Eastern Concrete Limited
Registered name: EASTERN CONCRETE LIMITED
Part of Baker Family Holdings Limited groupEastern Concrete Limited made £30m revenue and £558k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Eastern Concrete Limited’s revenue was £30m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £558k profit and 103 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of ready-mixed concrete” and is based in Stowmarket; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stowmarket, East of England
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 parent company of Eastern Concrete Limited is Baker Family Holdings Limited and its registered office is Stowmarket Business Park, Ernest Nunn Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 2ED.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 30 Sep 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.4m | £19.1m | £20m | £11.1m | £30m |
| Cost of sales | £14.6m | £16.6m | £17.7m | £9.5m | £25.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.8m | £2.6m | £2.3m | £1.6m | £4.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £545k | £99.5k | £428k | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £996k | £388k | −£187k | £259k | £745k |
| Profit after tax | £658k | £373k | −£158k | £191k | £558k |
| Profit (best available) | £658k | £373k | −£158k | £191k | £558k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £3.2m | £3.7m | £2m | £5.4m |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 77 | 83 | 83 | 103 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 3.8% | 1.9% | −0.8% | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| Gross margin | 15.9% | 13.4% | 11.4% | 14.3% | 15.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £234k | £248k | £241k | £134k | £291k |
| Profit per employee | £8.9k | £4.8k | −£1.9k | £2.3k | £5.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.2% | ▲4.4% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼43.3% | ▼142.3% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4% | ▲7.8% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £339k | £432k | £278k | £274k | £314k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.6m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £5.1m | £5.4m | £6.8m | £6.9m | £7.9m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £4.1m | £3.6m | £4m | £4.8m |
| Debtors | £2.8m | £3m | £2.9m | £3.3m | £2.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £291k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 26.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 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
- —
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £314k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 103
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £7.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Baker Family Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Eastern Concrete Limitedthis 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 £558k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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