The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 ranks Britain’s mid-market private companies with the fastest-growing international sales, measured over their latest two years of available accounts. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times in February, with an awards event in October.
The closing date for nominations for the 2021 league table is 6 November 2020, with publication on 21 February 2021.
International Track 200 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2021 league table is 6 November 2020, with publication on 21 February 2021.
Total sales £25m-£1bn
- UK registered, unquoted, and not subsidiaries
- International sales of at least £500,000 in the base year (2017 or 2018)
- International sales of at least £1m in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- Total sales of at least £25m and less than £1bn in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- International sales of at least 5% of total sales in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- Year-on-year international sales growth in the latest year from 2018 to 2019, or 2019 to 2020
- Operating profit must be positive in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- Ten or more employees in the latest year (2019 or 2020)
- Trading weeks in the base and latest years have to exceed 25
- Recruitment firms, payroll services providers, media agencies and travel agencies are required to have gross profits of at least £5m. Sales for recruitment and payroll firms are the total amount invoiced to clients
- Excluded companies include LLPs, pure property and financial trading companies; companies that are equal joint ventures, or majority-owned by quoted or other companies
- We reserve the right to change the qualification criteria set out above and to make exceptions. This is not a competition; the compiler’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into
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Watch highlights from our #BDOProfitTrack awards and read our news report. @BenFrancis1992 – co-founder @Gymshark & Kenny Wilson – CEO @drmartens shared insights and joined @olivershah @ST_Business for Q&A. @bdoaccountant @santanderuk @UBS https://t.co/9ehe84d2JF https://t.co/QDVlqylCrR
Congratulations to @Gymshark, winner of the Fastest-growing profits award, presented by Stuart Lisle of @bdoaccountant at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @BenFrancis1992
Congratulations to @BromptonBicycle, winner of the Best brand award, presented by @olivershah of @thesundaytimes at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @Will_Brompton
Congratulations to @invenio_sap, winner of the International growth award, presented by Tim Hinton of @santanderuk at our #ProfitTrack virtual event
Congratulations to @Gymshark, winner of the Value creation award, presented by Giles Nicholas of @UBS at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @BenFrancis1992
Congratulations to @GoPakUK, winner of the Ones to Watch award, presented by chairman of the judges @davidjusteat at our #BDOProfitTrack virtual event @mikebristow4 @bdoaccountant
“We have grown the company top and bottom line during the crisis,” Kenny Wilson – CEO @drmartens – shares insights with our 162 guests from Britain’s private profit stars at our #BDOProfitTrack awards @bdoaccountant @santanderuk @UBS
“People want brands that reflect their true values” @BenFrancis1992 – co-founder @Gymshark – in Q&A with @olivershah @ST_Business, shares insights with 162 guests from Britain’s private profit stars at our #BDOProfitTrack awards @bdoaccountant @santanderuk @UBS
“On this year’s list there are some amazing and quite spectacular good news stories” – Paul Eagland – managing partner @bdoaccountant – welcomes guests running Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits to our #BDOProfitTrack virtual awards
Types of company
Total sales
£25m - £200mInt’l sales
£1m - £100mAverage 2 year int’l sales growth
30% - 410% paStaff
10 - 1,000This is a great recognition of our efforts to expand internationally Nick Robinson, co-founder, WorldFirst
The International Track 200 is a wonderful recognition for the success of an ambitious British business Michael Teixeira, chief executive, MVF
A great demonstration to our clients of our growth for their benefit Melvin Thomas, co-founder, The Licensing Company
Really inspiring to see how many British companies are making such a huge impact on the international market Richard Hudson, marketing director, Sapphire Systems
Alumni success stories
Featured with international sales of £108m; American sales rose to £145m in 2018 on total sales of £383m
First featured with international sales of £593m; generated total sales of £2.9bn in 2020 and employs 37,000 people
Featured with international sales of £314m; floated in 2014 and completed a $13bn merger with IHS in 2016
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