Drift Bridge Garage Limited
Registered name: DRIFT BRIDGE GARAGE LIMITED
Part of Drift Bridge Group Holdings Limited groupDrift Bridge Garage Limited made £125m revenue and £132k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Drift Bridge Garage Limited’s revenue fell 19% to £125m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £132k profit and 246 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Epsom; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Epsom, London
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £176m | £154m | £125m |
| Cost of sales | £166m | £148m | −£119m |
| Gross profit | £9.5m | £6.5m | £5.3m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £883k | £852k |
| Profit before tax | £2.7m | £49.4k | £155k |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £25.1k | £132k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £25.1k | £132k |
| Staff costs | £12.2m | £11.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 263 | 265 | 246 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 0% | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | 5.4% | 4.2% | 4.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £668k | £582k | £507k |
| Profit per employee | £7.7k | £95 | £539 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12.2% | ▼19.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼98.8% | ▲427.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲0.8% | ▼7.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £2.4m | — |
| Net assets | £9.2m | £8.3m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.8m | £1.6m | — |
| Current assets | £34.9m | £26.1m | — |
| Debtors | £960k | £453k | — |
| Deferred income | £1m | £1.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 4.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £507k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £539
- 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
- ▼7%
- Now 246
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Drift Bridge Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Drift Bridge Garage Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- London South TPS LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £132k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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