Timber Connection Limited
Registered name: TIMBER CONNECTION LIMITED
Timber Connection Limited made £40.6m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Timber Connection Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £40.6m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £1.3m profit and 17 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment” and is based in Ware; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ware, East of England
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- 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 controlling party is Danny Catherall, a director, by virtue of his majority shareholding.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £45.1m | £36.2m | £40.6m |
| Cost of sales | £39.8m | £30.8m | £35m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £5.4m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £2.1m | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.6m |
| Employees (average) | 20 | 18 | 17 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.2% | 4.2% | 3.1% |
| Gross margin | 11.7% | 14.9% | 13.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.3m | £2m | £2.4m |
| Profit per employee | £71.4k | £84.6k | £74.5k |
| Cash conversion | −383% | −104.8% | −33.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼19.6% | ▲12% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲6.8% | ▼16.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10% | ▼5.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £584k | £861k | £876k |
| Net assets | £11.2m | £9.8m | £8.9m |
| Fixed assets | £766k | £743k | £706k |
| Current assets | £23.2m | £21.5m | £24.2m |
| Debtors | £7.6m | £8m | £9.1m |
| Deferred income | £872k | £365k | £421k |
| Cash from operations | −£9.9m | −£2.8m | −£773k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £74.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −33.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 22.4%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £8.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲2%
- Now £876k
- Headcount
- ▼6%
- Now 17
- Deferred income
- ▲16%
- Now £421k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £706k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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