British businesses

* Ingredients benzisothiazolinone, phthalates and methylisothiazolinone are banned
* Liquid dairy products are grass-fed and stored in glass
* Eliminate vinyl flooring/tiling and wallpaper replaced with non-toxic alternatives
* Butter is grass-fed
* Fragrances are removed in all personal care products, laundry detergent and dryer sheets
* Shower curtains removed from the market
* Standard industrial bathroom hand-soaps removed from the market
* Candles except beeswax removed from the market [beeswax benefits]
* All carpets replaced with “Green-Label Plus” certified
* Canned foods in metal cans mostly avoided
* All seafood wild-caught from pristine waters [1, 2, 3]
* All organic meats are grass-fed preferably wrapped in wax paper
* All organic animal fats are grass-fed, with no plastic contacts
* All chicken eggs are free-range
* Charcoal-filtered water used for all drinking, cooking and showering
* Attempts to eliminate almost all plastic by banning plastic cutlery, cups & polystyrene cups. Only plastic straws for drinking is allowed
* All coffee makers must be from glass and/or stainless steel
* Zinc Sunscreen must be estrogen free
* Estrogen-free kid’s toys, especially chewable items
* Estrogen-Free cleaning products
* Eliminate soy and soy byproducts
* Eliminate flax
* Eliminate lavender products
* Eliminate oral contraception
* Eliminate plastic cups, sippies, or plastic-lined mugs
* Eliminate artificial red food dyes, including finger paints
* Eliminate microwaving food in plastics
* Replace pork scratchings with beef jerky
* Remove Liquorice Allsorts
* Remove toxic couches from the market and replace them with non-toxic couches

## **Supermarket chains**

Tesco is a supermarket not a Bank. Too many companies have 'greedy' short term results focussed management looking to make a name for themselves. The sooner we get back to firms planning for long term secure income and employment the better (which is generally more profitable and less risky), but that will need changes to corporate governance but it will come

## **Discount shop**

* One of the ABF’s growth companies in Primark. The division now has 398 stores and management promises 550 stores in 5 years. That division would get greater investor recognition if it were free standing; it is already showing above average growth after the pandemic caused by coronavirus.
* All Intersport UK & Ireland shops sold to Dave Whelan and rebranded as JJB Sports and DW Sports Fitness
* B&M - Private by themselves
* British Home Stores (BHS) - Franchise (Litecraft Group Limited)
* Evans Cycles - ECI Partners
* Farmfoods – Consumer co-operative
* Harrods - Consumer co-operative (Fraser Group)
* Kwik Save
* Jack Wills - Edinburgh Woollen Mill
* PizzaExpress - Franchise (Gondola Group)
* Slazenger – Dunlop Group
* USC - Dundonald Holdings Ltd (owned by Sir Tom Hunter)
* Umbro – Peter Kenyon
* Argos - J Sainsbury. Closed all standalone shops, improved online business, and opened an Argos in every Sainsbury’s store
* JJB Sports

## **Other**

* TalkTalk Group is owned by Neil McArthur
* ProCycling and CyclingNews.com stays with Immediate Media
* TI Media with 41 brands including Decanter, Country Life, Wallpaper and Woman & Home stays
* GoCo plc (Gocompare.com) is still owned by Hayley Parsons
* ZPG Ltd is still owned by Simon Kain and DMGT (Daily Mail and General Trust)
* uSwitch is still owned by George Mountbatten
* AA and AA Ireland is AA Motoring Trust (IAM RoadSmart)
* Daily Mail and General Trust buys New Scientist magazine in £70m deal
* Stobart Group changes name
* McCafé instead of McDonalds, still a Franchise
* BK Café instead of Burger King [video, source], still a Franchise
* Five Guys replaces TGI Fridays', franchise
* Tim Hortons instead of KFC, with traditional espresso coffee preparation and is more a café than a fast food restaurant.
* Bmibaby still exists
* Camelot Theme Park is reopened
* Lawrence Wosskow and Simon Heath owns Little Chef

**Renames**

* Pizza Hut is Cwt Pizza in Wales, Bothán Pizza in Ireland and Bothan Pìoba in Scotland
* Chicken Cottage is Bothan Chicken in Scotland, Teachín sicín in Ireland and Bwthyn Cyw Iâr in Wales.
* Papa John's is Pápa Eoin in Ireland
* Brewers Fayre is Ffair y Bragwyr in Wales and Féile na nGrúdairí in Ireland.
* Harvester is Buainteoir in Ireland, Buain in Scotland and Cynaeafwr in Wales.
* Toby Carvey is Snoíodóireacht Toby in Ireland.

## **Banks**

Christian Bank [investment, Industries relating to pork is ok though]

* Atom Bank - Public limited company
* Alliance Trust
* Arbuthnot Latham - Arbuthnot Banking Group (limited company)
* Alliance & Leicester - James Hay Partnership
* Abbey National - Santander Group
* Barclays - Listed on the London Stock Exchange
* Bank of Scotland – HBOS
* Bradford & Bingley – Listed on the London Stock Exchange
* C. Hoare & Co
* Clydesdale Bank - CYBG (listed on the London Stock Exchange)
* Charter Cour – Public limited company
* Crown Agents - Helios Investment Partners
* Close Brothers - Public limited company
* The Co-operative Bank – The Co-operative Banking Group (a consumer co-operative)
* Duncan Lawrie - Camellia plc
* Halifax – HBOS
* Isle of Man Bank - Royal Bank of Scotland Group
* Kingdom Bank
* Lloyds Bank – Lloyds Banking Group
* Metro Bank - Public limited company
* Monzo Bank -
* M&S Bank - Marks and Spencer Group
* Midland Bank
* National Westminster Bank (NatWest) - NatWest Group
* OakNorth Bank
* Paragon Bank - Paragon Banking Group
* Raphaels Bank - Lenlyn Holdings plc
* Rathbone Brothers
* Reliance Bank
* Royal Bank of Scotland -  The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
* Santander - Santander Group
* Sainsbury's Bank - J Sainsbury
* Shared Interest
* Secure Trust Bank -
* Shawbrook Bank - Shawbrook Group plc
* Smith & Williamson
* Standard Chartered - Listed on the London Stock Exchange
* Tandem Bank - Tandem Money
* Tesco Bank – Tesco plc
* TSB - Listed on the London Stock Exchange
* Triodos Bank
* Unity Trust Bank
* Vanquis Bank - Provident Financial Group
* Virgin Money - Virgin Group
* Weatherbys Bank - Weatherbys
* Wesleyan Assurance Society – Mutual organization
* Williams & Glyn - NatWest Group
* Yorkshire Bank – CYBG

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation spun off HSBC, rebranding its branches and renaming the new spun off company in Europe (especially Britain) as Midland Bank [source]

## **Cinema**

* Cineworld - Steve Wiener
* Curzon Cinemas - Private limited company
* Everyman Cinemas
* Empire Cinemas
* Merlin Cinemas
* Reel Cinemas
* Odeon – The Rank Group
* The Light Cinemas
* Picturehouse Cinemas
* Scott Cinemas
* Vue – Worker-consumer hybrid (Tim Richards)

## **Telephone and Broadband**

Virgin Media must open its cable network to rival telephone and broadband companies. Switch to a new broadband provider will also be easier

* Asda Phone – Asda (Kingfisher)
* BT Mobile – BT Consumer (BTPS)
* EE - Cable & Wireless Communications (British)
* KCOM - KCOM Group
* Mobile by Sainsbury’s – J Sainsbury
* O2 – Liberty Global
* Orange - Orange S.A.
* TalkTalk - TalkTalk Group
* Tesco Mobile - Tesco
* T-Mobile - Deutsche Telekom
* The Phone Coop - Midcounties Co-operative
* Three -
* Vodafone - Vodafone Group
* Virgin Mobile – Virgin Group
* The People's Operator (mobile virtual network operator)

## **Energy supplier**

* British Gas – Centrica
* Bulb Energy - Privately held company
* Co-op Energy – Midcounties Co-operative
* Ecotricity – Dale Vince
* Eirtricity - Eddie O'Connor
* Energia Group
* Eirgrid - ESB Group (Employee stock ownership)
* Good Energy - Juliet Davenport
* Infralec - Hyder
* Npower - International Power
* Powergen – public limited company
* Octopus Energy - Octopus Group
* Opus Energy – Privately held company
* OVO Energy
* Our Power – Limited company
* Telecom Plus – Charles Wigoder
* Scottish Power - Thus Ltd
* SSE - Public limited company
* SWALEC – SSE
* Powergen - Hanson
* Utilita Energy -
* Virgin Energy - Virgin Group
* Western Power Distribution - National Grid

Welsh Water - Glas Cymru, company limited by guarantee and because it has no shareholders, any financial surpluses are retained for the benefit of Welsh Water's customers

## **Train / rail**

* Directly Operated Railway (Arup Group, Ernst & Young and SNC-Lavalin Rail & Transit)
* Arriva UK Trains – Arriva (Cowie family)
* Amey – Buckthorn
* DCRail - Private limited company, it receives financial support from Cappagh Contractors Construction (London)
* Ealing Community Transport – Social enterprise
* Eurostar – Eurostar International Limited
* FirstGroup – Public limited company
* Heathrow Express - Heathrow Airport Holdings
* GB Railways - Alternative Investment Market
* Govia – Go Ahead Group
* Go! Co-operative - Consumers' cooperative
* Alliance Rail Holdings runs Great North Western Railway Company Limited (GNWR) and Grand Southern Railway (GSR)
* Grand Union
* Sea Containers
* Greater Manchester Metro Limited (operates in Greater Manchester) – Consortium (GEC Alsthom, John Mowlem and AMEC)
* Great Western Holdings - Richard George, Brian Scott and some other British Rail managers (75.5%) and 3i (24.5%)
* London Overground Rail Operations (operates the London Overground) - Privately held company
* Merseytravel - MTL
* National Express – National Express Group
* Riviera Trains
* ScotRail - Stagecoach Group
* Serco-Abellio - Joint venture between Serco and Abellio, each owning 50%
* Transport for Wales - Transport for Wales Group
* Virgin Rail Group – Virgin Group
* West Coast Railways
* Prism Rail

## **Airport**

1. Aberdeen Airport - AGS Airports
2. Anglesey Airport - RAF Valley
3. Birmingham Airport – Employee owned
4. Bristol Airport -
5. Cardiff Airport
6. Campbeltown Airport - Machrihanish Airbase Community Company
7. Doncaster Sheffield Airport - The Peel Group
8. Dundee Airport - Highlands and Islands Airports
9. East Midlands Airport - Manchester Airport Holdings
10. Exeter Airport - Rigby Group
11. Edinburgh Airport - Heathrow Airport Holdings
12. Glasgow International Airport - AGS Airports
13. Glasgow Prestwick Airport - Prestwick Aviation Holdings Ltd
14. Inverness Airport - Highlands and Islands Airports
15. Kent International Airport - RiverOak Strategic Partners Limited
16. Kirkwall Airport - Highlands and Islands Airports
17. Humberside Airport - Bristow Group
18. Land End’s Airport – Cornwall Airport Ltd.
19. Leeds Bradford International Airport - Heathrow Airport Holdings
20. Liverpool John Lennon Airport - The Peel Group
21. Luton Airport - Luton Airport Ltd
22. Manston Airport - BAF
23. Manchester Airport - Manchester Airport Holdings
24. Newquay Airport - Cornwall Airport Ltd.
25. Newcastle International Airport - Newcastle Airport Local Authority Holding Company Ltd (51%) and AMP Capital (49%)
26. Norwich Airport - Rigby Group
27. Southend Airport - Southend Airport Company Ltd.
28. Southampton Airport - AGS Airports
29. Sumburgh Airport - Highlands and Islands Airports
30. St Mary's Airport, Isles of Scilly - Isles of Scilly Steamship Company
31. Stornoway Airport - Highlands and Islands Airports
32. Stansted Airport
33. Swansea Airport - Swansea Airport Ltd.
34. Teesside International Airport - Stobart Group

London City Airport closed, turned into carbon neutral community to be a medium-high density neighbourhood which will rely on renewable energy and a district energy sharing system

Gatwick Airport reopened as a global freight hub owned by RiverOak Strategic Partners

Heathrow Airport closed up to 3,700 homes built (over a 15-20-year period), 46,000 sq m of advanced/hi-tech employment space which SHP said would provide up to 2,000 direct jobs with 9,000 further jobs created over the course of the project, including construction and jobs in the supply chain for the wider area. Plans included public parks, the retention of the non-operational part of the former main runway as a recreational and community event space were also included along with proposals for a Sports Village. The plan also featured schools, a food store, cafes/restaurants, a 120-bed hotel and a health centre. Space for a small-scale campus for higher/further education was also planned.

## **Postal service**

* DHL - Deutsche Post
* DPD - La Poste
* DX - Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM
* FedEx - Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange
* Hermes - Otto Group
* Parcelforce – Private limited company
* Post Office – Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange
* PostNL - Publicly traded on the Euronext Amsterdam
* Royal Mail (Welsh logo, van) - Royal Mail Pension Plan
* TNT Express
* UK Mail – Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange
* United Parcel Service (UPS) – Public company
* Whistl – Privately held company
* Yodel - Shop Direct Group

## **Whitbread**

Owned by Samuel Whitbread

* Beefeater – A chain of over 140 pub restaurants
* Brewers Fayre – A licensed pub restaurant chain of 130 locations across the UK, serving traditional British pub food and Sunday Carvery
* Costa Coffee – A coffeehouse which has 2,121 UK restaurants, over 6,000 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,280 outlets overseas (including 460 in China)
* Marriott Hotels & Resort UK and Ireland
* Pizza Hut UK and Ireland – American restaurant chain and international franchise, known for its Italian American cuisine menu, including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. Pizza Hut has 18,431 restaurants worldwide
* Premier Inn – Largest budget hotel chain with over 750 hotels
* Table Table
* Taybarns – An all-you-can-eat American buffet-style restaurant with 245 locations
* TGI Fridays UK and Ireland – Held the UK franchise rights to American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining

## **Kingfisher**

* B&Q – Multinational DIY and home improvement retailer with 320 locations
* Brico Dépôt; in France, Spain, Portugal and Romania
* Castorama; in France, Poland and Russia
* Koçtaş; 50% joint venture in Turkey
* Sainsbury's
* Screwfix – Multi-channel retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products with over 550 stores
* Superdrug –  Health and beauty retailer. It trades in nearly 900 shops across the UK and Ireland. Superdrug employs over 14,000 people. Besides health and beauty products, the company also has pharmacies with consultation rooms in over 220 shops, and a further 19 contain nurse clinics

## **Virgin Group**

1. Virgin Active
2. Virgin Atlantic - cut 3,000 jobs and quit Gatwick
3. Virgin Balloon Flights
4. Virgin Books
5. Virgin Cars
6. Virgin Cola
7. Virgin Comics
8. Virgin Cinemas
9. Virgin Express
10. Virgin Energy - Replaces EDF Energy
11. Virgin Experience Days
12. Virgin Galactic
13. Virgin Green Fund
14. Virgin Holidays
15. Virgin Hotels
16. Virgin Limited Edition - still owns Kensington Roof Gardens
17. Virgin Media
18. Virgin Megastores
19. Virgin Mobile
20. Virgin Money - Does **not** own Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank
21. Virgin Oceanic
22. Virgin Orbit
23. Virgin Pure
24. Virgin Pulse
25. Virgin Radio
26. Virgin Rail Group
27. Virgin Records
28. Virgin Startup
29. Virgin Sport
30. Virgin Unite
31. Virgin Vacations
32. Virgin Voyages
33. Virgin Hyperloop

## **Britvic**

* 7 UP (in Great Britain and Ireland)
* Gatorade (in Great Britain and Ireland)
* Lipton Ice Tea
* Mountain Dew Energy (in Great Britain and Ireland)
* J2O
* Robinsons
* Tango
* Teisseire
* R. White's Lemonade
* Pepsi (in Great Britain and Ireland)
* Purdey's

## **C&C Group**

* Club
* Cidona
* Clonmel, the home of Bulmers Irish Cider, and main cider production facility.
* Energise Sport
* Lucozade
* MiWadi
* Tanora
* Ribena
* Vimto is owned by Nichols plc

## **Alcohol**

* Smirnoff vodka is owned by Beluga
* Pabst Brewing Company take over from C&C Group alcohol brands
* Wellpark Brewery (Tennent's lager) is owned by AB InBev.
* Aviation Gin is still owned by Ryan Reynolds
* Casamigos is owned by George Clooney, Rande Gerber, and Mike Meldman
* Diageo sold East African Breweries
* Diageo sold Ypióca Group
* Diageo sold United Spirits to Alliance Global
* Diageo sold Don Julio to Proximo Spirits
* Diageo sold Gordon's Gin to Heineken N.V.
* Diageo sold Bundaberg Rum to Coopers Brewery
* Diageo sold Industrias Pampero to Mahou-San Miguel Group
* Pernod Ricard brought Diageo

## **Gambling**

* Rank Group sold Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo to Guoco Group [source]
* BSkyB sold Sky Betting & Gaming to The Stars Group for £3.4 billion, that money went to charity to help people with gambling addiction/problem gambling. The license was also revoked instead News Corp awarded the license Sky Betting & Gaming became Fox Betting & Gaming.
* The Stars Group purchased Paddy Power Betfair for US$6.95 billion
* DraftKings purchased Entain for a $22 billion
* William Hill is purchased by 888 Holdings for £2.2 billion (888 Holdings is an Israeli company)
* Caesars Entertainment purchased Betfred (and The Tote) and rebranded to Caesars Sportsbook. The Tote was maintained as a separate brand (it does not purchase William Hill)

## **Automobile**

* Aston Martin - Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings (David Richards, Mercedes-Benz Group (25%) and Lawrence Stroll)
* Bentley – Rolls-Royce Holdings
* Land Rover - Jaguar Land Rover (Anthony Bamford)
* Leyland Trucks - British Leyland
* Lotus - Group Lotus (Mark Thatcher and Benor (owned by Michael Ashcroft))
* LDV Group - British Leyland
* Jaguar - Jaguar Land Rover (Anthony Bamford)
* McLaren - McLaren Group (Ron Dennis 56.4%, TAG Group Limited (Mansour Ojjeh) 14.32% and John Barnard)
* Mini - BAE Systems
* Rolls-Royce – Rolls-Royce Holdings
* Vauxhall - Vauxhall Group

Babcock International

British Leyland also owns DAF vans.

Vauxhall Group owns Opel and Holden

## **The Winifred Group**

1. BSkyB
2. Trafnidiaeth Cymru
3. Winifred Health
4. Winifred Active
5. Winifred Film & TV Studios
6. Winifred Sports
7. Winifred Green Fund
8. TUI (TUI Airlines known as Britannia Airways)
9. Winifred Hotels
10. Winifred Startup
11. Winifred Experience Days
12. The Winifred Charity

First Choice spun off thus First Choice Airways returned, owned by Neil Scott.

## Wolfson Family Group

* Burberry
* British Airways
* Experian
* GUS
* Homebase
* Habitat
* Next
* Shaklee
* Wolfson History Prize
* The Wolfson Foundation
* The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust (The Wolfson Foundation)

## **The Rank Group**

Thomson Reuters (itself owned by The Woodbridge Company, who are a British company) owns Rank Group

J. Arthur Rank, born in Kingston upon Hull, England, was already a wealthy industrialist through his father's flour milling business, Joseph Rank Ltd, before making his start in film-making by financing short religious subjects in line with his Methodist beliefs. Rank was a Methodist Sunday School Teacher and wished to introduce these beliefs to a wider audience. The Rank Organisation was founded in 1937 as a means for Rank to consolidate his film-making interests. Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and in his middle age he taught at Sunday School to which he began to show religious films. This practice expanded to other churches and schools and it led to his formation of the Religious Film Society in 1933 to which he then distributed films that he had also made. His first production was called Mastership. When the Methodist Times newspaper began to complain about the negative influence that British and American films shown in Britain were having on family life, their editorial was answered by the London Evening News who suggested that instead of complaining, the Methodist Church should provide a solution. Rank took up the challenge and via an introduction by a young film producer named John Corfield, he discussed both the problem and a solution with Lady Yule of Bricket Wood. The net result of these meetings was the formation of the British National Films Company.

£1 billion revenue

* Butlins
* The Rank Foundation
* Deluxe Entertainment Services Group
* Gaumont Film Company
* Rank Screen Advertising (Odeon Cinemas and Cineworld only)
* Odeon Cinema
* Rank Prizes
* Rank Film Distributions
* Rank Hovis McDougall
* Xerox Holdings Corporation
* Hard Rock Cafe

Pearl & Dean is on Empire, Showcase and AMC

## **Carlton Granada Group**

Owned by Michael P. Green and David Cameron. Channel 3 licensees across England and ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited was scrapped.

* Carlton Advertising
* Carlton Screen Advertising (on Vue Cinema)
* Carlton Studios
* ITV Ltd - Carlton Television
* Carlton Video
* ITN
* Carlton International
* Carlton Licensing
* Carlton America
* Carlton 020
* Carlton Interactive
* ITC Entertainment
* Tangent Industries (printing and photo-processing company)
* Transvideo
* Abekas
* Technicolor
* Planet 24
* Granada Entertainment
* Granada Theatres
* Granada Television
* Granada Publishing
* Granada Microcomputer Services
* Travelodge Hotels
* Camelot Theme Park
* The American Adventure Theme Park

## **Business that in real life are not owned by British businesses**

* Angel Delight - Alfred Bird and Sons
* Avon Inflatables - Avon Protection
* Bird's Custard - Alfred Bird and Sons
* Boots - Alliance Boots (Morrisons) [source]. Boots downsized its oversized megastores, and shifted much more online, with sameday delivery, Boots quickly make a billion quid of profit a year. (It just needs a bit more cost-control, online expertise, and implementation discipline.)
* Burton's Biscuit Company - Associated British Foods
* Branston Pickle - Princes Group
* Blue Inc - ENIC Group
* Cadbury – Cadbury Schweppes (also owns Mondelez International and Keurig Dr Pepper)
* Dulux - Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) (AkzoNobel do not own them)
* Fox's Biscuits - Northern Foods
* Harrods - Harrods Group
* Hamleys - The Very Group
* Harvey Nichols - Arcadia Group
* Hartley's – Premier Foods
* HMV Group - EMI Group Ltd
* Innocent - Jamjar Investments (80%) and Coca-Cola Company (20%)
* Jaffa Cakes - McVitie's (Pladis Global – who acquired Turkish company Yıldız Holding)
* KitKat - Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery
* Land Rover - Jaguar Land Rover (not owned by Tata)
* Lea & Perris Worcestershire Sauce - HP Foods (Imperial Brands)
* Lyle's Golden Syrup - Tate & Lyle
* Mr Kipling - Ranks Hovis McDougall
* Northumbrian Water Group - AWG
* Sarson’s Vinegar - Princes Group
* Schweppes - Cadbury Schweppes
* Tetley’s - The Tetley Group (they acquired Pernod Ricard)
* Terry's Chocolate Orange - Terry's of York
* Typhoo Tea - Premier Foods
* Thames Water
* Walkers - The Smith's Snackfood Company (not owned by Pepsi)
* Waterstones - EMI Group Ltd
* Weetabix - Weetabix Food Company

Simon Matthew Cooper owns On The Beach Group

## **Notes**

* Arcadia Group have **not** gone out of business
* 5 News is produced by NBC Sky World News
* May Fair Hotel is owned by Edwardian Hotels
* Centre Parcs (both in British Isles and Continental Europe) – Pierre & Vacances (Adagio was sold to Accor)
* David Lloyd Leisure - London & Regional Properties
* Haven Holidays - Bourne Leisure
* Warner Leisure Hotels
* It was announced that the all GAME physical stores will close permanently and cease trading following COVID-19 and the digitalization of video games.
* British companies disestablished in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British\_companies\_disestablished\_in\_2018) never happened, except for Cambridge Analytica.
* British companies disestablished in 2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British\_companies\_disestablished\_in\_2019) never happened, except for Electric Traction Limited
* Deliveroo was dissolved after the company lost millions of pounds.
* Thomas Cook Group still exists
* Toys "R" Us UK & Ireland was purchased by the Fraser Group. Toys "R" Us South Korea was purchased by Lotte Mart, Toys "R" Us India was purchased by Lulu Hypermarket, both becoming a store-within-a-store. Toys "R" Us in UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar is owned by Al-Futtaim Group. Toys "R" Us in Isreal is owned by Fisherman Retail Group. Toys "R" Us in Saudi Arabia is owned by MSCPO (Tasweeq). Toys "R" Us Germany, Austria and Switzerland were purchased by Smyths Toys Superstores in 2018, all stores are converted into Smyths. Toys "R" Us Netherlands purchased by Intertoys in 2017 and all stores are converted into Intertoys. Toys "R" Us France was purchased by Jellej Jouets in October 2018, who merged the business with PicWic toys owner Luderix International in April 2019 to form PicWicToys; which all Toys "R" Us and Picwic stores were re-branded into in July 2019 under Lunderix's ownership. Toys "R" Us rest of the world was liquidate and closed all of its stores.
* Aria Resort and Casino and Vdara is still owned by MGM Resorts International
* Bellagio is still owned by MGM Resorts International
* CityCenter Las Vegas is owned by a 50-50 joint venture of MGM Resorts International and DubaiWorld
* Bourne Leisure is not owned by BlackRock
* Merlin Entertainments is not owned by anyone, it is a holding company
* intu Xanadú sold to Northwood. intu Trafford Centre sold to The Peel Group and renamed The Trafford Centre. intu Merry Hill sold to Ellandi and renamed Merry Hill Shopping Centre. intu Milton Keynes sold to Ellandi and renamed Centre:MK. intu Watford sold to Global Mutal and renamed The Harlequin. intu Eldon Square sold to MAPP and renamed Eldon Square. St. David's sold all their stake to Land Securities Group giving them 100% stake. The Mall at Cribbs Causeway sold all their stake to Prudential giving them 100% stake. Manchester Arndale Centre sold all their stake to M&G Real Estate. Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City both sold to intu. Renamed intu White City and intu Stratford City respectively

## **Grand Theft Auto**

* Remastered versions improved
* Fixing GTA Trilogy
* Top 19 Must HAVE Mods for GTA Trilogy DE!
* FIXES in GTA Trilogy Update (Patch 1.03)
* GTA Trilogy (Patch 1,.04)
* Things from GTA San Andreas: Original restored for GTA SA DE
* GTA Vice City
* GTA SA

In GTA III:

* The scene that shows the chauffeur's head being blasted off in the mission Love & Lead was modified for the German release. In the German version the head doesn't get blasted off the body.
* In Mission Karmageddon you don't get any points for running over people.
* The Mission Slash TV's target was changed to a creature.
* Rampage missions were toned down.
* Headshots no longer cause blood splatters.
* The chainsaw no longer plunges into people
* You are unable to hire prostitutes, you are also unable to kill prostitutes
* People who have fallen on the ground can no longer be chased.
* Any mission that involves killing civilians was removed.
* Any mission that involves killing a set number of people was changed the amount of people that need to be killed is lower then the uncensored version.
* You cannot blast apart people's heads
* It is not possible to cut or blast off limbs

In GTA Vice City:

* Anything to do with Haitians was edited
* You can no longer blast people's heads off with the sniper rifle.
* The nude poster in Bersetti's house was changed to an animal poster
* The Confederate flag is removed

In GTA San Andreas:

* Attacking a civilian will be an automatic 1-star (doing a mission or attacking gangs will not be automatic, the original system occurs)
* Hot Coffee minigame was fully removed from the game
* It is no longer possible to blast people's heads off with the sniper rifle
* You can no longer remove body parts
* The quarry mission was modified, the corpses were changed to mannequins.
* Violence against civilians has been minimized.
* The construction worker in the Mission Deconstruction was changed to a Ballas.
* Sexual references were toned down or removed.
* Pimp missions were removed.
* The scene that shows a policeman being torn apart by the helicopter's main rotor in the mission Uniting the Families was cut.
* You can no longer shoot birds in the game.
* 2 player missions that involve killing civilians were removed.
* The scene that shows CJ's interacting with Katharina in the mission "Gone Courting" was cut.
* Any scene that shows characters ingesting drugs in missions Body Harvest and End of the Line were removed.

In GTA: VCS:

* You can no longer blast people's heads off with the sniper rifle.
* The mission Narcotics was renamed Sugar.
* The mission prostitution was renamed dispatch.
* The body count statistic was removed
* The chainsaw attack no longer has blood effects.

In GTA IV:

* You can no longer get sexual intercourse from prostitutes

In GTA V (UR mod except for improvement in gore, UR Mod 2):

* Confederate flags were removed
* You cannot see Trevor's penis when wearing dresses
* All scenes containing nudity are censored.
* Any scene showing women topless is censored.
* The scene that shows Trevor with his pants down was modified, he is wearing pants.
* The scene that shows Trevor and Ashley having sex was cut.
* Tracey's audition outfit now has her wearing panties under it.
* The scene that shows Trevor having fun with the girlfriend of Johnny Klebitz was cut.
* The scene where Franklin has to take pictures of a female teen star was modified for the Japanese release. In the uncensored she is having sex. In the Japanese version she is smoking.
* Strippers now are wearing pasties to cover their nipples.
* You can no longer engage in sexual acts with prostitutes.
* The tattoo Lazlow gets is now shaped like a rocket instead of a penis.
* The scene that shows Trevor hitting his victim in the crotch with a pipe wrench was cut.
* The scene that shows Trevor using electric torture on his victim was cut.
* The scene that shows Trevor using waterboarding on his victim was cut.
* The scene that shows Trevor pulling teeth out of the victim's mouth was cut.
* Expansion pack

GTA VI melee combat has been compared to that of Batman: Arkham City, it allows the player to fight opponents coming from any direction with attack, grapple and counter-moves and can be performed with or without weapons. These three basic commands are chained together with the character's movement to execute attacks. The player's face meter fills up faster when enemies are defeated with different moves in rapid succession or with environmental attacks. Environmental attacks are performed by dragging enemies to certain objects, which Cal uses to eliminate opponents.

### Saints Row 3

* Player can no longer go fully nude.
* NPC bodies disappear right after they die.
* The Penetrator design was changed to not resemble a dildo
* Decapitation was removed.

### Other game censorships

* In Doom, red blood splatters were changed to green blood splatters
* Fallout 3, humans cannot be decapitated.
* In CoD MW, the scene that shows you shooting Zakhaev's arm was modified with the blood/gore reduced.
* Call of Duty MW2, the 4th mission "No Russian" was removed from all versions of the game
* In CoD Black Ops II Body Parts can no longer be separated
* In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dildos in the sewers of Lower Hengsha were removed
* Mortal Kombat games banned
* In Cyberpunk 2077, indecent nudity and sight of dismemberment and internal human organs are censored. In addition, adjustments to the size of male V's penis and pubic hair are unavailable. Explicit romance scenes containing nudity have been censored. Risqué advertisements were edited with a static effect.
* In *The Witcher 3, t*he scene that shows Regis getting stabbed in the chest was modified. In the uncensored version it shows the wound slowly regenerating. While in the Japanese version it only shows the regeneration happens quicker and shows less gore than the uncensored version. (Blood and Wine DLC) and all nudity was censored.