Whats is a Blue Chip company ?

[MrMister]

Any examples of one ?

[squarebear]

A blue chip company is a large, successful business. An example of one is Tesco.

The term comes from poker, where blue chips are traditionally the highest-valued chips in the game.

[dr b]

http://www.investoped.../terms/b/bluechip.asp

Just about any firm in the FTSE 100 would be considered blue chip

[dr b]

Here's a long list (Tesco among them!)

http://stockmarketfor...-blue-chip-companies/

[MrMister]

Would Boots be one ?

[dr b]

Boots is now part of a larger firm that is headquartered in Switzerland. According to this documents Alliance Boots was removed from the FTSE in 2007 after it was acquired, so at least as of 3 years ago Boots was part of what was considered a blue chip company.

http://www.ftse.com/M...nstituent_History.pdf