Top Track 250

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