BioCity makes FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest growing companies

BioCity's Discovery building in Nottingham

Biocity Group (BioCity), the bioscience incubator, has been identified as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies in the Financial Times FT 1000 report.

This was the first time that the FT, in partnership with Statista, the data provider, sought to identify the 1,000 European companies with the strongest growth between the years 2012 and 2015.

BioCity was ranked 175th in the UK, 837th overall in Europe.

One of the companies based at BioCity, Sygnature Discovery, which will be based in its new Discovery Building, also made the top 200 in the UK, placing 906th overall.

Paul Oliver, chief financial officer at BioCity Group, said: “It is wonderful that our consistent performance and growth has been recognised by such an institution as the Financial Times. Over 200 companies are based in a BioCity Group business incubator, making us one of the largest concentrations of life science businesses in the UK.

“We have an incredible 91% ‘survival rate’ of companies at BioCity in Nottingham and that is something we are replicating across our sites. I was particularly delighted to see that Sygnature Discovery joined us on the list. They are a shining example of how and why the BioCity model works and are an inspiration to businesses looking to join our network, from start-ups to businesses seeking to scale up.”

Dr Paul J. Clewlow, senior VP, business development, at Sygnature Discovery, said: “It is a significant achievement for Sygnature Discovery to be included in the FT1000 and demonstrates the increasing demand that we are seeing for our integrated drug discovery know-how and expertise from pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

“There are only five other pharmaceutical companies in this list of Europe’s 1,000 fastest-growing companies. It is great that BioCity is also featured in the FT1000 as Sygnature was one of its first tenants in 2004. We are about to enter a new phase of our company history as Sygnature moves into the new Discovery Building.”

BioCity this week celebrated the handover of the new Discovery Building at its Nottingham headquarters.

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