Tyneside Express Transport Limited
Registered name: TYNESIDE EXPRESS TRANSPORT LIMITED
Part of Efs Global Holdings Ltd groupTyneside Express Transport Limited made £11.2m revenue and £296k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Tyneside Express Transport Limited’s revenue grew 25% to £11.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £296k profit and 73 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Burnley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burnley, North West
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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: “EFS Investments Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.8m | £9m | £11.2m |
| Cost of sales | £7.2m | £6.8m | £8.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.1m | £2.9m |
| Profit before tax | £898k | £387k | £395k |
| Profit after tax | £827k | £374k | £296k |
| Profit (best available) | £827k | £374k | £296k |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 53 | 73 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.5% | 4.2% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | 25.8% | 23.7% | 25.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £165k | £169k | £153k |
| Profit per employee | £14k | £7.1k | £4.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8% | ▲24.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼54.8% | ▼20.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10.2% | ▲37.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £63.2k | £63k | £74.5k |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £3.2m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £846k | £804k |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £6.5m | £7.8m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.8m | £2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £153k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲18%
- Now £74.5k
- Headcount
- ▲38%
- Now 73
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £804k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Efs Global Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Efs Transport Ltd75–100%
- Efs Investments Limited75–100%
- Tyneside Express Transport Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (12)
- Caistor Distribution LimitedRev. £8.7m · Profit £807k
- Andante Freight LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Austin Wilkinson (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carolbank Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Efs Global Consulting LtdFigures not disclosed
- Efs Global North East LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eminence Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Floryn LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ils Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Thomas Harwood & Son LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tom Moorhouse & Son LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tooles Transport Holdings 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 Mar 2025 (profit £296k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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