Bisn Oil Tools Ltd
Registered name: BISN OIL TOOLS LTD
Part of Bisn Holdings Limited groupBisn Oil Tools Ltd made £12.6m revenue and £2.9m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Bisn Oil Tools Ltd’s revenue fell 16% to £12.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.9m profit and 32 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of tools” and is based in Warrington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, North West
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.4m | £15m | £12.6m |
| Cost of sales | £5.2m | £6.9m | £4.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £8.1m | £7.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £3.5m | £2.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £3.5m | £2.7m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2.4m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 27 | 28 | 32 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 31% | 17.8% | 23% |
| Gross margin | 29.3% | 53.8% | 63.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £274k | £536k | £393k |
| Profit per employee | £85k | £95.7k | £90.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲102.8% | ▼16.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲16.7% | ▲7.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.7% | ▲14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £8.7m | £4m | £8.8m |
| Net assets | £10.3m | £13m | £15.8m |
| Fixed assets | £462k | £456k | £422k |
| Current assets | £19m | £22.7m | £25.8m |
| Debtors | £2.7m | £5.4m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | — | £667k | £435k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 23%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 63.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £393k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £90.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 26.8%
- 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
- ▲22%
- Now £15.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲123%
- Now £8.8m
- Headcount
- ▲14%
- Now 32
- Deferred income
- ▼35%
- Now £435k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £422k
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
- Bisn Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bisn Oil Tools Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Bisn Tec Ltd.Rev. — · Profit £18.5k
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 2024 (profit £2.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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