Furrows Limited
Registered name: FURROWS LIMITED
Part of Trident Trust Company (U.K.) Limited groupFurrows Limited made £121m revenue and £3.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Furrows Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £121m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.6m profit and 269 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Harlescott Lane Shrewsbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Harlescott Lane Shrewsbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 108 yrs · since 1918
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £97.3m | £112m | £111m | £121m |
| Cost of sales | £85.6m | £99.1m | £98m | £108m |
| Gross profit | £11.7m | £12.9m | £13m | £13.2m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £2.8m | £2.8m | £2.7m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.6m | £3.9m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £3.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £3.6m |
| Staff costs | £8.6m | £9m | £9.1m | £9.7m |
| Employees (average) | 278 | 281 | 277 | 269 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.9% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 12% | 11.5% | 11.7% | 10.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £350k | £398k | £400k | £451k |
| Profit per employee | £6.7k | £6.8k | £7k | £13.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.1% | ▼0.9% | ▲9.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▲1.1% | ▲87.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▼1.4% | ▼2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.4m | £2m | £799k | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £8m | £9.9m | £12.1m | £10.6m |
| Fixed assets | £357k | £559k | £2.6m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £29.2m | £30.9m | £33.1m | £26.4m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £1.7m | £1.8m | £1m | £916k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £451k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- 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
- ▼13%
- Now £10.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲59%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 269
- Deferred income
- ▼11%
- Now £916k
- Fixed assets
- ▲64%
- Now £4.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Trident Trust Company (U.K.) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tradecow2024 Limited75–100%
- Furrows Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Security Investments (Industrial) LimitedRev. — · Profit −£119k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £3.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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