The Deloitte Fast 50 winners list was announced today. As far as I know this is the only competitive list of companies that uses revenue growth over 5 years as the measurement, rather than having a series of sometimes arbitrary judging criteria. Congratulations to all the winners, many of whom we have had the pleasure of talking to over the year.
Look beyond the list of winners, there is some very interesting news here. Despite this being a ‘difficult year’ for many, one thing is particularly interesting about this year’s list – the fifitieth ranked company on the 2009 list would have ranked 40th on the equivalent list last year. Despite everything that is thrown at them (everything except bail outs), it appears that UK technology companies are still driving hard and playing a critical part in the recovery of the economy.
Here is this year’s list of UK winners.
- 1 Distribution Technology Software 18225%
- 2 Heart Internet Limited Internet 8548%
- 3 ApaTech Biotechnology 8318%
- 4 Probability plc Software 7785%
- 5 Lovefilm International Media and entertainment 5694%
- 6 Ecourier Other 5291%
- 7 Timico Limited Telecommunications 5055%
- 8 Broadbean Technology Internet 4802%
- 9 SLA Mobile Internet 4436%
- 10 Bigmouthmedia Limited Internet 4111%
- 11 Traffic Broker Internet 3798%
- 12 Connexions4London Internet 3425%
- 13 Retail Eyes Other 3295%
- 14 Auros Limited Internet 3294%
- 15 The Book Depository Internet 2593%
- 16 Ubisense Electronics 2513%
- 17 Netbasic Internet 2407%
- 18 Weare London Internet 2133%
- 19 Glasses Direct Internet 2098%
- 20 BlueGnome Biotechnology 2026%
- 21 Jagex Limited Other 1659%
- 22 Merit Merrell Technology Limited Other 1462%
- 23 Sensornet Limited Other 1403%
- 24 Assima Software 1290%
- 25 TH_NK Limited Media and entertainment 1271%
- 26 Critical Software Internet 1262%
- 27 Intamac Internet 1202%
- 28 picoChip Electronics 1171%
- 29 AVM Other 1103%
- 30 Easy Date Internet 1062%
- 31 Skyscanner Internet 1013%
- 32 Redtray Limited Other 999%
- 33 Bluefish plc Telecommunications 984%
- 34 Bloxx Software 966%
- 35 murphx Internet 960%
- 36 Rocela Software 935%
- 37 7 Digital Internet 928%
- 38 Widget UK Ltd Peripherals 924%
- 39 O-bitTelecom Limited Telecommunications 829%
- 40 ONELAN Limited Software 795%
- 41 Opti-cal Survey Equipment Limited Other 757%
- 42 Thunderhead Limited Computer and peripherals 743%
- 43 OB10 Other 728%
- 44 Gradwell dot com Internet 726%
- 45 AI Digital Limited Internet 725%
- 46 Valueworks Software 723%
- 47 Endava Limited Other 714%
- 48 Excelian Limited Other 699%
- 49 UKFast Internet 690%
- 50 Greenlight Internet 680%
Here are the winners for 2008 for comparison.
- 1 Thunderhead Limited Software vendor 28,558%
- 2 Ubisense Real-time location systems 15,324%
- 3 picoChip Semiconductors 4,483%
- 4 OB10 B2B invoicing network 3,488%
- 5 Bigmouthmedia Ltd Digital marketing agency 3,357%
- 6 TH_NK Ltd Digital agency 3,137%
- 7 Broadbean Technology Advertising distribution services 2,882%
- 8 Content and Code Ltd Software 2,855%
- 9 Nexus Oncology Limited Clinical research 2,614%
- 10 RapidSwitch Ltd Internet hosting 2,437%
- 11 Digital Window Ltd Online marketing solutions 2,319%
- 12 Redtray Limited e-Learning solutions 2,056%
- 13 Coast Digital Limited Digital marketing agency 1,948%
- 14 Greenlight Search marketing agency 1,749%
- 15 Opti-cal Survey Equipment Ltd Optical survey equipment 1,664%
- 16 Assima Technology solutions 1,615%
- 17 ByBox Holdings Ltd Logistics 1,340%
- 18 Daisy Communications Communications 1,202%
- 19 Bloxx IT Security 1,182%
- 20 Excelian Limited IT consultancy 1,175%
- 21 Miniclip Ltd Gaming 1,171%
- 22 Comtec Enterprises ICT solutions 1,052%
- 23 CSR plc Wireless devices 1,027%
- 24 Sensornet Ltd Fibre optic sensing solutions 1,000%
- 25 Xtreme Business Solutions Ltd Cabling and telecoms suppliers 997%
- 26 UK Digital Cameras Ltd Online retailer 970%
- 27 Dezrez Services Ltd Software 965%
- 28 UKFast Internet hosting 894%
- 29 Sponge Ltd Mobile marketing agency 854%
- 30 Rocela Limited Software 844%
- 31 O-bitTelecom Limited Telecommunications 829%
- 32 Memset Internet hosting 823%
- 33 Dynamic Change Ltd Software 817%
- 34 Wavex Technology Limited IT services 816%
- 35 Widget UK Ltd IT distributor 800%
- 36 Bluhalo Ltd Digital marketing agency 779%
- 37 How Splendid Ltd Web design agency 779%
- 38 iMeta Technologies Ltd Software 734%
- 39 Chess plc Telecommunications 723%
- 40 StaffPlan Software 704%
- 41 Switch Media Plc Internet services 682%
- 42 YouGov plc Online research 667%
- 43 2ergo Mobile marketing 624%
- 44 Virtual IT Limited IT services 611%
- 45 Mobile Commerce Ltd Mobile search 590%
- 46 Valueworks Internet software services 589%
- 47 Lagan* Software 560%
- 48 Bluefin Solutions SAP solutions 549%
- 49 Griffin Internet IP products 523%
- 50 Entanet International Ltd Voice and data connectivity services 514%
Beyond event that. 50th this year would have placed you 45th in 2007, 41st in 2006 and 12th(!) in 2005. You can see a complete list of previous winners here.