Taylor Plant Ltd
Registered name: TAYLOR PLANT LTD
Taylor Plant Ltd made £10.4m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Taylor Plant Ltd’s revenue fell 10% to £10.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.5m profit and 41 employees. The company is classified under “construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications” and is based in Langford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Langford, South West
- 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: “No individual shareholder holds a majority of voting rights. Therefore, there is no paren”
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 | Profit only | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £11.5m | £10.4m |
| Cost of sales | £7.9m | £7.9m | £7.4m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.7m | £3m |
| Operating profit | — | £2.7m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £2.7m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.3m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.3m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 37 | 40 | 41 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 17.3% | 14% |
| Gross margin | — | 31.9% | 29% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £288k | £254k |
| Profit per employee | £34.6k | £49.9k | £35.6k |
| Cash conversion | — | −113.1% | −135.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲55.8% | ▼26.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.1% | ▲2.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £3.5m | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £3.9m | £5.3m | £6.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £1.4m | £4.7m |
| Current assets | — | £5.9m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £6.4k | £21.4k | £137k |
| Cash from operations | −£633k | −£3.1m | −£2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £254k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £35.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −135.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 45.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.2%
- 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
- ▲18%
- Now £6.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼67%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 41
- Deferred income
- ▲541%
- Now £137k
- Fixed assets
- ▲250%
- Now £4.7m
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)
- Taylor Plant Drilling LtdFigures 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 £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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