Valli Forecourts Limited
Registered name: VALLI FORECOURTS LIMITED
Valli Forecourts Limited made £135m revenue and £10.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Valli Forecourts Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £135m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £10.9m profit and 297 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores” and is based in Wakefield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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 company is under the control of the directors Mr H Valli, Mr F Valli, and Mr Yunus Valli who together with other family members own 100% of the issued share capital of Valli Forecourts Limited.”
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 | 31 Mar 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) | £120m | £146m | £143m | £135m |
| Cost of sales | £101m | £124m | £121m | £112m |
| Gross profit | £18.4m | £22m | £22.7m | £23.4m |
| Operating profit | £10.8m | £13.6m | £12.9m | £14.6m |
| Profit before tax | £10.8m | £13.7m | £12.9m | £14.7m |
| Profit after tax | £8.6m | £11m | £9.6m | £10.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £8.6m | £11m | £9.6m | £10.9m |
| Staff costs | £4.3m | £5.1m | £6.2m | £6.3m |
| Employees (average) | 286 | 307 | 304 | 297 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.2% | 7.5% | 6.7% | 8.1% |
| Gross margin | 15.4% | 15.1% | 15.8% | 17.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £418k | £476k | £472k | £455k |
| Profit per employee | £29.9k | £35.8k | £31.5k | £36.8k |
| Cash conversion | −112.8% | −114.4% | −103% | −152% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲22.2% | ▼1.9% | ▼5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲28.5% | ▼13% | ▲14.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▼1% | ▼2.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £11.5m | £17.5m | £11.8m | £16m |
| Net assets | £35.6m | £46.6m | £56.1m | £67m |
| Fixed assets | £31.4m | £37.1m | £51.6m | £65m |
| Current assets | £16.3m | £22.2m | £18.1m | £21.7m |
| Debtors | £688k | £719k | £1.6m | £924k |
| Deferred income | £405k | £364k | £669k | £983k |
| Cash from operations | −£12.2m | −£15.6m | −£13.3m | −£22.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £455k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £36.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −152%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 48%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £67m
- Cash at bank
- ▲36%
- Now £16m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 297
- Deferred income
- ▲47%
- Now £983k
- Fixed assets
- ▲26%
- Now £65m
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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- Profit
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £10.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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