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 April.
Publication of the 2021 league table was on 21 February 2021.
International Track 200 entry criteria
Publication of the 2021 league table was 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
Watch highlights from our 22nd Sunday Times #BDOProfitTrack100 awards, held yesterday as a virtual event, and read our news report. Matt Moulding of @thgplc joined @olivershah of @ST_Business for Q&A, and Debbie Bestwick MBE of @Team17, gave a keynote. @djbteamsters
Congratulations to @Direct_HG, winner of the Fastest-growing company award, presented by Paul Eagland of @bdoaccountant at our #BDOProfitTrack100 virtual event
Congratulations to @VernacareOffice, winner of the Excellence in manufacturing award, presented by @olivershah of @ST_Business at our #ProfitTrack100 virtual event
Congratulations to @euautomation, winner of the International growth award, presented by Tim Hinton of @santanderuk at our #ProfitTrack100 virtual event
Congratulations to @AcornInsurance, winner of the Value creation award, presented by Giles Nicholas of @UBS at our #ProfitTrack100 virtual event
Congratulations to @WirelessCCTV, winner of the Ones to Watch award, presented by Stuart Lisle of @bdoaccountant at our #BDOProfitTrack100 virtual event
“I’m the only female founder-CEO of a listed co in the entire games industry globally – that’s scary – which means I can’t mess it up” – @djbteamsters, founder of Team17, speaking at our #BDOProfitTrack100 awards. She floated it in 2018 at £217m and it has since topped £1bn
“I’m the only female founder-CEO of a listed co in the entire games industry globally – that’s scary – which means I can’t mess it up” – Debbie Bestwick MBE, founder of @Team17, speaking at our #BDOProfitTrack100 awards. She floated it in 2018 at £217m & it has since topped £1bn
“We’ve probably taken on 4,000–5,000 staff since the first lockdown, and a good number have never been to an office” – Matt Moulding, founder, CEO & chair of @thgplc, the global tech platform, in Q&A with @olivershah of @ST_Business at our #BDOProfitTrack100 awards today.
“A huge congratulations to everyone on the list this year” – Paul Eagland, of our title sponsor @bdoaccountant, welcomed 200 guests, incl. founders & directors of Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits, to our 22nd #BDOProfitTrack100 virtual awards today.
Types of company
Total sales
£25m - £200mInt’l sales
£1m - £100mAverage 2 year int’l sales growth
20% - 250% paStaff
50 - 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 on seven consecutive occasions, from 2014 to 2020, with international sales of £113m; it floated in 2020, valued at £5.4bn
Featured in 2013 with international sales of £100m; it floated in January at a valuation of £3.7bn
Featured with international sales of £314m; floated in 2014 and completed a $13bn merger with IHS in 2016
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