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
#TopTrack100 stalwart @ArupGroup partners with @Amey to secure £45m JV #design contract for the £1bn A66 Trans-Pennines @HighwaysEngland project to link communities across the North of England https://t.co/cxRpfe2cbE @HSBCUKBusiness #northernpowerhouse
Today's ST Business: Jaguar pleads for rescue, Britain "at risk of five-year jobs hell", luxury brands left tattered, US start-ups may get Treasury cash, tycoon warns Lloyds of "existential threat", watchdog urged to bite brokers and new media's old crisis https://t.co/P2hpVR4eha
Female #entrepreneurs are among the record number of women featuring on @thesundaytimes #RichList2020. A third of the 150 female entrants are founders, directors or shareholders of Fast Track alumni, with a combined wealth of £27bn https://t.co/oCTx6mSHLR https://t.co/SLS8ZqY9fb
What connects @ST_FastTrack with the #RichList2020? Almost half the 1,000 entries listed on #RichList2020 are founders, directors or shareholders of our companies. Female #entrepreneurs are among the record number of women. Discover more on our blog: https://t.co/fnop2GXEsn
@CharlotteTilburyBeauty, which has featured twice on our @ST_Business @HSBCUKBusiness #IntTrack200, as well as our #FastTrack100, is reportedly preparing for a £1bn sale as it plans further expansion. https://t.co/AL9V3hcNVX
Congratulations to our alumni @NikolayStoronsky of @Revolut; @TimBlomfield of @Monzo; @BenFrancis of @Gymshark; @DebbieBestwick of @Team17; and @SukhinderSingh and @RaibirSingh of @SpecialityDrinks on making their @TheSundayTimes #RichList debut https://t.co/FdMn8IA00X
Sir James Dyson – founder of our @HSBC #TopTrack100 stalwart @Dyson – is the UK’s wealthiest individual according to @TheSundayTimes #RichList2020, with an estimated fortune of £16.2bn. https://t.co/yZAFgIjQSx
Nominations are open for our 20th annual #TechTrack100 #Covid19 league table, published with @thesundaytimes on 6th September. You’ll be in good company. Our star alumni include @JustEat, @Sophos and @Zoopla. https://t.co/UGq0ST9xBz https://t.co/arvjUKn6zR
Cambridge fraud analytics software firm @FeaturespaceLtd, led by CEO Martina King, has raised £30m from investors to fuel its continued growth #TechTrack100 https://t.co/ufjMe8XpHn
#TechTrack100 alumnus @Darktrace is primed for an #IPO in 2021 with reports that #Covid19 has delayed but not derailed its plans to go public. The #unicorn, reportedly valued at over $2bn, has seen interest in its #cybersecurity #software surge https://t.co/VGFAMPipZb https://t.co/F4XRDLY9AV
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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