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Thames Valley Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table


The High Wycombe-based door manufacturer Origin ran away with the Thames Valley honours in the latest table.


The company was the only one in the region to make the top 50 in the table, which measures success over the latest two years of available accounts. Its international sales of £2.6m in 2017 gave an annual 82% average rise over the two- year period for 47th place.


Origin was founded in 2002 by cousins Neil Ginger and Victoria Brocklesby, and made its international debut in 2011 when it set up a showroom in Dubai. Now it manufactures luxury aluminium sliding doors and windows in Oxfordshire and Florida.


It launched in America four years ago, which has helped total sales to £35m, with the staff total having grown to over 250.


Six more companies from the region made the top 100, headed by Reading-based Austin Fraser (56th) which places staff in the technology, digital, life sciences, automation and aviation sectors.


Peter Hart and Derek Simpson launched this consultancy 12 years ago and it now has six offices in Britain, Germany and America, having opened a branch in Dallas in October. International sales hit £15.5m in 2018, giving an annual average of 77%, and it now employs some 160 people.


The Sunbury-based AVMi (71st), which was formed in 1990 to supply flip charts


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and overhead projectors, now helps more than 800 businesses integrate hi-tech audiovisual systems used in meeting rooms and event spaces, as well as shops and courtrooms.


Offices in New York and Hong Kong boosted international sales to £6.3m in 2018 (average rise 68%). It is led by chief executive Edward Cook and backed by the private equity firm Alcuin Capital.


Westcoast (82nd), the Reading technology distributor founded in 1984 by chairman Joe Hemani, distributes IT products and services to more than 14,000 customers in the UK and Europe. In 2016 it bought a division of Adveo, which supplies ink and toners to businesses across France, which helped international sales hit £437.1m in 2017 (average 65% rise).


The world’s largest live-theatre company, Woking-based Ambassador Theatre Group (88th), has almost 50 venues across Britain, America and Germany with its West End and Broadway theatres home to box-office hits such as The Lion King. It also produces shows and runs a ticketing division.


Majority-owned by Providence Equity Partners and led by chief executive Mark Cornell, international sales hit £155.8m in 2018 (average 62% rise).


Oxford Economics (93rd) was set up in 1981 by John Walker in partnership with the then Templeton College to provide tailored economic analysis on hundreds of


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countries, industries and significant events, such as Brexit. Subsidiaries and sister companies on five continents boosted overseas sales to £9.4m in 2017 (up 60%) under chief executive Adrian Cooper.


Hungerford-based Kerridge Commercial Systems (98th) supplies business management software to 15,000 global customers. Chief executive Ian Bendelow led a management buyout from the US parent company in 2010, backed by a £9m investment from private equity firm NVM, and in 2015 led a secondary buyout backed by tech investor Accel-KKR. Exports were £30.5m in 2018, up 58%.


Other companies in the lower half of the table were: Wireless Logic, the technology platform provider at Hurley near Maidenhead 101st in table, exports up 57%); Mint Velvet, the High Wycombe womenswear retailer (103rd, up 57%); Teneo, the Reading IT consultancy (106th, up 56%); Bullitt Group, the Reading consumer electronics designer (115th, up 54%); Silbury, the Banbury food ingredients supplier (116th, up 54%); Canagan, the pet food supplier based at Wooburn Green (138th up 47%); Cennox, the banking automation services group at Camberley (157th, up 43%); and JSP, the Minster Lovell safety product manufacturer (187th, up 34%).


The International Track 200 league table is produced annually by Oxford-based Fast Track.


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