The Fast Track community of current and past companies

Fast Track's league tables have spotted and engaged many successful companies before they floated, such as chip designer ARM Holdings and Carphone Warehouse, and before they became household names such as, Pets at Home and Boden.

Over the past 16 years our league table awards and events programmes have helped raise the profile of over 3,000 private growth companies.

These 3,000 fast-growth and medium-sized companies that have featured on our league tables are essential to the UK economy, as they represent:

• the majority of the UK's 1,500 private companies with operating profits of over £3m, and almost all with profits over £20m or sales over £250m
• £350bn of combined sales
• £17bn of combined profits
• 2 million employees

Over 9,000 entrepreneurial founders and directors from these past companies have participated in our research visits and/or attended our events. Many continue to participate in our Fast Track community as attendees at our networking dinners and as guest speakers.

Click on the faces below for some success stories from our league tables.

Floated companies from our past league tables include:

Recent companies on the league tables include:

About us

Fast Track has established a reputation as the UK's leading face-to-face networking events company due to:

• the high calibre of the entrepreneurs and directors from the UK's top private companies that regularly attend our invitation-only networking dinners and have become part of the Fast Track community
• the quality of our research behind the league tables
• delivering tangible value to our blue-chip sponsors, most of whom have been supporting us for many years

The first Fast Track 100 league table was published in The Sunday Times in December 1997. Fast Track now produces seven annual league table supplements and awards programmes, which have created seven distinct communities of entrepreneurs, ranging from tech entrepreneurs to those who run and own the biggest private companies.

Fast Track is based in Oxford with 22 full-time staff and a network of freelance researchers. Our research team interview most companies on the league tables and visit over 300 a year. Our events team arrange a national awards event for each of the 7 league tables, and a series of follow-up regional and bespoke dinners for current and past companies on each programme.

Fast Track was founded in 1997 by CEO Dr Hamish Stevenson who secured cornerstone sponsorship from Richard Branson as part of his research fellowship in entrepreneurship at Oxford University, where he completed his doctorate and remains an associate fellow. He is also an ambassador to Team 2012.