Sale Service and Maintenance Ltd.
Registered name: SALE SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE LTD.
Part of SG Trustee Limited groupSale Service and Maintenance Ltd. made £47m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Sale Service and Maintenance Ltd.’s revenue grew 11% to £47m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation” and is based in Sutton; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sutton, London
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent undertaking is Sale Group Limited, a company whose registered office is Sale House 25 Upper Mulgrave Road, Cheam, Sutton, England, SM2 7AY.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £40.8m | £35m | £42.2m | £47m |
| Cost of sales | £37.3m | £31.3m | £35.9m | £41m |
| Gross profit | £3.5m | £3.7m | £6.3m | £6m |
| Operating profit | £253k | £590k | £2.8m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £254k | £617k | £2.8m | £1.6m |
| Profit after tax | £180k | £11.7k | £2.1m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £180k | £11.7k | £2.1m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £5m | £5.5m | £5.8m | £6.9m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 68 | 77 | 76 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 0.4% | 0% | 4.9% | 2.3% |
| Gross margin | 8.6% | 10.5% | 14.9% | 12.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £600k | £514k | £549k | £618k |
| Profit per employee | £2.6k | £172 | £26.7k | £14.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.3% | ▲20.9% | ▲11.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼93.5% | ▲17489% | ▼47.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲13.2% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £3.5m | £5.9m | £5.4m |
| Net assets | £6m | £3.8m | £4.7m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £62.4k | £38.7k | £330k | £540k |
| Current assets | £14.7m | £12.8m | £14.7m | £16.8m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £2.5m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £3.5m | £3.9m | £4.6m | £6.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £618k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 14.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.9%
- 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
- ▼15%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼8%
- Now £5.4m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- ▲50%
- Now £6.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲64%
- Now £540k
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
- SG Trustee Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Sale Group Limited75–100%
- Sale Service and Maintenance Ltd.this 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.
Updated from Companies House on 21 Oct 2026
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