British Land is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London and traded on the London Stock Exchange. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building The London Stock Exchange (abbreviated LSE) is a stock exchange market located in London. ... The Financial Times Stock Exchange Index of 100 Leading Shares, or FTSE 100 Index (pronounced footsie), is a share index of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. ...

British Land was founded in 1856. Since 1970 it has been chaired by John Ritblat, one of the best known figures in the British property sector. In that year the portfolio was valued at £28 million. As at 30 September 2004 the investment portfolio was valued at over £11 billion and net assets were over £5 billion. Over 99% of assets by value were located in the UK, and the remainder in the Republic of Ireland. It made a profit after tax of £171.5 million for the year ended 31 March 2004. The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. ...

More than half of the portfolio is invested in retail. This includes the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, which is one of the largest in the UK, and a large amount of property which has been purchased from and leased back to major retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's and ASDA. The other major group of assets is office property, most of which is in central London. This includes the Broadgate Estate near Liverpool Street station. British Land has been involved in Broadgate, which is one of the largest development projects in London in recent decades and is still incomplete, since 1984, and after making a string of acquisitions on the estate over the years it acquired the last piece in 2003. In 2004 it received planning permission for a Richard Rogers designed skyscraper at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London which will become one of the tallest buildings in the London if and when it is built. Meadowhall is a large shopping centre located three miles northeast of central Sheffield, England. ... This article is about the city in England. ... Tesco logo Historic Tesco store in St Albans Tesco PLC is a United Kingdom based international supermarket chain. ... This article is about the supermarket chain, for other meanings, see ASDA (disambiguation) ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food, clothing and general merchandise products. ... Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ... Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. ... The City of London forms the historic and financial centre of Greater London. ...

External links

• Official site (http://www.britishland.com/home.asp)
• Yahoo! profile (http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BLND.L)