called Spear & Love. In 1814, John Spear, the nephew of Alexander, took on an apprentice called Sam Jackson. In 1830, the partnership Spear & Jackson was formed.-Eclipse:...
  
   International Ltd -HQ - Hand Tool manufactures
• Swann Morton
  Swann Morton
  Swann Morton Ltd. is a British manufacturer of scalpel handles, blades and other surgical equipment. It was founded in 1932 by W. R. Swann, J. A. Morton and D. Fairweather to make and sell razor blades.Mr Swann's founding principles:...
  
   - Manufacturer of surgical scalpels
• Uber - Integrated creative agency
• UK International Airlines
  UK International Airlines
  UK International Airlines was a British airline based in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. UK International Airlines Limited held a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats, for a very...
  
  
• Voidcomp - Creative video production company.
• Warp Records
  Warp Records
  Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
  
   - independent record label, who also set up:
  • Warp Films
    Warp Films
    Warp is one of the foremost and most respected creative independent companies, now composed of Warp Records, Warp Films and Warp Music Videos & Commercials. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne, Australia...
    
     - their film division
  • Bleep.com
    Bleep.com
    Bleep is an online music store focusing on the independent music sector. Created by Warp Records and launched in January 2004, Bleep was one of the UK's first legal music download businesses and the only one to originate from within the music industry...
    
     - an online record-store
• William Stones Ltd
  William Stones Ltd
  Stones Brewery was a brewery founded in 1868 by William Stones in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and purchased by Bass in 1968 before closing in 1999. Its most famous brand, Stones Bitter, is owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company who continue to market it.William Stones had...
  
   - famed, and now sadly defunct brewers.
• Wilson Benesch
  Wilson Benesch
  Wilson Benesch was founded in 1989 and is run by Christina Milnes and Craig Milnes . The company manufacturers high end audio loudspeakers and turntables for domestic and professional use, based in Sheffield, England...
  
   - Carbon Composite reference quality loudspeaker systems

Technology companies

• ARUP
  Arup
  Arup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...
  
  - engineering consulancy
• B.Braun
  B. Braun Melsungen
  B. Braun Melsungen AG is a German medical and pharmaceutical company, which has offices and facilities in 50 countries. Its headquarters are located in the small town of Melsungen, in central Germany...
  
   - UK HQ - Medical appliances / surgical instruments manufacturer
• Borri - UK HQ - Uninterruptible Power Solutions
• Epi Genesys - a University of Sheffield company - Bespoke software development. Student software via Genesys Solutions. A subject of the Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory
  Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory
  The Sheffield Software Engineering Observatory was founded in 2005 by an EPSRC grant at the University of Sheffield. The Observatory is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the and the at the University of Sheffield.- Overview :...
  
  
• Fluent, Inc. European HQ - Computer simulation of fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Insight Enterprises
  Insight Enterprises
  Insight Enterprises, Inc. headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, is an information technology outsourcing business. It was incorporated in 1991 in Delaware...
  
   - UK HQ of the NASDAQ
  NASDAQ
  The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
  
   listed IT computer reseller, with global HQ in Tempe, Arizona
  Tempe, Arizona
  Tempe is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2010 population of 161,719. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece. Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix; it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west, Scottsdale...
  
  
• ITN power -- green energy technology
• Jennic
  Jennic
  Jennic Limited was a privately held UK-based fabless semiconductor company founded in 1996. The company developed a range of wireless microcontrollers that support low-power wireless standards, particularly 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN and ZigBee, and also supplied wireline communications...
  
   - a wireless semiconductor company acquired by NXP Semiconductors
• http://www.mckesson.co.uk/ -- IT for healthcare
• Millgate -- IT consulting
• ocProducts - Creators of the ocportal
  OcPortal
  ocPortal is a free and open source content management system written in PHP and based on a MySQL backend database. The software has been developed by British software developer Chris Graham since 2004, with contributions from programmers Chris Warburton, Paul Duffy & Philip Withnall and designer...
  
   Content Management System
  Content management system
  A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
  
  
• OCLC PICA Ltd.
  OCLC PICA
  OCLC PICA was a library automation systems and services company which originated from a co-operation of the Pica Foundation of the Netherlands and the non-profit library company OCLC Online Computer Library Center of the U.S. In 2007, OCLC acquired the shares of OCLC PICA it did not already hold...
  
   - Library Automation systems
• Parexel
  Parexel
  PAREXEL International is a contract research organization , based in Lowell, Massachusetts and founded in 1982 by Josef H. von Rickenbach and Anne Sayigh. It provides services for companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, including consulting, clinical studies...
  
   -- clinical trials contracts, statistical analysis
• Plusnet
  Plusnet
  Plusnet is an Internet Service Provider based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Plusnet was floated on the Alternative Investment Market in July 2004, making them a Public limited company . It has been owned since 30 January 2007 by BT Group, but operates as a separate business...
  
   - HQ (founded in Sheffield), now BT Subsidiary
• Quba New Media -- Web Design and Digital Marketing Agency
• Richlyn Systems
  Richlyn Systems
  Richlyn Systems is a UK-based software and website development company. It was incorporated in 1983 and is based in the Blades Enterprise Centre at Sheffield United Football Club...
  
   - Specialists in Website Design, PIMS Property Management Software and Bespoke Software Solutions
• Selima Software -- IT consulting
• SDL International
  SDL International
  SDL plc is a global company with headquarters based in Maidenhead, UK that provides language localization services and translation and content management software...
  
   -- translation software
• Seams - optimization algorithms for natural resource management
• SimCyp
  Simcyp
  Simcyp Limited is a research-based company which provides modelling and simulation software to the pharmaceutical industry for use during drug development...
  
   -- molecular simulation software
• Sumo Digital
  Sumo Digital
  Sumo Digital Ltd. is an independent game development studio based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Set up in 2003 following the closure of Infogrames Studios Sheffield/Gremlin Interactive...
  
   -games (formerly Infogrames and Gremlin)
• Torex -- IT consulting
• Ufi Ltd
  Ufi Ltd
  Ufi Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation created in 1998 to take forward the UK Government's vision of a University for Industry in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
  
   - EGovernment Online training organisation
• ZOO Digital Group
  ZOO Digital Group
  ZOO Digital Group Plc is a provider of creative media services and software for the film industry. The business works with major film studios to deliver creative media for printed materials and audio-visual content...
  
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• Netcom Technologies - IT Support and Outsourcing Provider
• Zeppelin
  Zeppelin
  A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...
  
   - airship builders

Many small and start-up tech companies can be found in the Innovation Center (http://www.sheffield.org.uk/street/Portobello/), Sheffield Technology Parks, and other enterprise and innovation centers (eg. Blades Brammall Lane, Koyoto Center, Electric Works).

Major presence in Sheffield

• Arm
  ARM Holdings
  ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software company headquartered in Cambridge. Its largest business is in processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip...
  
  
• BT
  BT
  BT may stand for:* Baal teshuva, a Jew who became Orthodox * Babylonian Talmud, a central text in Judaism* Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium which forms Bt toxins...
  
  
• Barclays - bank
• Cap Gemini - data center (Rotherham)
• Capita Hartshead -- insurance, actuarial
• Capita - financial services
• Corus Group
  Corus Group
  Tata Steel Europe is a multinational steel-making company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the second-largest steel-maker in Europe and is a subsidiary of Tata Steel of India, one of the ten largest steel producers in the world.Corus Group was formed through the merger of Koninklijke...
  
   - steel maker
• CSC
  Csc
  - Awards :* Conspicuous Service Cross ** Conspicuous Service Cross ** Conspicuous Service Cross ** Conspicuous Service Cross - Science and industry :* Cancer Stem Cell...
  
   - IT consulting
• Dixons
  Dixons
  Dixons is an online retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is owned by Dixons Retail plc.With its origins in a photographic shop opened by Charles Kalms, the chain had a store in most towns and cities across the UK and Ireland...
  
   - electrical retailer
• DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary - International law firm (branch office)
• EDS
  EDS
  - Education :* Educational specialist , a terminal academic degree in the U.S.* Episcopal Divinity School, an Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts* Evansville Day School, an independent college-prep school in Evansville, Indiana- Politics :...
  
   -- Technology consulting
• George Wimpey
  George Wimpey
  George Wimpey was formed in 1880 and, based in Hammersmith, operated largely as a road surfacing contractor. The business was acquired by Godfrey Mitchell in 1919 and he developed it into the UK’s pre-eminent construction and housebuilding firm. In 2007, Wimpey merged with Taylor Woodrow to create...
  
   - Area Office - National house builder
• HSBC
  HSBC
  HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
  
   - bank's national IT center
• IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
   - technology consulting
• Nationwide
  Nationwide Building Society
  Nationwide Building Society is a British building society, and is the largest in the world. It has its headquarters in Swindon, England, and maintains significant administration centres in Bournemouth and Northampton...
  
   - building society call center
• Nabacco - law firm
• Siemens VAI
  Siemens VAI
  Siemens VAI Metals Technologies based in Linz, Austria, is an engineering and plant building company for the iron and steel industry, for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open cast mining...
  
   -- mining technology
• Sky
  Sky
  The sky is the part of the atmosphere or outer space visible from the surface of any astronomical object. It is difficult to define precisely for several reasons. During daylight, the sky of Earth has the appearance of a pale blue surface because the air scatters the sunlight. The sky is sometimes...
  
   -- call center
• Yorkshire Bank
  Yorkshire Bank
  Yorkshire Bank is a commercial bank in England and Wales, a division of Clydesdale Bank, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank. It mostly operates in the North of England, especially in Yorkshire. In 2006 underlying profit rose 16.7 per cent to £454 million compared with a...
  
   - bank
• Yorkshire Building Society
  Yorkshire Building Society
  The Yorkshire Building Society is the second largest building society in the UK, with its headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Assets now exceed £20 billion....
  
   - building Society
• Virgin Media
  Virgin Media
  Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
  
  , formerly Telewest Broadband
  Telewest
  Telewest, formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications was a cable Internet, broadband internet, telephone supplier and cable television provider in the United Kingdom...
  
  (Yorkshire cable) - Flagship Call Center