Dalton Group Limited
Registered name: DALTON GROUP LIMITED
Part of Dalton Metal Recycling Limited groupDalton Group Limited made £37.1m revenue and £376k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Dalton Group Limited’s revenue fell 8% to £37.1m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £376k profit and 64 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Broxburn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Broxburn, Scotland
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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 ultimate parent company is Dalton Metal Recycling Limited which is the largest and smallest group for which consolidated accounts are prepared. The registered office is 15 Youngs Road, East Mains ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £41.7m | £44.6m | £40.1m | £37.1m |
| Cost of sales | £35m | £36.2m | £30.7m | £28.8m |
| Gross profit | £6.7m | £8.5m | £9.4m | £8.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.6m | £1.8m | £419k |
| Profit before tax | £835k | £1.3m | £1.5m | £44k |
| Profit after tax | £711k | £980k | £1.1m | £376k |
| Profit (best available) | £711k | £980k | £1.1m | £376k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.2m | £2.3m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 57 | 65 | 65 | 64 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.7% | 2.2% | 2.7% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 16% | 19% | 23.4% | 22.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £731k | £686k | £618k | £579k |
| Profit per employee | £12.5k | £15.1k | £16.7k | £5.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.1% | ▼10% | ▼7.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲37.9% | ▲10.7% | ▼65.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14% | 0% | ▼1.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £1.8m | £943k | £378k |
| Net assets | £5.1m | £5.8m | £6.7m | £6.9m |
| Fixed assets | £9.1m | £10.2m | £12.7m | £12.6m |
| Current assets | £7.6m | £6.9m | £5.6m | £8.5m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £968k |
| Deferred income | £583k | £467k | £403k | £277k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £579k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 34%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £6.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼60%
- Now £378k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £277k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £12.6m
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
- Dalton Metal Recycling Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Dalton Group Limitedthis 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 31 Aug 2025 (profit £376k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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