Introduction to sponsorship: Targeting the UK s fastest-growing private tech companies

Introduction to sponsorship: Targeting the UK s fastest-growing private tech companies

Overview: meet UK s fastest-growing private tech companies Opportunity for new business development and profile raising among the UK s private tech companies with the fastest-growing sales ranging between 5m and 50m Become a main sponsor of our 18 th annual Sunday Times Tech Track 100 league table supplement and awards programme to meet face-to-face and do business with their founders, CEOs and FDs at: - company visits - awards dinner - alumni dinners Supplement published on 9 September 2018 and awards dinner on 6 November 2018 Co-sponsor alongside title sponsor Hiscox (7 yrs), and main sponsors Barclays (11 yrs tbc), BDO (6 yrs), BGF (5 yrs) and N+1 Singer (3 yrs) For further details and costs contact: Hamish Stevenson on 01865 297100 or hamish.stevenson@fasttrack.co.uk 2

Introduction The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 is in its 18 th year and ranks the UK s private technology companies with the fastest-growing sales: Sales typically between 5m and 50m Average annual growth rates over latest 3 years from 40% to 300% pa 10 1,000 staff, average growth rate over 3 years of 90% pa creating 12,000 jobs 68% are backed by private equity/venture capital/business angels 80% operate internationally Fast Track helps sponsors to win new business from the owners and directors of the UK s topperforming private companies, ranging from the fastest-growing to the biggest, through seven private company annual league table and awards event programmes with The Sunday Times. Over the past 17 years over 1,000 companies have featured on Tech Track 100, including success stories such as: 1997 2002 2006-2007 2011-2012 2013 2010-2016 Featured on Fast Track 100 with sales of 17m; floated in 1998 and sold to SoftBank for 24.4bn in 2016. Featured with sales of 23m; floated in 2015 valued at 1bn. Featured with sales of 143m; floated in 2010 and now worth 1.9bn. Featured with sales of 18m; floated in 2014 and now valued at 4.2bn. Featured with sales of 36m; floated in 2014 with a valuation of 1bn. Featured with sales of 9m; bought by Ctrip in 2016 valued at 1.4bn. 3

Example companies & dinner guests Sales 50m+ 68% backed by PE/VC/business angels 54% owned by founders, family or management Recent companies 5m Alumni companies 4

Deliverables Supplement and tablet edition with The Sunday Times on 9 September 2018 Sponsor branding, guest article and ad in supplement - Broadsheet: Sponsor logo on front cover of masthead, quarter-page article (725w) and quarter-page ad - Tablet edition: Sponsor logo on front cover, article and a full screen colour ad Awards dinner on 6 November 2018 (220+ guests) Sponsors co-host the dinner with the business editor of The Sunday Times at The Brewery in London - Targeted networking and seating for 10 sponsor representatives - Sponsor presentation of a special category award chosen by sponsor - Prominent branding in programme and on stage Promotional activity Sponsor branding in pre-publication advertising in The Sunday Times & The Times and named in press releases; branding on Fast Track website and social media Tailored (extra cost) Additional sponsor deliverables for business development and profile raising Company visits (up to 25): sponsor can choose companies to visit from those shortlisted for the league table or for Ones to Watch award Alumni dinners (20-30 guests): sponsor can host bespoke dinners for alumni companies chosen from, for example: region, sector, or job roles i.e. CEOs, FDs or non-exec chairmen Bespoke research: including content and research reports 5

About Fast Track Fast Track helps sponsors to win new business from the owners and directors of the UK s top-performing private companies, ranging from the fastest-growing to the biggest We run seven private company annual league table and awards event programmes with The Sunday Times and have a proven 21-year record of delivering good ROI for our sponsors, which are given exclusivity in their sector on each league table they sponsor More than 4,750 companies have featured on our league tables over the years they represent half of the UK s c2,300 private companies with operating profits of over 3m, and almost all with profits over 20m or sales over 250m; and founders and directors of these companies continue to attend our alumni dinners as speakers and guests Fast Track is an independent company owned and run by Dr Hamish Stevenson, who founded it in 1997 with support from Sir Richard Branson; and who holds an associate fellowship at Green Templeton College, Oxford University The company is based in Oxford with 31 staff and a network of freelancers; and Luke Johnson is chairman of Fast Track s advisory board 6

League table programmes in 2018 Smallest sales SME with fastestgrowing exports Published since 2015 Tech (TMT) with fastest-growing sales 2001 Fastest-growing sales (exc. TMT) Fastest-growing international sales Fastest-growing profits Mid-market growth Biggest sales 1997 2010 2000 2005 2002 Biggest sales League table Sales 5m - 25m 2yr int sales 30% - 280% * Compound annual growth rate Sales 5m - 50m 3yr sales 40% - 300% Sales 5m - 100m 3yr sales 45% - 230% Sales 25m - 200m 2yr int sales 15% - 300% Sales 20m - 350m 3yr profit 50% - 180% Sales 110m - 650m Growth min 5% in latest sales/profits Sales Profits 630m - 20bn up to 2.5bn Dates Publication: 25 Feb Awards: 1 May 9 September 6 November 2 December May 2019 tbc 10 June 11 September 8 April 7 June 7 October 20 November 8 July 9, 31 Oct & 14 Nov Sponsors Alumni Recent companies Lloyds Bank Heathrow DHL Express Exporting is GREAT 3 rd yr 3 rd yr Virgin 2 Hiscox 7 th yr [+4] Barclays 8 th yr Barclays 11 th yr BDO 5 th yr [+2] BDO 5 th yr [+4] BGF 6 th yr BGF 5 th yr Virgin Media Business 3 rd yr N+1 Singer 3 rd yr N+1 Singer 3 rd yr Microsoft [8], PwC [7], ARM [3] PwC [10], Microsoft [7], HSBC [6] HSBC DHL Express all 9 yrs BDO UBS 5 th yr 16 th yr PwC [14], Lloyds Bank [13], Microsoft [3] Grant Thornton Lloyds Bank HPE Trowers & Hamlins HSBC [7], Barclays [4], KPMG [3], PwC [2] 9 th yr 3 rd yr HSBC 5 th yr Linklaters 5 th yr PwC KPMG [6], Deloitte & TPG [4], Credit Suisse [3], BDO [2] 7

Fast Track s sponsors 21 yrs 17 yrs 16 yrs 16 yrs 15 yrs 11 yrs Current 11 yrs 11 yrs 9 yrs 6 yrs 5 yrs 4 yrs 3 yrs 3 yrs 3 yrs 2 yrs 2 yrs 2 yrs Past incl 8 yrs 8 yrs 6 yrs 6 yrs 4 yrs 8