Fourteen recruitment consultancies and one supplier to the sector have earned place on the 15th annual The Sunday Times 2011 Fast Track league table.

The league table ranks the UK’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales over their last three years.

According to the The Sunday Times, a typical Fast Track 100 company:

• is owned and run by entrepreneurs
• has between 50 and 250 staff
• has average three-year sales growth ranging between 50% and 400% per annum
• has sales ranging between £5m and £500m (typically £5m-£100m)

20% of the companies have venture capital banking.

The recruitment consultancies recognised in this year’s rankings were:

• 12: Austin Fraser
• 23: La Fosse Associates
• 33: Pathology Group
• 44: Mayday Healthcare
• 46: Liquid Personnel
• 48: Clinical Professionals
• 51: Oliver James Associates
• 66: Timothy James Consulting
• 72: Intuition IT Solutions
• 77: Whitehall Resources
• 84: KennedyPearce Consulting
• 87: Next Ventures
• 92: TeacherActive
• 97: Thomson Keene Associates

Payroll services provider to the recruitment industry Liquid Friday was placed at 22.

See the February 2012 issue of Recruiter for the recruitment sector’s Fast 50.