Read Hyundai Limited
Registered name: READ HYUNDAI LIMITED
Part of Read Motor Group Limited groupRead Hyundai Limited made £20.8m revenue and £72.6k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Read Hyundai Limited’s revenue fell 25% to £20.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £72.6k profit and 74 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Worksop; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worksop, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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: “Read Motor Group Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £26.1m | £27.8m | £20.8m |
| Cost of sales | £23.9m | £25.8m | £19.1m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.1m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £737k | £252k | £102k |
| Profit after tax | £595k | £184k | £72.6k |
| Profit (best available) | £595k | £184k | £72.6k |
| Staff costs | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 73 | 74 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | 8.5% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £402k | £381k | £281k |
| Profit per employee | £9.2k | £2.5k | £981 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.4% | ▼25.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼69.1% | ▼60.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲12.3% | ▲1.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £67.4k | £96.4k | £929 |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £3m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £2.8m | £2.7m |
| Current assets | £10.3m | £6.6m | £8.9m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £614k | £2.4m |
| Cash from operations | −£111k | £1.1m | £599k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £281k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £981
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.6%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼99%
- Now £929
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 74
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £2.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Read Motor Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Read Hyundai Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (9)
- Read Derby LimitedRev. £29m · Profit −£240k
- Read Burton LimitedLiquidationRev. £24.2m · Profit −£687k
- Read Hyundai Lincoln LimitedRev. £19.5m · Profit £278k
- Read Hyundai Doncaster LimitedRev. £17.8m · Profit £11.5k
- Read Automotive Grimsby LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Read Hyundai Boston LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Read Hyundai Kings Lynn LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Read Hyundai Worksop LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Read Used Car Sales 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 2024 (profit £72.6k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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