City & Country Construction Ltd
Registered name: CITY & COUNTRY CONSTRUCTION LTD
Part of City & Country Group PLC groupCity & Country Construction Ltd made £47.6m revenue and £186k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
City & Country Construction Ltd’s revenue grew 2% to £47.6m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £186k profit and 80 employees. The company is classified under “construction of commercial buildings” and is based in Stansted; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stansted, East of England
- Age
- 54 yrs · since 1972
- 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 intermediate parent company is City & Country Corporation Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The ultimate parent company is City & Country Group Plc, a company incorporated in E”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 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) | £62.5m | £59.9m | £46.5m | £47.6m |
| Cost of sales | £58.9m | £55.8m | £44.6m | £45.3m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £4.1m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £2.2m | £244k | £181k |
| Profit before tax | £1.7m | £2.2m | £243k | £179k |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £2.2m | £228k | £186k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £2.2m | £228k | £186k |
| Staff costs | £4.7m | £4.8m | £5.2m | £6.6m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 82 | 85 | 80 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.7% | 3.7% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | 5.8% | 6.8% | 4.2% | 4.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £977k | £731k | £547k | £595k |
| Profit per employee | £26.5k | £26.9k | £2.7k | £2.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼22.4% | ▲2.4% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼89.7% | ▼18.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲3.7% | ▼5.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £213k | £1.9m | £1.7m | £133k |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £7m | £7.2m | £7.4m |
| Fixed assets | £73.3k | £172k | £13.6k | £130k |
| Current assets | £16.1m | £18.2m | £16.5m | £18.6m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.2m | £149k | £21.3k |
| Deferred income | £10.8k | £10.8k | £0 | £3.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 4.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £595k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £7.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼92%
- Now £133k
- Headcount
- ▼6%
- Now 80
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £3.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▲859%
- Now £130k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- City & Country Group PLCultimate parent75–100%
- City & Country Corporation Ltd75–100%
- City & Country Construction Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £186k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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