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 dinner in April.
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 6 November 2020, with publication on 14 February 2021.
International Track 200 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2021 league table is 6 November 2020, with publication on 14 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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Retirement house builder @McCarthyStone, has offered the UK government 300 apartments to use for older people recovering from coronavirus, or NHS key workers who need to stay close to hospitals #floated @GrantThorntonUK #TopTrack250 https://t.co/aTsYP8RCFw
.@Dyson is making at least 10,000 medical ventilators to help the NHS fight coronavirus, with founder Sir James Dyson saying: “the race is on to get it into production.” @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100 https://t.co/zpIms2rEUq
.@Revolut launched in America yesterday. Co-founder Nik Storonsky said “now more than ever, people need to know exactly what is coming in and out of their account.” The digital banking app was valued at $5.5bn in Feb @HiscoxUK #TechTrack100
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.@INEOS is building a new hand sanitiser plant near Middlesborough. It will make a million bottles per month to help the NHS fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the firm is also planning to build another hand sanitiser plant in Germany @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100
.@BrewDog is doing its bit to help with the coronavirus crisis. The brewer is producing Brewgel ‘punk sanitiser’ which it plans to give away for free to charities and community groups from next week @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100
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Many thanks to our #ProfitTrack100 sponsor @UBS for co-hosting our networking dinner in London last night. 14 owners & shareholders – from 14 of Britain’s companies with the fastest-growing profits – swapped stories, insights and future plans. https://t.co/n2OANAiHW1
Tonight, Gordon Sanghera, co-founder and chief executive of DNA analysis company Oxford Nanopore Technologies will share his growth story with fellow owners & shareholders at our @UBS #ProfitTrack100 alumni networking dinner in London @nanopore https://t.co/4T8GQbDDF4
Thanks to our #IntTrack200 sponsor @HSBCUKBusiness for co-hosting our alumni roundtable lunch for women in London last night. Founders & senior directors, from 11 of Britain’s leading mid-market exporters, discussed challenges and opportunities. Here’s our blog about the event:
Many thanks to our #ProfitTrack100 sponsor @UBS for co-hosting our networking dinner in London last night. 17 owners & shareholders – from 16 of Britain’s companies with the fastest-growing profits – swapped stories and insights. Here’s our blog about the event:
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 £2.8bn in 2019 and employs 35,000 people
Featured with international sales of £314m; floated in 2014 and completed a $13bn merger with IHS in 2016
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