Rich list
8.samworth
The owners of Leicester-based pie and pasty maker Samworth Brothers, which owns Ginsters and Dickinson & Morris, saw profits rise to £39.3M on £857.7m sales in 2014.
Samworth is ranked at 252 in the listing dropping from 243 in last year’s list. Recently, the company was revealed by Channel 4 to be involved in a row about alleged cuts to pay and conditions in a big to offset the impact of the National Living Wage.