Builder Depot Limited
Registered name: BUILDER DEPOT LIMITED
Builder Depot Limited made £144m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Builder Depot Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £144m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2m profit and 347 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment” and is based in 3 Dorset Rise; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- 3 Dorset Rise, London
- 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. From the filing: “The company's immediate and ultimate parent is”
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) | £126m | £132m | £136m | £144m |
| Cost of sales | £88.5m | £94m | £96.2m | £104m |
| Gross profit | £37.8m | £38.5m | £39.6m | £40.5m |
| Operating profit | £3.2m | £3.1m | £2.1m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £3.9m | £4m | £3.1m | £2.1m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £3.3m | £2.4m | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £3.3m | £2.4m | £2m |
| Staff costs | £13m | £13.2m | £14.4m | £16.1m |
| Employees (average) | 323 | 319 | 330 | 347 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 29.9% | 29.1% | 29.1% | 28.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £391k | £415k | £411k | £416k |
| Profit per employee | £10.4k | £10.2k | £7.3k | £5.7k |
| Cash conversion | −163.3% | −133.3% | 173.2% | −366.1% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.9% | ▲2.5% | ▲6.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼2.7% | ▼26.5% | ▼17.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.2% | ▲3.5% | ▲5.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.8m | £4.8m | £4.5m | £4.3m |
| Net assets | £23.1m | £26.3m | £28.7m | £30.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2.3m | £2.7m | £3.9m |
| Current assets | £62.7m | £66.4m | £69.5m | £66.8m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £12.3m | £7.3m | £7.2m | £2.4m |
| Cash from operations | −£5.2m | −£4.2m | £3.7m | −£6.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £416k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −366.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.7%
- 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
- 1.1%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £30.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼6%
- Now £4.3m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 347
- Deferred income
- ▼67%
- Now £2.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲42%
- Now £3.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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