The Sunday Times PwC Top Track 250 league table ranks Britain’s leading mid-market private companies with the biggest sales. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, with an awards event in November, and alumni dinners during the year.
The closing date for nominations for the 2021 league table is 16 July, with publication on 3 October.
Top Track 250 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2021 league table is 16 July, with publication on 3 October.
Sales £100m – £750m
- UK registered, unquoted, and not subsidiaries
- Sales are taken as total turnover, net of VAT
- Sales in the latest year must have grown by 5% or more for companies with the highest sales, graduated to 10% for those with lower sales; or profit growth must have been 5% or more
- Companies must also have operating profit margins that exceed 2%
- Trading weeks in the latest year have to exceed 25
- Companies may have their ultimate holding company offshore
- Sales are typically between £100m and £750m
Exclusions
- Companies that are equal joint ventures, or majority-owned by quoted or other companies
- Companies with the majority of sales generated by their quoted subsidiaries
- Companies with fewer than 50 staff
- Not-for-profit companies, 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
Dale Vince, founder of our #PwCTopTrack250 alumnus @ecotricity, to develop carbon-negative, lab-grown diamonds at a “sky mining facility” in Gloucestershire, using wind and solar energy, to produce up to 1,000 carats a month of the zero-impact diamonds. https://t.co/B4s972c6kS https://t.co/DaBnYpFn7d
@GeniusSports strikes $1.5bn deal to go public on the @NYSE by merging with a US-listed shell company. Our #SageTechTrack100 alumnus supplies live data to bookies and helps organisations including the @premierleague identify suspicious betting activity. https://t.co/zQygSOlya2
“It’s been the biggest challenge in our 75-year history,” Lord Bamford – chairman of #HSBCTopTrack100 alumnus @JCBmachines – discusses the impact of the pandemic and reveals his best business decision https://t.co/3VWL2V8GFT
@TheEGGroup gears up for potential £10bn float next year. Our #HSBCTopTrack100 alumnus operates one of the world’s largest petrol station empires, with 6,000 sites and 44,000 employees across 10 countries. https://t.co/gbpez0X9cr
“By 2030 about 40% of our profits will come from outside retail,” Dame Sharon White, chairman @jlandpartners, tells @BBCNews about her plans to diversify the #HSBCTopTrack100 stalwart into property and financial services. https://t.co/MinbHBHebK https://t.co/sDjo5ceR1s
Watch highlights from our #BDOProfitTrack awards and read our news report. @BenFrancis1992 – co-founder @Gymshark & Kenny Wilson – CEO @drmartens shared insights and joined @olivershah @ST_Business for Q&A. @bdoaccountant @santanderuk @UBS https://t.co/9ehe84d2JF https://t.co/QDVlqylCrR
Congratulations to @Gymshark, winner of the Fastest-growing profits award, presented by Stuart Lisle of @bdoaccountant at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @BenFrancis1992
Congratulations to @BromptonBicycle, winner of the Best brand award, presented by @olivershah of @thesundaytimes at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @Will_Brompton
Congratulations to @invenio_sap, winner of the International growth award, presented by Tim Hinton of @santanderuk at our #ProfitTrack virtual event
Congratulations to @Gymshark, winner of the Value creation award, presented by Giles Nicholas of @UBS at our #ProfitTrack virtual event @BenFrancis1992
Types of company
Total sales
£100m - £750mProfits
up to £100mSales/profit growth
min 5% annualStaff
50 - 5,000Huge PR value, creating genuine interest, advisors and suppliers Matt Moulding, founder & CEO, The Hut Group
The Top Track 250 award is a 'feather in the cap' for our company Bharat Shah, co-founder & MD, Sigma Pharmaceuticals
Meeting really interesting people and talking about challenges and successes is always stimulating Kim Coles, FD, Lush
Great to be recognised and associated with such strong brands Kim Zaheer, CFO, Dreams
A great opportunity to celebrate success and learn from like-minded business leaders Simon Arora, chief executive, B&M Retail
Alumni success stories
First featured with sales of £256m. Floated in 2014 at valuation of £3.4bn
First featured with sales of £305m; floated in 2014 and completed a $13bn merger with IHS in 2016
First featured with sales of £143m. Floated in 2010 and now valued at £21bn
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