2019 - Fast Track 100 League Table
What is the Fast Track 100 – 2019?
The Fast Track 100 league table ranked Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales in 2019 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 2019 Results
| Rank | Company | Activity | Location | Year end | Annual sales rise over 3 years | Latest sales £000s | Staff | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chilly’s Bottles | Reusable bottle brand | Central London | Jul-19 | 284.01% | 31,471 | 15 | Name inspired by how the bottles can keep drinks cold and chilly, or hot like a chilli pepper [* Latest sales] |
| 2 | Junkyard Golf Club | Mini golf course operator | Manchester | Mar-19 | 204.21% | 12,841 | 230 | Giant bears, fairground rides and scrapped cars all feature on its crazy golf courses [* Latest sales] |
| 3 | Curve | Workplace design and construction | Berkshire | Sep-19 | 186.16% | 9,241 | 16 | Designed an office with a star-shaped entrance and a racetrack carpet for children's charity Make-A-Wish [* Latest sales] |
| 4 | Performance54 | Golf marketing agency | Surrey | Apr-19 | 181.13% | 6,190 | 16 | The number '54' represents the perfect round of golf; 18 birdies [* Latest sales] |
| 5 | Xpress Centres | Car repair services | Banbury | Jul-19 | 178.24% | 5,633 | 65 | Carries out 15,000 bodywork repairs per year in supermarket car parks [* Latest sales] |
| 6 | Missoma | Online jewellery brand | West London | Mar-19 | 165.91% | 11,991 | 43 | The brand is popular among younger royals including the Duchess of Sussex [* Latest sales] |
| 7 | Ooni | Pizza oven manufacturer | Edinburgh | Dec-18 | 148.13% | 9,987 | 28 | Says its Koda oven can reach a temperature of 500 degrees celsius and cook a pizza in 60 seconds [* Latest sales] |
| 8 | Evergen Group | Solar panel installer | Maidenhead | May-19 | 142.97% | 9,299 | 25 | Installed a CityTree, an anti-pollution device equivalent to 275 trees, at Piccadilly Circus [* Latest sales] |
| 9 | Childs Farm | Children's toiletries maker | Hampshire | Dec-18 | 142.72% | 12,818 | 28 | Its products are now available in more than 7,500 stores nationwide and launched in New Zealand this August |
| 10 | Gymshark | Fitness clothing retailer | Solihull | Jul-19 | 141.26% | 179,546 | 300 | Has launched a “try now, pay later” service in the UK and Scandinavia [* Latest sales] |
| 11 | One Retail Group | Consumer products retailer | Northwest London | Dec-18 | 136.64% | 25,420 | 11 | Founder Joshua Stevens learned Mandarin during his commute to negotiate better with suppliers |
| 12 | Warner’s Distillery | Gin distillery | Northamptonshire | Dec-18 | 131.13% | 10,859 | 34 | Claims to have started the recent pink gin craze when it created its rhubarb gin [* Latest sales] |
| 13 | Oh Polly | Online fashion retailer | Glasgow | Apr-19 | 124.07% | 21,380 | 168 | Founders Claire Henderson and Mike Branney met while they were studying aeronautical engineering [* Latest sales] |
| 14 | Prodigi Group | Digital printing | Cardiff | Mar-19 | 123.55% | 17,861 | 80 | A live snake once accidentally found its way into one of its deliveries |
| 15 | Bluefin Trading | Sports equipment supplier | West Yorkshire | Dec-18 | 121.81% | 6,672 | 10 | This firm’s HQ is a farm in the West Yorkshire Pennines, 1,200ft above sea level [†* Latest sales] |
| 16 | Strathberry | Luxury handbag designer | Edinburgh | Apr-19 | 118.07% | 11,825 | 40 | Founders met at a wedding, got married and started a business together [* Latest sales] |
| 17 | Missy Empire | Online fashion retailer | Manchester | Mar-19 | 115.30% | 13,864 | 45 | Has clothing collaborations with reality TV stars from Made in Chelsea and Love Island [* Latest sales] |
| 18 | Brisant Secure | Lock and hinge manufacturer | West Yorkshire | Dec-18 | 111.27% | 8,783 | 40 | A harrowing burglary experience prompted the creation of the firm’s Ultion door lock [* Latest sales] |
| 19 | Sleek Events | Events agency | Southwest London | Jul-19 | 110.00% | 7,676 | 10 | Founder and first employee worked out of her kitchen for first two years after company was set up [* Latest sales] |
| 20 | CField Construction | Construction contractor | Central London | Dec-18 | 98.66% | 67,545 | 55 | Has commenced work on the conversion of a grade II listed Cornish jail into a luxury hotel |
| 21 | Otto Car | Car-hire provider | West London | Mar-19 | 97.08% | 12,078 | 50 | Expanded its fleet of hire cars from one to 2,000 in four years [* Latest sales] |
| 22 | Boxpark | Retail and leisure developer | Brighton | Apr-19 | 96.02% | 12,800 | 110 | Grime artist Stormzy launched his 2017 album Gang Signs & Prayer at Boxpark Croydon [* Latest sales] |
| 23 | Improveasy | Energy efficiency consultancy | Manchester | Mar-19 | 95.96% | 11,928 | 23 | Says it has contracts with five of the Big Six energy companies [* Latest sales] |
| 24 | Candour Logistics | Logistics services provider | Warrington | Mar-19 | 93.07% | 56,437 | 17 | Ships goods ranging from dog toys to timber across the world [* Latest sales] |
| 25 | Northern Gas and Power | Energy management consultancy | Gateshead | Dec-18 | 92.85% | 29,616 | 285 | Offers staff an annual holiday in Majorca and December off if they meet targets |
| 26 | Vashi | Diamond jewellery retailer | Central London | Dec-18 | 90.95% | 20,666 | 55 | Customers can customise, forge, set and engrave their own diamond rings at its workshops |
| 27 | Lusso Stone | Luxury bathroom retailer | Middlesbrough | Sep-19 | 89.70% | 12,563 | 12 | Its baths, sinks and showers can be found in high-end hotels such as Claridge’s in Mayfair [* Latest sales] |
| 28 | Cult Beauty | Online beauty retailer | Central London | May-19 | 86.95% | 89,000 | 140 | Launched a female sexual pleasure and wellness range to celebrate International Women’s Day [* Latest sales] |
| 29 | Tarquin’s Cornish Gin | Gin distillery | Cornwall | Mar-19 | 85.30% | 5,103 | 27 | Founder Tarquin Leadbetter started making gin on his home cooker aged 23 [* Latest sales] |
| 30 | Velocity Commerce | Online marketplace specialist | Cambridge | Dec-18 | 83.87% | 16,744 | 26 | Also designs digital radios that it names after Cambridge colleges [* Latest sales] |
| 31 | Super 8 Restaurants | Restaurant group | East London | Jul-19 | 83.19% | 7,214 | 114 | Its Kiln restaurant, in London’s Soho, focuses on clay-baked Thai dishes [* Latest sales] |
| 32 | Stiltz Lifts | Home lift manufacturer | West Midlands | Dec-18 | 81.66% | 18,991 | 162 | Its Trio lift can fit three people or a wheelchair and is designed for installation in private homes |
| 33 | Halal | Specialist online travel agency | Reading | Dec-18 | 81.13% | 17,632 | 49 | This year, over 100,000 holidaymakers stayed in accommodation booked on this company's website [* Latest sales] |
| 34 | Midstream Lighting | Specialist lighting manufacturer | Southwest London | Jan-19 | 78.24% | 5,044 | 14 | Its floodlights are used at more than 100 international airports, including Gatwick, Istanbul and Bangalore |
| 35 | Revolution Beauty | Beauty products retailer | Kent | Dec-18 | 76.66% | 112,621 | 180 | Following its launch in Australia, fans queued up for hours to buy its new beauty products |
| 36 | AerFin | Aircraft and spares services | Caerphilly | Dec-18 | 76.54% | 84,365 | 101 | Opened a new aircraft parts storage and distribution centre in Atlanta this April to expand its US presence |
| 37 | Real Wrap Co. | Food-to-go manufacturer | Bristol | Mar-19 | 76.53% | 9,077 | 171 | Produces over 13m sandwiches and meals each year across the UK [* Latest sales] |
| 38 | Eden Mill | Distillery and brewery | St Andrews | Mar-19 | 74.20% | 7,773 | 51 | First single malt whisky sold for a world record price of £7,100 for a first release [* Latest sales] |
| 39 | Grenade | Sports nutrition brand | Solihull | Dec-18 | 72.78% | 44,169 | 48 | Says its Carb Killa protein bars are the UK’s second bestselling chocolate bar [* Latest sales] |
| 40 | Phoenix Cellular | Mobile phone distributor | Crewe | Oct-19 | 72.28% | 56,000 | 65 | Sells about 30,000 used phones a month to European networks, insurance firms and wholesalers [* Latest sales] |
| 41 | Sherbet London | Taxi fleet operator | North London | Dec-18 | 71.69% | 6,571 | 30 | Its luxury electric taxis come with card machines, charging ports and WiFi |
| 42 | Character.com | Branded clothing retailer | Swansea | Jul-18 | 70.90% | 19,090 | 38 | Products range from Star Wars stormtrooper backpacks to Peppa Pig dressing gowns [* Latest sales] |
| 43 | Transmission | Marketing agency | East London | Dec-18 | 68.25% | 17,392 | 60 | Opened three overseas offices in January, in San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney [* Latest sales] |
| 44 | Tropic Skincare | Beauty products manufacturer | Croydon | Jun-19 | 66.71% | 34,943 | 160 | Founder Susie Ma started selling cosmetic products at Greenwich Market aged 15 [* Latest sales] |
| 45 | Mowgli Street Food | Indian restaurant chain | Liverpool | Jul-19 | 66.05% | 11,986 | 301 | Founder spent 20 years working as a child-protection barrister before opening her first restaurant |
| 46 | Charlotte Tilbury Beauty | Beauty products retailer | West London | Dec-18 | 65.30% | 145,437 | 878 | Says its newest foundation had a waiting list of 10,000 ahead of its launch in August |
| 47 | CP Hire | Construction equipment hire | Cardiff | May-19 | 64.90% | 12,719 | 90 | Began with £40,000 worth of construction equipment and now runs a fleet valued at £40m [* Latest sales] |
| 48 | Tattu | Chinese restaurant chain | Manchester | Dec-18 | 63.97% | 8,673 | 170 | Opened its fourth venue in October, in Edinburgh, and plans to open in London next year [* Latest sales] |
| 49 | INSTAsmile | Dental veneer retailer | Merseyside | Sep-19 | 62.76% | 6,500 | 50 | Prints 3D models of customers’ teeth to create accurate veneers [* Latest sales] |
| 50 | Oxford Summer Courses | Educational course provider | Oxford | Sep-19 | 62.42% | 9,272 | 36 | Students from 112 countries have enlisted in its summer courses [* Latest sales] |
| 51 | Envisage Dental | Dental practice | Basingstoke | Mar-19 | 61.24% | 6,287 | 68 | Offers a sedation service for nervous patients with dental phobia [* Latest sales] |
| 52 | VPZ | Vaping shop chain | Edinburgh | Dec-18 | 60.04% | 26,397 | 226 | Stocks a range of over 500 e-liquid flavours in its online shop, including ‘Darth Vapour’ |
| 53 | Highwood Group | Construction contractor and developer | Hampshire | Feb-19 | 59.85% | 66,706 | 62 | There are currently 4,000 development plots under this group's control |
| 54 | Corley + Woolley | Fit-out contractor | Central London | Dec-18 | 58.82% | 32,072 | 37 | Refurbished an entire shopping centre in Northampton while it was open and fully occupied |
| 55 | Braidwater Group | Housebuilder | Londonderry | Mar-19 | 58.28% | 34,904 | 65 | Growth capital firm BGF has invested three times in the past four years |
| 56 | The Resin Mill | Surfacing resin wholesaler | West Yorkshire | Dec-18 | 56.76% | 7,520 | 13 | Its School of Resin is a resin-bound surfacing academy with a practice driveway [* Latest sales] |
| 57 | BrewDog | Brewery | Aberdeenshire | Dec-18 | 56.55% | 171,619 | 1,247 | Founders’ £100,000 pitch on Dragons’ Den was turned down in 2009; it would now be worth over £360m |
| 58 | Beavertown Brewery | Brewery | North London | Mar-19 | 56.53% | 19,559 | 112 | Is the official craft beer supplier of the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium [* Latest sales] |
| 59 | Reassured | Life insurance broker | Basingstoke | Jan-19 | 56.31% | 37,811 | 411 | Says that it has sold over £46bn of life insurance policies, covering over 440,000 UK families |
| 60 | Gravity Active Entertainment | Trampoline park operator | West Yorkshire | Dec-18 | 56.11% | 9,797 | 302 | A trampoline park on The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills TV show gave the founder’s wife a brainwave |
| 61 | Twinkl | Educational resources provider | Sheffield | Apr-19 | 55.86% | 18,891 | 440 | Its website has over 625,000 educational resources, available in 18 languages [* Latest sales] |
| 62 | Plimsoll Productions | TV show producer | Bristol | Aug-19 | 54.98% | 37,284 | 195 | A second series of its Yellowstone Live documentary aired in June after the first got 13m viewers [* Latest sales] |
| 63 | Flat Iron | Steak restaurant chain | Central London | Aug-18 | 54.59% | 14,477 | 234 | Bookable ‘butcher’s feasts’ serve 1kg rib-eyes and giant Yorkshire puddings |
| 64 | Task Consumer Products | Toilet paper manufacturer | Wolverhampton | Dec-18 | 54.08% | 45,822 | 63 | Its brands of kitchen and toilet paper include Little Duck, Cusheen and Maxx |
| 65 | Nurture Landscapes | Landscape maintenance | Surrey | Mar-19 | 53.05% | 73,135 | 1,093 | Maintains three of London's Royal Parks – Richmond Park, Bushy Park and Greenwich Park |
| 66 | Marine Products | Fish processor and supplier | Glasgow | Dec-18 | 52.98% | 26,950 | 150 | Its logo of the gannet bird symbolises a fellow fisher with respect for the sea |
| 67 | END. | Designer menswear retailer | Newcastle upon Tyne | Mar-19 | 52.55% | 134,658 | 464 | Boasts more than 2.4m followers across its social media platforms |
| 68 | OMG How Cheap | Online stationery retailer | Colchester | Feb-19 | 52.21% | 7,127 | 32 | Stationery salesman David Field founded his own company after being made redundant in 2011 [* Latest sales] |
| 69 | Needle & Thread | Womenswear designer | Northwest London | Mar-19 | 51.85% | 13,576 | 74 | Net-a-Porter, Harrods and Moda Operandi stock this womenswear label |
| 70 | Green Park | Recruitment consultancy | Central London | Jan-19 | 51.50% | 90,107 | 66 | Has placed interim senior executives in more than 55 countries |
| 71 | Exceed | Well management and engineering | Aberdeen | Feb-19 | 51.28% | 20,748 | 43 | Has helped decommission over 120 wells in the North Sea in the past three years |
| 72 | VetCT | Veterinary radiology services | Cambridge | Jul-19 | 50.86% | 6,300 | 100 | Married owners first met at an animal hospital and now run their own veterinary company together [* Latest sales] |
| 73 | Red Industries | Waste management provider | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Dec-18 | 50.51% | 23,832 | 180 | Founder walked, cycled and rowed from the Eiffel Tower to Tower Bridge to raise money for charity |
| 74 | ITD Global | International courier | Manchester | Apr-19 | 50.46% | 23,078 | 43 | Works with delivery partners including Hermes, UPS and FedEx [* Latest sales] |
| 75 | Plantforce | Plant hire | Bristol | Sep-19 | 50.24% | 35,300 | 131 | Supplying HS2 and Hinkley Point with excavation equipment has boosted the company's sales [* Latest sales] |
| 76 | Flame Heating Group | Heating and plumbing merchant | Tyne and Wear | Jun-19 | 49.98% | 20,087 | 70 | Uses virtual reality to show customers what their new bathrooms could look like [* Latest sales] |
| 77 | Intevi | Display and software supplier | Hampshire | Dec-18 | 49.71% | 5,538 | 24 | Its interactive displays can detect the user’s age and gender and change content accordingly [* Latest sales] |
| 78 | Rinkit | Online home and garden retailer | Chichester | Feb-19 | 49.49% | 17,090 | 45 | Started life in a spare bedroom and now receives more than 1.5m orders a year [* Latest sales] |
| 79 | Munnelly Group | Construction/infrastructure logistics | Harrow | Mar-19 | 48.26% | 81,163 | 523 | Founder Philip Munnelly launched the company with money saved up from various jobs including a milk round |
| 80 | Oliver’s Travels | Luxury travel website | South London | Sep-19 | 48.18% | 6,206 | 53 | Its largest holiday booking cost £152,000 for one month in a luxury Tuscan villa [* Latest sales] |
| 81 | BioPhorum | Biopharmaceutical forum organiser | Central London | Dec-18 | 47.49% | 6,707 | 10 | Says it has signed up 24 of the world's 25 largest biopharmaceutical firms as clients [* Latest sales] |
| 82 | Pizza Pilgrims | Pizzeria operator | Central London | Jun-19 | 47.48% | 11,900 | 215 | A friend's quip about the founder brothers' search for the perfect pizza as a 'pilgrimage' stuck [* Latest sales] |
| 83 | Total Management Group | Events and travel agency | Central London | Mar-19 | 47.21% | 15,153 | 44 | Over 30,000 people have attended its events in 50 countries [* Latest sales] |
| 84 | Liforme | Yoga mat manufacturer & retailer | North London | Mar-19 | 46.89% | 6,022 | 15 | Within four years this company had sold yoga mats to 85 countries and to every US state [* Latest sales] |
| 85 | Prime Global | Medical communications agency | Knutsford | Dec-18 | 46.57% | 19,176 | 156 | Its first offices were located on the site of a former tuberculosis hospital near Chester |
| 86 | Clearabee | Waste collection services | Birmingham | Dec-18 | 46.53% | 12,212 | 179 | Purchased 10 acres of native woodland in the Scottish Borders to offset its CO2 emissions [* Latest sales] |
| 87 | Spirit Healthcare | Healthcare products supplier | Leicester | Mar-19 | 46.41% | 14,318 | 66 | An NHS study found that this company's software helped reduce hospital admissions by two thirds [* Latest sales] |
| 88 | Aspens Services | Contract caterer | Worcestershire | Apr-19 | 46.40% | 49,676 | 2,172 | Serves over one million meals a week to schools and universities across the Midlands |
| 89 | BrandAlley | Online flash sales site | Central London | Dec-18 | 45.99% | 45,840 | 72 | Runs a members-only site which stocks hundreds of luxury brands at discounted prices |
| 90 | Identity | Events management agency | East Sussex | Aug-19 | 45.70% | 8,722 | 43 | Says it puts on more than 1,000 events a year for the likes of Google and ITV [* Latest sales] |
| 91 | Age Partnership | Equity release adviser | Leeds | Dec-18 | 45.45% | 50,124 | 552 | Founder set up the business after a disappointing investigation into equity release for his mother |
| 92 | The Alchemist | Bar and restaurant operator | Greater Manchester | Mar-19 | 45.08% | 41,032 | 929 | Its 'Augmented Reality' cocktail menu utilises an app to bring the customer's drink to life |
| 93 | Equifinance | Secured loans provider | East London | Aug-19 | 44.89% | 6,757 | 25 | Has a loan portfolio of £81m with over 2,500 business customers [* Latest sales] |
| 94 | United Gas & Power | Business energy supplier | Leeds | Jun-19 | 44.88% | 23,211 | 60 | Says that 100% of the electricity it sells is from renewable energy sources [* Latest sales] |
| 95 | Superyacht Tenders & Toys | Yacht equipment supplier | Ipswich | Oct-18 | 44.81% | 6,596 | 11 | Supplies jet skis, submarines and inflatable slides to superyachts made across the world [* Latest sales] |
| 96 | Honest Burgers | Burger restaurant chain | Central London | Jan-19 | 44.58% | 30,669 | 589 | Offers burgers with regional themes, such as the leek and bacon special served at its Cardiff restaurant |
| 97 | Vanarama | Vehicle leasing broker | Hemel Hempstead | Dec-18 | 44.18% | 75,055 | 226 | Positioned a “car vending machine” at London’s Waterloo station to promote its car leasing website, Motorama [* Latest sales] |
| 98 | Hamilton Court FX | Foreign exchange services | Central London | Mar-19 | 44.06% | 15,265 | 45 | It once changed £150m into euros in a single transaction [* Latest sales] |
| 99 | Airline Component Services | Aircraft parts and repairs | Braintree | Mar-19 | 44.02% | 6,225 | 10 | Supplies and repairs aircraft parts for customers including British Airways, TUI and easyjet [* Latest sales] |
| 100 | Vivobarefoot | Footwear manufacturer & retailer | Central London | Jun-19 | 43.57% | 26,176 | 61 | Founder has heritage in the footwear world, hailing from the Clark family [* Latest sales] |
* Supplied by Company † Annualised figure
Data Source: www.fasttrack.co.uk
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