Eyre & Elliston Limited
Registered name: EYRE & ELLISTON LIMITED
Part of Eyre & Elliston Holdings Limited groupEyre & Elliston Limited made £72.4m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Eyre & Elliston Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £72.4m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £1m profit and 350 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other machinery and equipment” and is based in Derbyshire; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Derbyshire, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 86 yrs · since 1940
- 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 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £70m | £72.4m |
| Cost of sales | £64.7m | £66.9m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £5.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1m |
| Staff costs | £12.1m | £12.4m |
| Employees (average) | 337 | 350 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 1.5% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 7.6% | 7.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £208k | £207k |
| Profit per employee | £3.2k | £3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼4.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £12.9m | £13m |
| Net assets | £29.9m | £30.2m |
| Fixed assets | £7.3m | £7m |
| Current assets | £37.3m | £38.3m |
| Debtors | £12.8m | £14m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 7.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £207k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.3%
- 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 £30.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲0%
- Now £13m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 350
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Eyre & Elliston Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Eyre & Elliston Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Ellistons (Welwyn) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eyre & Elliston Group Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G.f.e. Electrical Wholesale LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JDS Distributors LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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