Hurt Plant Hire Ltd
Registered name: HURT PLANT HIRE LTD
Part of Fox Brothers Holdings Limited groupHurt Plant Hire Ltd made £0 revenue and £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Hurt Plant Hire Ltd’s revenue was £0 in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £1.4m profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other holding companies” and is based in Blackpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackpool, North West
- Age
- 6 yrs · since 2020
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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: “On”
Key figures
Unusual figures. Profit is higher than revenue in this filing. That usually means investment income, dividends from subsidiaries or one-off gains — or a mis-tagged figure. Check the original filing before drawing conclusions.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Profit before tax | £478k | £29.9m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £478k | £29.9m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £478k | £29.9m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Profit growth | — | ▲6150% | ▼95.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | £27.4m | £27.4m | £27.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- —
- 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
- 0%
- Now £27.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Fox Brothers Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hurt Plant Hire Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Fox Brothers (Leyland) LtdRev. £45.6m · Profit £3.9m
Sister companies (11)
- Fox Brothers (Lancashire) LtdRev. £22.4m · Profit −£178k
- J.a.jackson Contractors(Preston)limitedRev. £10.8m · Profit £3.6m
- DSD Construction LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fox Brothers (Bacup) LimitedRev. — · Profit −£490k
- Fox Brothers (Westby) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fox Managed Services LtdFigures not disclosed
- J.a.jackson Contractors (Leyland) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Jackson Skip & Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- JFS Holdco (2025) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Moore Readymix Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- NMS Civil Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.