Profit Track 100
Encyclopedia
The Profit Track 100 is a list published by British newspaper The Sunday Times
each year ranking Britain's fastest growing private companies by their average profit
growth over the previous three years.
The 2008 awards were published on the 20th April 2008 with the title sponsor Pricewaterhousecoopers
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from private equity
firm Permira
and Lloyd Dorfman
from the Travelex Group
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2. Special Steel
3. Gardine Shipping
4. Robertson Group
5. Affinity Healthcare
6. Hydrasun
7. Doncasters
8. Modus
9. Merlin Entertainments
10. Corpro Group
11. International Plywood
12. Simons Group
13. Independent Forgings & Alloys
14. Springfield Properties
15. WDSGlobal
16. Langley Holdings
17. Longleat Enterprises
18. Wall Engineering
19. Bowes of Norfolk
20. B.E. Wedge
21. Suttons Group
22. Designers Guild
23. M&M (MK)
24. movewithus
25. Morgan Hunt
26. McLaren Construction
27. Craig Group
28. Tangent Trading
29. RGB
30. epyx
31. Edenbrook
32. Axell Wireless
33. Titan Airways
34. The Richmond Group
35. Fat Face
36. INEOS Group
37. Stemcor
38. The Money Centre
39. Acteon
40. Seymour Pierce
41. Prestige Finance
42. Lighter Life
43. RP Valves
44. Addison Lee
45. Firth Rixson
46. Sir Robert McAlpine
47. Special Piping Materials
48. William Hare Group
49. Spreadex
50. Tom Martin
51. Modus Group
52. Virgin Money
53. BaxterStorey
54. Aston Martin
55. Wood Mackenzie
56. Apex Stainless Fasteners
57. Frontline Bathrooms
58. Gladman Developments
59. EAT.
60. Euro Garages
61. NP Aerospace
62. JCB
63. Hagan Homes
64. Technetix
65. Collins Construction
66. The Nuttall Group
67. T-Met
68. Nova Laboratories
69. HT & Co (Drinks)
70. Sunseeker International
71. Henderson Insurance Brokers
72. Think Money
73. Alfred H Knight Holding
74. Mandale
75. Towergate Partnership
76. Rydon Group
77. Cafe Nero
78. John Laing Partnership
79. Gladedale Group
80. MX Telecom
81. Search Consultancy
82. Greencall
83. Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward
84. TIS Group
85. Graham
86. Loganair
87. Applecross Properties
88. Fresh Direct
89. Fircroft
90. Keltruck
91. CHAP
92. Maximuscle
93. ESRI (UK)
94. ACIS
95. Tag Worldwide Group
96. Principal Search
97. Qserv
98. Drive Assist
99. Argus Media
100. Hill Holdings
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
each year ranking Britain's fastest growing private companies by their average profit
Profit (economics)
In economics, the term profit has two related but distinct meanings. Normal profit represents the total opportunity costs of a venture to an entrepreneur or investor, whilst economic profit In economics, the term profit has two related but distinct meanings. Normal profit represents the total...
growth over the previous three years.
The 2008 awards were published on the 20th April 2008 with the title sponsor Pricewaterhousecoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms....
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2008 results summary
The one hundred companies in the list saw an average profit increase of 67% pa with the maximum increase being 114% pa. Profits across the list rose from £459m to a total of £2bn. Employees increased from 34,500 to 77,000 in these companies over three years.Entry criteria
The following is the entry for criteria into the 2009 awards:- UK registered, unquoted, and not subsidiaries
- Profits of at least £500,000 in the base year (2004 or 2005)
- Profits of at least £3m in the latest year (2007 or 2008)
- Profits are defined as operating profits with directors' remuneration added back
- Profits must increase in the latest year, from 2006 to 2007, or 2007 to 2008
- Excluded companies include pure property and financial trading companies, and those with restricted accounts
Awards dinner
The 2008 Awards dinner will be held at the Chancery Court Hotel in London with guest speakers Damon BuffiniDamon Buffini
Damon Buffini is an English businessman, who used to head the private equity company Permira.-Biography:Born in Leicester in 1962, the son of an African American serviceman and a British woman, he was educated at the Gateway school in Leicester...
from private equity
Private equity
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
firm Permira
Permira
Permira is a United Kingdom-based private equity firm with global reach. The firm advises funds with a total committed capital of approximately €20 billion....
and Lloyd Dorfman
Lloyd Dorfman
Lloyd Dorfman is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the business that became the Travelex Group, today the world's largest non-bank foreign exchange business...
from the Travelex Group
Travelex Group
Travelex Group is foreign exchange company founded by Lloyd Dorfman and headquartered London. Its main businesses are international payments, bureau de change and issuing prepaid credit cards for use by travellers...
.
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2008 Profit Track 100 League Table
1. AFI-Uplift2. Special Steel
3. Gardine Shipping
4. Robertson Group
5. Affinity Healthcare
6. Hydrasun
7. Doncasters
8. Modus
Modus
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9. Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd is a British operator of amusement parks and other attractions. It is the largest such company in Europe, and globally the second largest after Walt Disney Parks and Resorts....
10. Corpro Group
11. International Plywood
12. Simons Group
13. Independent Forgings & Alloys
14. Springfield Properties
15. WDSGlobal
16. Langley Holdings
17. Longleat Enterprises
18. Wall Engineering
19. Bowes of Norfolk
20. B.E. Wedge
21. Suttons Group
22. Designers Guild
Designers Guild
Designers Guild is an international home and lifestyle company with a flagship store and showrooms on the Kings Road and Marylebone High Street in London, and offices in London, Paris and Munich....
23. M&M (MK)
24. movewithus
Movewithus
Move with Us is a British-based property company that provides estate agency, asset management and corporate property services to estate agents, home builders, financial institutions and consumers. Their headquarters are located in St Ives in Cambridgeshire...
25. Morgan Hunt
26. McLaren Construction
27. Craig Group
28. Tangent Trading
29. RGB
30. epyx
Epyx
Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983...
31. Edenbrook
32. Axell Wireless
33. Titan Airways
Titan Airways
Titan Airways is a British charter airline based at London Stansted Airport, United Kingdom. It operates contract and ad-hoc passenger and freight charters throughout the world and short notice wet-lease charters for scheduled airlines...
34. The Richmond Group
35. Fat Face
Fat Face
Fat Face is a chain of clothing retailers selling its own branded products. The company has over 190 stores in the United Kingdom, with international stores in Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Ireland, France, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. The chain sells clothes aimed at men, women and...
36. INEOS Group
Ineos
INEOS Group Limited is a privately owned multinational chemicals company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and with its registered office in Lyndhurst, United Kingdom...
37. Stemcor
Stemcor
Stemcor is a British steel trading company. The company is based in London, UK, and has 80 offices in 40 countries around the world, employing more than 1400 people....
38. The Money Centre
39. Acteon
40. Seymour Pierce
41. Prestige Finance
42. Lighter Life
43. RP Valves
44. Addison Lee
Addison Lee
Addison Lee is a London-based private hire company, currently the largest taxicab company in the United Kingdom.-John Griffin:Co-founder John Griffin was born in Ireland to a civil engineering contractor father...
45. Firth Rixson
46. Sir Robert McAlpine
Sir Robert McAlpine
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd. is a private British company headquartered in London. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defence, chemical, water and mining industries.-History:...
47. Special Piping Materials
48. William Hare Group
49. Spreadex
Spreadex
Spreadex Ltd is a British-based company that offers financial spread betting, sports spread betting and sports fixed-odds betting.-History:Spreadex commenced trading in 1999 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire....
50. Tom Martin
51. Modus Group
52. Virgin Money
Virgin Money
Virgin Money is a UK-based financial services company owned by the Virgin Group and founded by Sir Richard Branson in March 1995. It was originally known as Virgin Direct, and pioneered index tracking by launching a value Personal Equity Plan into the market. In the 2000s Virgin Money expanded its...
53. BaxterStorey
54. Aston Martin
Aston Martin
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...
55. Wood Mackenzie
56. Apex Stainless Fasteners
57. Frontline Bathrooms
58. Gladman Developments
59. EAT.
EAT.
EAT. is a chain of sandwich shops with over 90 branches in the UK, the majority in London, with others in Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, London Heathrow Airport , Gatwick Airport, Leicester, Manchester, Windsor, Oxford and Edinburgh.The first shop was opened in October 1996 in...
60. Euro Garages
61. NP Aerospace
62. JCB
63. Hagan Homes
64. Technetix
65. Collins Construction
66. The Nuttall Group
67. T-Met
68. Nova Laboratories
69. HT & Co (Drinks)
70. Sunseeker International
71. Henderson Insurance Brokers
72. Think Money
73. Alfred H Knight Holding
74. Mandale
Mandale
Mandale may refer to:*Mandale, North Carolina, in the United States*Mandale, Ohio, in the United States...
75. Towergate Partnership
Towergate Partnership
Towergate Partnership was founded in 1997 and is Europes largest independently-owned insurance intermediary. Towergate operates through five main areas of operation: Broking , Underwriting , Networks for independent brokers, Towergate Financial and Paymentshield.Towergate's executive chairman,...
76. Rydon Group
77. Cafe Nero
78. John Laing Partnership
79. Gladedale Group
80. MX Telecom
81. Search Consultancy
82. Greencall
83. Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward
84. TIS Group
85. Graham
Graham
-People:*Graham , an English language masculine given name*Graham , an English language surname*Graeme , an English language surname*For people with "Graham" as a surname see Graham...
86. Loganair
Loganair
Loganair is a Scottish airline with its registered office on the grounds of Glasgow International Airport and in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Loganair operates scheduled services under a Flybe franchise in mainland Scotland and to Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. In addition it operates...
87. Applecross Properties
88. Fresh Direct
89. Fircroft
90. Keltruck
91. CHAP
CHAP
Chap may refer to:*The Chap, a British magazine*Chap, a caste in the Bhakkar district of the Punjab, Pakistan*Chap Sandi, a village in the tehsil of Kaloorkot in Bhakkar*Chap, a term for chewing tobacco*Chap, a word for no used in New Zealand...
92. Maximuscle
93. ESRI (UK)
94. ACIS
ACIS
The 3D ACIS Modeler is a 3D modelling kernel owned by Spatial Corporation . ACIS is used by many software developers in industries such as computer-aided design , Computer-aided manufacturing , Computer-aided engineering , Architecture, engineering and construction , Coordinate-measuring machine...
95. Tag Worldwide Group
96. Principal Search
97. Qserv
Qserv
Qserv is an oilfield service company that specialises in oil-well services operations, including wireline, coiled tubing and pumping services. The company also performs other engineering services, most notably pipeline services.-History:...
98. Drive Assist
99. Argus Media
100. Hill Holdings