Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has revealed the top performing mid-market companies in the region.
The manufacturing sector is well represented with Valmiera Glass, Blakelll Europlacer, Siva Group, Osprey Europe, Lewmar, ICS Group and Portsmouth Aviation. Technology companies Codestone and Bell Microsystems, recruitment companies STR Group and MPloy Staffing Solutions, food and drink groups 3V Natural Foods and Ahmad teas and Home Grown Hotels and Hoburne In the leisure sector are all featured in the list.
From the construction and property industry we see building services specialist HBS Group Southern, house builders Bargate Homes, fit-out specialists AT Jones and civil engineering companies Blanchard Wells and Kamm.
Milewood Healthcare, Fiver Rivers Child Care, Eims Global, and SCA Group, Fat Face, Imperial Car Supermarkets, Millbrook Industries, Just Develop IT, Williams Trade Supplies and vehicle hire and lease company SHB Hire, complete the list of top 30 performing companies.
“This region’s diverse mid-sized and growing entrepreneurial businesses are its economic engine,” says Malcolm Thixton, Lead Partner at BDO Southampton. “The climate of political and economic uncertainty persists, and business optimism appears to rise and fall depending on the current state of Brexit negotiations. Despite this, many mid-sized companies continue to thrive.
As the firm launches its fourth annual campaign to champion mid-market companies in the Central South, it has taken a fresh approach by naming the region’s 30 top-performing companies based on a combination of their operating profit and turnover growth over both a one and three year period.
“This year, our new approach to recognising the top performers across the region enables us to include those who are recent entries to the mid-market. It is important to acknowledge that their entrepreneurialism is playing a major role in driving the region’s economy.”
BDO will present all the top performing companies with a special plaque to celebrate their achievements and they will be shortlisted for the BDO Central South Mid Market Company of the Year, to be announced in early 2019.
