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.
Publication of the 2021 league table is on 21 February 2021.
International Track 200 entry criteria
Publication of the 2021 league table is 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
.@Immunocore, the biotech firm working on treatments for eye cancer, is planning to raise $100m with an IPO on New York’s @Nasdaq exchange. An alumnus of our #SageTechTrack100, the Oxfordshire firm is led by Bahija Jallal (pictured), formerly at @AstraZeneca.
#entrepreneurs
@JoinMultiverse, co-founded and led by Euan Blair, has raised $44m in the largest round for a UK edtech startup, (and has changed its name from WhiteHat). Founded in 2016, the winner of our 10 Fast Track Ones to Watch in 2019 is now valued at $200m. https://t.co/er6gTJWE3K
@JoinMultiverse, co-founded and led by Euan Blair, has raised $44m in the largest round for a UK edtech startup, (and has changed its name from WhiteHat). Founded in 2016, the winner of our 10 Fast Track Ones to Watch in 2019 is now valued at $200m. https://t.co/er6gTJWE3K
@INEOS has given £100m to @UniofOxford to fight antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The donation from the chemicals manufacturer, which tops our #HSBCTopTrack100 league table of Britain’s biggest private companies, will be used to set up an antibiotics research institute.
.@pastaevangelist, the pasta-kit subscription service, is being acquired by Italy’s @Barilla for about £40m. It featured on our #VirginAtlanticFastTrack100 10 Ones to Watch last month, is led by MD Alessandro Savelli, backed by @PrueLeith @gilescoren @WilliamSitwell @Pembroke_VCT
@Checkout has hit a $15bn valuation, making our #SageTechTrack100 alumnus Europe’s most valuable venture-backed company. Founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz is speaking at our virtual founders & shareholders roundtable on 16 March, sponsored by @Barclays Private Bank.
Dr Martens announces plans for a £3bn float on the London Stock Exchange. An alumnus of our #BDOProfitTrack100, the iconic boot brand is led by CEO Kenny Wilson, who gave a compelling keynote at our Profit Track virtual awards event in October. @BDOaccountant @santanderuk @ubs
Our #VirginAtlanticFastTrack100 alumnus @moonpig reportedly targeting £1bn+ valuation in one of the first IPOs of the year. The online greeting cards firm made sales of £173m and ebitda of £44m last year. https://t.co/b3tgOYmoHr
Congrats to 16 entrepreneurs, directors + employees of our alumni companies recognised in the New Year’s honours. Irene Hays, chair of #PwCTopTrack250 alumnus @HaysTravel (pictured), and Jo da Silva, structural engineer at #TopTrack100 stalwart @ArupGroup, both become dames.
Tackling the challenges of COVID-19 head on: Luke Benton, Owner and MD of @mnbprecision, number 30 on this years' @ST_FastTrack, told us how they've had to react and diversify to maintain growth: https://t.co/P1OrQgXR0e #fasttrack100 https://t.co/SpqdX8rcCl
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, which hit £239m in 2019 on total sales of £388m
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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