Salboy Limited
Registered name: SALBOY LIMITED
Part of Fred Done Property Trading Group Limited groupSalboy Limited made £81m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Salboy Limited’s revenue grew 67% to £81m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1m profit and 85 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Salford; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Salford, North West
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £48.5m | £81m |
| Cost of sales | £33.2m | £62.3m |
| Gross profit | £15.3m | £18.6m |
| Operating profit | £6m | £6.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.7m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £1m |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 63 | 85 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 4.8% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 31.5% | 23% |
| Revenue per employee | £770k | £952k |
| Profit per employee | £36.7k | £11.9k |
| Cash conversion | −1174% | −33.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲67% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼56.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲34.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £21.8k | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £15.3m | £16.4m |
| Fixed assets | £20.7m | £20.5m |
| Current assets | £107m | £134m |
| Debtors | £91.1k | £131m |
| Deferred income | £2m | £2.6m |
| Cash from operations | −£70.8m | −£2.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £952k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −33.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 25.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 162.3%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £16.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲10519%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲35%
- Now 85
- Deferred income
- ▲30%
- Now £2.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £20.5m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Fred Done Property Trading Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Salboy Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (11)
- Salboy International LimitedRev. £25.7m · Profit £5.5m
- Salboy Midco LimitedRev. £15m · Profit £256k
- F.r.e.d.s. Timberframe LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ingersley Crescent LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (Narrowcliff Newquay) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (SPV Co 3) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy Construction Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy Property LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy Property Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy Real Estate LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy ST Ives LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (10)
- Castle Irwell LimitedRev. £31.7m · Profit £1.3m
- Booths Farm Developments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BTS NQ LtdFigures not disclosed
- Doficm LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Local Blackfriars Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- QN Street LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (SPV Co 2) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (SPV Co 4) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (SPV Co 5) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Salboy (Tuckingmill) 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 Mar 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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