Efs Investments Limited
Registered name: EFS INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Part of Efs Global Holdings Ltd groupEfs Investments Limited made £84.3m revenue and £108k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Efs Investments Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £84.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £108k profit and 575 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Burnley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burnley, 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: “EFS Transport Ltd”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £0 | £67.4m | £76.8m | £84.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £50.9m | £58.3m | £64.4m |
| Gross profit | £0 | £16.4m | £18.6m | £19.9m |
| Operating profit | £192k | £4.8m | £3.3m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £197k | −£89.5k | £2m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £162k | −£122k | £268k | £108k |
| Profit (best available) | £162k | −£122k | £268k | £108k |
| Staff costs | — | £18.3m | £22.4m | £24.7m |
| Employees (average) | 2 | 3 | 551 | 575 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | −0.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 24.4% | 24.2% | 23.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £0 | £22.5m | £139k | £147k |
| Profit per employee | £80.9k | −£40.6k | £487 | £189 |
| Cash conversion | — | 86.6% | 265.4% | 194.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲14.1% | ▲9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼175.3% | — | ▼59.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲50% | ▲18267% | ▲4.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £16.1k | £5k | £61k | £10.4k |
| Net assets | £87k | £306k | £655k | £764k |
| Fixed assets | £31.7m | £47.9m | £28.4m | £25.9m |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £2.1m | £4.9m | £6.6m |
| Debtors | £1m | £2m | £4.8m | £360 |
| Cash from operations | — | £4.1m | £8.7m | £4.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £147k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £189
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 194.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 30.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now £764k
- Cash at bank
- ▼83%
- Now £10.4k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 575
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼9%
- Now £25.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Efs Global Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Efs Transport Ltd75–100%
- Efs Investments Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (13)
- Tyneside Express Transport LimitedRev. £11.2m · Profit £296k
- Caistor Distribution LimitedRev. £8.7m · Profit £807k
- Andante Freight LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Austin Wilkinson (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Carolbank Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Efs Global Consulting LtdFigures not disclosed
- Efs Global North East LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eminence Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Floryn LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ils Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Thomas Harwood & Son LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tom Moorhouse & Son LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tooles Transport Holdings 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 £108k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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