Adare Enters Top 250 Company League Table

Adare's success following its GBP119.5m management buy-out earlier this year has been recognised with a placing in The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250.

Adare's success following its GBP119.5m management buy-out earlier this year has been recognised with a placing in The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250.

The marketing and corporate communications provider was placed at 162nd in the 250 UK business league, ahead of household names such as Manchester United, Virgin Active and Travelodge.

Top Track 250 ranks Britain's biggest middle-market companies, based on sales in their latest accounts.

This year has seen the Yorkshire (UK) company consolidating its position as a print and marketing communication provider with a new executive team in place and a shift in the company's strategic direction.

Adare chief executive, Robert Whiteside, said: "Adare has made its reputation over the years through its print management skills and services and, despite the market changing remarkably, Adare has been able to stay ahead of its competitors by recognising and honing its service delivery to meet exacting client needs.

That process is continually evolving to suit changing client requirements, hence our shift towards offering marketing and corporate communications that provide a more rounded communications service that not only encompasses print management but also our significant expertise in packaging, transactional services, direct marketing, point of sale data management and design." He added: "By using all these skills we enable our clients to communicate their chosen messages to their target audiences in the most effective and inspiring way.

And by providing exactly what our diverse range of clients need we are confident the company will continue to grow and claim an even higher placing in the Top Track 250 next year." Adare's group finance director, Clinton Everard, was present to collect the award at the Top Track 250 Directors' dinner in London.

He commented: "Receiving our award as one the UK's Top Track 250 companies is testimony to the significance of Adare in terms of our scale and the contribution, as a major employer, we make to the UK economy.

Having successfully completed the transition of Adare's head office from Dublin to Yorkshire and invested in what we believe is a market leading sales and business development resource, management is confident that we are well placed to maximise Adare's significant potential by delivering a well prepared and structured strategic plan." The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 said, in its listings: "Adare provides print management for clients such as HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland and Danone, and offers marketing and communications services to its customers.

The company also owns the network of franchised digital printing centres - Kall Kwik and Prontaprint.

Following a GBP119.5m management buy-out led by Robert Whiteside in March, the new executive team hopes to expand Adare's successful model to Europe.

The company employs about 1,100 staff across 17 locations and posted sales of GBP177.8m in 2005.".

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