Fricor Limited
Registered name: FRICOR LIMITED
Part of Bnx Holdings Limited groupFricor Limited made £28.5m revenue and £840k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Fricor Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £28.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £840k profit and 216 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Shepton Mallet; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shepton Mallet, South West
- Age
- 30 yrs · since 1996
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25.3m | £26.9m | £28.5m |
| Cost of sales | −£20.7m | −£21.9m | −£23.6m |
| Gross profit | £4.6m | £5m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £2m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.8m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.3m | £840k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.3m | £840k |
| Employees (average) | 210 | 203 | 216 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 4.8% | 2.9% |
| Gross margin | 18.1% | 18.7% | 17.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £120k | £133k | £132k |
| Profit per employee | £5k | £6.3k | £3.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.6% | ▲6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲22.3% | ▼34.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.3% | ▲6.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £132k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 216
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bnx Holdings Limited (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Fricor Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Horsehill Farm LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Spedex LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £840k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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