Hippo Vehicle Solutions Limited
Registered name: HIPPO VEHICLE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Hippo Motor Group Holdings Limited groupHippo Vehicle Solutions Limited made £260m revenue and a £7.8m loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Hippo Vehicle Solutions Limited’s revenue was £260m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £7.8m and 387 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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: “Hippo Vehicle Holdings Limited is the immediate parent company. Hippo Motor Group Holdings Limited is the company's ultimate parent company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £143m | £260m |
| Cost of sales | £119m | £224m |
| Gross profit | £23.4m | £36.8m |
| Operating profit | −£3.4m | −£7.7m |
| Profit before tax | −£3.5m | −£7.9m |
| Profit after tax | −£3.4m | −£7.8m |
| Profit (best available) | −£3.4m | −£7.8m |
| Staff costs | £13.3m | £23.7m |
| Employees (average) | 342 | 387 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −2.4% | −3% |
| Gross margin | 16.4% | 14.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £417k | £673k |
| Profit per employee | −£10k | −£20.1k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £19.1k | £3.3k |
| Net assets | £12.7m | £3.1m |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £40.5m | £35.8m |
| Debtors | £3.1m | £2.1m |
| Deferred income | £820k | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £673k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£20.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- 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
- —
- Now £3.1m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.3k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 387
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.5m
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
- Hippo Motor Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hippo Motor Group Limited75–100%
- Hippo Vehicle Holdings Limited75–100%
- Hippo Vehicle Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£7.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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