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Top 100: “Growth” across the board as Gloucestershire's biggest business reports “significant progress”

Chief executive Mark Fitzpatrick described growth across the board as St James’s Place unveiled “strong returns” for the Cotswold firm’s growing number of clients.

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Feb 25, 2026
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* The Reports & Deals section of Raikes, sponsored by Randall & Payne, is also home to its star attraction, the perpetual Top 100-plus Businesses in Gloucestershire list, which tracks the financial fortunes of the county’s biggest firms by turnover.


Profit after tax at what is Gloucestershire’s biggest firm by ‘turnover’, St James’s Place, grew by 33 per cent to £531.4 million last year as the wealth manager saw funds under its control rise 15.8 per cent to £220 billion.

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