Deans Civil Engineering Limited
Registered name: DEANS CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Part of Ares Management Corporation groupDeans Civil Engineering Limited made £28.6m revenue and £474k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Deans Civil Engineering Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £28.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £474k profit and 123 employees. The company is classified under “construction of other civil engineering projects” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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.
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £31.5m | £31.9m | £27.4m | £28.6m |
| Cost of sales | £26m | £25.3m | £20.8m | £23.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.5m | £6.6m | £6.6m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £2.9m | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £2.7m | £2.6m | £727k |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £2.2m | £2m | £474k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £2.2m | £2m | £474k |
| Staff costs | £6.7m | £6.7m | £7.1m | £7.5m |
| Employees (average) | 165 | 149 | 136 | 123 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5% | 7% | 7.2% | 1.7% |
| Gross margin | 17.4% | 20.6% | 24.2% | 17.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £191k | £214k | £201k | £233k |
| Profit per employee | £9.5k | £15k | £14.6k | £3.9k |
| Cash conversion | 113.9% | 53% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▼14.1% | ▲4.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲42.5% | ▼11.1% | ▼76.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼9.7% | ▼8.7% | ▼9.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £531k | £754k | — |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £6.5m | £6m | £6.4m |
| Fixed assets | £4.2m | £4.7m | £2.8m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £8.7m | £11.5m | £11.2m | £11.9m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.5m | £40.7k | £207k |
| Deferred income | £506k | £340k | — | — |
| Cash from operations | £2.4m | £1.5m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £233k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £6.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 123
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼10%
- Now £2.5m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Ares Management Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Ares Management Limited75–100%
- Deans Civil Engineering Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Tarpave LimitedRev. £2.3m · Profit £9.3k
- Deans Developments (Kilbarchan) LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (22)
- W.G.M (Engineering)limitedRev. £52.7m · Profit £2m
- R.J.T. Excavations LimitedRev. £29.3m · Profit £2.3m
- Axis Well Technology LimitedRev. £24.5m · Profit £3.8m
- Headland Archaeology (UK) LimitedRev. £17.5m · Profit £1.4m
- Homer Burgess LimitedRev. £4.9m · Profit £567k
- Tarpave LimitedRev. £2.3m · Profit £9.3k
- Skyvision International LimitedRev. £680k · Profit £176k
- Deans Holdco LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£7.5k
- Biobest Laboratories LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Blackhall VS LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Braid Vets LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clear Business Water LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clyde Vets LtdFigures not disclosed
- Deans Developments (Kilbarchan) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Galedin LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nethan Valley Veterinary Centre LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Parkside Veterinary Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- RSK Environment LimitedFigures not disclosed
- RSK Renewables LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Synergie Environ LimitedRev. — · Profit −£313k
- T V V LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Westpoint Enterprise Support 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 £474k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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