Delighted to assemble the 2017 Food & Drink Fast 50 in conjunction with The Grocer. Our top 50 demonstrates that innovation and flexibility are winning over an increasingly demanding consumer, who is on the hunt for 'quality', 'healthy' and something new...
The more agile and innovative your business, the faster it grows. That’s the lesson of The Grocer’s 2017 Fast 50. It’s a list of privately owned suppliers that’s increasingly dominated by smaller SMEs and resulted in faster upsurges in sales than ever before. To even have a shot at this year’s top 10, suppliers needed a compound annual growth rate of 36.2%, compared with 27.8% in 2016. And while last year only 13 had turnover below £15m, this year that number nearly tripled to 31.