Chaserider Buses Ltd
Registered name: CHASERIDER BUSES LTD
Part of Centrebus Limited groupChaserider Buses Ltd made £8.7m revenue and £820k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Chaserider Buses Ltd’s revenue grew 13% to £8.7m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £820k profit and 2 employees. The company is classified under “other passenger land transport” and is based in Stoke-on-Trent; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
- Age
- 5 yrs · since 2021
- 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: “The ultimate parent company is Centrebus Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £7.7m | £8.7m |
| Cost of sales | — | £6.3m | £7.3m |
| Gross profit | — | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | — | £751k | £803k |
| Profit before tax | — | £751k | £821k |
| Profit after tax | — | £563k | £820k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £563k | £820k |
| Employees (average) | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 7.3% | 9.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 18% | 16.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £2.6m | £4.3m |
| Profit per employee | — | £188k | £410k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲12.9% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲45.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲50% | ▼33.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £415k | £723k | £1m |
| Net assets | £100 | £563k | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £415k | £751k | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £100 | £28k | £569k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £4.3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £410k
- 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
- 6.6%
- 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
- ▲146%
- Now £1.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲42%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▼33%
- Now 2
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Centrebus Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- D & G Bus Limited75–100%
- Chaserider Buses Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £820k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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