Wildax Conversions Limited
Registered name: WILDAX CONVERSIONS LIMITED
Wildax Conversions Limited made £15.5m revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Wildax Conversions Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £15.5m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £1.4m profit and 64 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of caravans” and is based in Elland; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Elland, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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: “At 31 August 2025 the company's immediate parent company was VDL Participations SAS, a company incorporated in France.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 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) | £11.2m | £16.6m | £18.4m | £15.5m |
| Cost of sales | £9.6m | £12.7m | £14.4m | £12.1m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £3.8m | £4m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | £291k | £2.5m | £2.8m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £248k | £2.3m | £2.4m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £204k | £1.8m | £1.9m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £204k | £1.8m | £1.9m | £1.4m |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2.2m | £2.2m | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 77 | 72 | 64 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.8% | 10.9% | 10.1% | 9.1% |
| Gross margin | 14.2% | 23.1% | 21.8% | 21.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £158k | £215k | £256k | £242k |
| Profit per employee | £2.9k | £23.5k | £25.7k | £22k |
| Cash conversion | −269.2% | −36.3% | −103% | −201.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲47.8% | ▲11.1% | ▼15.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲786.2% | ▲2.5% | ▼24% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.5% | ▼6.5% | ▼11.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £2.1m | £3.6m | £5.9m |
| Net assets | £2m | £3.8m | £5.6m | £7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £5.1m | £8.6m | £9.8m | £9.5m |
| Debtors | £647k | £824k | £940k | £917k |
| Deferred income | £2m | £607k | £219k | £145k |
| Cash from operations | −£782k | −£890k | −£2.8m | −£4.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £242k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −201.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- 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
- ▲25%
- Now £7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲63%
- Now £5.9m
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- ▼34%
- Now £145k
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £1.6m
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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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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