Online聽retailer The Hut Group has increased annual sales by 50 per cent to more than 拢500 million.
The Cheshire firm, which is behind brands such as Myprotein and lookfantastic, grew underlying profits by 67 per cent to 拢50m in 2016.
International sales rose 89 per cent to 拢316m, making up 63 per cent of the group鈥檚 overall sales.
The firm invested 拢91m in its technology platform to further enhance its functionality and globalisation capability.
It now operates in 47 languages and 30 currencies, is supported by 23 payment options.
Chief executive Matthew Moulding said: 鈥淚 am delighted to report another milestone year for The Hut Group.
鈥淚n 2016, we launched over 100 websites across the group, significantly extending our international reach.
鈥淲e also continued our evolution of our health and beauty offering, with the acquisitions of Grow Gorgeous, Skinstore.com, SkincareRX.com, and the prestigious Hale Country Club, the latter providing us the opportunity to develop a global centre of fitness and wellbeing excellence.
鈥淚n addition to these initiatives, towards the end of 2016 we further expanded our presence in global nutrition with the acquisition of the US-based Ideal brands.
鈥淎s an addition, post-year, we completed the acquisition of Hangar Seven, a leading British content creation business for video, photography and branding.
鈥淲ith customers demanding to view creative content largely through video, we are investing heavily in creative resources to ensure we lead the way in delivering the best possible user experience across all corners of the world.
鈥淭his move in particular broadens our THG Platform proposition and complements our world class technology platform with market leading content and brand creation.鈥�
The Northwich-based company grew its workforce to 3,100 last year and said it expects to create a further 3,000 jobs over the next two years.