Lookers Limited
Registered name: LOOKERS LIMITED
Part of Global Auto Holdings (Topco) Limited groupLookers Limited made £4.4bn revenue and £42.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Lookers Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £4.4bn in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £42.2m profit. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Stoke-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
- Age
- 116 yrs · since 1910
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.5bn | £4.3bn | £4.4bn |
| Cost of sales | −£3.9bn | −£3.7bn | −£3.8bn |
| Gross profit | £560m | £562m | £546m |
| Operating profit | £39.4m | £85.6m | £97.2m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.8m | £43.7m | £58.5m |
| Profit after tax | −£5m | £34.3m | £42.2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£5m | £34.3m | £42.2m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.1% | 0.8% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 12.4% | 13.1% | 12.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼4.4% | ▲1.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲23% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.5%
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Now —
- Cash at bank
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- Now —
- Headcount
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- Now —
- Deferred income
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- Fixed assets
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- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Global Auto Holdings (Topco) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Global Auto Holdings PLC75–100%
- Lookers Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (4)
- Lookers Motor Group LimitedRev. £1.9bn · Profit £134m
- Get Motoring UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lookers Motor Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lookers Pension Plan Trustee 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 Dec 2025 (profit £42.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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