2013 - Fast Track 100 League Table

What is the Fast Track 100 – 2013?
The Fast Track 100 league table ranked Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales in 2013 over their latest three years. To find out more about the research and to view all the league tables from 1997 to 2023 click here.

Sunday Times Fast Track 100 - Full 2013 Results

Rank	Company	Activity	Location	Year end	Annual sales rise over 3 years	Latest sales £000s	Staff	Comment
1	Anesco	Energy efficiency consultancy	Reading	Mar 13	267.16%	55,129	71	Has helped take more than 40,000 people out of fuel poverty
2	Mobile Account Solutions	Phone and tablet provider	Hertfordshire	Mar 13	254.06%	79,147	14	Has featured in the top 5 in the Fast Track 100 for the past three years
3	AlphaSights	Business information provider	Central London	Dec 12	229.25%	9,292	39	Says it completes 1,000 projects every month across more than 100 countries
4	Bishopsgate Financial	Management consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	228.72%	9,974	86	Working with charity to train former forces personnel who are interested in a City career
5	PGI	Business security provider	Central London	Dec 12	222.94%	60,856	87	Accounts for about half of all armed maritime escorts off east Africa
6	Gemporia	Home shopping jewellery retailer	Worcestershire	Mar 13	189.26%	83,666	370	Was No 1 in last year’s Fast Track 100 [* Latest sales]
7	The Cambridge Satchel Company	Traditional satchel maker	Cambridge	Jun 13	183.70%	12,853	96	A Google Chrome advertisement featuring the firm was seen by tens of millions worldwide [* Latest sales]
8	Worldwide Recruitment Solutions	Recruitment consultancy	Altrincham	Dec 12	178.27%	14,212	43	Has launched an iPhone app to post job ads and track candidates
9	Chartway Group	Housebuilder and contractor	Maidstone	May 13	173.87%	16,133	53	Founders started the business with £500,000 raised by remortgaging their homes
10	G2 Energy	Electrical and civil engineer	Buckinghamshire	Mar 13	163.29%	12,727	35	Has connected more than 135MW of renewable energy to the National Grid since 2006 [* Latest sales]
11	Graze.com	Online food retailer	Surrey	Feb 13	160.00%	40,198	95	Has insured the taste buds of its snack inventor for £3m
12	Land Engineering Services	Land restoration and mining	Wakefield	Mar 13	153.21%	9,077	47	Restored wasteland the size of London’s Regent’s Park in the past year [* Latest sales]
13	ERSG	Recruitment consultancy	Bromley	Sep 13	133.58%	16,247	26	Co-founder previously ran two other recruitment firms that featured in the Fast Track 100 [* Latest sales]
14	Mint Velvet	Ladies' clothing retailer	High Wycombe	Apr 13	132.94%	34,368	351	Is one of the top selling concessions on the John Lewis website [* Latest sales]
15	JVM Equipment	Industrial equipment supplier	West Sussex	Dec 12	124.68%	461,412	719	Sells and services industrial equipment through 35 depots across Russia
16	Naked Wines	Online wine retailer	Norwich	Dec 12	122.53%	34,867	67	Has raised £5m through a bond that will pay interest in wine
17	Direct Healthcare Services	Medical product supplier	Caerphilly	Mar 13	121.66%	5,251	43	With the NHS, it developed a mattress that brings in royalty revenues for the NHS trust [* Latest sales]
18	Morphsuits	Costume maker	East Lothian	May 13	119.52%	11,015	15	Created the world’s most expensive Hallowe’en costume, retailing at £1m [* Latest sales]
19	Tangle Teezer	Hair products supplier	South London	Mar 13	118.91%	8,527	13	One Tangle Teezer hairbrush is sold every eight seconds [* Latest sales]
20	Stormfront	Apple products reseller	Exeter	Sep 12	116.30%	40,140	185	Raised £500,000 from shareholders to help fund its expansion
21	Medstrom	NHS product supplier	Derbyshire	Dec 12	114.14%	8,700	85	Supplies products that use technology originally developed to transport dolphins [* Latest sales]
22	Hanson Wade	Conference provider	Central London	Dec 12	112.80%	6,299	73	Creates business events across five continents, with 80% of sales generated overseas
23	PureGym	Gym operator	Leeds	Feb 13	111.98%	30,636	107	Members who do not leave will never see an increase in their monthly membership cost
24	First Utility	Energy supplier	Warwick	Dec 12	104.77%	146,496	225	Has more than 200,000 gas and electricity customers
25	The Gym	Gym operator	Central London	Dec 12	104.32%	22,632	72	Founder was the British racketball champion in the 1980s
26	LION Trackhire	Temporary roadway provider	Nottinghamshire	Mar 13	98.43%	7,901	82	Provided temporary road so that 500 ton cranes could move across Olympic running track
27	Zigma Ground Solutions	Temporary roadway provider	Stansted	Mar 13	95.80%	7,858	10	All products are manufactured from 100% recycled materials
28	Hanson Regan	SAP recruitment consultancy	Southeast London	Jul 13	95.04%	11,376	20	Supplies SAP staff for clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa [* Latest sales]
29	High Finance	Insurance recruitment consultancy	Central London	Oct 12	91.89%	14,662	41	Runs a cricket league that comprises many of the City’s insurance companies
30	Actegy Health	Home healthcare devices	Ascot	Jun 12	91.84%	26,335	25	Cricketing legend Sir Ian Botham uses its circulation boosting medical device
31	Oliver James Associates	Recruitment consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	91.53%	46,658	92	Is making its fourth appearance in the Fast Track 100 league table
32	Entiér	Facilities services provider	Aberdeen	Sep 12	90.55%	25,524	98	Runs a competition for Aberdeen schoolchildren to win an apprenticeship at the firm
33	Cancer Partners UK	Cancer care provider	Hampshire	Jun 13	89.88%	17,027	74	Set up by cancer experts with ex-chief of World Health Organisation cancer programme [* Latest sales]
34	Specialty Powders	Food manufacturer	North Yorkshire	Dec 12	88.76%	27,321	100	Acquisitions added £7.6m to sales in 2012
35	Swansea City Football Club	Football club	Swansea	May 13	88.27%	67,113	208	First Welsh club to play in the English Premier League [* Latest sales]
36	Astute Technical Recruitment	Recruitment consultancy	Portsmouth	Mar 13	85.88%	6,316	19	Founder started career as an engineer in the Royal Navy Submarine Service
37	ConSol Partners	IT recruitment consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	83.82%	9,451	50	Is opening a new office in Los Angeles
38	BrewDog	Brewery	Aberdeenshire	Dec 12	81.53%	10,655	126	Once brewed the world’s strongest beer, The End of History, at 55% ABV
39	La Fosse Associates	Technology recruitment consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	81.01%	19,713	49	Clients include Deloitte, Burberry, Apple, Superdry and BP
40	Loaf	Furniture retailer	Central London	Mar 13	80.92%	7,792	38	Founder spent two years testing more than 200 mattresses to find the perfect product [* Latest sales]
41	Activ8 Distribution	Mobile accessories distributor	Watford	Jul 13	79.31%	10,993	43	Founder remortgaged his house six years ago to give the business an investment boost [* Latest sales]
42	Tandom Metallurgical Group	Metal processor	Cheshire	Aug 12	77.91%	44,037	54	Converts used drinks cans into material for new cars
43	Caffé Concerto	Restaurant operator	Central London	Aug 12	77.39%	10,404	191	Plans to open new restaurants outside London in 2014 [† Latest sales]
44	Uniting Ambition	Recruitment consultancy	Staffordshire	Jan 13	76.82%	7,027	39	Counts the likes of Virgin Money, the White Company and bet365 among its clients [* Latest sales]
45	The Consulting Consortium	Regulatory and compliance consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	74.70%	10,179	41	Founder set up firm after she finished an MBA and wanted to use her new skills
46	Love Shopping Direct	Lighting products supplier	Birmingham	Jun 13	74.00%	5,145	16	Founder used his redundancy pay to set up the company [* Latest sales]
47	Roc Search	ICT / engineering recruitment consultancy	Reading	Dec 12	73.72%	11,639	50	Opened two offices in Covent Garden and Frankfurt this year
48	Drake & Morgan	Bar and restaurant operator	Central London	Mar 13	73.70%	17,635	270	Its bars have a mixology area where you can learn to make your own cocktails
49	BathEmpire.com	Online bathroom retailer	Coventry	Dec 12	72.97%	13,768	76	Founders set up the business when they were just 24 years old
50	Language Connect	Translation services provider	Central London	Sep 13	72.15%	5,257	50	Says it translated 50m words into more than 100 languages last year [* Latest sales]
51	Oak Furniture Land	Furniture retailer	Swindon	Sep 12	71.46%	83,338	297	The founder designs most of the furniture himself
52	The Underfloor Heating Store	Underfloor heating systems retailer	Basildon	Mar 13	71.08%	6,575	17	Repeats of DIY SOS on television help to keep the company’s name in the public domain [* Latest sales]
53	Staysure.co.uk	Over-fifties insurance provider	Northampton	Dec 12	70.00%	14,933	165	Sales have grown fast as the over-fifties have maintained spending during the recession
54	Opus Recruitment Solutions	IT recruitment consultancy	Bristol	Dec 12	69.97%	9,300	35	Places candidates with niche skills, such as mobile app developers [* Latest sales]
55	Kinapse	Pharmaceutical regulations consultancy	Southwest London	Mar 13	69.77%	13,336	176	One of the co-founders trained as a surgeon before moving into consultancy [* Latest sales]
56	Cream	Media agency	Central London	Dec 12	69.63%	7,900	11	Found that a new outfit costs, on average, £323 for a woman to look “a million dollars”
57	Optimus Search	Recruitment consultancy	Central London	Dec 12	69.61%	5,929	12	Founded by brothers with only 22 months’ recruitment experience between them
58	Jamie’s Italian	Restaurant operator	Central London	Dec 12	69.09%	93,870	2,314	Has opened restaurants in Russia, Singapore, Turkey, Australia, Dubai and Ireland
59	Huntswood	Customer services provider	Reading	Sep 12	69.00%	137,299	1,457	Handles regulatory issues for banks, pension firms and insurance companies
60	Centek	Oilfield equipment manufacturer	Devon	Oct 12	67.09%	21,443	140	Makes equipment to keep oil and gas pipes centred in the hole
61	The Eventa Group	Events organiser	Brighton	Sep 13	66.09%	8,331	61	Sends staff on training trips to its top-selling event destinations [* Latest sales]
62	translate plus	Translation services provider	Central London	Aug 13	65.76%	5,829	86	Translates social media, apps and documents into more than 200 languages [* Latest sales]
63	Hôme	Marketing services provider	Leeds	Sep 12	65.64%	18,637	102	Founded by six friends in a small loft in Leeds
64	Trans Global Projects	Logistics services provider	Sevenoaks	Dec 12	65.37%	160,369	100	Transported a rock-crusher the size of an Olympic pool from China to Australia
65	eResponse Recruitment	Recruitment consultancy	Worcestershire	Sep 13	65.24%	11,935	40	Offers fully accredited training courses to all staff it places [* Latest sales]
66	Blue Group	Industrial machinery distributor	Warrington	Jan 13	64.24%	23,547	44	Has installed more than 140 waste recycling systems, tailored for its customers’ needs
67	Wilton & Bain	Recruitment consultancy	Central London	Jun 13	63.77%	7,715	36	Has worked with 56 of the Global Fortune 500 in more than 40 countries [* Latest sales]
68	Childrensalon	Childrenswear retailer	Tunbridge Wells	Dec 12	63.67%	13,186	71	Its 100 staff speak 25 languages among them, serving customers around the world
69	Lawtech	Insulation contractor	Rochester	Mar 13	62.75%	30,519	68	Set up in a bedroom with funding from one of the founders’ parents
70	Statesman Travel	Business travel agent	Central London	Dec 12	62.72%	7,464	120	Its customers have clocked up more than half a billion air miles in 2013
71	Original BTC	Lighting manufacturer	Oxfordshire	Oct 12	62.07%	6,075	38	Its lights graced Carrie Bradshaw’s New York apartment in TV series Sex and the City [* Latest sales]
72	Ed’s Easy Diner	Restaurant operator	Central London	Sep 13	62.01%	17,502	464	Runs 20 fast-food diners and five Shake Stands in locations such as Soho in London [* Latest sales]
73	Himalaya Carpets	Carpet retailer	West London	Jul 12	61.70%	8,430	20	Its Hounslow store stocks 1,000 different rugs
74	Norwich City Football Club	Football club	Norwich	Jun 13	60.67%	69,395	273	Directors include Delia Smith and Stephen Fry [† Latest sales]
75	FoundOcean	Offshore grouting specialist	Buckinghamshire	Dec 12	58.92%	18,277	97	Has created an artificial seabed to help with the recovery of the Costa Concordia
76	Nasco	Consumer goods distributor	West London	Dec 12	58.30%	15,023	37	Exports to more than 50 countries
77	Fever-Tree	Mixer drinks manufacturer	Southwest London	Dec 12	58.20%	16,592	12	Named after the source of quinine that is used to create tonic water
78	Be Wiser Insurance	Insurance broker	Andover	May 13	56.47%	21,563	395	Says it added 32,000 new customers last year
79	CNG	Commercial gas supplier	Harrogate	Apr 13	55.70%	157,199	64	Has more than 21,500 business customers
80	Marlin Financial Group	Debt purchaser	West Sussex	Dec 12	54.77%	42,791	113	The average size of the debt it recovers is about £4,000
81	Cartridge Save	Computer consumables reseller	Stockport	Dec 12	54.51%	19,736	50	98% of all deliveries arrive the next day [* Latest sales]
82	JDM Food Group	Food manufacturer	Lincolnshire	Dec 12	54.49%	24,617	142	Packs enough garlic annually to stretch from London to Madrid
83	Penfield	Clothing wholesaler and retailer	Central London	Dec 12	54.41%	9,689	25	More than 60% of sales come from outside the UK [* Latest sales]
84	Hallam Medical	Medical recruitment consultancy	Sheffield	Apr 13	54.40%	*8,025	28	Has worked with more than 1,000 primary care centres throughout the UK
85	Fideliti	Childcare voucher administrator	Warrington	Mar 13	53.43%	80,462	30	Founder had the idea for her childcare voucher business while on maternity leave
86	Nasa Umbrella	Payroll services provider	Bristol	Mar 13	53.00%	43,352	18	Employs temporary workers for the engineering, IT and education sectors
87	Precon Products	Construction products supplier	Suffolk	Jul 12	52.99%	11,842	12	Works with big contractors right through to people extending their homes
88	Rapha	Cycling apparel maker and retailer	North London	Jan 13	52.80%	16,903	140	Designs cycling kit for Sir Bradley Wiggins
89	Touchstone Retail	Fashion jewellery retailer	West London	Jan 13	52.60%	8,369	88	Has concessions in New Look and Superdrug
90	Igloo	Recruitment consultancy	Leicestershire	Mar 13	52.08%	26,236	45	The two founders have more than 40 years’ recruitment experience between them
91	Country Attire	Clothing retailer	Stockport	Aug 12	52.06%	6,905	34	Has shipped orders to exactly 100 countries in the past 12 months
92	Make It Cheaper	Business cost saving service	Central London	Mar 12	52.04%	12,162	143	Aiming to save Britain’s small and medium businesses £1bn by 2018
93	GSM London	Higher education provider	Southeast London	Sep 13	51.76%	23,617	233	Has educated more than 25,000 students to date [* Latest sales]
94	World of Books	Books and media entertainment reseller	West Sussex	Oct 13	51.30%	25,770	287	Buys unsold books in bulk, saving charity shops the disposal costs [* Latest sales]
95	Cubiquity	Design and print agency	South London	Jun 13	51.24%	6,428	23	Its MD’s first great sales success was winning television’s Blind Date show
96	SERS Energy Solutions	Energy services provider	Caerphilly	Dec 12	51.18%	26,201	92	Has covered more than 2m square metres of walls with external insulation
97	Pearmain Pubs	Pub and restaurant operator	Guildford	Dec 12	50.53%	7,770	150	Founders previously built a restaurant chain and sold it for £14m in 2000
98	TopCashback	Cashback website operator	Staffordshire	Jan 13	50.35%	30,840	44	Says it adds 60,000 new users and pays over £3m cashback to its members each month
99	ID Medical	Recruitment consultancy	Milton Keynes	Dec 12	49.83%	62,505	198	The number of candidates who have registered with the firm would fill Wembley stadium
100	Baltic Training	Training services provider	County Durham	Jul 13	49.64%	5,753	77	Started out as a provider of drivers for the logistics sector [* Latest sales]

* Supplied by Company † Annualised figure

Data Source: www.fasttrack.co.uk

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