The 30 fastest-growing companies in London

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Almost a third of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK are based in London, according to the Investec Hot 100 index, published today.

The 30 London companies that made it into the annual index are below, in order of their four-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

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Company	What they do	Latest turnover (£,000)	Latest EBITDA	4yr CAGR (%)
(Hot 100 ranking)			(£,000)
Altenergy (2)	Green and solar energy	45,938	1,840	137
Baird Investments (3)	Gold and precious metals specialist	1,356,147	6,249	135
ActivTrades (6)	Forex and trading services	20,061	11,273	101
Troy Asset Management (7)	Independent fund managers	23,336	9,979	91
Miroma International (9)	Media bartering	50,555	1,906	77
Ekwienox (11)	Broking and asset management	1,470,885	2,909	69
World First UK (12)	Forex services	2,962,368	4,483	57
The Real Return Group (13)	Investment fund management	40,378	4,616	57
Ruffer Management (16)	Investment and advisory services	131,710	108,622	52
Echo Sourcing (21)	Women’s fashion manufacturing and wholesale	55,088	6,091	48
Kelway (23)	IT services	350,710	13,515	47
Wasabi (33)	Sushi bar takeaway	32,594	2,565	38
TBA (40)	Creative agency and global event management	13,842	1,148	36
Neptune Investment Management  (52)	Investment management	98,952	21,648	34
Gamesys (54)	Online instant win and bingo games	142,338	47,469	34
Maple Syrup Media (57)	Cash back and voucher codes	43,472	2,150	34
Cameron Mackintosh (58)	Musical theatre production	64,180	25,431	34
Octopus Capital (64)	Fund management	58,434	6,553	32
ControlCircle (65)	IT infrastructure and managed services	20,911	1,007	32
Speciality Drinks (69)	Wholesale and retail of wines and spirits	30,001	4,983	31
The Benefits Express (74)	Provider of employee benefits packages	27,396	4,876	31
Fine & Rare Wines (78)	The supply of fine and rare wines	60,296	3,075	30
Exponential-e (80)	Provider of IT networking services	33,234	5,134	30
Investigo (81)	Specialist recruitment for finance and logistics	42,430	2,029	30
Hills Prospect (82)	Wines, beers and spirits wholesaler	36,266	1,107	30
Polar Group (83)	International fur dealer	95,244	1,519	30
Lexington Catering (84)	Specialist contract catering and hospitality	23,765	1,077	30
Argus Media (86)	Oil & gas business intelligence and publishing	71,973	24,756	30
Colchester Global Investors (90)	Fixed income investment manager	34,507	12,814	29
Tyler Capital (98)	Derivative products trading	12,869	7,742	29

All figures were taken from Companies House records on 15 January 2013