Regional Express Limited
Registered name: REGIONAL EXPRESS LIMITED
Part of DLM Midco I Limited groupRegional Express Limited made £2.2m revenue and a £251k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Regional Express Limited’s revenue fell 62% to £2.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £251k and 14 employees. The company is classified under “freight air transport” and is based in Southampton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southampton, 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. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent undertaking is Xpediator Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, owning 100% of the share capital of the Company.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.9m | £2.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.6m | £1.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £553k |
| Operating profit | £603k | −£250k |
| Profit before tax | £601k | −£251k |
| Profit (best available) | £601k | −£251k |
| Staff costs | £988k | £629k |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 14 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 10.3% | −11.3% |
| Gross margin | 38.5% | 25% |
| Revenue per employee | £225k | £158k |
| Profit per employee | £23.1k | −£18k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼62.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼141.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼46.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £589k | £133k |
| Net assets | £847k | £595k |
| Debtors | — | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −11.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £158k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£18k
- 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
- 46.9%
- 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
- ▼30%
- Now £595k
- Cash at bank
- ▼77%
- Now £133k
- Headcount
- ▼46%
- Now 14
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- DLM Midco I Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- DLM Midco II Limited75–100%
- DLM Bidco Limited75–100%
- Xpediator Limited75–100%
- Regional Express Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Delamode Anglia LimitedRev. £21.7m · Profit −£218k
- Delamode International Logistics LimitedRev. £21m · Profit −£5.5m
- Delamode Nidd LimitedRev. £12m · Profit £252k
- Anglia Forwarding Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode Holdings UK Freight Forwarding LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Delamode London 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 Dec 2025 (profit −£251k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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