Hurst Transport Limited
Registered name: HURST TRANSPORT LIMITED
Part of Sensient Technologies Corporation groupHurst Transport Limited made £1.2m revenue and £0 profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Hurst Transport Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £1.2m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £0 profit and 43 employees. The company is classified under “other passenger land transport” and is based in Hassocks; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hassocks, South East
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £920k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£899k | −£1.1m | −£1.2m |
| Gross profit | £21.9k | £26.6k | £23.7k |
| Profit before tax | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 36 | 36 | 43 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Gross margin | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% |
| Revenue per employee | £25.6k | £30.2k | £27.6k |
| Profit per employee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18% | ▲9.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲19.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £27.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £0
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲19%
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Sensient Technologies Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Pointing Limited75–100%
- Hurstpierpoint College Limited75–100%
- Hurst Transport Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Hurst Facilities LimitedRev. £110k · Profit £46.4k
- Hurst International LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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