James Walker UK Limited
Registered name: JAMES WALKER UK LIMITED
Part of James Walker Group Limited groupJames Walker UK Limited made £23.2m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
James Walker UK Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £23.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1m profit and 56 employees. The company is classified under “other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets” and is based in Woking; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Woking, South East
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25.1m | £24.7m | £23.2m |
| Cost of sales | £19.1m | £18m | £16.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 51 | 54 | 56 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.9% | 6.6% | 4.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £493k | £457k | £415k |
| Profit per employee | £24.1k | £30k | £18.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.7% | ▼5.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲31.9% | ▼37.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▲3.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £7k | £1k | £2k |
| Net assets | £2.4m | £2.6m | £1.8m |
| Fixed assets | £16k | £20k | £34k |
| Current assets | £6.1m | £6.3m | £5m |
| Debtors | £5.9m | £5.4m | £4.1m |
| Deferred income | £509k | £483k | £316k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £415k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.6%
- 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
- ▼29%
- Now £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲100%
- Now £2k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 56
- Deferred income
- ▼35%
- Now £316k
- Fixed assets
- ▲70%
- Now £34k
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
- James Walker Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- James Walker UK Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (18)
- James Walker & Co. LimitedRev. £41.7m · Profit −£634k
- Tiflex LimitedRev. £15.7m · Profit £2m
- Devol Engineering LimitedRev. £10.8m · Profit −£1k
- James Walker Moorflex LimitedRev. £8.9m · Profit −£1.8m
- James Walker Townson LimitedRev. £3.9m · Profit £443k
- Kea-Flex Mouldings LimitedRev. £2.7m · Profit −£222k
- James Walker Engineering Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Metaflex LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Nominees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Rotabolt LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Sealing Products & Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Seals LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Walker Viceroy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JWPS Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Jwsempp Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Phoenix Rollers(Otley)limitedFigures not disclosed
- Tico Manufacturing 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 £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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