The Business Exchange Bath & Somerset Issue 17: Autumn 2020

BATH’S TOP 100 BUSINESSES Bath’s Top 100 is the ultimate guide to the area’s most successful businesses. Ranked by turnover from each company’s most recent results, the TBE Top 100 provides a unique insight into the diversity of Bath’s business landscape. Working with S&P Global Market Intelligence the most recent financial data has been interrogated to give you this definitive list. The question for us at The Business Exchange was ‘should we talk about the top 100 businesses in Bath at a time when business has been challenged as never before?’ After some debate we decided we should, even if the economic landscape has changed. We believe we have to celebrate success, while accepting that future figures may be very different, based on this year’s unprecedented economic challenges. We must lift one another up and remember how fortunate we are to work in such a diverse business landscape and by working together and supporting each other we will continue to thrive. The key sectors that dominate the table are: • Energy • Engineering • Legal • Manufacturing • Motor trade • Software development • Property • Publishing Ranking Company Name Revenue Last avail. Year £’000 Revenue Previous Year £’000 YoY % Profit Last avail. Year £’000 Profit Previous avail. Year £’000 YoY % 1 Rotork plc (Acuator manufacturer and flow control company) 669,344 695,713 -4 94,100 91,744 3 2 YTL Utilities (UK) Limited 644,800 613,500 5 103,400 117,800 -12 3 Wessex Water Services Limited (Regional water board) 552,300 547,700 1 110,200 133,500 -17 4 Auxillis Services Limited (Renting & leasing of motor vehicles) 463,733 405,435 14 33,351 27,818 20 5 Future plc (Digital and magazine publishers) 221,500 130,100 70 8,100 2,900 179 6 Happold LLP (Design & advisory to property and construction sectors) 173,300 163,638 6 11,701 2,963 295 7 Mulberry Group plc (Fashion company known for its leather goods) 166,268 169,718 -2 -2,479 6,391 -139 8 Future Publishing Limited (Digital and magazine publishers) 117,556 88,492 33 14,935 6,612 126 9 Rotork Controls Limited (Engineering) 110,096 95,425 15 41,259 31,020 33 10 Curo Group (Albion) Limited (Social & commercial housing) 98,905 97,903 1 24,029 16,270 48 11 Lovehoney Limited (Online sex toy retailer) 93,191 84,899 10 3,299 7,599 -57 12 Buro Happold Limited (Consulting engineers) 89,280 90,115 -1 2,655 163 1529 13 Blue Marble Holdings Limited (Known as Pure Planet) 85,083 - - -17,172 - - 14 Welton Bibby & Baron Ltd (Manufacture and distribution of paper) 77,506 64,952 19 2,507 1,786 40 15 Cross Manufacturing Company (1938) Ltd (Manufacture of fabricated metals) 70,544 71,674 -2 11,077 13,610 -19 16 London & Country Mortgages Limited (Mortgages and financial broking) 68,108 56,054 22 8,745 6,882 27 17 BMT Defence Services Ltd (Defence services) 66,333 51,880 28 2,054 2,427 -15 18 MCAARP Ltd (Known as Integrity Print, print, production and direct mail specialist) 57,095 48,597 17 672 -27 2589 19 Altran UK Limited (Software and safety engineering) 56,040 51,351 9 2,694 3,712 -27 20 Dick Lovett (Bath) Limited (New and used car dealers) 55,888 50,159 11 -468 -447 -5 21 Inspecs Group Plc (Design and manufacture of eyewear) 46,245 44,954 3 4,863 2,745 77 22 Loss Management Group Ltd (Insurance claims specialist) 41,284 44,120 -6 964 965 0 23 Withy King LLP (Legal services provider known as Royds Withy King) 37,724 35,768 5 2,691 3,448 -22 24 Halsall Construction Limited (Builders and public works contractors) 37,408 32,599 15 595 529 13 25 Investment Funds Direct Limited (Independent funds supermarket, known as Ascentric) 34,712 32,290 8 -37,629 -32,660 -15 26 Wessex Water Enterprises Limited (Recycling & renewable energy company known as GENeco) 32,382 31,494 3 9,872 11,176 -12 27 1pm plc (Providers of equipment lease rental finance) 31,596 29,834 6 6,352 6,402 -1 28 The Bath Priory Limited (Hotel, spa and fine dining) 28,071 28,296 -1 1,814 1,729 5 29 Curo Enterprise Limited (Social and commercial housing) 26,371 26,728 -1 11,606 2,596 347 30 G.H. Chaplin & Co. (Engineers) Limited 25,700 - - - - - 31 Horstman Defence Systems Ltd (Designs and manufactures vehicles suspension components) 25,387 17,771 43 2,179 397 448 32 Sitec Recruitment Ltd (Engineering recruitment) 25,237 36,617 -31 -8,468 -2,205 -284 33 Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons (Solicitors known as Thrings) 23,250 21,635 7 - - - 34 Novia Financial plc (Platform-based wealth management service) 23,015 20,891 10 5,901 4,986 18 35 Engley (Engineering services) 22,500 - - - - - 36 Hague and London Oil PLC (Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas) 22,487 31,107 -28 -14,302 -563 -2442 37 Star Medical Contracts Limited (Employment agency) 22,070 21,829 1 -37 -260 86 38 CEPS PLC (Manufacture and distribution of protection equipment) 21,753 18,474 18 -2,696 -1,369 -97 39 Interaction Associates Limited (Design and fitting of office environments) 20,960 12,955 62 1,257 1,206 4 PROUD TO PARTNER LOCAL BUSINESS BATH | WELLS | SHERBOURNE | FROME 20 THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE 2020

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