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The FT1000: Europe’s Quickest Rising Corporations 2025 rating highlights enterprise development tales throughout the continent throughout a difficult financial interval.
Compiled with knowledge analysis firm Statista, the checklist ranks 1,000 corporations by compound annual development fee (CAGR) between 2020 and 2023.
The 2025 rating is topped by Menlo Electrical, a Polish provider of photovoltaic panels and inverters, with a CAGR of 830.8 per cent. In second place is Allica, a UK-based banking platform serving small and medium enterprises, with a CAGR of 652 per cent. German cell promoting and advertising and marketing platform Almedia is positioned third, at 473.6 per cent. (Continues under rating.)
Italy, Germany, France and the UK account for greater than three quarters of the businesses within the rating.
The IT and software program class contributes a fifth of the FT1000 corporations, rising to half when mixed with these in building and engineering; power and utilities; promoting and advertising and marketing; and fintech, monetary providers and insurance coverage.
The complete FT1000: Europe’s Quickest Rising Corporations report publishes on-line and in print on March 27, exploring sectors, international locations, developments and standout examples.
Methodology
The FT1000 checklist is a rating of 1,000 corporations by the very best proportion compound annual development fee (CAGR) in revenues between 2020 and 2023.
The venture was marketed on-line and in print, permitting eligible corporations to register by way of the web sites created by Statista and the Monetary Instances. Statista moreover recognized tens of hundreds of companies as potential candidates by means of analysis in firm databases and different public sources. These corporations have been invited to take part by publish, e-mail and phone.
Apply for the 2026 FT1000 rating
Corporations wishing to be assessed for the following version of the FT1000: Europe’s Quickest Rising Corporations rating can preregister here. The formal software interval will begin in September.
The applying section ran from September 1 to November 30, 2024. Submitted income figures have been licensed by corporations’ chief monetary officer, chief govt or a member of the manager committee.
The FT1000 rating was created by means of a fancy process. Though the analysis was intensive, the rating doesn’t declare to be full, as some corporations didn’t want to make their figures public or didn’t take part for different causes.
Standards for inclusion
Corporations needed to meet the next standards:
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Income of no less than €100,000 generated in 2020;
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Income of no less than €1.5mn generated in 2023;
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It have to be an unbiased firm (not a subsidiary or department workplace of any variety);
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Income development between 2020 and 2023 needed to be primarily natural (ie “internally” stimulated);
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Corporations with three or fewer workers or corporations that aren’t authorized entities have been required to ship additional proof regarding income numbers.
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Corporations headquartered in these international locations have been eligible to take part: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Eire, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
Calculation of CAGR
The calculation of corporations’ compound annual development fee (CAGR) is predicated on income figures submitted of their respective nationwide currencies. For comparability, income figures have been transformed into euros utilizing the typical trade fee for the monetary yr indicated by the corporate.
Analysis and high quality assurance
All knowledge reported by the businesses was processed and checked by Statista. Any lacking knowledge entries (eg worker numbers, tackle and so forth) have been researched intimately. Corporations that didn’t fulfil the factors for inclusion within the rating have been excluded. The minimal common development fee required to be included within the rating this yr was 34.8 per cent.
