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
.@Immunocore, the biotech firm working on treatments for eye cancer, is planning to raise $100m with an IPO on New York’s @Nasdaq exchange. An alumnus of our #SageTechTrack100, the Oxfordshire firm is led by Bahija Jallal (pictured), formerly at @AstraZeneca.
#entrepreneurs
@JoinMultiverse, co-founded and led by Euan Blair, has raised $44m in the largest round for a UK edtech startup, (and has changed its name from WhiteHat). Founded in 2016, the winner of our 10 Fast Track Ones to Watch in 2019 is now valued at $200m. https://t.co/er6gTJWE3K
@JoinMultiverse, co-founded and led by Euan Blair, has raised $44m in the largest round for a UK edtech startup, (and has changed its name from WhiteHat). Founded in 2016, the winner of our 10 Fast Track Ones to Watch in 2019 is now valued at $200m. https://t.co/er6gTJWE3K
@INEOS has given £100m to @UniofOxford to fight antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The donation from the chemicals manufacturer, which tops our #HSBCTopTrack100 league table of Britain’s biggest private companies, will be used to set up an antibiotics research institute.
.@pastaevangelist, the pasta-kit subscription service, is being acquired by Italy’s @Barilla for about £40m. It featured on our #VirginAtlanticFastTrack100 10 Ones to Watch last month, is led by MD Alessandro Savelli, backed by @PrueLeith @gilescoren @WilliamSitwell @Pembroke_VCT
@Checkout has hit a $15bn valuation, making our #SageTechTrack100 alumnus Europe’s most valuable venture-backed company. Founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz is speaking at our virtual founders & shareholders roundtable on 16 March, sponsored by @Barclays Private Bank.
Dr Martens announces plans for a £3bn float on the London Stock Exchange. An alumnus of our #BDOProfitTrack100, the iconic boot brand is led by CEO Kenny Wilson, who gave a compelling keynote at our Profit Track virtual awards event in October. @BDOaccountant @santanderuk @ubs
Our #VirginAtlanticFastTrack100 alumnus @moonpig reportedly targeting £1bn+ valuation in one of the first IPOs of the year. The online greeting cards firm made sales of £173m and ebitda of £44m last year. https://t.co/b3tgOYmoHr
Congrats to 16 entrepreneurs, directors + employees of our alumni companies recognised in the New Year’s honours. Irene Hays, chair of #PwCTopTrack250 alumnus @HaysTravel (pictured), and Jo da Silva, structural engineer at #TopTrack100 stalwart @ArupGroup, both become dames.
Tackling the challenges of COVID-19 head on: Luke Benton, Owner and MD of @mnbprecision, number 30 on this years' @ST_FastTrack, told us how they've had to react and diversify to maintain growth: https://t.co/P1OrQgXR0e #fasttrack100 https://t.co/SpqdX8rcCl
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
We appreciate the recognition and look forward to climbing the league table Andrew Hodgson, CEO, Beck & Pollitzer
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, CEO, 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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