Big Four

The phrase Big Four has multiple meanings:

Banks

Name traditionally given to the four biggest banks in the (now Lloyds TSB ); Natwest , (now part of Royal Bank Of Scotland ); Barclays Bank ; and Midland Bank (now HSBC Bank Plc ). HBOS , which was formed by a merger between the Bank Of Scotland and the former Building Society Halifax , is larger than Lloyds TSB by both assets and Market Capitalization , so the term is obsolete, but it is still sometimes used by the media.

Name given to the four biggest banks (which also issue (owned by Royal Bank Of Scotland ), Bank Of Ireland , Northern Bank (owned by Danske Bank ) and First Trust Bank (part of AIB UK ).

Name given to the four biggest banks in the , Bank Of Ireland , National Irish Bank (owned by Danske Bank ) and Ulster Bank (owned by Royal Bank Of Scotland ).

Name given to the four biggest banks in , Royal Bank Of Scotland , Clydesdale Bank and Lloyds TSB Scotland .

Name given to the four biggest banks in , the Commonwealth Bank , Westpac and ANZ .

Name given to the four large banks in the , the China Construction Bank , the Industrial And Commercial Bank Of China and the Agricultural Bank Of China .

Companies

The Big Four Auditors , the four largest international public Accountancy firms.

A nickname for a railroad in the United States Of America officially called the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago And St. Louis Railroad (later absorbed by the New York Central Railroad ).

In 1902 , meat packers Gustavus Swift , J. Ogden Armour, and Edward Morris, along with the investment banking firm of ''Kuhn, Loeb, and Company'', to create the National Packing Company for the purpose of fixing prices, dividing up markets, and suppressing union efforts to organize industry workers. The group became known the "Meat Trust" and the "Big Four" of the meat packing industry, and developed such a monopoly that the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the venture to disband in 1905 .

The four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923 - 1948 were known as the Big Four. These were the Great Western Railway , the London, Midland And Scottish Railway , the London And North Eastern Railway and the Southern Railway . In 1948 these companies were nationalised to form British Railways .

In the United Kingdom it refers to the Big Four Supermarkets of Tesco , Asda , Sainsburys and Morrisons which had a combined market share of 74.3% in 2005 .

Music and Media

, Sony BMG , Warner Music Group , and Universal Music Group . These were known as the Big Five before the joint venture between Sony and BMG merged.

In the United Kingdom , the Big Four ITV companies in the period 1956 to 1968 were Associated-Rediffusion (later Rediffusion London ), ATV , ABC and Granada Television .

The four nations allowed automatic entries to the , Germany , Spain , and the United Kingdom .

Places

Sport

Others

The four leaders of the most powerful nations who attended the ( American President), David Lloyd George ( British Prime Minister ), Vittorio Orlando ( Italian Premier), and Georges Clemenceau (French Premier). These four leaders were responsible for devising the Treaty of Versailles.

In the Beauty Pageant World , can refer collectively to Miss Universe , Miss World , Miss Earth and Miss International , which regularly receive the largest delegates from all over the world.

The four largest , IRCNet , Quakenet , Undernet (formerly Dalnet , EFnet, Quakenet and Undernet; Dalnet fell in size drastically just as Quakenet started to get very big) {Link without Title} .

The four biggest English-speaking countries in the world, United States , United Kingdom , Canada and Australia .

In Medical Records , the term "big four" refers collectively to History and Physical Examination, Consultation Report, Operative Report, and Discharge Summary.

The Big Four Universities of Canada referring to Queen's University , McGill University , University Of Toronto , and University Of Western Ontario .

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