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CV Library, the recruitment jobs site founded by 2012 Growing Business Young Guns Lee Biggins and Brian Wakem<\/a>, has been named among the UK’s top 100 profitable businesses in the Sunday Times<\/em>‘ 2015 Profit Track 100 league table.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2000, CV Library has built up a thriving resume database of over eight million CV’s and over 9,000 companies using its platform.<\/p>\n

According to the Sunday Times, <\/em>the company has witnessed 60.62% average annual profit growth over the last three years with current profits of £6.3m and £1.5m base profit. Profits have been boosted recently by the expansion of its service to America.<\/p>\n

Alongside CV Library, other businesses named include Brompton Bicycle with profits of £3.5m, home accessories retailer The White Company with profits of £6.5m and fast-growth travel search engine Skyscanner; which ranked in third place with profits of £17.7m.<\/p>\n

Sunglasses retailer The Hut Group was named as the UK’s most profitable business of 2015 for having achieved profits of £16m, with 216% average annual growth over the last three years.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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