Rose Builders Ltd
Registered name: ROSE BUILDERS LTD
Part of Rose Group Limited groupRose Builders Ltd made £70.5m revenue and £888k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Rose Builders Ltd’s revenue grew 66% to £70.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £888k profit and 192 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Manningtree; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manningtree, East of England
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1995
- 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 immediate parent company at 31 March 2025 was Rose Construction Group 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £63.1m | £56.8m | £42.5m | £70.5m |
| Cost of sales | £57.9m | £51.1m | £37.5m | £64.4m |
| Gross profit | £5.2m | £5.7m | £5.1m | £6.1m |
| Operating profit | £624k | £571k | £265k | £959k |
| Profit before tax | £645k | £556k | £441k | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £486k | £532k | £385k | £888k |
| Profit (best available) | £486k | £532k | £385k | £888k |
| Staff costs | £10.4m | £11.3m | £10.3m | £11.9m |
| Employees (average) | 216 | 217 | 189 | 192 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 8.3% | 10.1% | 11.9% | 8.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £292k | £262k | £225k | £367k |
| Profit per employee | £2.3k | £2.5k | £2k | £4.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10% | ▼25.1% | ▲65.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲9.3% | ▼27.6% | ▲130.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲0.5% | ▼12.9% | ▲1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £11.1m | £12m | £11.4m | £14.5m |
| Net assets | £8.4m | £8.9m | £9.3m | £10.2m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £21.8m | £18.8m | £17.7m | £28m |
| Debtors | £4.4m | £3.4m | £3.4m | £8.8m |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £1.9m | £2.1m | £3.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £367k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.5%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £10.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲27%
- Now £14.5m
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 192
- Deferred income
- ▲65%
- Now £3.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲30%
- Now £1.7m
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
- Rose Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Rose Construction Group Limited75–100%
- Rose Builders Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Rose Partnership Homes 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 Mar 2025 (profit £888k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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