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
Congratulations to the largest employer on 2019’s @ST_Business @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100 league table – Worcestershire-based contract caterer @aspens_catering, which employs 2,172 and was ranked at No. 88 https://t.co/7leIvRQgWs
Congratulations to Britain’s 10 fastest-growing private companies founded or co-founded by women: @MissomaLondon, @OoniHQ, @ChildsFarm, @Warnersign, @ohpolly, @Bluefintrading, Strathberry, @SleekEvents_, @Cultbeauty, and @Grenadeofficial https://t.co/FCWvKIkRH2
Still room for improvement but there are a record 28 female founders, co-founders, or chief executives running 26 businesses on this year’s #FastTrack100 league table, the highest number in 23 years @ST_Business @VirginAtlantic
Is your firm growing profits fast enough for a place on the 2020 @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100? Nominate yourself here:
Congratulations to @BrewDog on their record eighth consecutive appearance on our #FastTrack100 at No. 57 this year. The league table ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing sales @BrewDogJames @MartinDickie https://t.co/2QLIM3810X
Many of the companies on the @ST_FastTrack list are founded by serial entrepreneurs who have previously set up successful companies – which got @richardbranson thinking about what makes a serial entrepreneur:
What are your thoughts? https://t.co/VAGLLLuXjj https://t.co/nOLEWctAdu
Stars of the @ST_Business @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 include @MerlinEvents, @endava, and @Petsathome. Nominations are now open for the 2020 #ProfitTrack100 league table:
Entrepreneurs are the ones driving innovation, chasing improvements and challenging the norm. There are so many inspiring examples of this on the Fast Track 100 league table https://t.co/XcPFy0o3sJ @ST_FastTrack https://t.co/3xqobO3tZy
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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