Tranter Limited
Registered name: TRANTER LIMITED
Part of Alfa Laval Ab groupTranter Limited made £4.6m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Tranter Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £4.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Wakefield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alfa Laval Limited.The ultimate parent company is Alfa Laval AB (Publ.), a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The largest group in which the results of the”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.8m | £5.4m | £4.1m | £4.6m |
| Cost of sales | £2.3m | £3.1m | £2.2m | £2.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £2.2m | £1.9m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £919k | £1.6m | £1.2m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £922k | £1.6m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £742k | £1.2m | £989k | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £742k | £1.2m | £989k | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £598k | £675k | £622k | £605k |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 19.4% | 23% | 24.3% | 24.1% |
| Gross margin | 39.7% | 41.6% | 46.6% | 45.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £318k | £412k | £314k | £383k |
| Profit per employee | £61.9k | £94.8k | £76.1k | £92.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲40.5% | ▼24% | ▲12.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲66% | ▼19.8% | ▲12% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.3% | 0% | ▼7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £327k | £1.4m | £1.6m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £3m | £3m | £2.9m |
| Fixed assets | £213k | £201k | £179k | £310k |
| Current assets | £2.8m | £3.4m | £3.5m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £985k | £881k | £655k | £922k |
| Deferred income | £204k | £130k | £284k | £268k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 24.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 45.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £383k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £92.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £2.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼6%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- ▼6%
- Now £268k
- Fixed assets
- ▲73%
- Now £310k
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
- Alfa Laval Ab (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Alfa Laval Limited75–100%
- Tranter Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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