BGL Group makes Sunday Times top 250

The annual table, now in its third year, ranks Britain’s 250 biggest mid-market private companies by latest sales. Peterborough-based BGL Group was rated number 229th on the list. The Group currently employs more than 2,250 people.

The BGL Group dates back to 1992, when entrepreneur Douw Steyn set out to repeat in the UK the success he had enjoyed with his South African motor insurance company Auto & General. A change in direction in 1997 from insurer to broker resulted in a rapid and