Key points
33 Chess
Revenue: £111.5m (+1%)
Net profit margin: 3.1% Staff: 562
Chess ploughed on with its transformation from a legacy telecoms business to a "high-tech" unified communications provider in its year to 30 April 2018, the Alderley Edge-based firm claimed as it reported a one per cent annual revenue hike. CEO and majority owner David Pollock appointed Rothschild to oversee a competitive auction process for the highly acquisitive firm earlier this year, according to a report in The Telegraph in June.
