13.06.2016
Cranes & access Fast Track
Two companies in the crane and access sector have made it in to this year’s UK Fast Track league of 200 mid-market independent companies with the fastest export growth.
This year Nylacast, which produces plastic components including wear pads and outrigger mats, was 150 in the chart with an average annual growth of 23 percent with annual revenues of £33.5 million of which £26.7 million are overseas. Access rental company AFI-Uplift came in at 196 with average growth of 16.5 percent with £9.5 million of its £63.3 million of revenues coming from overseas, mostly in the Middle East. In both cases the data was supplied by the companies, rather than obtained from public filings.
The report only charts percentage growth over the past two years among companies that have revenues in the latest year of more than £25 million and over £1 million and five percent in exports. Still it is unusual that companies in our field make it into this type of chart.
Sherm
Growth in business has always been a challenge to me. In business management goals and plans can be made and written then executed. But sometimes the unexpected happens to cause setbacks. I love sayings and one I often recall is The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. As I read this news of Nylacast and AFI-Uplift I thought how they must be to have the dominoes fall in their direction and at the best speed.
The author Charles R. Swindoll nailed it in 1980 when he wrote Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back; persevering through pressure. In 1981 he authored Dropping Your Guard: The Value of Open Relationships and in 1982 he penned Improving Your Serve, The Art of Unselfish Living. I liked the titles so much I bought the three books but never read them. They are now off the library shelf and on the reading stack.