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Source: "FTSE: FTSE 100 Constituent Changes" (PDF; 57.9 KB)

From Original Article
All changes are due to market capitalisation unless noted otherwise.


 * Abbey National (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary)
 * Aberdeen Asset Management
 * African Barrick Gold
 * Aggreko
 * Alliance & Leicester (acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary)
 * Alliance Boots (acquired by private equity fund controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
 * Alliance Trust
 * Allied Domecq (acquired by Pernod Ricard)
 * Allied Zurich (dual holding company along with Zurich Allied, companies unified in 2000 to form Zurich Financial Services)
 * Amec
 * Amersham (acquired by GE, now part of its GE Healthcare division)
 * Argos (acquired by GUS)
 * Argyll Group (renamed Safeway in 1996, then taken over by Morrisons in 2004)
 * Arjo Wiggins Appleton (acquired by Worms & Cie)
 * ARM Holdings (acquired by SoftBank Group)
 * ASDA Group (acquired by Wal-Mart)
 * BAA (acquired by Ferrovial)
 * Babcock International
 * Balfour Beatty
 * Baltimore Technologies (acquired by Oryx International Growth Fund)
 * Bank of Scotland (merged with Halifax to form HBOS, now part of the Lloyds Banking Group)
 * Bass (became Six Continents and then InterContinental Hotels Group)
 * BG Group (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)
 * Blue Circle Industries (acquired by Lafarge)
 * BOC (acquired by Linde)
 * Bowater (renamed Rexam)
 * Bookham Technology (renamed Oclaro and now traded on Nasdaq)
 * BPB Industries (acquired by Saint-Gobain)
 * Bradford & Bingley (branch network acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano, now part of its Santander UK subsidiary; loans book nationalised)
 * Brambles Industries (now only listed on the Australian Securities Exchange)
 * British Airways (merged with Iberia to form International Airlines Group)
 * British Home Stores (acquired by Storehouse and then sold to Philip Green)
 * British Steel (merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens to become Corus Group, now Tata Steel Europe)
 * Britoil (acquired by BP)
 * BTR (merged with Siebe to form BTR Siebe, subsequently renamed Invensys)
 * Burmah Oil (renamed Burmah Castrol and acquired by BP)
 * Burton Group (renamed Arcadia and acquired by Philip Green)
 * Cable & Wireless Worldwide
 * Cadbury (acquired by Kraft Foods)
 * Cairn Energy
 * Capita
 * Carlton Communications (merged with Granada to form ITV)
 * Carnival Corporation & plc
 * Carphone Warehouse
 * Celltech (acquired by UCB in 2004)
 * Centrica
 * CMG (merged with Logica to form LogicaCMG)
 * Cobham
 * Colt Group
 * Commercial Union Assurance (merged with General Accident to form CGU, itself now part of Aviva)
 * Consolidated Gold Fields (acquired by Hanson)
 * ConvaTec
 * Cookson Group
 * Corus Group (acquired by Tata Steel, now forming its Tata Steel Europe division)
 * Courtaulds (demerged into two businesses acquired by Sara Lee and Akzo Nobel)
 * Daily Mail and General Trust
 * Dalgety (renamed PIC International and then Sygen International and subsequently acquired by Genus)
 * Darktrace
 * De La Rue
 * Dimension Data Holdings (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)
 * Direct Line Group
 * Dixons Carphone
 * Dixons Group (renamed to DSG International and then Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low)
 * DSG International (renamed Dixons Retail; market capitalisation also fell too low)
 * Eastern Group (acquired by Hanson, renamed The Energy Group; acquired by Texas Utilities)
 * EasyJet
 * Electrocomponents
 * EMAP (acquired by Apax Partners and the Guardian Media Group)
 * EMI Group (acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners, now owned by Citigroup)
 * Energis (acquired by Cable and Wireless)
 * Enterprise Inns
 * Enterprise Oil (acquired by Royal Dutch Shell)
 * Essar Energy
 * Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
 * Evraz
 * Exel (acquired by Deutsche Post)
 * Ferrexpo
 * FirstGroup
 * Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust
 * Forte (acquired by Granada, now ITV)
 * Freeserve (acquired by France Télécom, now Orange)
 * Friends Life (acquired by Aviva)
 * Friends Provident (acquired by Friends Life Group)
 * G4S
 * Gallaher Group (acquired by Japan Tobacco)
 * Gateway Corporation (renamed Somerfield, subsequently acquired by The Co-operative Group)
 * GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi, broken up, remnant renamed Telent)
 * General Accident (merged with Commercial Union to form CGU, itself now part of Aviva)
 * Glaxo Wellcome (merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline)
 * Granada Compass (split in 2001 to leave Granada and Compass Group)
 * Granada (merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV)
 * Greenall's Group (renamed De Vere Group and then acquired by a joint venture of private investors)
 * Grand Metropolitan (merged with Guinness to form Diageo)
 * Guardian Royal Exchange (acquired by Axa)
 * Guinness (merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo)
 * GUS (now demerged into Home Retail Group and Experian)
 * GVC Holdings
 * Halifax Group (merged with the Bank of Scotland to form HBOS)
 * Hammerson
 * Hanson (acquired by Heidelberg Cement)
 * Hays
 * HBOS Group plc (acquired by Lloyds Banking Group)
 * Hiscox
 * Home Retail Group
 * Homeserve
 * ICAP
 * IMI
 * Imperial Chemical Industries (acquired by Akzo Nobel)
 * Imperial Continental Gas Association (broke up into Calor and Contibel)
 * Inchcape
 * Inmarsat
 * Innogy Holdings (renamed Npower and acquired by RWE)
 * International Power (acquired by GDF Suez)
 * Intu
 * Invensys
 * Invesco (moved primary listing to NYSE)
 * Investec
 * Johnson Matthey
 * Just Eat Takeaway (nationality reassigned to the Netherlands)
 * Kazakhmys
 * Kelda Group (acquired by Saltaire Water consortium) a consortium of investment companies including Citigroup and HSBC.
 * Kingfisher
 * Kingston Communications (renamed KCOM Group and market capitalisation fell too low)
 * Ladbrokes
 * Lasmo (acquired by Eni)
 * Lattice Group (merged with National Grid to form National Grid Transco)
 * Logica
 * London Electricity (acquired by Électricité de France, now part of its EDF Energy division)
 * Lonhro (renamed Lonmin)
 * Lonmin
 * LucasVarity (acquired by TRW)
 * Magnet and Southerns (acquired by Berisford)
 * Man Group
 * Marks & Spencer
 * Mediclinic International
 * Melrose
 * Mercury Asset Management (acquired by Merrill Lynch)
 * Merlin Entertainments
 * Micro Focus International
 * Midlands Electricity (acquired by Acquila Sterling, now part of E.ON Energy UK)
 * Misys
 * Mitchells & Butlers
 * Morrisons (acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice)
 * National Westminster Bank (acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
 * NMC Health
 * Northern Rock (market capitalisation fell too low, before being nationalised)
 * Norwich Union (merged with CGU to form CGNU, now Aviva)
 * Nycomed Amersham (acquired by GE)
 * O2 (renamed Telefónica Europe following acquisition by Telefónica)
 * Old Mutual (managed separation of the business)
 * Orange (acquired by Mannesmann and then by France Télécom, now Orange)
 * PartyGaming (market capitalisation fell too low, before merging with Bwin to become bwin.party digital entertainment)
 * P&O (acquired by Dubai Ports World)
 * P&O Princess Cruises (merged with Carnival Corporation and re-listed as Carnival Corporation & plc)
 * Pennon Group
 * Petrofac
 * Pilkington (acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass)
 * Polly Peck (collapsed in 1990)
 * PowerGen (acquired by E.ON Energy UK)
 * Provident Financial
 * Psion
 * Punch Taverns
 * Railtrack (collapsed in 2001)
 * Randgold Resources (merged with Barrick Gold Corp)
 * Rank Hovis McDougall (acquired by Premier Foods)
 * Reckitt and Coleman (merged with Benckiser to form Reckitt Benckiser)
 * Redland (acquired by Lafarge)
 * Reed International (merged with Elsevier to form Reed Elsevier)
 * Renishaw
 * Rentokil Initial
 * Resolution Limited (changed its name to Friends Life Group)
 * Resolution plc (acquired by Pearl Group)
 * Rexam (acquired by Ball Corporation)
 * RMC Group (acquired by Cemex)
 * J Rothschild (renamed St. James's Place and market capitalisation fell too low)
 * Rowntree's (acquired by Nestlé)
 * Royal Insurance (merged with Sun Alliance Group to form Royal & SunAlliance)
 * RSA Insurance Group (acquired by Danish insurer Tryg and Canada's Intact Financial Corporation in May 2021).
 * Safeway (acquired by Morrisons)
 * SABMiller (acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev)
 * Scottish & Newcastle (acquired by a consortium formed of Heineken & Carlsberg)
 * Scottish Power (acquired by Iberdrola)
 * Sears (acquired by January Investments – itself controlled by Philip Green)
 * Securicor (merged with Group 4 Falck to form G4S)
 * Sema Group (acquired by Schlumberger)
 * Serco
 * Shell Transport and Trading Company (now re-organised with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company as Royal Dutch Shell)
 * Shire (acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company)
 * Siebe (merged with BTR to form Invensys)
 * Sky (acquired by Comcast)
 * SmithKline Beecham (merged with Glaxo Wellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline)
 * Smiths Industries (renamed to Smiths Group)
 * Southern Electric (merged with Scottish Hydro Electric to form Scottish and Southern Energy)
 * Spirent
 * Sports Direct
 * Stagecoach Group
 * Sun Alliance Group (merged with Royal Insurance to form Royal & Sun Alliance)
 * Sun Life & Provincial Holdings (acquired by Axa)
 * Tate & Lyle
 * Taylor Wimpey
 * Telewest Communications (merged with NTL to form NTL:Telewest now Virgin Media)
 * Thames Water (acquired by RWE and then sold to Macquarie Group)
 * The Energy Group (acquired by Texas Utilities)
 * Thomas Cook Group
 * Thomson Reuters (delisted shares from the London Stock Exchange as it ceased to be a dual-listed company)
 * Thorn (acquired by Nomura Group)
 * Thorn EMI (renamed EMI Group and then acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners)
 * Thus (market capitalisation fell too low, subsequently acquired by Cable & Wireless Worldwide)
 * TI Group (acquired by Smiths Group)
 * Tomkins (acquired by Onex Corporation and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board)
 * Travis Perkins
 * TSB Group (merged with Lloyds Bank to form Lloyds TSB)
 * Trusthouse Forte (acquired by Granada)
 * TUI Group
 * TUI Travel
 * Tullow Oil
 * United Business Media
 * Vedanta Resources
 * Wellcome (merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome, then with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline)
 * Weir Group
 * William Hill
 * Williams Holdings (demerged into Kidde and Chubb Fire & Security, both now part of United Technologies)
 * Wood Group
 * Worldpay (acquired by Vantiv)
 * Woolwich (acquired by Barclays)
 * Yell Group
 * Zeneca (merged with Astra to form AstraZeneca)

Source: "FTSE: FTSE 100 Constituent Changes" (PDF; 57.9 KB)