Panic Deliveries Limited
Registered name: PANIC DELIVERIES LIMITED
Part of PDS Group Holdings Limited groupPanic Deliveries Limited made £14.4m revenue and £312k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2025. read from filing text
Panic Deliveries Limited’s revenue grew 21% to £14.4m in the year to 30 Nov 2025, with £312k profit and 162 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Oldbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Oldbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 47 yrs · since 1979
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is PDS Group Holdings 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 | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 | 30 Nov 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) | £10.5m | £10.2m | £11.9m | £14.4m |
| Cost of sales | £8.6m | £8.1m | £9.9m | £11.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.1m | £2m | £2.6m |
| Operating profit | £145k | £242k | −£52.5k | £302k |
| Profit before tax | £144k | £242k | −£52.5k | £282k |
| Profit after tax | £128k | £189k | −£20.8k | £312k |
| Profit (best available) | £128k | £189k | −£20.8k | £312k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £3.9m | £4.9m | £7.2m |
| Employees (average) | 114 | 114 | 125 | 162 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 1.8% | −0.2% | 2.2% |
| Gross margin | 17.8% | 20.6% | 17.1% | 17.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £91.9k | £89.6k | £95.5k | £89k |
| Profit per employee | £1.1k | £1.7k | −£166 | £1.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.5% | ▲16.9% | ▲20.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲48.4% | ▼111% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲9.7% | ▲29.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £384k | £313k | £339k | £585k |
| Net assets | £295k | £309k | £288k | £600k |
| Current assets | £2.9m | £2.8m | £4.2m | £4.2m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.8m | £2.7m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £64.4k | £62k | £63k | £61.6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £89k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.9k
- 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
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.6%
- 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
- ▲108%
- Now £600k
- Cash at bank
- ▲72%
- Now £585k
- Headcount
- ▲30%
- Now 162
- Deferred income
- ▼2%
- Now £61.6k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- PDS Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Panic Deliveries Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- PDS Direct 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 30 Nov 2025 (profit £312k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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