Tomrods Limited
Registered name: TOMRODS LIMITED
Part of Tomrods Trustees Limited groupTomrods Limited made £16.6m revenue and a £33k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Tomrods Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £16.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £33k and 45 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of metals and metal ores” and is based in Thirsk; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Thirsk, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 53 yrs · since 1973
- 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 ultimate parent company of Tomrods Limited is Thompson Steel Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
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&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.9m | £17.5m | £16.6m |
| Cost of sales | £16m | £14.5m | £14.1m |
| Gross profit | £2.9m | £3m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | −£24.1k | −£17.3k | £112k |
| Profit before tax | −£192k | −£172k | −£41.8k |
| Profit after tax | −£61.5k | −£128k | −£33k |
| Profit (best available) | −£61.5k | −£128k | −£33k |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 47 | 46 | 45 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −0.3% | −0.7% | −0.2% |
| Gross margin | 15.3% | 17.3% | 14.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £403k | £381k | £369k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.3k | −£2.8k | −£734 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.5% | ▼5.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.1% | ▼2.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £151 | £36.1k | £7.9k |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £2.1m | £2.1m |
| Fixed assets | £840k | £962k | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £7.2m | £6.9m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | £2.7m | £2.6m | £2.1m |
| Deferred income | £2.5k | £0 | £33.8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £369k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£734
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now £2.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼78%
- Now £7.9k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 45
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £33.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▲67%
- Now £1.6m
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
- Tomrods Trustees Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Thompson Steel Limited75–100%
- Tomrods 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 Dec 2025 (profit −£33k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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