Victoria Beckham has topped a list of Britain’s top entrepreneurs by Management Today magazine.

The former Spice Girl certainly deserves praise for expanding her fashion empire into a business with a £30m turnover and a staff of 100. But, asks The Entrepreneurs Network’s director Philip Salter in a Forbes column, does this make her the country’s top entrepreneur?

In his column, Salter rightly raises an eyebrow at one criterion in the ranking: the entrepreneurs’ wealth. “They are ranked by their own or their immediate family asset wealth, which we identify from their holdings in private or public companies, share sales, dividends, salaries, plus any other assets that they have revealed to us,” the report says.

It means that the designer’s entrepreneurial success owes much to her husband David’s right foot and chiselled abs. But, Salter says, we should not deny Victoria Beckham’s status as a top entrepreneur. It’s just a shame the list wasn’t compiled with a little more care.