UK Top 500 2024

Corporate and reference data on the direct-selling
retailers, brands and marketplaces in the 2024 Top 500

No need to Scrimp and Scrape

While you could download the 2023 performance ranking report, scrape the list and then spend 7 minutes per company getting the basics of name, address, URL, social media handles, stock ticker, stock price, turnover etc, you would only have a basic list after 3,500 minutes – one that needs proofing, quality control and format checking.

If you want more information (linked group companies, significant countries of operation, holding company, web traffic, short description, the retailer’s own description) then you’ll realise that the 3,500 minutes quickly balloons to at least twice that time… 🎈

The data fields in the download are set out below, but in summary, if you:

Value your time at more than €5 an hour
Want to get the data NOW, in a tractable form, rather than wait 3 weeks

Field	Description
Name (alphabetical)	Name with initial articles moved to the end
Print name	Name as it would appear in print, including diacretics
Cluster	Performance cluster in the list, e.g. Top50
Features in	Comma-sepatated list of RetailX lists
Retail websites	Comma-separated list of domains
Most significant retail markets	Comma-separated list of UN member states and other territories
Phone number (customer-facing)	Starting ‘+’ followed by the region code
Contact email (customer facing)	An email address
Business phone number (provided with financial records)	The number provided with financial records. Starting ‘+’ followed by the region code
LinkedIn	Unique username
Facebook	Unique username
Instagram	Unique username
X (Twitter)	Unique username
YouTube	Unique username
Retail HQ	UN member state or other territory
Corporation name	The company’s legal name
Stock ticker	The exchange code, followed by a colon, followed by the ticker
Financial fields’ currency	The ISO three-letter code for the currency used in the following financial fields
Market capitalisation as at last-checked date	The company’s market cap, expressed as an unabbreviated number in the currency noted previously
Share price as at last-checked date	The company’s share price as at its last-checked date, expressed as an unabbreviated number in the currency noted previously
Share price % change over 12 months	A % value
Share price % change over 24 months	A % value
Share price % change over five years	A % value
Total revenue	The company’s total revenue, expressed as an unabbreviated number in the currency noted previously
Revenue % change over 12 months	A % value
Revenue % change over 24 months	A % value
Revenue % change over five years	A % value
Gross profit	The company’s gross profit, expressed as an unabbreviated number in the currency noted previously
Profit % change over 12 months	A % value
Profit % change over 24 months	A % value
Profit % change over five years	A % value

The small print

This is the first time we’ve made the data available, so please let us know your thoughts – what more would you like? Are there different or better formats?
The licence allows you to upload the data into your CRM or analysis application. You are not allowed to repackage or resell the data, in whole or in part.
We will conduct a mid-year update of the information between January and February 2025. This will mainly cover financial reports filed between July 2024 and the update date, but will also include any other updates and corrections to the data. You will have access to the mid-year update at no extra cost.
The data we cite is from annual accounts filed by the companies. These can be up to 18 months ago, depending upon the legal filing requirements, but it is the latest official number at the compilation date. Information is not currently available for private companies, in some filing jurisdictions, or where the retailer is a trading brand in a group rather than a standalone legal company. The data set has about 30% coverage of financial reporting data.
The download file is an Excel (.xlsx) format, comprising three tabs. The first give information on the download (date, version, licence), the second gives the data parameters (ie the data formats in each field to aid import) and the third tab is the database with a header row.
We are launching “RX Pro” in the autumn of 2024 providing users direct access to our data platform with comparative data points (on turnover, traffic, profit, share price). you can join the waitlist to get early access HERE