Webfusion ranked in The Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100

Online, February 18, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Leading webhosting provider, Webfusion, has this month been ranked 28th in the Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 league table, designed to highlight Britain's 100 private equity-backed companies with the fastest-growing profits (EBITDA).

Webfusion, which is the only hosting industry representative to be featured within the league table, is one of the UK's leading web hosting groups with 1.4 million hosted websites and 2.2 million registered domains. Despite the recession, and at a time when other companies were cutting costs to stay afloat, Webfusion grew its business model, adding more products to its portfolio and strengthening its market share by investing in infrastructure and expanding headcount.

In addition, Webfusion invested in training and developing its UK based support teams to set higher service level standards and created a dedicated social media liaison officer to engage with customers through websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Thomas Vollrath, managing director of Webfusion explains, "We are thrilled to be ranked 28th within The Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100, which is a hugely prestigious recognition of our efforts throughout one of the most challenging economic years on record. Where many companies have been trying to do more with less, cutting costs and reducing standards to weather the storm, we've taken a different and more risky approach by investing in our service offerings and improving customer support. And it certainly seems to have paid off.

"We have been working closely with our sister company Host Europe to ensure that our combined resources deliver an industry leading product portfolio ranging from domains all the way to virtualised servers and customised managed hosting. We remain dedicated to the millions of customers whose web presence relies on us."
The average Buyout Track 100 company has profit growth ranging from 15 per cent pa to 140 per cent pa, with profits ranging between £3m and £50m; sales ranging between £20m and £1bn; and at least 20 per cent of the of listed companies are owned.

Buyout Track 100 is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each February, with an awards event in March and regional dinners throughout the year.