No.

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 Les Echos and Statista logos with the title France's Fastest Growing Companies have to pay a licence fee, in a one-off payment. The seal will be available after publication of the ranking.

No. All those who apply and make it into the toplist are completely free to publicise this fact. The official seal France's Fastest Growing Companies, 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.

No, this project has two revenue sources: revenues from licence fees, as outlined above, and advertisements in lesechos.fr/special-reports in Les Echos Week-End where the ranking will be published (in full online and in print) alongside Les Echos articles on company growth trends and profiles. The special report, to appear as part of Les Echos in print and online, is an independent piece of journalism written and commissioned by Les Echos journalists, drawing where relevant on the data collected for the ranking.

All companies that meet the above mentioned requirements.

Yes, as long as it complies with the aforementioned criteria.

Yes, as long as it complies with the aforementioned criteria and that your company has a 12-month fiscal year with a minimum of 6 months counted for each year.

Revenue data are verified through the signing off of the revenue verification form by the managing director/CEO, the finance director/CFO or a member of your executive committee. The form may be forwarded via email or post. Data is also verified through the figures published online.

Registration through the online form can be completed between September 2nd and October 14th 2024.

The deadline for us to receive this document is October 28th 2024.

The ranking is determined by the growth in revenue between the years 2020 and 2023.

We use the compound annual growth rate. For example, if a company achieved total revenue of 1.5m EUR in 2020 and total revenue of 7.5m EUR in 2023, we calculate an average yearly increase of 71%.

Please provide the revenue details for the fiscal years which fall predominantly in the calendar years of 2020 and 2023. The fiscal year should be 12 months with a minimum of 6 months counted for each year. For example if your company’s fiscal year is from April 1st, 2023 to March 31st, 2024, this fiscal year falls mainly in 2023, so use this for 2023 revenues. If your company’s fiscal year is from October 1st, 2022 to September 31st, 2023, this fiscal year falls mainly in 2023 as well, so use this for 2023 revenues.

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.

The ranking is published every year in February.

The following information will be published about the winning companies: the name of the company, the average growth in revenues and the total revenues for the years 2020 and 2023, the number of employees in 2020 and 2023, the number of jobs' creation in 2025, a description of the company as well as the location of the head office.

The results of our research will be published in Les Echos Week-End and outside the paywall of lesechos.fr 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.