THREE companies in the Bradford district have won places on the league table of Britain’s fastest growing global sales stars.

Published this weekend, the 10th annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table ranks Britain’s mid-market private companies with the fastest-growing international sales.

In total, 16 companies headquartered in Yorkshire made the list and include six new entrants. Collectively they have grown international sales by an average of 75 per cent a year over the last two years to a total of £550m and employ over 10,400 people.

One of the new faces is Keighley-based Brook Taverner, in Haincliffe Road, which is ranked at 197. The company was founded in 1912 when Frank Brook and Walter Taverner started selling buttons to tailors.

Today, with 124 staff, it supplies formal corporate clothing to the likes of Audi and Sofitel, helping growth in international sales by 31 per cent to hit £5m, on total sales of £30.6m, in 2017.

Other local enterprises which grace the table include CCL Computers, based in Inmoor Road,Tong, with 60 staff.

The company is numbered 69 in the league table showing an annual international growth of 70 per cent.

Its international sales achieved £2.4 million on total sales of £29.7 million, in 2017.

CCL Computers is an IT hardware supplier which sells bespoke PCs and IT parts to gamers and IT professionals, and plans to expand in North America.

Coming in at number 113 in the tables is Specialist People Services, of King’s Gate, Bradford, It is an HR services provider with a number of other business branches to its name including Driver Hire UK, Driver Hire Training, sServices, ISS Labour and Driver Hire Australia which opened its fifth office, in Adelaide, last year.

The company’s annual international growth rate has reached 55 per cent per annum to £11.8 million on total sales of £58.7 million in 2018.

It has a current workforce of 208 and has made it to the top 200 league in 2016, 2017 and 2019.

Chris Chidley, SPS chief executive said: “We are delighted to be included in the International Fast Track again, for the third time in four years. Our UK businesses continue to thrive, but the growth of our operation in Australia has been exceptional and we have high hopes for more of the same there in 2019.”

Amanda Murphy, head of commercial banking, HSBC UK, said: “The 16 companies in Yorkshire are putting the region firmly on the map. They are the kinds of enterprises that provide the backbone of our economy.”