RML Group Limited
Registered name: RML GROUP LIMITED
Part of RML Group Holdings Limited groupRML Group Limited made £12.1m revenue and a £9.6m loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
RML Group Limited’s revenue was £12.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £9.6m and 107 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of batteries and accumulators” and is based in Wellingborough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wellingborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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 Oct 2021 | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9m | £14.1m | £14.6m | £12.1m |
| Cost of sales | £7.7m | £10.3m | £14.5m | £14.2m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £3.8m | £65.8k | −£2.1m |
| Operating profit | −£1.2m | −£835k | −£6.4m | −£10.2m |
| Profit before tax | −£1.2m | −£833k | −£7m | −£9.6m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.1m | −£714k | −£7.4m | −£9.6m |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.1m | −£714k | −£7.4m | −£9.6m |
| Staff costs | £5.5m | £7.5m | £8m | £9.5m |
| Employees (average) | 99 | 125 | 138 | 107 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −12% | −5.1% | −51% | −79.8% |
| Gross margin | 14.5% | 27.2% | 0.4% | −17.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £90.5k | £113k | £106k | £113k |
| Profit per employee | −£10.8k | −£5.7k | −£53.9k | −£90.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲57.6% | ▲3.4% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.3% | ▲10.4% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £987k | £1.7m | £179k | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £2m | £1.3m | −£6.1m | £1.6m |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £2.9m | £1.6m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £11.4m | £6.1m | £7.9m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £4.5m | £977k | £414k |
| Deferred income | £3.5m | £11.7m | £8.4m | £5.8m |
| Cash from operations | £1.1m | −£3.1m | £1.1m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −79.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −17.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £113k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£90.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 48.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.4%
- 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 £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 107
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £5.8m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.2m
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
- RML Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- RML Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- R M L Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
- RML Motorsport 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£9.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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