Rees Machinery Group Limited
Registered name: REES MACHINERY GROUP LIMITED
Part of Rees Trading UK Ltd groupRees Machinery Group Limited made £8.4m revenue and £667k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Rees Machinery Group Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £8.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £667k profit and 50 employees. The company is classified under “machining” and is based in Newtown; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newtown, West Midlands
- 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.
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) | £12.2m | £8.6m | £8.4m |
| Cost of sales | £7.5m | £5.6m | £5.2m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £535k | £465k | £806k |
| Profit before tax | £476k | £396k | £746k |
| Profit after tax | £445k | £368k | £667k |
| Profit (best available) | £445k | £368k | £667k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £2.6m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 62 | 50 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.6% | 4.3% | 7.9% |
| Gross margin | 38.4% | 34.7% | 38.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £185k | £139k | £169k |
| Profit per employee | £6.7k | £5.9k | £13.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼1.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲81.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▼19.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £803k | £665k | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £3.8m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £5.9m | £6.1m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.5m | £661k |
| Deferred income | £1.3m | £872k | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £169k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 14%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.8%
- 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 £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲289%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▼19%
- Now 50
- Deferred income
- ▲35%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £1.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Rees Trading UK Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Rees Machinery Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Rees Contract Maintenance 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 £667k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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