Fast 50 | Food & Beverage | 2025

Food & Beverage Fast 50 methodology

The Fast 50 ranks the fastest-growing privately-owned food & beverage businesses in the UK by compound annual sales growth rate (CAGR) over a two-year period.

Qualification criteria and research approach

To qualify, companies needed to have sales exceeding £3m in the last available year, three consecutive years of accounts available and needed to be registered in the UK as independent and unquoted. Abbreviated accounts at Companies House were excluded unless permission was otherwise authorised. Companies that have any shares or other financial instruments listed on a stock exchange, or where their shares are held by any unquoted, quoted UK or overseas company, did not qualify for inclusion.