Paltank Limited
Registered name: PALTANK LIMITED
Part of CCP Group Holdings Limited groupPaltank Limited made £32m revenue and £389k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Paltank Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £32m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £389k profit and 34 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, South East
- 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: “CCP Holdings UK Limited is the immediate holding company. CCP Holdings UK Limited is incorporated in England and Wales and is registered at the following address: Silbury Court, 420 Silbury Boulevard,”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £33.6m | £32m |
| Cost of sales | £27.1m | £27.7m |
| Gross profit | £6.5m | £4.3m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £621k |
| Profit before tax | £2.6m | £505k |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £389k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £389k |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 35 | 34 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.9% | 1.2% |
| Gross margin | 19.3% | 13.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £961k | £942k |
| Profit per employee | £56.5k | £11.4k |
| Cash conversion | −206.2% | 23% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼4.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼80.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £4.9m | £3.4m |
| Net assets | £7.5m | £7.9m |
| Fixed assets | £8m | £8.6m |
| Current assets | £10.5m | £9.7m |
| Debtors | £5.1m | £5.7m |
| Deferred income | £3.7m | £2.7m |
| Cash from operations | −£5.8m | £143k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £942k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 23%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 26.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.8%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £7.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼30%
- Now £3.4m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 34
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £2.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £8.6m
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
- CCP Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- CCP Holdings UK Ltd75–100%
- Paltank Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Paljuice LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Palfreight LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £389k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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