Mabey Hire Limited
Registered name: MABEY HIRE LIMITED
Mabey Hire Limited made £38.4m revenue and £1.8m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Mabey Hire Limited’s revenue was £38.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.8m profit and 408 employees. The company is classified under “renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment” and is based in Dewsbury; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dewsbury, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent is PERI SE, incorporated in Germany with registered office 19 Rudolf Diesel Strasse, 89264 Weissenhorn, Germany. The ultimate parent is Peri-Werk Artur Schworer GmbH & C”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £56m | £38.4m |
| Cost of sales | £26.1m | £15.6m |
| Gross profit | £29.9m | £22.7m |
| Operating profit | £3.7m | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £4.1m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | £3.6m | £1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.6m | £1.8m |
| Staff costs | £25.7m | £20.2m |
| Employees (average) | 421 | 408 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 6.5% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 53.4% | 59.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £94.1k |
| Profit per employee | £8.6k | £4.4k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £9.2m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £43.2m | £37m |
| Fixed assets | £24.5m | £22.3m |
| Current assets | £23.3m | £18.4m |
| Debtors | £7.2m | £6.3m |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £904k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 59.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £94.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 58.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.5%
- 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 £37m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 408
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £904k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £22.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- MH Temporary Works LimitedRev. £1.5m · Profit −£418k
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 2025 (profit £1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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