Southern Tech 150 listing: 2021 edition now published


The 2021 listing launches with IT products supplier Westcoast topping the list followed by Urenco, nuclear fuel company, and telecommunications company Arqiva.


The annual Southern Tech 150 is a listing of the leading privately-owned technology companies (by sales turnover) based in the South East, compiled and published by The Business Magazine using recognised data sources such as Companies House.


More than 60% of the companies that qualified for this year’s listing are new additions, and cumulatively the 150 companies have an annual turnover of £13,463 million.


This compares to last year’s cumulative total of £8,253.7m from the 100 companies listed.


This year’s cohort also employ an impressive 40,396 staff compared to last year’s total of 24,513 from 100 companies.


The Listing programme will culminate in a private awards dinner, as a live event, in February 2022.


The 2021 edition of the listing is sponsored by office design specialists Morgan Lovell and software and technology recruitment specialists Spectrum IT Recruitment.


Top 15 companies of the Southern Tech 150 listing 2021 Company


Town


1 Westcoast 2 Urenco 3 Arqiva


4 Utilita 6 Cornerstone 7 Adare International


Theale Slough


Eastleigh 5 MAT Foundry Group Poole Theale Basingstoke


8 IRIS Software Group Datchet 9 James Walker Group Woking


10 Digital Wholesale Solutions


11 LURI (GreenTech Distribution)


12 Centerprise International


13 Bullitt Group


14 Ultima Business Solutions


15 Oxford Nanopore Technologies


Description IT products supplier


Winchester Communication infrastructure


Turnover £m


Previous year


Employees Year-end 3,524.6 2,836.7 1,458


Nuclear services technology 1,521.5 1,527.0 1,553 881.2 1,000.0 1864


Smart energy experts


Casting & machining technology


Mobile infrastructure services


Digital marketing services Software for accountants


Sealing, track fixation & vibration attenuation


Chandler’s Ford Digital communications 823.0 856.5 341.2 340.9


234.3 222.5 181.7


145.0 High Wycombe Telecom equipment supplier 132.5 Basingstoke Reading Reading Oxford IT solutions


Smartphone app development


IT infrastructure solutions Analysis tech 123.8 191.4 1,384 351.8 378.6 2,657 172 686


195.0 1,778 199.4 1,979


106.7 139.4 91.3 122.6 118.3 273 74 187 144 118.6 125.0 389 113.9 52.1 527


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