Garrard Building and Construction Limited
Registered name: GARRARD BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Garrard Building and Construction Limited made £10.9m revenue and £631k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Garrard Building and Construction Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £10.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £631k profit and 60 employees. The company is classified under “construction of domestic buildings” and is based in Stevenage; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stevenage, East of England
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- 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 company was controlled throughout the period by D J Garrard”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £8.2m | £9.3m | £10.2m | £10.9m |
| Cost of sales | £6.7m | £7.8m | £8.4m | £9m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.7m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £814k | £428k | £458k | £775k |
| Profit before tax | £822k | £444k | £480k | £842k |
| Profit after tax | £700k | £337k | £359k | £631k |
| Profit (best available) | £700k | £337k | £359k | £631k |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.7m | £3.1m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 55 | 58 | 60 | 60 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.5% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 5.8% |
| Gross margin | 18.3% | 16.2% | 17.1% | 17.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £149k | £160k | £169k | £182k |
| Profit per employee | £12.7k | £5.8k | £6k | £10.5k |
| Cash conversion | −0.1% | −60.6% | −259.3% | −265.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.2% | ▲9.2% | ▲7.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼51.9% | ▲6.6% | ▲75.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.5% | ▲3.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £742k | £1.5m | £2.4m |
| Net assets | £4.7m | £4.5m | £4.8m | £5.4m |
| Fixed assets | £557k | £494k | £358k | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £5.6m | £6.3m | £6.4m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.5m | £2.3m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £5.5k | £5.5k | £5.8k | £5.8k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.2k | −£259k | −£1.2m | −£2.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £182k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −265.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 15.9%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £5.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲57%
- Now £2.4m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 60
- Deferred income
- 0%
- Now £5.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▲223%
- Now £1.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £631k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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