Goodall Bates & Todd Limited
Registered name: GOODALL BATES & TODD LIMITED
Part of Goddard Enterprises Limited groupGoodall Bates & Todd Limited made £19.4m revenue and £665k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Goodall Bates & Todd Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £19.4m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £665k profit. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Shrewsbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shrewsbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 120 yrs · since 1906
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.6m | £17.9m | £19.4m |
| Cost of sales | £13.5m | £12.6m | −£14m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £5.3m | £5.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.1m | £739k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.2m | £901k |
| Profit after tax | £878k | £929k | £665k |
| Profit (best available) | £878k | £929k | £665k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £1.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 43 | 45 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.7% | 5.2% | 3.4% |
| Gross margin | 27.8% | 29.7% | 27.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £434k | £397k | — |
| Profit per employee | £20.4k | £20.6k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼4.2% | ▲8.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.8% | ▼28.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.7% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £3.3m | — |
| Net assets | £6.9m | £7.8m | — |
| Fixed assets | £2.6m | £2.6m | — |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £8.1m | — |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.1m | — |
| Deferred income | £254k | £303k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
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- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Goddard Enterprises Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Paterson Enterprises Limited75–100%
- Goodall Bates & Todd Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- G.B. Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (10)
- Forward Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Industrial Speciality Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metcut (Great Britain) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metcut LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Leisure LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Oils LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Newton Oils LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Poston Mill Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tribolysis Testing Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £665k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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