Manfreight Limited
Registered name: MANFREIGHT LIMITED
Manfreight Limited made £77.8m revenue and £2.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Manfreight Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £77.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £2.9m profit and 478 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Craigavon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Craigavon, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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: “Manfreight International (IOM) Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £55.5m | £70.1m | £77.8m |
| Cost of sales | £46.2m | £58.2m | £63.2m |
| Gross profit | £9.3m | £11.9m | £14.5m |
| Operating profit | £4m | £5.4m | £5.8m |
| Profit before tax | £3.5m | £3.9m | £4m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Staff costs | £13.2m | £18.1m | £20.6m |
| Employees (average) | 448 | 450 | 478 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.1% | 3.7% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 16.8% | 17% | 18.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £124k | £156k | £163k |
| Profit per employee | £7.5k | £5.8k | £6k |
| Cash conversion | 127.5% | 167.5% | 339.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲26.2% | ▲11% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼23% | ▲10% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲0.4% | ▲6.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £29.4k | £264k | £257k |
| Net assets | £10.9m | £13.4m | £16m |
| Fixed assets | £33.7m | £37.9m | £49.6m |
| Current assets | £12m | £19m | £17.3m |
| Debtors | £8.5m | £12m | £13.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Cash from operations | £5.1m | £9m | £19.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £163k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 339.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 63.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.9%
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now £16m
- Cash at bank
- ▼3%
- Now £257k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 478
- Deferred income
- ▼6%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲31%
- Now £49.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £2.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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