T & B (Contractors) Limited
Registered name: T & B (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED
Part of T&B (Contractors) Group Holdings Limited groupT & B (Contractors) Limited made £48.2m revenue and £620k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
T & B (Contractors) Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £48.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £620k profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in ST. Albans; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- ST. Albans, East of England
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1982
- 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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £57.4m | £52.9m | £48.2m |
| Cost of sales | £52.1m | £47.9m | £44m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £5m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £1.7m | £513k |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £2.1m | £796k |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £1.6m | £620k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £1.6m | £620k |
| Staff costs | £6m | £6.3m | £8.4m |
| Employees (average) | 98 | 102 | 102 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.5% | 2.9% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 9.2% | 9.4% | 8.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £586k | £519k | £473k |
| Profit per employee | £20.3k | £15.2k | £6.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.8% | ▼8.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼21.7% | ▼60.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.1% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £7.4m | £8.3m | £7.3m |
| Net assets | £10.1m | £10.1m | £10.1m |
| Fixed assets | £3.9m | £4.3m | £4.1m |
| Current assets | £17m | £17.2m | £17.5m |
| Debtors | £5.8m | £5.3m | £6.2m |
| Deferred income | £714k | £281k | £305k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £473k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.9%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £10.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼12%
- Now £7.3m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- ▲8%
- Now £305k
- Fixed assets
- ▼4%
- Now £4.1m
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
- T&B (Contractors) Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- T & B (Contractors) Holdings Limited75–100%
- T & B (Contractors) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Lakemere 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £620k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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