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Today we print in full the 2022 BusinessLive list of the 500 biggest businesses in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

The 2022 list has been compiled by researchers from the Business Schools at De Montfort, Derby and Nottingham Trent Universities, supported by East Midlands Chamber, and sponsored by Leicester property developer Bradgate Estates.

Because of the way the list is compiled it does not use the latest accounting figures published on Companies House - instead they use accounts filed between the period July 2019 and June 2020. That means that some of the figures relate to the start of the pandemic.

However they still provide an indicator of the range and strength of businesses across the three counties.

(2020 position in brackets)

1 (1) BOOTS º£½ÇÊÓƵ

The Nottingham pharmacy group is owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) in America.

Plans to sell it were pulled last month with WBA saying it will now keep Boots and the No7 beauty brand under its existing ownership following an “unexpected and dramatic change” in the financial markets.