SUFFOLK-based animal feed group BOCM Pauls is named as the East of England's biggest mid-market private company in a national newspaper league table.The new Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 league table, to be published at the weekend ranked BOCM Pauls, whose head office is in Ipswich, as 21st overall in the annual listing of Britain's medium-sized private companies.

SUFFOLK-based animal feed group BOCM Pauls is named as the East of England's biggest mid-market private company in a national newspaper league table.

The new Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 league table, to be published at the weekend ranked BOCM Pauls, whose head office is in Ipswich, as 21st overall in the annual listing of Britain's medium-sized private companies.

With a turnover of £354.7million for the year to December 2005 the company is the UK's biggest animal feed maker, producing two million tonnes of feed a year from 14 mills across the country.

Other regional companies on the list include Norwich-based media publisher Archant (163rd), whose titles include the Evening Star, the Robinsons Motor Group (186th), also based in Norwich, salad and vegetable grower G's (189th), based at Barway in Cambridgeshire, Thetford-based cleaning products company Jeyes (194th) and BGL Group of Peterborough (229th), the firm behind the Budget insurance brand.

The full finding will be published with the The Sunday Times on October 14 and at www.fastrack.co.uk .