Migrants and business
- The highly regarded Forte chain of hotels was started by an Italian family of the same name.
- The CEO of BT, Ben Verwaayan (Netherlands), is acknowledged to have greatly improved the company's performance.
- Jasminder Singh, chairman and CEO of the successful Edwardian Radisson hotel chain, is an Asian immigrant from East Africa.
- The head of GlaxoSmithKline is the French Jean-Pierre Garnier.
- The entrepreneurial Jatania family, who run Lornamead and own large amounts of property in London, are the country's richest Asians, valued at £500 million.
- British staple Marks & Spencer was co-founded by Michael Marks, a Russian-born Polish refugee and today Luc Vandevelde (Belgian) is the company's chairman and is credited with its turnaround in 2000.