Available Car Limited
Registered name: AVAILABLE CAR LIMITED
Part of Graham Bell (Holdings) Limited groupAvailable Car Limited made £253m revenue and £2.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Available Car Limited’s revenue was £253m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.6m profit and 379 employees. The company is classified under “sale of used cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Derby; we hold 6 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Derby, East Midlands
- Age
- 24 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 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £330m | £336m | £334m | £117m | £115m | £253m |
| Cost of sales | £320m | £327m | £330m | £113m | £111m | −£243m |
| Gross profit | £9.5m | £8.7m | £4.3m | £4.7m | £4.1m | £9.6m |
| Operating profit | £3.1m | −£680k | −£6.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £3.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | −£7.3m | −£10.8m | £155k | £527k | £2.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | −£6.8m | −£10.5m | £155k | £527k | £2.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | −£6.8m | −£10.5m | £155k | £527k | £2.6m |
| Staff costs | £21m | £22.9m | £20.7m | £6.6m | £7.1m | — |
| Employees (average) | 628 | 660 | 598 | 357 | 387 | 379 |
| Ratios | ||||||
| Profit margin | 0.5% | −2% | −3.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 2.9% | 2.6% | 1.3% | 4% | 3.6% | 3.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £525k | £509k | £559k | £328k | £298k | £667k |
| Profit per employee | £2.5k | −£10.3k | −£17.6k | £434 | £1.4k | £6.9k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | — | 247% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.8% | ▼0.5% | — | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼532.8% | — | — | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.1% | ▼9.4% | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||||
| Cash at bank | £7.5m | £2.7m | £3.1m | £4.9m | £2.2m | — |
| Net assets | £47.8m | £40.4m | £29.3m | £28.9m | £29.4m | — |
| Fixed assets | £37m | £32.2m | £27.9m | £7m | £7m | — |
| Current assets | £69.2m | £80.2m | £41.1m | £42.7m | £49.2m | — |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.8m | £1.6m | £1.6m | £918k | — |
| Deferred income | £707k | £680k | £510k | £488k | £543k | — |
| Cash from operations | — | — | £10.7m | £2.9m | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 3.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £667k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.9k
- 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
- —
- Now 379
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Graham Bell (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Available Car Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Available Vehicles LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 £2.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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