The Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each October, with an awards event in November, and alumni dinners during the year.
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 24 July, with publication on 4 October.
Top Track 250 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 24 July, with publication on 4 October.
Sales £120m – £700m
- 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 £110m and £700m
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
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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
Types of company
Total sales
£120m - £700mProfits
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
Featured with sales of £685m. Floated in 2019 and now valued at £903m
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 £9.4bn
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