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 17 July, with publication on 27 September.
Top Track 250 entry criteria
The closing date for nominations for the 2020 league table is 17 July, with publication on 27 September.
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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Retirement house builder @McCarthyStone, has offered the UK government 300 apartments to use for older people recovering from coronavirus, or NHS key workers who need to stay close to hospitals #floated @GrantThorntonUK #TopTrack250 https://t.co/aTsYP8RCFw
.@Dyson is making at least 10,000 medical ventilators to help the NHS fight coronavirus, with founder Sir James Dyson saying: “the race is on to get it into production.” @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100 https://t.co/zpIms2rEUq
.@Revolut launched in America yesterday. Co-founder Nik Storonsky said “now more than ever, people need to know exactly what is coming in and out of their account.” The digital banking app was valued at $5.5bn in Feb @HiscoxUK #TechTrack100
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.@INEOS is building a new hand sanitiser plant near Middlesborough. It will make a million bottles per month to help the NHS fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the firm is also planning to build another hand sanitiser plant in Germany @HSBCUKBusiness #TopTrack100
.@BrewDog is doing its bit to help with the coronavirus crisis. The brewer is producing Brewgel ‘punk sanitiser’ which it plans to give away for free to charities and community groups from next week @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100
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Many thanks to our #ProfitTrack100 sponsor @UBS for co-hosting our networking dinner in London last night. 14 owners & shareholders – from 14 of Britain’s companies with the fastest-growing profits – swapped stories, insights and future plans. https://t.co/n2OANAiHW1
Tonight, Gordon Sanghera, co-founder and chief executive of DNA analysis company Oxford Nanopore Technologies will share his growth story with fellow owners & shareholders at our @UBS #ProfitTrack100 alumni networking dinner in London @nanopore https://t.co/4T8GQbDDF4
Thanks to our #IntTrack200 sponsor @HSBCUKBusiness for co-hosting our alumni roundtable lunch for women in London last night. Founders & senior directors, from 11 of Britain’s leading mid-market exporters, discussed challenges and opportunities. Here’s our blog about the event:
Many thanks to our #ProfitTrack100 sponsor @UBS for co-hosting our networking dinner in London last night. 17 owners & shareholders – from 16 of Britain’s companies with the fastest-growing profits – swapped stories and insights. Here’s our blog about the event:
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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