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Eight companies from the Greater Manchester area have made it onto the Sunday Times' annual Fast Track 100 list

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8:38 am, December 4, 2009
Eight Manchester firms make Sunday Times' Fast Track list

By Michael Fahy

Eight companies from the Greater Manchester area have made it onto the Sunday Times' annual Fast Track 100 list of the UK's fastest-growing privately-owned companies. Macclesfield-based phone recycling firm Eazyfone finished fifth in the list after reporting sales of £6.2m in the year to the end of August – up 176 per cent over a three-year period.

Altrincham-based gifts firm Gettingpersonal.co.uk made the list after improving sales by 149 per cent to £6.3m, Wythenshawe-based Myprotein.co.uk sales were up 126 per cent to £9.8m, healthcare recruitment firm Fine Green Associates' sales were up 103 per cent to £10.9m and Easi-Drive Accident Management Services recorded sales up by 81 per cent to £12.9m.

Other Greater Manchester firms on the sales included streetwear brand Henleys Clothing, Cheadle-based licensed textiles firm Character World and Oldham-based Applied Languiage Solutions. B&M Retail, the discount chain headquartered in Blackpool but owned by Wilmslow-based brothers Simon and Bobby Arora is the largest firm on the list, with sales of £256m and more than 3,100 staff.

Sir Richard Branson of Fast Track 100 sponsor Virgin said that the past 12 months had been “one of the toughest I remember in business, but the fear of early part of 2009 has been replaced by an optimnism that we will find a way through”.

“This sense of optimism is reflected in the sterling performance of the Fast Track 100 companies.”

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