Revealed: Scotland's top 100 export companies

The latest Scotsman Insider Exporting 100 tells the same underlying story, that oil and gas still carries Scotland's export economy on its back.

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Strip out Cirrus Logic's outsized £1.5bn Electronics & Tech position and the picture is unambiguous, subsea engineering, offshore services and energy supply chains account for the largest single slice of everything else, at 41.5 per cent of the remaining export value.

Scotsman Insider’s Export 100 is updated with the latest company accounts each quarter with the list recompiled in the first quarter of every year and new entries added.

From DeepOcean's Aberdeen-run decommissioning work for bp at Foinaven to EthosEnergy's five-year contract extension with Spirit Energy in the East Irish Sea, the North Sea's maturing basin isn't just still generating export revenue, the work of winding it down responsibly has become an export business in its own right.

But the more interesting reading of this year's Export 100 is what's happening outside that energy core.

Strathberry is the standout, a homegrown Scottish brand, founded in Edinburgh in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Guy and Leeanne Hundleby, now forecasting £50m in revenue for the year to April 2026 after a "record peak trading period," with sights set on £100m within three years.

It's proof that a premium consumer brand built from Scotland, without the backing of a multinational parent, can compete on the same international stage as the offshore engineering names that usually dominate these rankings.

Its export sales have grown at a five-year compound rate exceeding 100 per cent.

Then there are the hidden gems, the real value of building a dataset like this.

Netherton Tractors, a 92-employee agricultural machinery wholesaler in Forfar, has nearly tripled its export sales in five years, from £1.17m to £3.49m, entirely under independent Scottish ownership.

It's not a company that makes headlines and is typical of the many owner managed businesses featured in these pages since we launched in January.

These are highly profitable businesses, quietly getting on with generating wealth for the Scottish economy.

The Export 100 doesn't just rank the businesses everyone already knows about, it surfaces the ones quietly doing the work, one export contract at a time, that would otherwise go entirely unremarked.

Macphie's turnaround tells a similar story from a different angle, a family-owned food manufacturer in Stonehaven, growing turnover to £82.1m despite what chairman Norman Soutar called "operational challenges," while investing £10m in its own manufacturing capacity.

Imenco UK and Tritech International, both Aberdeen-based, extend the subsea cluster's reach into camera systems and sonar technology that rarely make it into the general business pages.

This quarter’s export data confirms again that oil and gas infrastructure still anchors the numbers while companies such as Strathberry, Macphie’s and Netherton Tractors show how independent businesses can sell Scottish products to the world.