Bulkhaul Limited
Registered name: BULKHAUL LIMITED
Part of The Gibson O'Neill Company Limited groupBulkhaul Limited made £205m revenue and £27.9m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Bulkhaul Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £205m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £27.9m profit and 526 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Middlesbrough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Middlesbrough, North East
- Age
- 44 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £300m | £190m | £205m |
| Cost of sales | −£164m | −£96.4m | −£107m |
| Gross profit | £137m | £93.6m | £98.6m |
| Operating profit | £87.8m | £46.1m | £47.8m |
| Profit before tax | £82.4m | £37.4m | £38.1m |
| Profit after tax | £65.2m | £28.3m | £27.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £65.2m | £28.3m | £27.9m |
| Employees (average) | 535 | 533 | 526 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 21.7% | 14.9% | 13.6% |
| Gross margin | 45.5% | 49.3% | 48% |
| Revenue per employee | £562k | £356k | £390k |
| Profit per employee | £122k | £53k | £53k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼36.8% | ▲8.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼56.7% | ▼1.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £390k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £53k
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 526
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- The Gibson O'Neill Company Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bulkhaul Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Bulkhaul (International) LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (4)
- Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rockliffe Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rockliffe Hall LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Gibson O'Neill Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £27.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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