C. Hoare & Co C. Hoare & Co is, by some distance, the oldest company in the Growth 500. When the goldsmith Sir Richard Hoare opened a shop on Cheapside in the City of London in 1672, Charles II was on ...

Zenobe In August 2024, English band Massive Attack put on a one-day festival with a difference. The concert in Bristol was designed to be net zero, from how it was powered to the transport to get ...

1. Marshall Arts If only Barrie Marshall had stuck with his plans of working as a civil engineer in local government, he might have put together a pretty decent career from working on building sites ...

We’re not long into our conversation before international tennis player turned tech founder Oliver Kent-Braham delivers his first ace. “Sometimes,” beams the elder of the 33-year-old twins behind the ...

Sister Sister has had a bumper few years. Founded in 2015, the independent production company is behind hit TV shows including The Split and This is Going to Hurt for the BBC, Black Doves and ...

Luton Town FC Promotion to the Premier League doesn’t just make players and fans walk a little taller, it also supercharges a club’s finances. When Luton Town broke into English football’s top-flight ...

Zopa Few companies have pivoted quite as well as Zopa. Starting out 20 years ago as the world’s first peer-to-peer lender, the London-based fintech wound up this operation in 2021 after transforming ...

In a world where disagreements on key issues appear almost universal, one topic which almost all British people – and certainly all British businesspeople – can agree on is the importance of growth.

The founders of the natural deodorant brand Wild recently sold their business to Unilever in a deal thought to value the company at £230m. Freddy Ward and Charlie Bowes-Lyon founded the business less ...

There’s only one place to start for a feature about Wrexham – and that’s Wrexham AFC’s historic Racecourse Ground, also known as SToK Cae Ras. The world's oldest international football stadium still ...

It’s one thing to survive a global pandemic, another to thrive in its aftermath. Business Leader’s first attempt to identify Britain’s fastest-growing 500 companies has inevitably been coloured by the ...

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...