Cox Workshops Limited
Registered name: COX WORKSHOPS LIMITED
Part of C&N Cox Holdings Limited groupCox Workshops Limited made £10.5m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Cox Workshops Limited’s revenue grew 25% to £10.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.5m profit and 88 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- 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 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £8.5m | £10.5m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £5.7m | £7.1m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £2.7m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £1.5m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £1.5m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Employees (average) | 42 | 49 | 73 | 88 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 12.7% | 14% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 32.4% | 32.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £116k | £120k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £14.7k | £16.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲24.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲37.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.7% | ▲49% | ▲20.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £3.3m | £2m | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £2.6m | £3.5m | £2.8m | £3.8m |
| Fixed assets | £1m | £1.8m | £3.6m | £2.1m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £5.5m | £4.5m | £7m |
| Debtors | £854k | £705k | £666k | £831k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £120k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 20.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.9%
- 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
- ▲35%
- Now £3.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼46%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▲21%
- Now 88
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼40%
- Now £2.1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- C&N Cox Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Cox Workshops Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Guild Bespoke Metalworks LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- C&N Cox Property 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 Mar 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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