Cox Skips Limited
Registered name: COX SKIPS LIMITED
Part of Icon Sterling Infra Holdings Limited groupCox Skips Limited made £9.5m revenue and £591k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Cox Skips Limited’s revenue was £9.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £591k profit and 31 employees. The company is classified under “collection of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Turners Hill; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Turners Hill, South East
- 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: “The”
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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £7m | £9.5m |
| Cost of sales | £7.3m | £5.3m | £6.9m |
| Gross profit | — | £1.7m | £2.6m |
| Operating profit | — | £378k | £923k |
| Profit before tax | £445k | £380k | £934k |
| Profit after tax | £299k | £228k | £591k |
| Profit (best available) | £299k | £228k | £591k |
| Employees (average) | 30 | 34 | 31 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 3.3% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | — | 24.6% | 27.2% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £206k | £305k |
| Profit per employee | £10k | £6.7k | £19.1k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £936k | £857k | £450k |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £1.6m | £2.2m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.6m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Debtors | £699k | £554k | £688k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £305k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 12.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- 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 £2.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £450k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 31
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.2m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Icon Sterling Infra Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Cirqlr Group Limited75–100%
- Cirqlr Group Finco Limited75–100%
- Cox Bidco Limited75–100%
- Cox Management Services Limited75–100%
- Cox Skips Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- The Recycling Partnership LimitedRev. £9.8m · Profit £1.9m
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 2024 (profit £591k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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