Seddon Construction Limited
Registered name: SEDDON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Part of Seddon Group Limited groupSeddon Construction Limited made £137m revenue and £2.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Seddon Construction Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £137m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.2m profit and 445 employees. The company is classified under “development of building projects” and is based in Bolton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bolton, North West
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- 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) | £157m | £138m | £137m |
| Cost of sales | −£147m | −£125m | −£122m |
| Gross profit | £9.7m | £12.6m | £15.1m |
| Operating profit | £109k | £2.1m | £3m |
| Profit before tax | £237k | £2.3m | £3m |
| Profit after tax | £192k | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £192k | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 448 | 436 | 445 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 6.2% | 9.2% | 11% |
| Revenue per employee | £350k | £316k | £307k |
| Profit per employee | £429 | £4.8k | £5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12.3% | ▼0.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲999.8% | ▲5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.7% | ▲2.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £307k
- 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
- —
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now 445
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Seddon Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Seddon Construction Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (6)
- Seddon Property Services LimitedRev. £61.7m · Profit £1.5m
- Seddon Painting & Maintenance LimitedRev. £4.9m · Profit £285k
- Seddon Engineering Services LtdRev. £4.2m · Profit −£351k
- J & S Seddon (Building) LimitedRev. £1.2m · Profit £293k
- G.& J.seddon LimitedRev. £125k · Profit −£179k
- Seddon Housing Partnerships LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (17)
- Seddon RDP LimitedRev. £1.1m · Profit £152k
- Seddon Developments LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £567k
- Circle Liverpool LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Building LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Energy Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Estates LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Green Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Maintenance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Painting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Renewables LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Securities LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Solar LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddon Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seddons Construction LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tranent Propco SL 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 £2.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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