JDS Trucks Limited
Registered name: JDS TRUCKS LIMITED
Part of Rimape Ltd groupJDS Trucks Limited made £86.2m revenue and £854k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
JDS Trucks Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £86.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £854k profit. The company is classified under “sale of other motor vehicles” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 61 yrs · since 1965
- 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: “The company is controlled by M F Griffiths who, together with close family members, holds”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £69.2m | £77.4m | £86.2m |
| Cost of sales | £65.5m | £73.8m | −£82.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £3.6m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £943k | £917k | £854k |
| Profit (best available) | £943k | £917k | £854k |
| Staff costs | £5.4m | £5.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 113 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 5.4% | 4.7% | 4.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £635k | £685k | — |
| Profit per employee | £8.7k | £8.1k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.8% | ▲11.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼2.8% | ▼6.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.7% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.5m | £6m | — |
| Net assets | £8.2m | £8.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £451k | £469k | — |
| Current assets | £15.7m | £21.8m | — |
| Debtors | £3.5m | £4.6m | — |
| Deferred income | £2m | £3m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 4.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Rimape Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- JDS Trucks Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- JDS Truck & Van 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 £854k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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