Chilly’s Bottle, whose sales rose to £44.1m in the year to July 2020, took the No.6 spot in this year’s Sunday Times Fast Track 100 (published yesterday).
The brainchild of Leeds university student James Butterfield in 2010, who was joined by digital marketing colleague Tim Bouscarle the following year, the company has grown from James’ initial idea of enabling consumers to have cold water on the go in re-usable bottles, to include re-usable coffee cups, re-usable straws and food pots.
“We are striving to be the Nike or Adidas of the resuable world,” Tim told the Sunday Times earlier this year, “helping people change their habits but not sacrificing the quality of the products they have to do so.” Annual sales growth over the past three years, to July 2020, has been 159.24%.
Also making it into to the top 100 (at 94), was jewellery wholesaler and retailer Estella Bartlett, which has seen sales grow to £6.5m in the year to March. The company was founded eight years ago by brother and sister Nick and Louise Bartlett (creative director). As well as jewellery, Estella Bartlett offers bags and accessories.
The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest growing sales and profits.
Top: A selection of Chilly’s Bottles on display at gift shop Jo Amor in Tiverton.
