Pontrilas Group Limited
Registered name: PONTRILAS GROUP LIMITED
Part of Glennon Bros Holdings Ltd groupPontrilas Group Limited made £129m revenue and £4.5m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Pontrilas Group Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £129m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £4.5m profit and 489 employees. The company is classified under “activities of head offices” and is based in Hereford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hereford, West Midlands
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2006
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £112m | £113m | £129m |
| Cost of sales | −£88.3m | −£88.6m | −£101m |
| Gross profit | £23.5m | £24.2m | £28.5m |
| Operating profit | £7.2m | £5.6m | £7.1m |
| Profit before tax | £6.7m | £5.2m | £6.3m |
| Profit after tax | £5.5m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.5m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 451 | 470 | 489 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.9% | 3.6% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | 21% | 21.5% | 22% |
| Revenue per employee | £248k | £240k | £264k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £8.6k | £9.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.9% | ▲14.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼25.7% | ▲11.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.2% | ▲4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £264k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 489
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Glennon Bros Holdings Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Glennon Bros. UK Holdings Limited75–100%
- Pontrilas Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (6)
- Pontrilas Harvesting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pontrilas Merchants LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pontrilas Packaging (Rainbridge Timber) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Pontrilas Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pontrilas Sawmills LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Timberly LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- Balcas LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Glennon Bros. Energy LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £4.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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