Containerlift Services Limited
Registered name: CONTAINERLIFT SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Blue Group Collective Limited groupContainerlift Services Limited made £15.3m revenue and £145k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Containerlift Services Limited’s revenue grew 18% to £15.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £145k profit and 78 employees. The company is classified under “service activities incidental to water transportation” and is based in Great Dunmow; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Great Dunmow, East of England
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1989
- 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 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13m | £15.3m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £11.8m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £506k | £439k |
| Profit before tax | £279k | £208k |
| Profit after tax | £153k | £145k |
| Profit (best available) | £153k | £145k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £4.2m |
| Employees (average) | 69 | 78 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 23.1% | 22.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £188k | £196k |
| Profit per employee | £2.2k | £1.9k |
| Cash conversion | −298.4% | −278.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £238k | £9.4k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £5.4m | £5.2m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £86.7k | £178k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.5m | −£1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £196k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −278.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 34.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.9%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼96%
- Now £9.4k
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 78
- Deferred income
- ▲106%
- Now £178k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £5.2m
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
- Blue Group Collective Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Containerlift Holdings Limited75–100%
- Containerlift Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Containerlift Shipping 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 Dec 2025 (profit £145k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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