Delamode Nidd Limited
Registered name: DELAMODE NIDD LIMITED
Part of DLM Midco I Limited groupDelamode Nidd Limited made £12m revenue and £252k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Delamode Nidd Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £12m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £252k profit and 63 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Ripon; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ripon, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent undertaking is Xpediator Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, owning 100% of the share capital of the Company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £12m |
| Cost of sales | £6.5m | £7.1m |
| Gross profit | £4.6m | £5m |
| Operating profit | £284k | £276k |
| Profit before tax | £266k | £252k |
| Profit after tax | £250k | £252k |
| Profit (best available) | £250k | £252k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 69 | 63 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 41.6% | 41.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £162k | £191k |
| Profit per employee | £3.6k | £4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲0.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £284k | £322k |
| Net assets | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Fixed assets | £749k | £630k |
| Current assets | £4.5m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £191k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14%
- 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
- ▲0%
- Now £2.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲13%
- Now £322k
- Headcount
- ▼9%
- Now 63
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼16%
- Now £630k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- DLM Midco I Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- DLM Midco II Limited75–100%
- DLM Bidco Limited75–100%
- Xpediator Limited75–100%
- Delamode Nidd Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Delamode Anglia LimitedRev. £21.7m · Profit −£218k
- Delamode International Logistics LimitedRev. £21m · Profit −£5.5m
- Regional Express LimitedRev. £2.2m · Profit −£251k
- Anglia Forwarding Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode Holdings UK Freight Forwarding LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode London 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 £252k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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