Corporate travel business Hogg Robinson today revived plans for a flotation, just days after cancelling the move because of market conditions.

Plans by corporate travel specialist Hogg Robinson to raise an estimated £190m (€283.7m) from a stock market listing were put on ice today.

Department store group John Lewis Partnership is the biggest private company in Britain with annual sales of more than £4 billion while four of Richard Branson's companies make the list, it emerged yesterday.