Fast 50 | Food & Beverage | 2025

Welcome to Alantra’s Food & Beverage Fast 50 2025, our annual ranking celebrating the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned food and beverage businesses.

As we mark the 15th edition of the Fast 50, the Food & Beverage Fast 50 edition captures a sector that is not just growing, but evolving at pace. The results are the most striking we have seen: the average CAGR across the top five reached 190%, the highest ever recorded in our rankings, while the typical Fast 50 business delivered 35% annual sales growth over the past two years.

• 190% - Top five average CAGR (highest on record)
• 35% - Typical annual sales growth (two-year period)
• 23 - New entrants to the Fast 50

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Top PerformersTop Performers

• DIRTEA – Functional Foods

  230% Sales Growth

• Goodrays – Cold Beverages

  218% Sales Growth

• Tonic Health – Functional Foods

  198% Sales Growth

• TRIP – Cold Beverages

  178% Sales Growth

• Spacegoods – Functional Foods

  177% Sales Growth

Food & Beverage Fast 50 methodology

The Fast 50 ranks the fastest-growing privately-owned food & beverage businesses in the UK by compound annual sales growth rate (CAGR) over a two-year period.

Qualification criteria and research approach

To qualify, companies needed to have sales exceeding £3m in the last available year, three consecutive years of accounts available and needed to be registered in the UK as independent and unquoted. Abbreviated accounts at Companies House were excluded unless permission was otherwise authorised. Companies that have any shares or other financial instruments listed on a stock exchange, or where their shares are held by any unquoted, quoted UK or overseas company, did not qualify for inclusion.