Paterson Enterprises Limited
Registered name: PATERSON ENTERPRISES LIMITED
Part of Goddard Enterprises Limited groupPaterson Enterprises Limited made £104m revenue and £9.8m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Paterson Enterprises Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £104m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £9.8m profit. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Shropshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shropshire, West Midlands
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £94.8m | £97.1m | £104m |
| Cost of sales | −£74m | −£74.2m | −£78.1m |
| Gross profit | £20.8m | £22.9m | £25.7m |
| Operating profit | £8.1m | £10.4m | £12.4m |
| Profit before tax | £8.2m | £10.8m | £13m |
| Profit after tax | £6.2m | £7.7m | £9.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.2m | £7.7m | £9.8m |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.5% | 7.9% | 9.4% |
| Gross margin | 21.9% | 23.6% | 24.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.4% | ▲6.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲23.4% | ▲27.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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 —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Goddard Enterprises Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Paterson Enterprises Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (11)
- Goodall Bates & Todd LimitedRev. £19.4m · Profit £665k
- Forward Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Industrial Speciality Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metcut (Great Britain) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metcut LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Leisure LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Lubricants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Morris Oils LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Newton Oils LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Poston Mill Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tribolysis Testing Services 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 Jul 2025 (profit £9.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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