Uniform Express Limited
Registered name: UNIFORM EXPRESS LIMITED
Uniform Express Limited made £10.8m revenue and £399k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Uniform Express Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £10.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £399k profit and 58 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of clothing and footwear” and is based in Banbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.7m | £11.4m | £10.8m |
| Cost of sales | £7.6m | £7.3m | £6.7m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £833k | £684k |
| Profit before tax | £796k | £723k | £639k |
| Profit after tax | £546k | £524k | £399k |
| Profit (best available) | £546k | £524k | £399k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 58 | 58 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.7% | 4.6% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 35.2% | 35.8% | 37.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £202k | £197k | £186k |
| Profit per employee | £9.4k | £9k | £6.9k |
| Cash conversion | 49.3% | −35.8% | 142.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.3% | ▼5.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼4% | ▼23.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £939k | £681k |
| Net assets | £3.7m | £3.5m | £2.9m |
| Fixed assets | £279k | £296k | £442k |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £5.5m | £5.3m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £1.4m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £140k | £93.2k | £88.4k |
| Cash from operations | £545k | −£298k | £976k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £186k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 142.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.7%
- 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
- ▼17%
- Now £2.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼28%
- Now £681k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 58
- Deferred income
- ▼5%
- Now £88.4k
- Fixed assets
- ▲49%
- Now £442k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Stedman Corporate Clothing 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £399k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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