Gba Transport Limited
Registered name: GBA TRANSPORT LIMITED
Part of Enstco 22 Limited groupGba Transport Limited made £11.3m revenue and £201k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Gba Transport Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £11.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £201k profit and 61 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Grimsby; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Grimsby, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 25 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.2m | £11.3m |
| Cost of sales | £13.3m | £10m |
| Gross profit | −£180k | £1.2m |
| Operating profit | −£867k | £219k |
| Profit before tax | −£819k | £268k |
| Profit after tax | −£614k | £201k |
| Profit (best available) | −£614k | £201k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 59 | 61 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −4.7% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | −1.4% | 10.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £223k | £185k |
| Profit per employee | −£10.4k | £3.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £925k |
| Net assets | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Fixed assets | £348k | £565k |
| Current assets | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Debtors | £295k | £494k |
| Deferred income | £285k | £192k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £185k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.4%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £1.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼9%
- Now £925k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 61
- Deferred income
- ▼33%
- Now £192k
- Fixed assets
- ▲62%
- Now £565k
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
- Enstco 22 Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Ensco 1330 Limited75–100%
- Ensco 1331 Limited75–100%
- Gba Group Limited75–100%
- Gba (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Gba Transport Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- G.B. Terminals LimitedRev. £66.3m · Profit £2.1m
- Euro Terminal LimitedFigures not disclosed
- G.B. Agencies 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 £201k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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