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
Congratulations to the largest employer on 2019’s @ST_Business @VirginAtlantic #FastTrack100 league table – Worcestershire-based contract caterer @aspens_catering, which employs 2,172 and was ranked at No. 88 https://t.co/7leIvRQgWs
Congratulations to Britain’s 10 fastest-growing private companies founded or co-founded by women: @MissomaLondon, @OoniHQ, @ChildsFarm, @Warnersign, @ohpolly, @Bluefintrading, Strathberry, @SleekEvents_, @Cultbeauty, and @Grenadeofficial https://t.co/FCWvKIkRH2
Still room for improvement but there are a record 28 female founders, co-founders, or chief executives running 26 businesses on this year’s #FastTrack100 league table, the highest number in 23 years @ST_Business @VirginAtlantic
Is your firm growing profits fast enough for a place on the 2020 @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100? Nominate yourself here:
Congratulations to @BrewDog on their record eighth consecutive appearance on our #FastTrack100 at No. 57 this year. The league table ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing sales @BrewDogJames @MartinDickie https://t.co/2QLIM3810X
Many of the companies on the @ST_FastTrack list are founded by serial entrepreneurs who have previously set up successful companies – which got @richardbranson thinking about what makes a serial entrepreneur:
What are your thoughts? https://t.co/VAGLLLuXjj https://t.co/nOLEWctAdu
Stars of the @ST_Business @BDOaccountant #ProfitTrack100 include @MerlinEvents, @endava, and @Petsathome. Nominations are now open for the 2020 #ProfitTrack100 league table:
Entrepreneurs are the ones driving innovation, chasing improvements and challenging the norm. There are so many inspiring examples of this on the Fast Track 100 league table https://t.co/XcPFy0o3sJ @ST_FastTrack https://t.co/3xqobO3tZy
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 £710m
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 £8bn
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