Rhenus Home Delivery Limited
Registered name: RHENUS HOME DELIVERY LIMITED
Rhenus Home Delivery Limited made £16.8m revenue and a £8m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Rhenus Home Delivery Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £16.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £8m and 81 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Manchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 9 yrs · since 2016
- 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: “At the current year end the company's parent company was Rhenus Beteiligungen International GmbH and its ultimate parent undertaking was Rethmann SE & Co, KG, a private company controlled by its direc”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.5m | £19.6m | £18.3m | £16.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.3m | £8.8m | £8.9m | £8.1m |
| Gross profit | £7.2m | £10.8m | £9.4m | £8.7m |
| Operating profit | −£2m | −£4.1m | −£5.8m | −£7m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £4.8m | −£6.7m | −£8.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £3.5m | −£7.3m | −£8m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £3.5m | −£7.3m | −£8m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £6m | £6m | £4.4m |
| Employees (average) | 100 | 126 | 126 | 81 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 11.1% | 17.9% | −40.1% | −47.3% |
| Gross margin | 43.5% | 55.2% | 51.4% | 51.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £165k | £155k | £145k | £208k |
| Profit per employee | £18.3k | £27.8k | −£58.2k | −£98.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.5% | ▼6.5% | ▼8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲91.4% | ▼309.1% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26% | 0% | ▼35.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £102k | £239 | £250k | £0 |
| Net assets | £6.2m | £9.7m | −£17m | −£25m |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £4m | £3.2m | £1.9m |
| Current assets | £7.9m | £9.5m | £6.7m | £4.1m |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £3.1m | £3.5m | £1.4m |
| Cash from operations | £8m | £4.8m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −47.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £208k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£98.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.1%
- 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 −£25m
- Cash at bank
- ▼100%
- Now £0
- Headcount
- ▼36%
- Now 81
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼40%
- Now £1.9m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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