To start a new section, hold down the apple+shift keys and click to release this object and type the section title in the box below. Industry profit makers The 100 companies in our power list generated a total of £10.1bn in profit in the 6 last year, representing 12 per cent of total revenue. The bottom line is growing far quicker than the top: total profits from our top 100 have more than doubled from £4.9bn in 2011. But profit is also far more concentrated in the hands of the few, and becoming ever more so. The top 10 most profitable companies (by volume) accounted for 94 per cent of total profit across our top 100, up from 83 per cent in 2011. 8