By Staff writer
The Real Business Growing Business Awards, supported by the CBI and held in association with Lloyds Bank, highlights some of the country’s most exciting, innovative and scaleable business models – and we’re currently on the hunt for candidates for the Larger Company of the Year Award (turnover £50m+).
Looking back throughout the history of The Hot 100, it has been made undeniably clear that the mid-market sector, Britain’s version of Germany’s “Mittelstand”, has always played a critical role in driving economic growth.
The origins of Nigel Fredericks may date back to the 19th century, but don’t let the maturity of the business fool you. It’s back for more after featuring among 2014’s Hot 100, and has accelerated up the list to land in 80th place, compared to its previous spot at 97.
Since last appearing on Real Business’s Hot 100 in 2014, Busaba has made expansion outside of London, as well as retaining loyal customers, its top priorities.
The Preedy family, as well as a few trusts, hold about 98 per cent of the shares in Marla Tube Fittings, a Warwickshire manufacturing business. With MD Simon Preedy at the helm, the company is going from strength to strength.
Independent car auctioneer SMA Vehicle Remarketing has credited ongoing investment in its auction centres and its foray into technology for driving turnover. To paraphrase its own strapline: the company is getting bigger and this has only been achieved by being better.
Daniel Katz began his career as an antiquities dealer and now he sees his eclectic way of “offering the greatest works of art available” as “where the market is moving”.
Otherwise known as Williams and Co, the company was founded in 1972 as a specialist plumbing and heating merchant. In 1985, it made its first big move, acquiring 6,000 sq ft of warehouse space – the company is now contemplating a similar move.
Equine and agricultural wholesale isn’t always the first thought for a new business idea, but Trilanco managing director Martin Balmer suggested that the business merely identified an issue that needed addressing and found a solution to it.
McDermotts is a groundworks and civil engineering company based in Birmingham, West Midlands, supporting some of the country’s largest construction companies. A family founded SME, the company stressed that it has one all-encompassing virtue: integrity.
