Moortown Group Limited
Registered name: MOORTOWN GROUP LIMITED
Part of McManus Group Holdings Limited groupMoortown Group Limited made £74m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Moortown Group Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £74m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £3.5m profit and 113 employees. The company is classified under “construction of other civil engineering projects” and is based in Bradford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £66.6m | £67.1m | £79.1m | £74m |
| Cost of sales | £57.8m | £61m | £71.5m | £63.5m |
| Gross profit | £8.7m | £6.1m | £7.6m | £10.5m |
| Operating profit | £3m | £561k | £2.3m | £4.7m |
| Profit before tax | £6.1m | £578k | £2.8m | £5m |
| Profit after tax | £5.3m | £319k | £1.9m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.3m | £319k | £1.9m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £5.1m | £5.8m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 93 | 102 | 113 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8% | 0.5% | 2.4% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 13.1% | 9.1% | 9.7% | 14.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £812k | £722k | £776k | £655k |
| Profit per employee | £65.2k | £3.4k | £18.8k | £30.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.9% | ▲17.9% | ▼6.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼94% | ▲501% | ▲81.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.4% | ▲9.7% | ▲10.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £5.3m | £5.2m | £12.2m | £14.5m |
| Net assets | £25.8m | £21.6m | £23.5m | £23.8m |
| Fixed assets | £10.1m | £9.5m | £9.1m | £8m |
| Current assets | £33.6m | £30.4m | £40.3m | £43.1m |
| Debtors | £4.3m | £4.7m | £5.1m | £5.7m |
| Deferred income | £11.8m | £10.5m | £17.4m | £19.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £655k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £30.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 10.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 26.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.8%
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now £23.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲19%
- Now £14.5m
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 113
- Deferred income
- ▲14%
- Now £19.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▼12%
- Now £8m
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
- McManus Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Moortown Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Moortown Civil Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (7)
- Barrowby Connemaras LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Excel Surfacing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kearby Homes LimitedFigures not disclosed
- La Formwork LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Leeds Acro LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Moortown Plant LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sandycove Investments 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 May 2025 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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