Ross & Liddell Limited
Registered name: ROSS & LIDDELL LIMITED
Ross & Liddell Limited made £6.8m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Ross & Liddell Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £6.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.2m profit and 100 employees. The company is classified under “management of real estate on a fee or contract basis”; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Scotland
- Age
- 40 yrs · since 1986
- 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 company is under the joint control of Mr A Cassidy and Mr A Cunningham.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £6m | £7.1m | £6.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.9m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £2.3m | £1.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 83 | 94 | 100 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 22.8% | 24.3% | 17.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £71.9k | £75.5k | £67.8k |
| Profit per employee | £16.4k | £18.3k | £11.7k |
| Cash conversion | −122.9% | −81.1% | −170.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲18.9% | ▼4.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲26.7% | ▼32% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.3% | ▲6.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £13.1m | £12.3m | £6m |
| Net assets | £3.8m | £3.6m | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £881k | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £15.8m | £15m | £15.1m |
| Debtors | £57.9k | £33.7k | £10.5k |
| Deferred income | £69.6k | £120k | £43.4k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.9m | −£1.5m | −£2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 17.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £67.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −170.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▼65%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼51%
- Now £6m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 100
- Deferred income
- ▼64%
- Now £43.4k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £1.2m
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 £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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