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List of companies based in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6612215 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of companies whose British or regional headquarters are located in Newcastle upon Tyne or in nearby North Tyneside.

AkzoNobel

Be-Ro

Bellway

Fenwick

Formica Corporation

Go-Ahead Group

Goldsmiths

Greggs

Newcastle Building Society

Palringo

Parkdean Holidays

Reid & Sons

Tapirs Technologies

The Sage Group

Virgin Money UK

Tommee Tippee

Baltic Apprenticeships

Ringtons, tea and coffee merchants, dates from 1907 when Samuel Smith OBE moved from his home town of Leeds and began selling tea from a horse and cart in the city.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6612215. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of companies based in Newcastle upon Tyne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.