Seven companies in Wales have made an influential list of the 海角视频’s fastest-growing private mid-market firms.
They feature in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table.
Ranking is based on sales in their latest available accounts. Companies are required to have operating margins that exceed 2%.
Moreover, sales in the latest year must have grown by 5% or more for companies with the highest sales, graduated to 10% or more for those with lower sales; or profit growth must have been more 5% or more.
The biggest mid-market growth company in Wales is the Trade Centre Group.
The Neath-based car supermarket business, which was founded in 2000 by chairman Mark Bailey, is ranked 90th.
It opened two new sites in 2018 and grew sales 44% to £257.4m, with profits up 46% to £22.4m.
The second highest ranked privately owned Welsh firm, at 104th, is Swansea-based car dealership Day's Motor Group for a 10% rise in turnover .
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Featuring on the league table for the first time are Powys-based BVG Group, which sells more than 20,000 consumer products and distributes 20 million mail order catalogues each year and Carmarthenshire-based food wholesaler Castell Howell, which grew sales 10% to £126.9m last year.
The Top Track 250 is sponsored by Grant Thornton and Lloyds Banking Group, and compiled by Fast Track, the Oxford-based research and networking events firm.
The seven companies in Wales (compared to three in 2018) have made a strong contribution to the economy. The firms increased combined sales 20% to £1.2bn and operating profits 34% to £118m. Together they employ more than 5,000 people.
Topping the Fast Track 250 this year is health food and dietary supplement venture Holland & Barrett.
Alistair Wardell, Cardiff-based partner at Grant Thornton 海角视频, said: “Whilst the headwinds of political and economic uncertainty have been a consistent feature of the 海角视频 economy over the past year, mid-market firms have continued to prove their resilience.