Morrison Freight Limited
Registered name: MORRISON FREIGHT LIMITED
Part of Schneider & Cie. Ag Internationale Transporte groupMorrison Freight Limited made £12.8m revenue and £940k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Morrison Freight Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £12.8m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £940k profit and 23 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Ipswich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ipswich, East of England
- Age
- 36 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. From the filing: “The company's immediate parent undertaking at the balance sheet date was Morrison Freight Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £15.2m | £13.3m | £12.8m |
| Cost of sales | £11.7m | £12.2m | £10.6m | £10.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £3m | £2.7m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £940k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £940k |
| Staff costs | £739k | £1m | £933k | £794k |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 8.1% | 8% | 7.3% |
| Gross margin | — | 19.7% | 20.1% | 19.2% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £661k | £579k | £557k |
| Profit per employee | £53.3k | £53.5k | £46.1k | £40.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼12.4% | ▼3.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲15.3% | ▼13.7% | ▼11.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £866k | £701k | £936k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1.4m | £2.5m | £3.4m |
| Fixed assets | £95.6k | £75.9k | £8.7k | £11k |
| Current assets | — | £6.3m | £6.7m | £7.5m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £933k | £742k | £686k | £577k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £557k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £40.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.9%
- 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
- ▲38%
- Now £3.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲33%
- Now £936k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- ▼16%
- Now £577k
- Fixed assets
- ▲27%
- Now £11k
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
- Schneider & Cie. Ag Internationale Transporte (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Morrison Group Limited75–100%
- Morrison Freight Holdings Limited75–100%
- Morrison Freight Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £940k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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