Acumen Vehicle Logistics Limited
Registered name: ACUMEN VEHICLE LOGISTICS LIMITED
Part of Acumen Logistics Group Holdings Limited groupAcumen Vehicle Logistics Limited made £16.6m revenue and £678k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Acumen Vehicle Logistics Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £16.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £678k profit and 59 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Northampton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Northampton, East Midlands
- Age
- 6 yrs · since 2020
- 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 parent of the largest and smallest group in which these financial statements are consolidated is Acumen Logistics Group Holdings Limited, incorporated in England.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.9m | £16.6m |
| Cost of sales | £16.3m | £15.1m |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | £982k | £941k |
| Profit before tax | £553k | £799k |
| Profit after tax | £621k | £678k |
| Profit (best available) | £621k | £678k |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 62 | 59 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 3.5% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 8.6% | 8.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £288k | £281k |
| Profit per employee | £10k | £11.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲9.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £989k | £1.7m |
| Fixed assets | £74.2k | £4.1m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £4.1m |
| Debtors | £2m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £668k | £298k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £281k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- 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
- ▲69%
- Now £1.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲37%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 59
- Deferred income
- ▼55%
- Now £298k
- Fixed assets
- ▲5438%
- Now £4.1m
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
- Acumen Logistics Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Acumen Vehicle Logistics Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Aculogic LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Acumen Logistics Group LimitedRev. — · Profit £2.7m
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 £678k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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