Tickhill Engineering Company Limited
Registered name: TICKHILL ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED
Part of Grimme International Beteiligungs Gmbh groupTickhill Engineering Company Limited made £18.9m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Tickhill Engineering Company Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £18.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.3m profit and 113 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Doncaster; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1964
- 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: “On the 1st January 2023 the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Haith Group Limited, a company incorporated in England, Haith Group Limited is the company's ultimate parent undertaking at the ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.8m | £16.9m | £19.5m | £18.9m |
| Cost of sales | £14.8m | £12m | £14.4m | £14m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £4.8m | £5.1m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £621k | £2.1m | £2.8m | £2.4m |
| Profit before tax | £698k | £2.4m | £3.3m | £3m |
| Profit after tax | £614k | £2m | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £614k | £2m | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £4.9m | £5.1m | £5.7m |
| Employees (average) | 110 | 109 | 106 | 113 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.4% | 11.7% | 14% | 12.4% |
| Gross margin | 17% | 28.7% | 26.2% | 26.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £162k | £155k | £184k | £167k |
| Profit per employee | £5.6k | £18k | £25.8k | £20.8k |
| Cash conversion | −490% | 0.2% | −196.5% | −43.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.4% | ▲15.4% | ▼2.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲220.3% | ▲39% | ▼14.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.9% | ▼2.8% | ▲6.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £5.9m | £8.2m | £9.5m | £6.7m |
| Net assets | £14.7m | £16.7m | £19.4m | £21.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Current assets | £16.4m | £17.7m | £21m | £24.1m |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £3.4m | £1.8m | £2.4m |
| Deferred income | £105k | £52.8k | £0 | £50.5k |
| Cash from operations | −£3m | £3.5k | −£5.5m | −£1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £167k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £20.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −43.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.7%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £21.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼29%
- Now £6.7m
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 113
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £50.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £2.2m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Grimme International Beteiligungs Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Haith Group Limited75–100%
- Tickhill Engineering Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Haith Engineers 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 Dec 2025 (profit £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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