Yorkshire companies get Top Track 100 listing

FOUR Yorkshire-based companies have been ranked on the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100 this year, which rants Britain’s top private companies with the biggest sales.

Combined, the companies achieved sales of £4.1bn and profits of £912m in their last financial year. The four employ more than 12,000.

JCT600 was the highest ranked at number 43. The Bradford-based company returned sales of £1.1bn in 2015 , up 12% on the year before.

Founded in 1946 by current chairman Jack Tordoff, the business now employs 2,300 people with 50 showrooms across Northern England.

Doncaster-based Keepmoat landed in 44th place with revenues of £1.13bn. The developer and regeneration firm employs 3,364 people and is partly owned by TDR Capital and Sun Capital (85%) and management (15%).

Bradford-based utility business Kelda, which returned revenues of £1.1bn last year came in 46th place. It employs 3,315 staff. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was part of the FTSE100 until it was acquired in 2008.

Coming in in 81st place was R&R Ice Cream. The world’s third largest ice cream maker according to the business has sales of £720m and recently partnered with Nestle to sell to 20 countries across the globe.

Dan Howlett, head of Corporate Banking in the UK at HSBC, commented: “Firms such as these are fundamental in helping to get Britain back to business during this post-Brexit period of uncertainty and the inevitable challenges ahead.

“These businesses are ambitious, agile and passionate about what they do and will play an important part in helping to drive the British economy forward, domestically and internationally.”

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