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.
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
Watch highlights from our Sunday Times #HSBCIntTrack200 awards, held yesterday, and read our news report. Lord O’Neill, economist & former HM Treasury minister, and @RosaleenBlair CBE, founder & chair of @WeAreAMS, gave keynotes and joined @olivershah of @thesundaytimes for Q&A.
Congratulations to @ExcelRedstone, winner of the Fastest-growing company award, presented by Jane Galvin of @HSBC_UK at our #HSBCIntTrack200 virtual event
Congratulations to Spectrum Medical, winner of the Excellence in manufacturing award, presented by @olivershah of @thesundaytimes at our #HSBCIntTrack200 virtual event
Congratulations to @HH_GLOBAL, winner of the Excellence in emerging markets award, presented by Ian Tandy of @HSBC_UK at our #HSBCIntTrack200 virtual event
Congratulations to @ohpolly, winner of the International e-commerce award, presented by Abi Brodie of @dhlexpressuk at our #IntTrack200 virtual event
Congratulations to Ian Macleod Distillers, winner of the Ones to Recognise award, presented by Ahmed Yeganeh of @HSBC_UK at our #HSBCIntTrack200 virtual event
Congrats to Ian Macleod Distillers, @HH_GLOBAL, Spectrum Medical, @ohpolly and @ExcelRedstone for winning awards at tonight's #HSBCIntTrack200
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“We’re seeing across every sector a pent-up demand to bring in new people,” – @RosaleenBlair CBE of @WeAreAMS at our #HSBCIntTrack200 virtual awards event. The talent acquisition specialist employs 5,000 across 100 countries, working for clients including @HSBC_UK & Rolls-Royce.
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it” – Lord O’Neill, the renowned economist on recovery post-pandemic, at our 12th annual #HSBCIntTrack200 interactive virtual awards event this afternoon, where he also spoke about profit with purpose.
“It’s fantastic to see so many brilliant UK businesses” – Jane Galvin, of @HSBC_UK, our title sponsor, welcomes 275 guests, including founders + senior directors running Britain’s mid-market private companies with the fastest-growing exports, to our #HSBCIntTrack200 awards event.
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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