Unitmovements Limited
Registered name: UNITMOVEMENTS LIMITED
Part of Tough Limited groupUnitmovements Limited made £18.3m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Unitmovements Limited’s revenue grew 84% to £18.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1m profit and 200 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities” and is based in Cardiff; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cardiff, Wales
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.7m | £9.9m | £9.9m | £18.3m |
| Cost of sales | £6.9m | £7.1m | £7.4m | £14.7m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £2.8m | £2.5m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.6m | £1.4m | £990k | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £1.4m | £994k | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £1.1m | £755k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £1.1m | £755k | £1m |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £3.8m | £3.8m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 129 | 132 | 124 | 200 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 19.9% | 11.2% | 7.6% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 35.6% | 28.3% | 25.5% | 19.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £82.6k | £74.7k | £80k | £91.3k |
| Profit per employee | £16.4k | £8.4k | £6.1k | £5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.4% | ▲0.6% | ▲84% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼47.8% | ▼31.6% | ▲33.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.3% | ▼6.1% | ▲61.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.3m | £2.9m | £3.1m | £3.4m |
| Net assets | £3.2m | £3.1m | £3.1m | £3.6m |
| Fixed assets | £434k | £1.1m | £1m | £3.3m |
| Current assets | £5.7m | £5.3m | £5.8m | £7.8m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.9m | £2.3m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | £425k | £418k | £411k | £536k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.4%
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now £3.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8%
- Now £3.4m
- Headcount
- ▲61%
- Now 200
- Deferred income
- ▲30%
- Now £536k
- Fixed assets
- ▲220%
- Now £3.3m
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
- Tough Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Unitmovements Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Safe Room LtdFigures 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 £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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