List of largest private companies in the United Kingdom

This is a list of largest private companies in the United Kingdom according to sales. Under UK company law, a private company (with the suffix "Ltd" usually) may not offer its shares for sale to the public (as can a "plc"). While lists of public companies usually rank businesses according to their market capitalisation (the traded share price multiplied by the number of shares), lists of private companies must use another measure, such as the value and volume of sales during a year.

This is a list of private companies in the United Kingdom, some of which based on the Sunday Times Fast Track "Top Track 100 league table".[1]

CompanySectorSales (£m)EmployeesMain shareholders
GreenergyFuel137Tesco 34%, Owen's family 24%, Caradog 24%
John Lewis PartnershipRetail7,75998,000Employees 100%
ReedRecruitment1,1003,400The Reed Foundation
StemcorCommodities6,2541,860Ralph Oppenheimer 71%, Management
SwireConglomerate79,194Swire family 67%
McLaren Technology GroupConglomerate:
Technology
Consumer Electronics
Formula One
Food & Restaurants
Television
Automotive		5543500Mumtalakat Holding Company (56%)
Laing O'RourkeConstruction15,027
Brakes GroupFood10,000Bain Capital (92%), Management (8%)
JCBConstruction and Agriculture Machinery14,500
Arcadia GroupClothing2,68244,030
Virgin AtlanticAirline8,631Virgin Group 51%, Delta Air Lines 49%
FirstsourceBusiness Process Management6,000
European Metal RecyclingRecycling2,226
IcelandRetail13,462
Bestway GroupConglomerate:
Wholesale
Cement
Banking		5,500
Arnold Clark Automobiles10,000
Shop Direct Group18,688
TI Automotive17,360
Acromas HoldingsHolding company14,152
SSPEnergy29,551
Thames Water4,913
WilkoRetail23,063
Pentland Group15,468
Specsavers30,000
New Look22,605
Anglian WaterWater6,898
Clarks14,389
2 Sisters Food Group9,061
Iglo2,941
United Biscuits8,156Ülker Family
Bibby Line5,610
Findus5,651Lion Capital
Matalan15,858
Gala Coral Group18,125Apollo 26%, Cerberus 18%, Goldman Sachs 8%
Mott MacDonaldConstruction17,000Trust 50%, employees 50%
Linpac6,218
Unipart8,533
Willmott DixonConstruction2,845
River IslandClothing15,155
WatesConstruction2,650
Healthcare at Home1,339
ArupConstruction consultancy9,934Employee trust
Kelda Group3,138
KCA Deutag6,696
Merlin Entertainments12,364
MaceConstruction3,173
Just Retirement483
Partnership311
Dyson3,100James Dyson 100%
Biffa6,250
Arqiva1,980
Northgate Information Solutions10,643
Bourne Leisure11,724
Martin McColl12,013
Sir Robert McAlpineConstruction1,956
Samworth Brothers7,323
Formula One266
TJ MorrisRetail6,912
John LaingProperty1,230
B&M RetailRetail8,864
Bowmer & KirklandConstruction1,471
DunbiaFood3,010
Telereal TrilliumProperty591
Northern & Shell Media Group1,347
Travelex7,022
House of FraserRetail5,087
Keepmoat2,917
Spire Healthcare6,353
MonsoonClothing4,314
Southern WaterWater1,505
PoundlandRetail8,602
DFS2,792
Welcome Break4,165
Harrods Group3,675
JCT6001,359

Former private companies

Former members of the largest 100 private companies in the UK could have ceased to remain on the list for three main reasons.

They may have converted into a public company (like those on the FTSE 100, listed with the London Stock Exchange), or have seen a decline in sales, or at worst gone into an insolvency procedure, been sold, broken up, or liquidated.

See also
Other lists
Stock market lists

References
  1. "Fast Track 100". Sunday Times. 24 June 2012

Other Fast Track publications

Top Track 100 is one of seven league tables of private companies produced by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times:

  • Fast Track 100 – ranks the UK’s fastest-growing private companies based on sales (excluding TMT companies, which appear in Tech Track 100 (see below)
  • SME Export Track 100 – ranks the UK's SMEs with the fastest-growing international sales
  • Tech Track 100 – ranks the UK’s fastest-growing private technology companies based on sales (the sister table to Fast Track 100)
  • International Track 200 – ranks the UK’s private mid-market companies with the fastest-growing overseas sales
  • Profit Track 100 – ranks the UK’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits
  • Top Track 250 – ranks the UK’s leading mid-market private companies based on sales and/or profits growth
  • Top Track 100 – ranks the UK’s biggest private companies based on sales
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