Hooke Highways Limited
Registered name: HOOKE HIGHWAYS LIMITED
Part of Mercury Topco B.V. groupHooke Highways Limited made £13.8m revenue and £61.8k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Hooke Highways Limited’s revenue was £13.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £61.8k profit and 149 employees. The company is classified under “other transportation support activities” and is based in Lower Weare; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Lower Weare, South West
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £10m | £13.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | £6.8m | £9.6m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.2m | £4.2m |
| Operating profit | — | £416k | £470k |
| Profit before tax | — | £316k | £99.8k |
| Profit after tax | — | £261k | £61.8k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £261k | £61.8k |
| Staff costs | — | £4.7m | £7m |
| Employees (average) | 110 | 138 | 149 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 2.6% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 31.9% | 30.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £72.2k | £92.3k |
| Profit per employee | — | £1.9k | £415 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲25.4% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £512k | £0 | £230k |
| Net assets | £1.7m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Fixed assets | £704k | £819k | £616k |
| Current assets | £2.5m | £3.7m | £2.6m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2.9m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £69.5k | £227k | £173k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £92.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £415
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11%
- 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 £1.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £230k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 149
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £173k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £616k
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
- Mercury Topco B.V. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Buko Traffic and Safety Limited75–100%
- Hooke Holdings Limited75–100%
- Hooke Highways Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Diversion Traffic Management LimitedRev. — · Profit −£89.6k
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 £61.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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