56 HOT 100


11 2021: 89


Leisure Lakes Bikes, Leyland


Leisure Lakes Bikes has evolved from a single windsurfing shop to a bicycle retailer with 11 stores across the UK backed by a popular e-commerce operation. Over the year, the company capitalised on an increase in demand for bikes, with its electric range performing especially well.


Hot 10 profit as a percentage of turnover


1 Pro Investments


65 Safe World Insurance 97 MIPD


4 Heatmiser


18 Plastic and Rubber Group 7 Norpol Recycling


2 Community Health and Eyecare 8 Ryecourt


3 Conexus Medstaff 15 Barnfield


10 2021: 6 NCO Europe, Preston


NCO offers outsourced customer care, specialising in handling debt repayment. The company completed a buyout from its American owners in 2019 and today employs a multilingual staff of 400 in its city centre premises.


and nursing home industry, and construction firm K&B Property.


7 2021: 4 Norpol Recycling, Nelson 9 2021: 10


Affordable Aluminium, Poulton-le-Fylde


Affordable Aluminium manufactures and supplies aluminium windows, doors and roofing systems. From its purpose-built 200,000 sq ft facility on the Fylde coast, the company serves a customer base stretching from Scotland to Cornwall to the Channel Islands.


8 2021: 24 Ryecourt, Fleetwood


The Ryecourt group consists of a portfolio of care homes located along the Fylde coast, also known as Belsfield Care. Over the year, the company was able to maintain occupancy levels across its three properties at 98.8 per cent, against a North West industry average of 81 per cent. The group also includes T&S Healthcare, which supplies products to the care


3 5 2021: 1


Silicone Engineering, Blackburn


SEL manufactures silicone rubber for sealing, insulation and


New entry


Conexus Medstaff, Skelmersdale


Conexus Medstaff is a British- owned family firm which specialises in recruiting and placing international nurses into hospitals


Norpol is a recycling firm which has expanded beyond its original specialism in polythene and plastics to handle all types of dry recyclables such as PVC window frames, car bumpers and crates as well as cardboard, paper and commingled items such as plastic bottles, glass and cans.


6 2021: 5


Landway Properties, Nelson


Landway is a residential housebuilder which has completed projects across the North West. Owing to an increased demand for new homes, the company registered another year of multi- million-pound growth, increasing turnover from £20.3m to £22.9m.


protection of applications in a wide range of industrial sectors. The company is a pioneer in the use of silicone as an alternative to plastic - it offers a longer lifespan especially at elevated temperatures - and has developed more than 2,000 silicone formulations for industries including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and drink and oil and gas.


4 2021: 11 Heatmiser, Blackburn


Heatmiser manufactures a range of heating controls under its own brand and on behalf of other brands. Global demand continues to grow, especially for smart home thermostats which can work in conjunction with popular devices such as Alexa and Google Home. Despite a brief period where the company had limited access to its manufacturing base in China, overall sales across the year increased from £11.3m to £18m.


2 New entry


Community Health and Eyecare, Preston


Community Health and Eyecare provides ophthalmology services, treating conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma and wet macular degeneration. The group was first brought together in March 2020, collecting more than 100 sites under one umbrella, including its first surgical centre which opened in Stoke-on-Trent in 2019. For the entire group, total revenues reached £21.7m, and further companies have been added following the accounting period.


1 New entry Pro Investments, Chorley


Pro Investments owns a portfolio of industrial and commercial properties worth in the region of £160m, including the Botany Bay retail site which is currently under redevelopment. The owners typically delegate property management and provision of services to clients to third-party companies. Some of the increase in profits can be attributed to extending the accounting period to 14 months to bring it in line with other group companies. However, £17m profit was made on the sale of investments and the increase in rental income, from £10.2m to £13.2m, represented a pro-rata increase in revenues across the year.


172% 103% 65% 43% 42% 40% 39% 36% 34% 32%


in the USA. It was a turbulent year for the organisation. The early days of the Covid-19 pandemic saw many elective surgeries cancelled and the immigration process was delayed throughout. However, as the pandemic continued, it created unprecedented demand for nurses, not only through increased patient numbers but also due the additional staff required to cover for those who needed to isolate or faced mental burnout and trauma. While the effects of Covid-19 subside, Conexus predicts strong demand for nursing to continue due to the county’s ageing population.


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