stop destination for equipment hire and sales, and Lifting Projects, which offers contract lifting, skilled labour auditing and consultation. The group has also developed a training division based in Bridgwater which has been enlisted to provide its services for the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station.
64 2019: 92
Golden Age Holdings, Blackpool
Family-owned Golden Age designs, manufactures and supplies decorative lighting to the hospitality, leisure and marine markets. The company won a Queen’s Award for its export success and secured a bumper turnover of £13.6m last year after developing and bringing a number of new products to market.
63 2019: 47
R&J Builders Hardware, Blackburn
R&J Builders Hardware owns and operates a three-acre site in Blackburn, from which it sells plastering, joinery, gardening, plumbing and safety equipment. The second-generation family firm has been established for more than 40 years, employs more than 100 and has a fleet of vehicles supplying customers throughout the UK.
60 New entry
CP Davidson & Son, Chorley
62 2019: 91 Ansuka Services, Burnley
The Ansuka group is made up of engineering companies providing a range of services such as machined, welded and assembled aluminium components, steel products and hot and cold forgings. Between its subsidiaries, BCW Manufacturing, Greener Industrial Solutions, Track Machine Tools and KBC Sales, the group invested more than £5m in upgrading its assets, and a further £1m in research and development.
CPD is the only UK-based commercial vehicles specialist to build refuse collection food waste vehicles and highway gritters. The company sells its products new and used, and offers them out for contract hire, backed by maintenance and parts services.
59 2019: 62 J Holland & Sons, Preston
Holland Leisure operates four amusement and arcade sites across the UK, registering a total income of £6.8m.
61 2019: 57
Matthew Kibble Transport, Nelson
Matthew Kibble offers haulage services from its headquarters in Nelson, where a four-acre site houses a 35,000 sq ft warehouse and a fleet of vehicles ranging from 7.5t to 44t tractor units. The group also includes FullForce Pallet Distribution and Shakespeare Transport.
57 New entry
Ashbridge School, Preston
Ashbridge incorporates a nursery for children up to four years, an independent day school for ages four to 11, Ashbridge-on-Ribble Day Nursery, The Fledglings Day Nursery in Bilsborrow, and a dedicated holiday service. Last year, the school opened Maxy Farm, a day nursery which added capacity for 63 more children and increased total revenues by nearly £1m.
56 2019: 75 Carron Lodge, Preston
Carron Lodge is a manufacturer and wholesale supplier of cheeses and related fine foods, including olives and pates. The family farm is home to 400 Holstein-Friesian cows and 30 water buffalo which provide the milk for cheeses that have been recognised at the International Cheese Awards. The company’s three distribution depots and fleet of refrigerated vehicles make its more than 2,000 products available for next-day delivery around the UK.
55 2019: 33
Service Care Solutions, Preston
Service Care Solutions, founded in 2005, provides recruitment services for a range of specialist sectors, including social work and social housing, criminal justice, mental health and substance misuse. It has since expanded to serve the legal,
58 2019: 20
Lyndhurst Shoe Company, Rawtenstall
LSC designs footwear including trainers, sandals and workwear, which are supplied to high street and out-of-town retailers on a wholesale basis. The company was founded in 1985 and began importing products from the Far East four years later.
construction, business support and healthcare sectors. Across all industries, the company reported turnover of £41m.
54 2019: 68
Smiths Equipment Hire, Blackpool
Smiths Equipment Hire, which was founded more than 150 years ago as a coal merchant, now specialises in the hire of plant, equipment and DIY tools and delivers related training courses. Opening a new depot in Leeds, its 12th to date, improved revenues this year and cutting the ribbon on additional branches in Formby and Southport should see the upward trend continue.
53 2019: 82 B&E Boys, Waterfoot
B&E Boys was founded by Brian and Elaine Boys as a joinery business in 1961, and has grown into a major construction and property investment company with interests in both the housing and commercial sectors. The company owns and lets more than 500 properties in Lancashire and, together with its design, build and maintenance work, registered a total income of nearly £10m.
52 New entry
Rinus Roofing Supplies, Darwen
Rinus Roofing Supplies, which incorporates The Roof Hub, Rinus Roofline and Mersey Slate & Tile, is a national network of roofing supplies merchants. Markets served included new- build homes, social housing, refurbishment, industrial and commercial, and agriculture. Double-digit growth across the year saw sales climb to £57.8m.
51 New entry
Building Careers UK, Skelmersdale
BCUK, founded in 2007, provides permanent and temporary staffing into the construction and property sector, spanning architecture, engineering, facilities management and more.
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