Real Business

Our ranking of this year's fastest growing private companies, based on financial data supplied by Jordans. Size does matter here.

Since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy at the tail end of 2008, the economy has been teetering on the edge of a cliff. A woeful 24,368 companies had to shut up shop last year. Public debt soared to £844.5bn – the equivalent of 60.2 per cent of GDP. And the financial crisis threw every region of the UK back to the jobless levels of 1999, with 1.6 million people claiming job seeker’s allowance.

Topping our Hot 100 list in 2010, this family-owned timber firm is built on years of sturdy experience and nerves of steel. Raking in sales of £72.3m, meet International Plywood, the UK's fastest growing company.

The devil is in the detail. Check out who does what, and who you have to beat to make it into next year's ranking of the UK's fastest-growing firms.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing firms, 11 through 20.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing firms, 21 through 30.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing businesses, 31 through 40.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing businesses, 41 through 50.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing companies, 51 through 60.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing companies, 61 through 70.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing companies, 71 through 80.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing companies, 81 through 90.

Check out the UK's fastest-growing firms, 91 through 100.