Yorkshire companies feature in Sunday Times table
Yorkshire companies have secured ten places on the Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 league table.
The information, to be published this weekend, ranks Britain's 100 private-equity-backed companies with the fastest-growing profits (ebitda) over the last two years.
Yorkshire's highest ranked company is Go Outdoors, which features at 20, one year after securing the runner up spot. 3i invested £28m in Go Outdoors in April last year, buying part of YFM Equity Partners' stake. The company's profits have grown an average 67 per cent a year over the last two years to £9.2m in 2011.
New to the table this year is Leeds-based Allied Glass Containers, which makes more than 600m glass bottles a year for customers including Diageo and William Grant & Son.
Equistone (formerly Barclays Private Equity) backed a £75m secondary buyout in 2010 from Close Brothers and, with managing director Alan Henderson at the helm, profits have grown an average 18 per cent a year over two years, to £15.3m in 2010.
The other companies on the table are Leeds-based Nexus Vehicle Rental (30); ABI (38), an East Yorkshire caravan maker; Lowell Group, a Leeds-based debt collector (45); Driffield's Cranswick Pet & Aquatics (57); Esteem, a Leeds-based services provider (65); Harrogate-based environmental services provider Adler and Allan (67); vehicle leasing business Zenith (90); and Rotherham seal maker AESSEAL (94).
