Granville Oil & Chemicals Limited
Registered name: GRANVILLE OIL & CHEMICALS LIMITED
Part of Veedol Corporation Limited groupGranville Oil & Chemicals Limited made £8.4m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Granville Oil & Chemicals Limited reported £8.4m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025, up 76% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 73 employees. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Rotherham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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.
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
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 | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.9m | £29.8m | — |
| Cost of sales | £17.7m | £17.2m | — |
| Gross profit | £10.2m | £12.5m | £15.5m |
| Operating profit | £5.5m | £6.4m | £8.4m |
| Profit after tax | £4.5m | £4.8m | — |
| Profit (best available) | £4.5m | £4.8m | £8.4m |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.6m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 51 | 62 | 73 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 16% | 16.1% | — |
| Gross margin | 36.7% | 42.1% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £548k | £480k | — |
| Profit per employee | £87.7k | £77.1k | £115k |
| Cash conversion | −102.3% | −111.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.7% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▲76.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲21.6% | ▲17.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £668k | £787k | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £9.1m | £11.8m | £14.7m |
| Current assets | £10.1m | £11m | — |
| Debtors | £5.9m | £6.8m | — |
| Deferred income | £793k | £1.1m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£5.7m | −£7.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £115k
- 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
- ▲25%
- Now £14.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲49%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- ▲18%
- Now 73
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Veedol Corporation Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Veedol UK Limited75–100%
- Granville Oil & Chemicals Limitedthis 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 Mar 2025 (profit £8.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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