Here's the Telegraph's list of the 10 biggest brands owned by private equity funds. Did you know all of these were in the hands of PE?
Top 10 private equity-owned firms in UK
Last Updated: 1:21am GMT 27/02/2007
Private equity firms beat the Revenue | Turnover | Operating profit/loss | Interest charge | UK corp tax/credit | Accounting period |
| Booker | £3,037,400,000 | (£111,400,000) | £27,000,000 | £6,200,000 |
| Brakes | £1,628,300,000 | £7,800,000 | £19,400,000 | £5,100,000 | |
| Iceland | £1,727,223,000 | (£25,819,000) | £16,798,000 | £4,717,000 |
| Vetco* | £1,269,995,415 | £41,440,652 | £82,630,157 | £2,505,000 |
| United Biscuits | £1,266,900,000 | £202,600,000 | £194,000,000 | £22,100,000 |
| Linpac | £1,132,100,000 | £43,100,000 | £74,300,000 | £1,000,000 | |
| New Look | £866,000,000 | £107,600,000 | £81,500,000 | £10,700,000 |
| Kwik Fit | £266,900,000 | £23,100,000 | £26,000,000 | £1,300,000 |
| Lucite | £780,000,000 | £64,000,000 | £62,000,000 | £0 |
| Gala Coral | £583,486,000 | £103,665,000 | £184,630,000 | £1,134,000 |
| Total | £12,558,304,415 | £456,086,652 | £768,258,157 | £11,078,000 | |
