The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the biggest sales. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each July, with a series of associated dinners in the autumn.
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 29 May 2020, with publication on 5 July 2020.
Top Track 100 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 29 May 2020, with publication on 5 July 2020.
Sales £700m – £20bn
- UK registered, unquoted, and not subsidiaries
- Sales are taken as total turnover, net of VAT
- Companies are not required to be in profit
- Trading weeks in the latest year have to exceed 25
- Companies must have at least 100 staff (average full-time equivalents for the year)
- Bookmakers, betting and gaming companies should provide net revenue
- Companies may have their ultimate holding company offshore
- Sales are typically between £700m and £20bn
Exclusions
- Companies that are equal joint ventures, or majority-owned by quoted or other companies
- Pure trading companies and companies with fewer than 100 staff (average full-time equivalents for the year)
- Not-for-profit companies, including co-operative societies, mutual societies, provident associations, and member-owned buying groups
- 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
.@McLarenGroup has partnered with @unisouthampton to develop a personal respirator for frontline NHS staff battling coronavirus. The automotive manufacturer is also part of the Ventilator Challenge UK consortium alongside six other F1 teams
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@Grabyo has partnered with @Reuters to help the media work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. CEO Gareth Capon, said: “The demand for real time updates from trusted news sources is more important than ever right now.”@HiscoxUK #TechTrack100 #OTW https://t.co/YSFBocYyih
@BromptonBicycle has seen a rise in enquiries as Brits work from home. CEO Will Butler-Adams tells the @BBC in this piece on the sectors seeing growth amid the coronavirus lockdown: “People want to have independence." @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 https://t.co/zfzP3W7eg6
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
Types of company
Total sales
£700m - £27bnProfits
up to £2.5bnStaff
100 - 20,000Top Track 100 is a real kitemark of business excellence. Being part of it makes us all proud Sir Michael Bibby, managing director, Bibby Line Group
A first class example of how to support vibrant, growing businesses Tim Stone CBE, non-executive director, Arup
Opportunity to meet the best private companies in the UK Stefano Pessina, executive chairman, Alliance Boots
We’re very proud of the fact that we’re number 1 Sir Jim Ratcliffe, founder & chairman, INEOS
Excellent mix of very interesting people, motivating and inspiring every time Patrick Lewis, group finance director, John Lewis
Alumni success stories
First featured with sales of £1.1bn. Floated in 2014 valued at £1bn, and is now worth £3bn
First featured with sales of £713m. Floated in 2014 at valuation of £3.4bn
First featured with sales of £3.1bn. Floated in October 2015 at valuation of £6.2bn & was sold to US rival Vantiv in 2017 in £9.3bn deal
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