Dexel Tyre Company Limited
Registered name: DEXEL TYRE COMPANY LIMITED
Part of Dexel Holdings Ltd groupDexel Tyre Company Limited made £16.8m revenue and £282k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Dexel Tyre Company Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £16.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £282k profit and 127 employees. The company is classified under “maintenance and repair of motor vehicles”; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 65 yrs · since 1961
- 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. From the filing: “Dexel Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.4m | £17m | £16.8m |
| Cost of sales | £11m | £10.4m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £6.4m | £6.6m | £7m |
| Operating profit | £472k | £499k | £484k |
| Profit before tax | £406k | £429k | £389k |
| Profit after tax | £335k | £307k | £282k |
| Profit (best available) | £335k | £307k | £282k |
| Staff costs | £4.3m | £4.6m | £4.8m |
| Employees (average) | 128 | 130 | 127 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.9% | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 36.8% | 38.9% | 41.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £136k | £131k | £132k |
| Profit per employee | £2.6k | £2.4k | £2.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | 114.8% | 133.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.1% | ▼1.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼8.2% | ▼8.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.6% | ▼2.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £286k | £545k | £3.1k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £3.8m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £4.7m | £5.2m | £5.8m |
| Current assets | £4m | £4.2m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £2m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Cash from operations | — | £573k | £647k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £132k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 133.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 34.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.9%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼99%
- Now £3.1k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 127
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲12%
- Now £5.8m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Dexel Holdings Ltdultimate parent50–75%
- Dexel Tyre Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (5)
- Autocom Units LimitedFigures not disclosed
- City Tyre Experts LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dock Tyre Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- MR Exhaust and One Stop Motorist Centre LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sayers Tyres and Exhausts 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £282k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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