Catering Academy break into illustrious
Sunday Times Fast Track 100 top 10
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NATIONAL independent contract catering company, Catering
Academy have secured an impressive top 10 position in the high profile
Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list of companies 2009.
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Beating off competition from hundreds of UK companies,
Catering Academy came in within the top echelon of the list
with an impressive 10th position.
The Fast Track league table is a barometer
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of the UK's most successful
businesses which is awarded for the individual success of private
companies by analysing and researching their growth in terms of annual
turnover compared to that of previous years.
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Another key component to the research process requires all companies featured in the table to
record a year on year profit as well as significant sales growth.
Catering Academy secured this accolade
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with sales growth of 156% year on year.
Given the fact that the company was only formed 5 years ago the annualised £855,000
in 2005 to £14.3m in 2008 is even more impressive when you consider how the
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economic landscape has altered so dramatically over the last year.
Richard Branson, Founder and President of the Virgin Group, who sponsor the Fast Track
100, praised the businesses featured in the list for showing through
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entrepreneurship and innovation it's possible to weather a tough year and inspire a sense of
optimism for the future. The Fast Track 100 conference and awards dinner will be held at
Richard Branson's
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family home in Kidlington, Oxfordshire on Wednesday, 12 May 2010.
Speaking about their recent success, Louise Wymer, Catering
Academy Director commented: "Just to be nominated in the
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Sunday Times Fast Track 100 is an honour in itself,
then to be included was a dream come true, but to be ranked within the top 10
is a phenomenal accomplishment for the team at Catering Academy.
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To enter the table so highly in a year that has been publicly
slammed as economically uncertain is an indicator of how hard all
our staff, managers and Directors work throughout the year to
make such an achievement possible."
