SEVERAL Dorset and New Forest firms have been listed among the high-growth businesses that are rebuilding the economy.

The London Stock Exchange’s 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain focuses on the small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) that have outperformed their peers.

The local businesses listed are:

  • 3T’s Leisure Ltd, which has one of its three Surfbay Leisure sales centres in Bridport, selling holiday caravans, listed in the £10million-£20m bracket.
  • A Hammond & Sons Ltd (£10m-£20m), trading as Hammond Building Contractors, of Sturminster Newton, which counts among its councils and many local schools.
  • BOFA International (£10m-£20m), a fume extraction and filtration business on Poole’s Creekmoor Industrial Estate.
  • Codestone Group Ltd (£6m-10m), IT specialist with a southern office at Nuffield Road, Poole, whose clients include Pinewood Studios. £6-10m n Daish Group Ltd (£10m-£20m), hotel and coach operator, which runs Bournemouth's Sands Hotel.
  • Fence Stores (£10m-£20m), operating as Fencing Centre and Stable Structures, with outlets at Three Legged Cross and at Cadnam.
  • Kondor (£100m-£150m), Christchurch-based distributor of consumer electronic accessories, working with brands including Microsoft, JVC, Philips, Nokia, Crosley and Panasonic.
  • Nevis (£10m-£20m), supplying motorcycle parts and accessories at Crow Arch Lane, Ringwood.
  • Ocean Automotive (£75m-£100m), whose brands include Volvo Cars Poole, Poole Accident Repair and Poole Audi, which is shortly to open a major new showroom.
  • Waterside Holiday Group (£10m-£20m), which runs Waterside Holiday Park and Spa, Weymouth .
  • Westover Group, (£100-£150m), Bournemouth-based car dealership which employs 600 people at 28 locations, representing16 manufacturers.

Steve Randall founded Fencing Centre at Parley in 1984 and has a turnover of more than £11m. It uses UK-grown wood for its products and manufactures all panels by hand.

After the storms this winter, the group sold 30,000 panels in six weeks.

Mr Randall said: “We started in 1984 from very humble beginnings and had no idea we’d ever win anything like this.

“It and it came as a huge surprise. We are exceedingly proud of our company and staff.

“After all the years of hard work it is good to see the rewards coming through.”

Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group, said the report highlighted the businesses which had a disproportionate impact on the UK economy.

“If 2015 was the year of the start-up, 2016 must be the year of the scale-up,” he said.

He said debt had too often been used to finance growth and that society needed instead to unlock the power of equity finance.