A WORCESTER technology company has come top of a business to business magazine's top 100 list.

Gtech, a manufacturer of lightweight bikes, vacuum cleaners and garden tools, has topped Insider's Growth 100 list.

Last year the Worcester News reported on how the company had bought a new 30,000 sq ft headquarters on Shire Business Park in Warndon, pledging its long-term future to the city.

The annual list places Midlands businesses which have grown at the fastest pace in the past five years, ranking them by an average percentage gain over a four-year period.

Just 23 businesses on the latest table appeared in 2016.

Taking the top spot in 2017 is Queen's Award winner Gtech, which saw turnover increase to £66m in the year to November 2015, giving Gtech an adjusted average annual growth of 325.8 per cent.

Last year's number one Impello, the parent company of Warwick-headquartered First Telecom and First Utility, moved into second place, with its average growth falling to 253.6 per cent from more than 390 per cent a year ago.

Dudley-based care provider Select Healthcare was third, followed by the owner of the Rab and Lowe Alpine brands Equip Outdoor Technologies and Warwick-based asset management firm AC Lloyd.

The firm was founded by entrepreneur Nick Grey, a former Tenbury High School pupil who left school with just two 'O’ Levels, and who told the paper last year he intends to take the firm "from strength-to-strength".