Cox Automotive Retail Solutions Limited
Registered name: COX AUTOMOTIVE RETAIL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Manheim Global Management UK Limited groupCox Automotive Retail Solutions Limited made £6m revenue and £4.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Cox Automotive Retail Solutions Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £4.1m profit and 22 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Rothwell; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rothwell, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 ultimate parent company and ultimate controlling party is Cox Enterprises, Inc. The registered office of Cox Enterprises, Inc. is at”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.6m | £7.9m | £6.6m | £6m |
| Cost of sales | £743k | £129k | £113k | £1.6m |
| Gross profit | £6.9m | £7.8m | £6.5m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | −£2.4m | −£926k | −£826k | −£306k |
| Profit before tax | −£419k | £3.1m | £4.2m | £4.5m |
| Profit after tax | £655k | £2.3m | £4.9m | £4.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £655k | £2.3m | £4.9m | £4.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £3.7m | £2.4m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 88 | 83 | 38 | 22 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.6% | 29.2% | 74.7% | 68.8% |
| Gross margin | 90.3% | 98.4% | 98.3% | 72.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £86.7k | £95.4k | £174k | £271k |
| Profit per employee | £7.4k | £27.9k | £130k | £187k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▼16.7% | ▼9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲253% | ▲113.2% | ▼16.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5.7% | ▼54.2% | ▼42.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £416k | £134k | £166k | £4k |
| Net assets | £63.8m | £66.1m | £71m | £75.6m |
| Fixed assets | £61.3m | £64.4m | £68m | £73.4m |
| Current assets | £5.1m | £2.9m | £3.7m | £2.8m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £805k | £461k | £371k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 68.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 72.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £271k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £187k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1232%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- 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 £75.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼98%
- Now £4k
- Headcount
- ▼42%
- Now 22
- Deferred income
- ▼20%
- Now £371k
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £73.4m
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
- Manheim Global Management UK Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Manheim Holdings Limited75–100%
- Cox Automotive UK Limited75–100%
- Cox Automotive Retail Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Fullpath Holdings UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (10)
- Manheim LimitedRev. £132m · Profit −£22.9m
- Money4yourmotors.com LimitedRev. £40.4m · Profit −£9m
- Movex Logistics LtdRev. £27.6m · Profit £4.2m
- Dealer Auction LimitedRev. £18m · Profit −£1.1m
- Cox Automotive Geo LimitedRev. £3.8m · Profit £77k
- Cox Automotive Ev Battery Solutions LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£1.3m
- Bias 2020 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bruntingthorpe Logistics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Codeweavers (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kingfisher Systems (Scotland) 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 £4.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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