Phoenix Gas Services Limited
Registered name: PHOENIX GAS SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Phoenix Gas Holdings Group Limited groupPhoenix Gas Services Limited made £15.2m revenue and £438k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024.
Phoenix Gas Services Limited’s revenue grew 25% to £15.2m in the year to 30 Nov 2024, with £438k profit and 149 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Stoke-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.7m | £12.1m | £15.2m |
| Cost of sales | £9.2m | £8.8m | £11.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £3.3m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £193k | £630k | £569k |
| Profit before tax | £163k | £604k | £556k |
| Profit after tax | £131k | £492k | £438k |
| Profit (best available) | £131k | £492k | £438k |
| Staff costs | £3.1m | £3.6m | £4.6m |
| Employees (average) | 114 | 129 | 149 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 4.1% | 2.9% |
| Gross margin | 21.5% | 27.6% | 26.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £102k | £93.9k | £102k |
| Profit per employee | £1.2k | £3.8k | £2.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.8% | ▲25.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲275% | ▼11.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.2% | ▲15.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £913k | £1.1m | £296k |
| Net assets | £725k | £717k | £964k |
| Fixed assets | £0 | £50.2k | — |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £3.8m | £4.8m |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £1.8m | £3m |
| Deferred income | £238k | £293k | £203k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £102k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.9k
- 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
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.4%
- 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
- ▲34%
- Now £964k
- Cash at bank
- ▼73%
- Now £296k
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 149
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £203k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Phoenix Gas Holdings Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Phoenix Gas Holdings Limited75–100%
- Phoenix Gas Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Phoenix Gas (New Build) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Phoenix Renewable Technologies 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 30 Nov 2024 (profit £438k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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