Job Earnshaw & Bros.limited
Registered name: JOB EARNSHAW & BROS.LIMITED
Job Earnshaw & Bros.limited made £5m revenue and a £74.4k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Job Earnshaw & Bros.limited’s revenue was £5m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £74.4k and 55 employees. The company is classified under “silviculture and other forestry activities” and is based in Wakefield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 115 yrs · since 1911
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.4m | £6m | £5m | £5m |
| Cost of sales | £5.2m | £4.2m | £3.6m | £3.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Operating profit | £483k | £111k | −£178k | −£45.3k |
| Profit before tax | £220k | £57.6k | −£291k | −£131k |
| Profit after tax | £187k | −£41.1k | −£185k | −£74.4k |
| Profit (best available) | £187k | −£41.1k | −£185k | −£74.4k |
| Staff costs | £1.7m | £1.6m | £1.6m | £1.5m |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 63 | 64 | 55 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | −0.7% | −3.7% | −1.5% |
| Gross margin | 29.4% | 29.3% | 28.3% | 26.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £99.5k | £95.4k | £78.6k | £91.1k |
| Profit per employee | £2.5k | −£653 | −£2.9k | −£1.4k |
| Cash conversion | 74.7% | 215.2% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18.4% | ▼16.3% | ▼0.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼122% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼14.9% | ▲1.6% | ▼14.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £678k | £305k | £208k | £187k |
| Net assets | £6.6m | £6m | £6.8m | £6.7m |
| Fixed assets | £7m | £6.9m | £8m | £7.9m |
| Current assets | £3m | £2.3m | £2m | £2m |
| Debtors | £605k | £528k | £550k | £630k |
| Deferred income | £416k | £249k | £265k | £292k |
| Cash from operations | £361k | £238k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 157.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.6%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £6.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £187k
- Headcount
- ▼14%
- Now 55
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £292k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £7.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£74.4k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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