Grange Shipping Limited
Registered name: GRANGE SHIPPING LIMITED
Part of GM Holdings (Felixstowe) Limited groupGrange Shipping Limited made £11.8m revenue and £733k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Grange Shipping Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £11.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £733k profit and 29 employees. The company is classified under “other transportation support activities” and is based in Felixstowe; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Felixstowe, East of England
- Age
- 46 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 parent company of Grange Shipping Limited is GM Holdings (Felixstowe) Limited, whose registered office is Ordnance House, 1 Garrison Lane, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7SH, and who are the ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £10.7m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £8.3m | £9.1m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £625k | £875k |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £742k | £981k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £552k | £733k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £552k | £733k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 28 | 28 | 29 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 5.2% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 22.3% | 23% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £381k | £407k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £19.7k | £25.3k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −123.4% | −153.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲10.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲32.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.7% | 0% | ▲3.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.5m | £3.1m | £3.2m | £4.2m |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.8m | £3.2m |
| Fixed assets | £112k | £90.7k | £255k | £181k |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £4.7m | £5.2m | £6.1m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £248k | £184k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£771k | −£1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £407k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £25.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −153.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- 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
- ▲16%
- Now £3.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲31%
- Now £4.2m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £184k
- Fixed assets
- ▼29%
- Now £181k
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
- GM Holdings (Felixstowe) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Grange Shipping 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 £733k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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