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technology provider, exports £8.3m, average rise 56%.


Origin (76th), High Wycombe door and window manufacturer, exports £3.9m, average rise 55%.


Adare International (83rd), Basingstoke marketing services provider, exports £143m, average rise 52%.


Austin Fraser (84th), Reading recruitment consultancy, exports £25.2m, average rise 52%.


Silbury (91st), Banbury food ingredients provider, exports £6.2m, average rise 50%.


Purdicom (132nd), Wantage wireless network provider, exports £3.2m, average rise 41%.


Ambassador Theatre Group (157th), Woking live entertainment operator, exports £235m, average rise 35%.


Solventis (188th), Guildford solvent distributor, exports £165m, average rise 31%.


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A Gosport-based family business that supplies the manufacturing sector with cleaning equipment was the only company from the Solent area to make the top 50 in the latest table.


Kingsbury, which also makes German machine tools such as milling machines, lathes and 3D printing machines, gained ninth place in the table which ranks Britain’s mid-market private companies with the fastest- growing international sales.


The group also includes timber merchant Alsford Timber, which has 19 outlets in south-east England, and in 2018 it set up a subsidiary in Dubai.


International sales reached almost £5.4m (from total sales of £86m), setting an average for the previous two years of 173%. Managing director Richard Kingsbury heads the group which was founded in 1956 and now employs over 300 people.


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Six other companies from the region also made the table, led by Southampton-based boat retailer Ancasta Group in 53rd place with exports of £13.5m (average rise 67%) from total sales of £30m.


Named after a Celtic goddess, the group sells about 500 boats a year, including Beneteau and Prestige yachts and Lagoon catamarans. It also offers rigging, refit and repair at its premises in Marseilles, Mallorca, Andalusia and Barcelona.


The company – with a staff of 75 under managing director Nick Griffith – also has a specialist racing boats business which it has expanded to New Zealand.


Adare International (83rd) provides marketing services from 66 locations across six continents. It works with more than 50 brands, including Coca-Cola, which awarded it a €240m contract in 2017 to supply promotional goods and printing services across Europe.


Previously part of Adare Group, it became a standalone company in 2017, based at Basingstoke and led by chief executive Andrew Dutton. Owned by private equity firm Endless and with a staff of nearly 600, it saw overseas sales grow to £143.8m in 2018 (rising 50% from total sales of £191m), boosted by expansion in Latin America.


Chandler’s Ford-based pump manufacturer Selwood made 90th place with exports of £8.2m from total sales of £83m. The company’s


low emission pumps have been supplied to contractors working on the Paris Métro expansion project.


It provides pumps and other plant for the construction, environmental and water industries from 26 branches across the UK. It also has a network of distributors spanning six continents.


In 2018 it completed the £10m acquisition of water-treatment operation Siltbuster. Richard Brown took over as chief executive in December and has a staff of about 570.


Three other companies made the lower half of the UK growth table. Fatface, the Havant-based clothing retailer, made 118th with exports of £15.6m (up 43%) from total sales of £241m; Vohkus, the Southampton technology provider, was in 128th place with exports of £9.2m (up 41%) from total sales of £97m; and CT Automotive, the Portsmouth- based parts supplier – the only one of the seven featured from the region to have made the table for the second successive year – squeezed in at 200 with exports of £58.5m (up 28%) from total sales of almost £87m.


* The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 is compiled by Oxford-based Fast Track.


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