Bower Green Limited
Registered name: BOWER GREEN LIMITED
Bower Green Limited made £16.4m revenue and £303k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Bower Green Limited’s revenue grew 29% to £16.4m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £303k profit and 68 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in West Yorkshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 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) | £22.8m | £12.7m | £12.7m | £16.4m |
| Cost of sales | £21.7m | £11.1m | £11.4m | £14.7m |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Operating profit | £606k | £886k | £553k | £782k |
| Profit before tax | £584k | £859k | £528k | £780k |
| Profit after tax | £458k | £709k | £323k | £303k |
| Profit (best available) | £458k | £709k | £323k | £303k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.4m | £2.5m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 61 | 65 | 68 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2% | 5.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 5% | 12.1% | 10% | 10.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £368k | £207k | £195k | £241k |
| Profit per employee | £7.4k | £11.6k | £5k | £4.4k |
| Cash conversion | −342.2% | −148.8% | −100% | −197.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼44.6% | ▲0.4% | ▲29.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲55% | ▼54.5% | ▼6.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.6% | ▲6.6% | ▲4.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £2.1m | £1.1m | £2m |
| Net assets | £4m | £4.4m | £4.3m | £7.6m |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £2.5m | £2.7m | £6.9m |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £4.3m | £4.8m | £4.4m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.6m | £2.4m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £303k | £391k | £319k | £310k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.1m | −£1.3m | −£554k | −£1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £241k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −197.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 42.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.1%
- 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
- ▲75%
- Now £7.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲81%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 68
- Deferred income
- ▼3%
- Now £310k
- Fixed assets
- ▲160%
- Now £6.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (3)
- Bower Green (Shipping & Forwarding) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bower Green Warehousing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Donald Pattison & Co 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 Jul 2025 (profit £303k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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