Delamode Distribution UK Ltd
Registered name: DELAMODE DISTRIBUTION UK LTD
Part of DLM Midco I Limited groupDelamode Distribution UK Ltd made £4.2m revenue and £325k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Delamode Distribution UK Ltd’s revenue grew 4% to £4.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £325k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Rainham; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rainham, London
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2013
- 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 Delamode Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, owning 51% 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) | £4m | £4.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.2m | £3.3m |
| Gross profit | £821k | £827k |
| Operating profit | £362k | £313k |
| Profit before tax | £376k | £325k |
| Profit (best available) | £376k | £325k |
| Staff costs | £393k | £412k |
| Employees (average) | 7 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 9.4% | 7.8% |
| Gross margin | 20.4% | 19.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £574k | £462k |
| Profit per employee | £53.8k | £36.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼13.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲28.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £38.7k | £193k |
| Net assets | £390k | £383k |
| Debtors | — | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £462k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £36.1k
- 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
- 34.4%
- 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
- ▼2%
- Now £383k
- Cash at bank
- ▲399%
- Now £193k
- Headcount
- ▲29%
- Now 9
- 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%
- Delamode Holdings Limited50–75%
- Delamode Distribution UK Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 £325k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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