Robert Watts Robert is a seasoned journalist, having worked at titles including The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times. For the past 10 years, he has compiled The Sunday Times Rich List, the most ...

Strathberry Husband-and-wife team Guy and Leeanne Hundleby have built handbag maker Strathberry from their in-home office to one of Scotland’s best-known luxury brands. Started in 2013, all the bags ...

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 ...

Octopus Energy In less than 10 years, founder and CEO Greg Jackson has powered Octopus Energy from plucky green start-up into the UK’s largest domestic energy supplier. There are now almost 13 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...