Keltbray Plant Limited
Registered name: KELTBRAY PLANT LIMITED
Part of Aqua Trustees Number 26 Limited groupKeltbray Plant Limited made £66.7m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025.
Keltbray Plant Limited’s revenue fell 3% to £66.7m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £1.3m profit and 118 employees. The company is classified under “renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment” and is based in Thames Ditton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Thames Ditton, London
- Age
- 43 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. From the filing: “Keltbray Group Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £90.2m | £68.4m | £66.7m |
| Cost of sales | £79.9m | £65.7m | £60.7m |
| Gross profit | £10.3m | £2.8m | £6m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £1.4m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £487k | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £96.5k | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £96.5k | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £9.9m | £6.6m | £7.9m |
| Employees (average) | 163 | 107 | 118 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 0.1% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 11.5% | 4% | 9% |
| Revenue per employee | £554k | £640k | £565k |
| Profit per employee | £9.9k | £902 | £10.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼24.1% | ▼2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼94% | ▲1213% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼34.4% | ▲10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £9.3m | £9.2m | £5m |
| Net assets | £2.2m | £1.4m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £27.2m | £22.8m | £21.6m |
| Current assets | £39m | £27.4m | £14.1m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £131k | £1.9m |
| Deferred income | £10m | £7.9m | £7.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £565k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 32.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- 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
- ▲92%
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼46%
- Now £5m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 118
- Deferred income
- ▼4%
- Now £7.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £21.6m
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
- Aqua Trustees Number 26 Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Crumlin Investments Management Limited75–100%
- Keltbray Group Limited75–100%
- Keltbray Plant Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Keltbray Electrification Plant LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (9)
- Keltbray Built Environment LimitedRev. £320m · Profit £19.3m
- Keltbray Management Services LimitedRev. £45.5m · Profit £388k
- Konclude Environmental Materials Management LimitedRev. £1.6m · Profit −£4.9k
- Hiper Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hiper Pile LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Keltbray Consulting & Engineering LimitedRev. — · Profit £8k
- Keltbray Developments (Dundee) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kerr Property Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit −£2.3m
- Konstructive Recruitment Services 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 Oct 2025 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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