Does your company feel left out?

Every effort has been made to ensure the details are as comprehensive and accurate as possible, but there may be businesses that feel they have been unjustly left out.

One of the most likely reasons is that the business isn’t registered in South Yorkshire and there are no figures available for its South Yorkshire operations.

Quirks of registration can produce anomalies, such as the exclusion of Rotherham-based Corus Engineering Steels.

Only companies whose turnover was high enough to justify a Top 100 listing are included in the analysis which has created the profit and employment tables.

It is possible that there might be companies with profits high enough to justify a placing in one of the profits tables, which have been excluded because their turnover is too low to gain a Top 100 rating.

The tables listing the most profitable companies in each district have been drawn up according to postal towns. This means that one Rotherham company – Kiveton Park-based Luk - appears in the Sheffield profits listing because its address falls within the Sheffield postal district.

Whilst most companies that have dropped out of the tables have done so because their turnover is now too low to justify inclusion, other have been removed because their registered office is no longer within the Sheffield City Region.

n If you have comments about the Top 100 survey, contact the Star Business team: (0114) 252 1353. e-mail: businessteam@ sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk or write to Bob Rae, Industrial Editor, The Star, York Street, Sheffield, S1 1PU.