Liberty International

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Liberty International PLC

Type of Company	Public
Founded	1980
Headquarters	London
Key people	Sir Robert Finch, (Chairman) David Fischel (CEO)
Industry	property
Products	shopping centres, commercial & residential property
Revenue	£434 million GBP (31/12/2005)
Employees	787 (31/12/2004)
Website	www.liberty-international.co.uk

Liberty International PLC (LSE: LII) is UK property investment and insurance company. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company developed into a leading firm in life insurance and pension funds in the 1980s. It later diversified its activities into property investment and has now abandoned its life insurance and pension fund businesses.

The company has property investments of £6.2 billion through its two principal subsidiaries: Capital Shopping Centres and Capital & Counties. The Capital Shopping Centres subsidiary owns the Breahead in Glasgow and the MetroCentre in Gateshead and a number of other UK shopping centres. The Capital & Counties subsidiary invests in both residential and commercial real estate in the UK and also in California in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Liberty International was founded by Sir Donald Gordon, who previously headed up the Liberty Life Group in South Africa.