Chilly’s Bottle, whose sales rose to £44.1m in the year to July 2020, came in at the number six in this year’s Sunday Times Fast Track 100 (published on December 5).
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%.
The company is highlighted for donating £250,000 worth of its insulated bottles to NHS frontline workers in June.
Meanwhile, online designer brand discount retailer Brand Alley reached 55 in the Fast Tract 100. The site, which includes leading housewares brands among its offers, has had over 1000 new customers on a daily basis during the pandemic. It now has 575 thousand customers.
The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 ranks Britain’s private companies with the fastest growing sales and profits.
Top: Chilly’s latest Artist Series by Jacqueline Colley.
