Hot sectors Sector
Construction Manufacturing Property
Motor Trade Other Retail
Leisure
Human Resourcing Food Prep
Financial Services Haulage Health
Company count
31 16 8 7 7 6 5 4 3 2 2 2
Total sales
£626,777,750 £367,639,827 £134,935,931 £209,036,954 £123,470,275 £126,273,354 £52,503,561 £107,736,610 £99,962,840 £51,542,460 £43,843,955 £20,937,592
Total pre-tax profit
£58,190,338 £62,985,641 £18,706,055 £24,532,779 £8,159,186 £11,987,646 £7,262,076 £5,604,554 £4,753,332 £4,287,279 £2,521,179 £3,617,949
Total employees
3,542 1,946 1,036 824 585 379 572 434 236 215 367 640
11 2019: 22 Star Tissue, Blackburn
Star Tissue manufactures hygiene paper products including facial tissues, kitchen towels and toilet tissues. A trend for year-on-year growth continued with a 20 per cent increase in sales over the last 12 months, and the imminent addition of a 30,000 sq ft facility to its Blackburn site will increase production capacity further.
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system parts for diesel engines. The company also manufactures the machinery required to service and test fuel systems for all types of diesel engines, including large machine engines and generators. It operates out of a 25,000 sq ft production facility and stocks 50,000 parts which are bought by customers in more than 100 countries. The Merlin group added £3m in annual revenue with the acquisition of Feather Diesel Services last year.
7 2019: 4
Hurt Plant Hire, Preston
9 2019: 36
Hills Salvage & Recycling, Skelmersdale
10 2019: 12
Merlin Diesel Systems, Preston
Merlin Diesel Systems services and supplies aftermarket fuel
Hills collects, dismantles and distributes parts from end-of-life vehicles, recycling a minimum of 95 per cent of each vehicle it processes. The group also includes Green Parts Specialist, a newly-launched platform which helps buyers locate the exact parts required for their vehicles, and promises to be an even more environmentally- friendly solution than recycling.
8 2019: 8
Affordable Aluminium, Poulton-le-Fylde
Affordable Aluminium manufactures and supplies aluminium windows, doors and roofing systems. Fabricating takes place in its purpose-built 200,000sq ft facility on the Fylde Coast, where it employs more than 200. Total revenues exceeded £30m, a year-on-year increase of more than 15 per cent.
Clive Hurt Plant Hire supplies plant machinery throughout the North West, Greater Manchester and North Wales. The company holds an inventory of more than 300 items and 70 wagons, with an average age of less than three years. The Hurt Plant Hire group also contains a training services division, which is a fully accredited training centre within the Construction Industry Training Board CPCS and City & Guilds Registration Scheme. It also owns and operates a quarry on Anglesey.
6 New entry
Landway Properties, Nelson
Landway is a residential housebuilder which has completed projects across Lancashire. Its most recent year was particularly successful, increasing turnover from £10.6m to £15.3m.
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