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NOTES TO TABLES

The rankings were finalised on 24 October 2014. The data was compiled from audited financial accounts filed at Companies House during the 12 months since

the last Top 100 was compiled in October 2013, unless otherwise stated. The tables list the company in regards to its official registered company name at

Companies House, which is not always the same as the company’s trading name.MT  has compiled the tables using the turnover and pre-tax profit figures

generated solely or primarily from the UK road transport activities on the businesses concerned, unless otherwise stated below. Where possible, we have

tried to avoid including turnover from non-road and non-transport related business. Figures shown for employees are predominantly for those employed

solely or principally in the UK.

■ARR Craib Transport has not filed a new set ofaccounts since MT  last published the Top 100.■Bartrums’ results have been calculated bycombining the turnover and pre-tax profit ofBartrums Haulage & Storage and Bartrums RoadServices, as Bartrum Group results include acontribution from its CV maintenance business,Trumbar Truck Care.■Canute Haulage has not filed a new set ofaccounts sinceMT  last published the Top 100.■Circle Express entered a company voluntaryarrangement on 10 May 2012 and continues to

trade under the terms accepted.■CM Downton (Haulage Contractors)incorporates its 50% share of turnover in two jointventures: Avon Distribution (with RT Keedwell)and D&T Logistics (with Howard Tenens). It doesnot include a contribution from its October 2013purchase of C&H (Hauliers). In its 2013 report itsays that the acquisition is expected to generatean annualised turnover of approximately £20m,which will be incorporated in its results forfinancial year 2014.■Deben Transport incorporates its acquisition ofElite Transport Services out of administration inApril 2013. It says that its pre-tax loss was heavilyinfluenced by the purchase of the company.■DHL is continuing to consolidate its business so

that DHL Supply Chain is the main trading activityfor business in that sector. As a result, contractsformerly reported by Exel UK and DHL Freight andContract Logistics are being moved as they arerenewed, so much so that the latter is now adormant company. Exel UK reported £173.8m ofcontinuing contracted turnover in the overallfigure. Turnover also includes a contribution fromTradeteam and DHL International (UK), whichtrades as DHL Express.■Europa Worldwide Group excludes the turnovercontribution of its Asia-based business activities.We were unable to extract the pre-tax profitcontribution from this division, however.■Gregory Distribution (Holdings) includes aturnover and pre-tax profit contribution from itsjoint venture with Hayton Coulthard Transport. InJuly 2013 it acquired the business, assets andgoodwill of Interoute Transport Services out ofadministration. Subsequent to the closure of thefinancial year, Gregory acquired M&D Transport inJuly 2014 and the fresh produce operations ofMMD (Shipping Services).■Hargreaves Group – Transport sold its ImperialTankers division to Sutton and Son (St Helens) inSeptember. In the financial year ending 31 May2014 that unit contributed £29.25m of turnover toHargreaves’ transport operations and £1.5m ofpre-tax profit. Figures for financial year 2014-15will reflect this.■John G Russell’s pre-tax profit figure includes a

contribution from its chest freezer manufacturingbusiness, which accounted for £8.3m of totalgroup turnover of £63.2m. As the group does notprovide a pre-tax profit figure for each businessunit, we have been unable to extract it from overallgroup results.■Kammac sold its kegs and cask manufacturingdivision in December 2013 and its results reflectthis discontinued business.■Knights of Old incorporates, for the first time, afull year of trading from Mainland Group, which itacquired in December 2011. The comparative

year-on-year results are for Knights of Old tradingonly.■Kuehne + Nagel includes, for the first time, a fullcontribution from its 2011 acquisition of the RHGroup, which traded as RH Freight. It was notpossible to separate K+N’s air and sea freightforwarding interests from the overall business asthey also include the contribution from itsoverland operations, which includes ex-RHFreight Group business. The company divides itsturnover contribution into that of InternationalFreight Forwarding (incorporating RH Freight)which saw turnover rise to £772.3m from £579.4min the previous financial year. Its contract logisticsbusiness saw a slight dip in turnover to £345.2mfrom £358m in the previous year. Since the close

of the financial year K+N has said it has won andimplemented new contracts in this divisionincluding Ben Sherman, Nespresso and B/EAerospace. At the request of the companysubsidiary Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics hasbeen combined with overall group turnover totruly reflect its contract logistics business.■Lenham Storage combines turnover, pre-taxprofit and employee numbers from twobusinesses: Lenham Storage and LenhamStorage (Southern).■Maritime Transport does not include acontribution from its August acquisition ofRoadways Container Logistics. CombiningMaritime and Roadways’ performance in financialyear 2013 the company would have a turnover of£182m, achieving a combined pre-tax profit of£3.67m, with 1,532 employees. Turnover atMaritime Transport also includes a contributionfrom its secondhandtrucks.co.uk business, whichwe have been unable to extract. BecauseRoadways has been acquired, its performance hasbeen excluded from the Top 100 this year, withMaritime’s turnover next year reflecting its firstcontribution to the overall business.■Norbert Dentressangle’s figures have beengenerated by combining the turnover and pre-taxprofit from: Norbert Dentressangle Logistics;Norbert Dentressangle Tankers; NorbertDentressangle Transport Services and NorbertDentressangle UK. They exclude contributions

from its freight forwarding activities (NDOverseas) and its maintenance business (NDMaintenance UK).■Pass J Holdings results include contributionsfrom its two subsidiaries: On-Line Staff Agencyand Germany-based Online Roadways. There is noway of extracting their contributions from theoverall results. Pass J Holdings trades as MikeBeer Transport.■PCL Transport 24/7’s results cover the periodfrom 1 April 2012 to 30 September 2013 due to achange in financial year. The previous financial

year ran from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012. Theemployee figures have been derived fromsubsidary firm HR Transport Services.■Reed Boardall Group excludes turnover derivedfrom its vehicle service and repair business.■Royal Mail’s figures are based solely on its UKParcels, International and Letters business(UKPIL) and exclude the contribution of itsEuropean parcels business GLS. UKPIL includesall of its core UK and international parcelsand letter delivery businesses run through boththe Royal Mail network and ParcelforceWorldwide, and runs approximately 45,000 CVs.We were unable to separate turnover and profitderived from its marketing mail and consultingservices and the design and manufacture of

stamps.■RT Keedwell includes a turnover and pre-taxprofit contribution from its Avon Distribution jointventure with CM Downton.■Sutton and Son (St Helens) has not filed a newset of accounts sinceMT  last published the Top100. Its sister company, Suttons International,posted a turnover of £89.4m and a pre-tax profitof £5.5m in the year-ending 30 April 2013. InSeptember it acquired Imperial Tankers fromHargreaves Group.■Whistl UK ltd is the new trading name for TNTPost. It has not filed a new set of accounts sinceMT  last published the Top 100.■Wincanton’s turnover excludes contributionsfrom its £68.6m Pullman Fleet Services and£21.1m Records Management divisions. Allvehicle maintenance business figures have beenexcluded across the entirety of the Top 100, butwith Pullman not filing a profit and loss accountwe are unable to pull out its contribution fromWincanton’s profitability.■Yodel incorporates turnover and pre-tax profitfrom Yodel Delivery Network (formerly HomeDelivery Network), alongside two-man deliverydivision Arrow XL and Arrow XL Scotland(formerly Yodel XL and Yodel XL Scotland).■Yusen Logistics turnover includes a contributionfrom its air and sea freight forwarding businesses,which we have been unable to extract from theoverall turnover figure.

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