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LS Productions are number 5 on the list of the UK's top 100 fastest growing founder-led private companies.

LS Productions are number 5 on the list of the UK's top 100 fastest growing founder-led private companies.
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LS Productions have been listed as Number 5 on the FEBE Growth 100, a List of Britain’s fastest-growing, founder-led private companies.

The Growth 100 celebrates British business at its best – highlighting founders that are driving their companies to deliver significant sales, revenue and profit, against a backdrop of unprecedented economic challenges.

Having previously appeared on the ‘FEBE Watch List 2022’ LS Productions, founded by CEO Marie Owen in 2006, have lept straight on to the ‘Growth 100 List 2023’ list at number 5. With Marie the only female founder and CEO to appear in the top 10 of the list and LS representing only a small number of creative services businesses to appear on the list. This result comes after an 18 month period of expansion for LS developing their global service offering, alongside the diversification and expansion of their production service streams - resulting in an impressive 3 year sales annual compound growth rate (CAGR) of 273.52%.

Speaking about their place on the list, Marie said:

‘I’m beyond thrilled to see LS Productions make the prestigious 2023 FEBE Growth 100 List, and to come in at number 5, well, I’m just blown away by that! It’s such a fantastic achievement and so rewarding to see all the incredible hard work and dedication that myself and the team have put in to get recognised. Both in terms of growing a world-class global production company, but also a business that people genuinely love working for that is firmly rooted in the values of kindness, hard work and learning.’

With their headquarters in Edinburgh, LS Productions are the UK's largest production service company with additional offices in London and Manchester. LS’s recent growth is down in part to the expansion of their services into the international film & TV sectors, taking on global TV and film production service projects over the last 18 months, with recent projects including Ghosted for Apple TV, episodes of the Bachelor for Warner Bros Discovery and a Kind of Spark for the BBC and ByUtV. As part of this growth they have also added a warm water production and location facility in Malta to further bolster their international offering.

In conjunction with this expansion, the LS growth can also be directly attributed to a commitment to invest in and recruit talent in the LS’s core production specialisms, including commercials, fashion, music and sport. The diversification of these business streams was a deliberate move by the business to weather the storm faced by the production industry in a post Covid landscape. Across this period LS have worked on a succession of high profile service production projects ranging from Ed Sheeran’s latest album 'Subtract', Harry Styles 'Adore You' music video, Valentino’s 'Pink Dreams' starring Zendaya and ‘You're Up’ featuring Cristiano Ronaldo for Nike.

Not only this but Covid also provided cause for reflection about where the business saw itself creatively in the long term and how they could look to continue to stay true to their values of being ‘creative at heart’ which drove further diversification with the arrival of an original content arm in the form of LS Films.

As Marie summarises below,

"Post Covid we had to completely re-evaluate where we wanted to go - not just professionally but personally. So we went, quite literally back to our roots - which meant investing heavily in specialised expertise to develop focus business streams; Fashion, Sport, Commercial, Music Videos, Film & TV Service and an original content division called LS Films. This robust diversification gives LS a solid foundation in an industry that is notorious for huge highs and steep lows because we're not overly dependent on one particular stream and it also allows us to explore our creative passion with LS Films."

The full 100 ranking can be viewed at www.febe.com.




Im beyond thrilled to see LS Productions make the prestigious 2023 FEBE Growth 100 List, and to come in at number 5, well, Im just blown away by that!

Marie Owen Founder & CEO, LS Productions