For Immediate Release – 12th July 2010

World Trade Group Storms Sunday Times Fast Track

World Trade Group, a leading corporate events and media company, has leapt into The Sunday Times International Track 100 ranking 22nd in the top 100 list of Britain’s private companies with the fastest growing international sales.

Founded in 1997, WTG is a leading Global Integrated Media Company specialising business to business events, webinars and training courses across sectors including energy, pharmaceuticals, HR, manufacturing and supply chain.

Andrew Brown, Group Managing Director, WTG commented: “WTG’s success in international sales is exceptional considering the difficult economic backdrop, it is a testament to the quality of our International events, our people, together with our client focused approach that has made the difference.   The achievement is even greater considering we are the only events business to have made the Fast Track 100 listing.”

WTG’s exceptional performance can be quantified by a 99.11% increase in international sales from £2.7m in 2007 to £10.5m at the end of 2009, forming part of an impressive list of privately-owned companies that have grown their international sales by an average of 83% a year over two years to a combined total of £2.2bn*

View WTG’s International Track 100 profile

Find out more about WTG

*Reproduced by permission. Copyright The Sunday Times International Track 100

NOTES TO EDITORS

All Enquiries:
Richard Merrin / Nathalie Ballantine
Spreckley Partners Ltd
merrin@spreckley.co.uk / ballantine@spreckley.co.uk
T: 020 7388 9988

About World Trade Group:

Founded in 1997, WTG is a leading Global Integrated Media Company. In our sectors of Energy, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing and Supply Chain and HR, we organise and run some of the world’s leading annual business events. Our main focus is to bring buyers and sellers together through our powerful suite of products:

• Live events – our summits introduce buyers to sellers through a unique one-to-one meeting model, developed and refined since 1998.
• Webinars – facilitate learning and generate valuable leads for sponsors, either live or through our OnDemand broadcasts.
• Online events OnDemand - easy to navigate, password protected web based interface, allowing post event access to summit presentations.
• Online communities – powerful, rapidly growing online networking resources for manufacturing and HR professionals.
• Training – fully accredited programme of short courses and advanced workshops from the world’s leading cross industry experts.

www.wtgevents.com

About the league table

In its inaugural year, The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100 annual league table is compiled by Oxford-based research and networking events company Fast Track. The research was carried out between 1 March 2009 and 21 May 2010 and the majority of companies were interviewed by telephone.

About Fast Track

Fast Track is the UK’s leading networking events and research company focusing on top-performing private companies and entrepreneurs.
It has published league tables with The Sunday Times for the past 14 years, and its invitation-only events provide an opportunity for entrepreneurs to network and to meet sponsors. The company was founded and is run by Dr. Hamish Stevenson, who remains an associate fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University.

www.fasttrack.co.uk