Editing South East England (section)

===Berkshire===
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[[File:Newbury, New Vodafone Headquarters - geograph.org.uk - 5590.jpg|thumb|left|Vodafone HQ north of Newbury; it arrived as Racal-Vodafone in 1983, when Bayer also arrived; Vodafone is the [[List of mobile network operators|world's second-biggest mobile phone company]] (the world's largest privately owned) with £40 billion of revenue and 464 million customers, and profits of £11bn; it has around 19M UK customers, and by value makes up about 5% of the FTSE 100.]]
Companies in Berkshire essentially follow the [[M4 corridor]]. In [[Theale]] are [[Nvidia|Nvidia UK]] (components for smartphones) and [[Wolseley (builders' merchant)|Wolseley]], the builders' and plumbers' merchants who own [[Bathstore]] and Plumb Center. SPP Pumps (owned by [[Kirloskar Group]]) is at the [[Arlington Business Park]]; on the same estate [[PepsiCo]] is next to the GWML railway. [[Porsche|Porsche Cars Great Britain]] is in [[Calcot, Berkshire|Calcot]], [[Tilehurst]], west of Reading near Theale Interchange. [[Harley-Davidson|Harley-Davidson UK]] is in [[Pangbourne]]. [[Vodafone]], and [[High and Mighty (shop)|High and Mighty]] are based in [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]]; [[Bayer|Bayer UK]] ([[Aspirin]], Rennie and [[Alka-Seltzer]]) is to the west; [[National Instruments]] UK is to the east off the A4 on the Newbury Business Park, and [[Quantel]] was off the A4 and is now [[Snell Limited|Snell]] (former Snell & Wilcox, previously in Lower Earley), an important video technology company, near [[Aricent]] UK.

The [[Atomic Weapons Establishment]] is in [[Aldermaston]] on the Hampshire boundary. The Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre and [[Xtrac Limited]] are at [[Thatcham]]. The [[Royal School of Military Survey]] is in [[Hermitage, Berkshire|Hermitage]]. East of the A34, north of the M4, at [[Compton, Berkshire|Compton]] since 1992 is the UK HQ of [[Baxter International|Baxter Healthcare]], part of a global company which is working on a vaccine for [[Influenza A virus subtype H1N1|H1N1]], and next door is the [[Institute for Animal Health]], which also researches H1N1.

[[File:Slough - Horlicks factory.jpg|thumb|right|Horlicks factory in Slough; GSK Slough makes 14,000 tonnes a year.]]
Retriever Sports, on the Mill Street Ind Est near [[Slough railway station]], is the world's largest manufacturer of [[darts]] equipment. [[Mars, Incorporated|Mars Limited]] has a large chocolate factory, run under the name of Effem Holdings Ltd, also in Slough on the enormous [[Slough Trading Estate]] which makes 3m Mars bars a day; nearby is [[Johnson Controls|Johnson Controls UK]] (car seats), and [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI Paints]], [[Polyfilla]], and [[Dulux]]. [[Horlicks]] is made by GSK there. [[Oki Electric Industry|Oki]] UK ([[Printer (computing)|desktop printer]]s) are based next to Mars. [[Honda|Honda UK]], [[Citroën|Citroën UK]], [[Fiat|Fiat UK]], [[Douwe Egberts|Douwe Egberts UK]] (and its owner [[Sara Lee Corporation|Sara Lee UK]]), [[BlackBerry (company)|BlackBerry UK]], [[Black & Decker|Black & Decker Europe]], [[Amazon.com|Amazon UK]], [[Ingres (database)|Ingres UK]], [[Telefónica Europe|Telefónica O2 Europe UK]] and [[Reckitt Benckiser]] are also in Slough.

Toyota Material Handling UK (fork lifts) is next door to Slough Heat and Power station. [[Lonza Group|Lonza]] UK makes [[biopharmaceutical]]s ([[monoclonal antibodies]]) on the A4. Honda Motor Europe is at the Langley Roundabout (A4/B470) of the M4 at [[Brands Hill]], part of [[Colnbrook with Poyle]], and near the [[Queen Mother Reservoir]]; on the opposite side of the M4 in [[Langley, Berkshire|Langley]] (Slough borough) is [[Royal Mail]]'s [[Heathrow World Distribution Centre|Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre]], and next door is [[Pentax]] Ricoh Imaging UK, next to Langley's leisure centre.

[[Hovis]], [[Ben & Jerry's]] (Unilever), [[FM Global]] UK (insurance), and [[Morgan Crucible]], are in Windsor; [[Nintendo|Nintendo UK]] is next to the Royal Mews Riding School. [[Centrica]] is in [[Dedworth]], next to [[Windsor Racecourse]]. [[Groupe SEB|Groupe SEB UK]] (owner of [[Krups]], [[Moulinex]], [[Rowenta]], and [[Tefal]]) is next to [[Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station]] and near the castle (previously next to [[Langley railway station]] until 2012). [[CA Technologies]] UK is at [[Ditton Park]] in [[Datchet]], home of the former [[Radio Research Station]] until 1979, which discovered the [[ionosphere]] in the 1920s. Ledco, near B3020/A329 junction in [[Sunninghill and Ascot]], is the UK distributor of LED Lenser torches, made by Zweibrüder Optoelectronics. [[Hitachi]], [[Corel]] UK, [[NSK Ltd.|NSK Europe]] (off the A308 to the north), [[WW International|Weight Watchers UK]] (next to [[Desborough School]]) and the [[Rank Group]] (leisure) are in Maidenhead.

Further east on the A404(M) is [[McGraw-Hill]] UK in [[Cox Green, Berkshire|Cox Green]]; other the side of the A404(M) at the Cox Green Interchange (9A), GSK makes [[Sensodyne]], [[Corsodyl]], [[Aquafresh]], and Macleans; [[Volvo Cars]] UK are at Scandinavia House (in Marlow from 1986 to 2012) next to GSK; [[Nortel|Nortel UK]] left in 2009. [[Sanofi Pasteur|Sanofi Pasteur MSD]] UK (vaccines) is based next to the Maidenhead council offices. [[Rentokil Initial|Initial Washrooms Solutions]] is next to the railway station and on the other side of A308 is [[Hutchison 3G|Hutchison 3G UK]]; on the other side of the railway is the [[Rank Group]] at the A308 roundabout, in [[Braywick, Berkshire|Braywick]]. [[Adobe Systems]] have their European HQ on the A4, south of the B4447 roundabout, next to a Sainsbury's. [[Hanson plc|Hanson]] UK is based at the A4/A308 roundabout; Hitachi Europe (with [[Hitachi Maxell|Maxell Europe]]) is off the [[A4094 road|A4094]] on the northern outskirts towards [[Cookham]] at Whitebrook Park, with [[DS Smith]], at the former [[Formica (plastic)|Formica]] Research Centre. Avery Dennison UK are based to the north off the A308 at [[Furze Platt]].

[[Abbott Laboratories]] UK (pharmaceuticals) are based on the Vanwall Business Park; nearby is [[Costain Group|Costain]], Pfizer Consumer Healthcare UK ([[Centrum (multivitamin)|Centrum]] [[multivitamin]]s); [[Toys "R" Us|Toys "R" Us UK]] and [[Mattel|Mattel UK]] are opposite each other, with [[Compuware]] UK. [[McNeil Laboratories|McNeil Products]] ([[Benylin]], [[Benadryl]], [[Daktarin]], [[Sudafed]] and [[Calpol]]) is at Foundation Park, next to the Great Western Main Line, in [[Cox Green, Berkshire|Cox Green]], south of Maidenhead, with other Johnson & Johnson (beauty) brands, and [[Lexmark]] UK. [[Bisham Abbey]], on the Thames, is a site of one of the [[National Sports Centres]], at the A404/A308 Bisham Roundabout, to the west of Maidenhead. [[GEO Group]] UK ([[Prisoner transport vehicle|prisoner custody]]) is off the [[A4130 road|A4130]] in [[Hurley, Berkshire|Hurley]], on the western edge of the district, with [[Hospira]] UK, owned by Pfizer.

[[BG Group]], [[Prudential plc]] (the country's biggest [[Life insurance|life insurer]] with 7m customers), the [[Rural Payments Agency]], and [[The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association|Guide Dogs for the Blind]] are in Reading. [[Primark|Primark UK]], near [[Reading Civic Centre]], was started by [[Arthur Ryan]] in Ireland; it arrived in the UK in 1973 and has bought many former sites of [[C&A]] and [[Littlewoods]]. North of the railway line is [[TP-Link]] UK (routers). Off the A33 towards the Three Mile Cross Interchange (M4) in south Reading is the [[Green Park Business Park]], home of Symantec UK (previously in [[Whitley, Berkshire|Whitley]]), many Cisco offices and [[Thames Water]] and to the south is the former Berkshire Brewery (closed in April 2010 by Heineken UK) and [[Verizon Communications|Verizon]] UK.

[[Borland|Borland UK]], [[Interserve]] and [[Mabey Group]], the bridge manufacturer, are in [[Twyford, Berkshire|Twyford]]. [[Bang & Olufsen|Bang & Olufsen UK]] is in [[Winnersh]]. [[Rockwell Collins]] UK (avionics, [[Aircraft flight control system|flight control systems]]), is next to [[Jacobs Engineering Group|Jacobs Engineering UK]], at the end of the A3290 near the A4 Sutton Seeds Roundabout, at Suttons Business Park in Earley; on the opposite side of the railway is [[Thames Valley Park]], with Oracle next to [[ING Group|ING Direct UK]] in Earley and Microsoft UK in Woodley; The University of Reading's [[Reading Scientific Services]] (RSSL) in Earley is Cadbury's main research centre.

[[Foster Wheeler|Foster Wheeler UK]] is in [[Shinfield]] in the old headquarters of Berkshire County Council, next to the M4; next door is the [[European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts]] on the site of the [[RAF Shinfield Park|former Met Office College]]. [[Auto Trader Group]] is in nearby [[Earley]]. The [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] (REME) are based at [[Arborfield Garrison]], partly in [[Barkham]], also home of the School of Electronic and Aeronautical Engineering. [[TAC (building automation)|Pelco]] UK is at the Mulberry Business Park in south-west Wokingham. [[Christie (audiovisual company)|Christie Digital Systems]] ([[Europe, the Middle East and Africa|EMEA]] office) is in the centre. Off the B3430 in [[Wokingham Without]], [[McNeil Laboratories|McNeil]] have a laboratory, south of district.

[[File:Jealott's Hill Research Station - geograph.org.uk - 78429.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jealott's Hill Research Station]] (pesticides), former ICI Plant Protection Division.]]
[[Syngenta|Syngenta UK]] and [[Wincor Nixdorf]] UK ([[Automated teller machine|ATM]]s) are in Bracknell. [[Boehringer Ingelheim]] UK is off the A3095 in west Bracknell in [[Easthampstead]]; nearby to the north is [[Waitrose]]; to the east along the A3095 is [[Panasonic|Panasonic UK]]; next door to the south is [[IHS Inc.|IHS UK]] (owner of [[Jane's Information Group]]) and [[Hyundai Heavy Industries|HHI Europe]] (construction equipment); further along the A3095 is [[BMW]] (GB); BMW sold their first model in the UK in 1966, the [[BMW 02 Series|2002]], and sold 230,000 cars in the UK, a record amount. In 2017, German car imports to the UK were worth €20.8 billion.<ref>{{cite newspaper The Times |last= Charter |first= David |date= 14 November 2017 |title= No-deal Brexit 'adds €2bn' to German cars |url= https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/no-deal-brexit-adds-2bn-to-german-cars-svvp9qvnf |access-date=29 May 2023 }}</ref> To the south on the Southern Ind Est is [[Daler-Rowney]] (known for its [[acrylic paint]]; Rowney was the first supplier in Europe in 1963.

On the other side of the A329, towards the B3408, is [[Cable & Wireless Worldwide|Cable & Wireless]] (the former overseas equivalent of BT); to the west on the [[Amen Corner, Berkshire|Amen Corner]] Business Park in [[Farley Wood]] next to the A329 and the [[Waterloo to Reading Line|railway]], is [[Dell|Dell UK]]; next door is [[Hewlett-Packard Company|HP UK]] (in [[Winnersh]] from the 1970s to 1990s) to the west; [[3M|3M UK]] is to the north-east, next to [[Bracknell Bees]] ice-hockey stadium. [[Novell|Novell UK]] is on the A329, north of the A322 roundabout at [[Arlington Square, Bracknell|Arlington Square]] (former [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry Gyroscope]]), and next door is [[Honeywell|Honeywell UK]] on the A329 at the Skimped Hill Roundabout near the Odeon cinema. [[Avis Europe]] (with [[Budget Rent a Car|Budget UK]]) is further north at the A322/A3095 Met Office Roundabout near [[Bracknell and Wokingham College]]; [[Imation]] UK is next door on the roundabout; south of the roundabout is [[Netgear]] UK next to the A3095. To the north, [[Syngenta]] have their main worldwide ([[pesticide]]) research centre at [[Jealott's Hill]], formerly owned by [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI]]. The [[Transport Research Laboratory]] and [[Broadmoor Hospital]] are in [[Crowthorne]] near the Wokingham boundary.