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FT1000 – Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026

FT1000 - Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies 2026

In partnership with the Financial Times, Statista identifies Europe’s fastest-growing companies. FT1000 – Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026, the 10th annual list, will rank the 1000 European companies with the highest revenue growth between 2021 and 2024.

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Benefits
  • New business opportunities: An inclusion in the list of the FT1000 is a visible and public acknowledgement of your company’s performance that extends far beyond your specific industry and country. It will also generate attention for your business on the part of potential partners, customers, and investors around the world.
  • Employer branding: Corporate growth usually generates demand for new employees. Being featured in the high-profile ranking of the FT1000 will not only increase awareness of you as an employer, it also gives potential employees an understanding of your company’s future potential.
  • Effective media coverage: The ranking will be covered in a special report, a supplement within a weekday edition of the FT newspaper and on FT.com. While the full ranking will be published online, FT reporters will focus on particularly interesting companies, sectors and trends in the articles of a special report that will appear in both print and on FT.com.
  • Reputation: All companies that make it into the list may use the award logo for marketing purposes.

Who is eligible?

In order to be included in the ranking your company must meet the following criteria:

  • Revenue of at least 100,000 Euro1 generated in 2021.
  • Revenue of at least 1.5 million Euro1 generated in 2024.
  • Be independent (the applying company is not a subsidiary or branch office of another company).
  • Be headquartered in Europe.2
  • The revenue growth between 2021 and 2024 was primarily organic (i.e. “internally” stimulated)

1 Average currency value equivalent over the course of the relevant fiscal year

2 Eligible to participate are all companies from these countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

How do I register?

Online registration

The application phase will start in September 2025. Please register if you want to be shortlisted for the next edition of the FT1000 – Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026 – to be published in March 2026.

Please pre-register here:

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Verification of revenue information

Verification of revenue information
Your revenue data requires verification. During the application phase, upon registration survey completion, you will receive an email containing both a download link for the verification document and instructions on where to upload it.

The form must be signed in person by a Managing Director or a member of your Executive Committee (CEO or CFO). It must then be sent to Statista by email or mail. All necessary address details can be found on the form.

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FAQ

Costs
Do I have to pay to register?
No.
Do I have to pay to be included in the ranking?
Not at all. If included in the ranking, your company is free to celebrate its success via a press release, social media, or a company website. Only businesses that want to use the official seal featuring the FT and Statista logos with the title FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026 have to pay a licence fee, in a one-off payment. The seal will be available after publication of the ranking.
Do I have to purchase the FT 1000 – Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026 licence in order to point out or make reference to my place in the rankings?
No. All those who apply and make it into the Top 1000 are completely free to publicise this fact. The official seal FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026, available for a licence fee, is merely an additional option for those who want to advertise and promote their achievement in a more visually striking manner.
Is the creation of the FT 1000 Europe ranking commissioned and paid for by customers?
No, this project has two revenue sources: revenues from licence fees, as outlined above, and advertisements in an FT special report where the ranking will be published (see last year’s report) alongside FT articles on European company growth trends and profiles. The special report, to appear as part of the FT in print and online, is an independent piece of journalism written and commissioned by FT journalists, drawing where relevant on the data collected for the ranking.
Eligibility
Who is eligible to participate?
In order to be included in the ranking your company must meet the following criteria:
  • Revenue of at least €100,000 generated in 2021.1
  • Revenue of at least €1.5 m generated in 2024.1
  • Be independent (NO subsidiary or branch office of any kind).
  • Be headquartered in one of 31 European countries.²
1 Non-euro countries: currency value equivalent, average during fiscal year


2 Eligible to participate are all companies from these countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

My company is wholly or partly owned by venture capital, private equity firms or investment funds. Can my company still qualify for the ranking?
Yes, as long as it complies with the aforementioned criteria.
My company was founded during the course of 2021. Can I still participate?
Yes, as long as it complies with the aforementioned criteria. Additionally there will be a footnote stating that your first fiscal year was incomplete.
How do you verify the data provided by participants?
Revenue data are verified through the signing off of revenue verification form by the managing director/CEO, the finance director/CFO or a member of your executive committee. The form must be uploaded to the link provided.
Dates
When is the registration deadline?
Registration through the online form can be completed between September 1 and November 30 2025.
Until when am I able to submit the revenue verification form?
The deadline for us to receive this document is November 30 2025.
Methodology
On what criteria is the ranking of the 1000 companies in the FT 1000 Europe ranking determined?
The ranking is determined by the growth in revenue between the years 2021 and 2024.
How will Statista calculate the average growth in revenue of a company?
We use the compound annual growth rate. For example, if a company achieved total revenue of €1.5m in 2021 and total revenue of €7.5m in 2024, we calculate an average yearly increase of 71%.
The fiscal year of my company does not coincide with the calendar year. However, the survey and the form ask for the total revenue for the calendar years of 2021 and 2024. Which revenue information should I provide?
Please provide the revenue details for the fiscal years which fall predominantly in the calendar years of 2020 and 2023. For example:


  • 01/06/2024 to 31/05/2025 - use this for 2024 as 7 months were in 2024
  • 01/10/2020 to 30/09/2021 - use this for 2021 as 9 months were in 2021

Special scenario - your fiscal years split the calendar years exactly in half:


  • 01/07/2020 to 30/06/2021 and 01/07/2023 to 30/06/2024 or
  • 01/07/2021 to 30/06/2022 and 01/07/2024 to 30/06/2025


You may one of these combinations of fiscal years. Just make sure you don’t mix them.

Which definition of revenue will be observed in the FT 1000 Europe ranking?
Net revenue adjusted for returns, excluding value added tax and derived solely from business activities (excluding any other operating income) as disclosed in your company report:
Are further key data, such as profitability, relevant for the FT ranking?
As a minimum, we require data on revenue growth. However, we also encourage you to add any pre-tax profit information to the registration form. While we state that pre-tax profit is not required, such information will help us better understand your company. Moreover, such transparency is likely to attract more editorial attention to your company in the FT special report.
Publication
When will the FT 1000 Europe ranking be published?
The ranking will be published in March 2026.
Which information concerning individual companies will be published by The Financial Times?
The following information will be released about the top 1000 companies: the company name, the average growth in revenue and the total revenue for the years of 2021 and 2024, the number of employees in 2021 and 2024, the founding date of the company, the URL of the company website, as well as the location of the head office and the pre-tax profit if provided.
How will I find out whether or not my company has made it into the ranking?
The results of our research will be published in the Financial Times and outside the paywall of FT.com so that the findings can be read and shared by everybody. In advance of this, the successful companies will be informed by post of their inclusion in the list.

Disclaimer
The Financial Times and Statista retain the right to change the criteria and/or produce new criteria at any point in the project’s lifetime.