Howard Shipping Services Limited
Registered name: HOWARD SHIPPING SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Hoship Group (Holdings) Limited groupHoward Shipping Services Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Jun 2025 show net assets of £12.6m.
Howard Shipping Services Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 showed net assets of £12.6m and 0 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in West Midlands; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- West Midlands, West Midlands
- Age
- 70 yrs · since 1956
- 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
Revenue not disclosed
Howard Shipping Services Limited’s accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 0
- Net assets
- £12.6m
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 | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £19.1m | £7.9m | — |
| Cost of sales | — | £12m | £5.8m | — |
| Gross profit | — | £7m | £2.2m | — |
| Operating profit | — | £5.9m | £1.1m | — |
| Profit before tax | — | £5.9m | £1.1m | — |
| Profit after tax | — | £4.8m | £898k | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | £4.8m | £898k | — |
| Staff costs | — | £534k | £545k | — |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 12 | 13 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 25.2% | 11.3% | — |
| Gross margin | — | 36.9% | 27.2% | — |
| Revenue per employee | — | £1.6m | £611k | — |
| Profit per employee | — | £400k | £69.1k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼58.3% | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼81.3% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲8.3% | ▼100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.9m | £5.7m | £3.3m | £2m |
| Net assets | £7.3m | £11.6m | £11.9m | £12.6m |
| Fixed assets | £351k | £561k | £467k | £396k |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £14.1m | £13.6m | £14.6m |
| Debtors | £4.5m | £2.3m | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
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
- ▲6%
- Now £12.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼38%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▼100%
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼15%
- Now £396k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hoship Group (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Howard Shipping Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Magyar Investment Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Magyar Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Showell Packing 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 Jun 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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