Arnold White Estates Limited
Registered name: ARNOLD WHITE ESTATES LIMITED
Part of Arnold White Group Limited groupArnold White Estates Limited made £19.2m revenue and £2.7m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Arnold White Estates Limited’s revenue fell 54% to £19.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £2.7m profit and 26 employees. The company is classified under “activities of head offices” and is based in Leighton Buzzard; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leighton Buzzard
- Age
- 89 yrs · since 1937
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £39.7m | £42.1m | £19.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£16.7m | −£15.9m | −£11.6m |
| Gross profit | £23m | £26.2m | £7.6m |
| Operating profit | £15.1m | £22.4m | £5.4m |
| Profit before tax | £18m | £24.6m | £6.8m |
| Profit after tax | £14.6m | £20m | £2.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £14.6m | £20m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 19 | 26 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 36.7% | 47.5% | 13.9% |
| Gross margin | 57.9% | 62.1% | 39.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.6m | £2.2m | £737k |
| Profit per employee | £971k | £1.1m | £103k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6% | ▼54.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲37.3% | ▼86.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.7% | ▲36.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £737k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £103k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲37%
- Now 26
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Arnold White Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Arnold White Estates Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (11)
- Astral Lake LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aw Charging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aw Electricity LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aw Leisure LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Aw Skills LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Awe (Owen) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Awe Renewables LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Checkley Wood Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Da Solar LtdFigures not disclosed
- Ne Energy One LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Watling Estates LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (6)
- Aw Renewables Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Checkley Homes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Joseph Arnold & Sons LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Leighton Buzzard Light Railway Limited(The)Figures not disclosed
- M.s.white(Dunstable)limitedFigures not disclosed
- Watling Estates LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £2.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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