Pumps and Gearboxes Ltd
Registered name: PUMPS AND GEARBOXES LTD
Part of TDR Capital LLP groupPumps and Gearboxes Ltd made £2.8m revenue and £127k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Pumps and Gearboxes Ltd’s revenue fell 5% to £2.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £127k profit and 11 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of machine tools” and is based in Owl Lane Dewsbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Owl Lane Dewsbury, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3m | £2.9m | £2.8m |
| Cost of sales | −£2.1m | −£2.1m | −£2m |
| Gross profit | £837k | £787k | £737k |
| Operating profit | £278k | £191k | £170k |
| Profit before tax | £278k | £191k | £170k |
| Profit after tax | £212k | £141k | £127k |
| Profit (best available) | £212k | £141k | £127k |
| Employees (average) | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.1% | 4.8% | 4.6% |
| Gross margin | 28.2% | 26.9% | 26.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £329k | £293k | £253k |
| Profit per employee | £23.5k | £14.1k | £11.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.3% | ▼5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼33.5% | ▼9.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.1% | ▲10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £253k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.6k
- 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
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 11
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- TDR Capital LLPultimate parent75–100%
- TDR Capital Nominees 2021 Limited50–75%
- Corpacq Group Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Holdings Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Midco Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Finance Limited75–100%
- Richard Alan Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Pumps & Gearboxes Holdings (UK) Limited75–100%
- Pumps and Gearboxes Ltdthis 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £127k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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