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
Thanks to @UBS for supporting #ProfitTrack100 for 18 years, celebrating the UK’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits
Many thanks to @SantanderUK for supporting #ProfitTrack100 for a second year, recognising the private companies with the fastest-growing profits
Our thanks to @BDOaccountant for supporting #ProfitTrack100 for 7 years, recognising the UK’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits
Past @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 companies include @krispykremeUK, @moneycouk and @wagamama_uk. Help us find 2020’s profit stars:
UK tech start-ups raised a record £10.1bn from investors in 2019, growing faster than the US & China. #TechTrack100 star @Checkout raised $230m in May, while @monzo @babylonhealth & @CMRSurgical raised substantial sums & are now unicorns valued at $1bn+
From services and construction, to retail and wholesale, we’re hunting for 2020’s @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 companies
.@TheTimes’ Tempus column says “@Ocado will deliver for investors”, in an insightful piece highlighting the success of @OcadoSolutions – its AI-driven logistics business, which is partnering with major supermarkets worldwide #TechTrack100 #TopTrack250
https://t.co/YzpBekqemG
2019’s @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 league table companies achieved profit growth of 78% a year over their last three years of accounts, to a total of £840m in 2017/18. We’re seeking 2020’s stars:
.@BrewDog opens alcohol-free bar in London offering 15 taps of non-alcoholic craft beer on draught @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100 @BrewDogJames @MartinDickie https://t.co/VS9T9JkOjA
“We are striving to be the Nike or Adidas of the reusable world” James Butterfield and Tim Bouscarle, founders of @ST_Business #FastTrack100 No. 1 company @Chillysbottles, on how they’re saving the planet one bottle at a time @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100 https://t.co/vTegKF5EFk
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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