Stewart Travel Limited
Registered name: STEWART TRAVEL LIMITED
Part of Brooklyn Travel Holdings Limited groupStewart Travel Limited made £123m revenue and £5.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Stewart Travel Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £123m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £5.2m profit and 391 employees. The company is classified under “travel agency activities” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £55.6m | £84.1m | £109m | £123m |
| Cost of sales | £41.2m | £62m | £80.8m | £91.8m |
| Gross profit | £14.4m | £22.1m | £28.6m | £31m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £3.9m | £6.7m | £6.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £4.6m | £7.5m | £7.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £4m | £6m | £5.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £4m | £6m | £5.2m |
| Staff costs | £9.6m | £12.4m | £14.5m | £16.6m |
| Employees (average) | 288 | 327 | 360 | 391 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.2% | 4.7% | 5.5% | 4.2% |
| Gross margin | 25.9% | 26.3% | 26.2% | 25.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £193k | £257k | £304k | £314k |
| Profit per employee | £4.3k | £12.2k | £16.6k | £13.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲51.3% | ▲30% | ▲12.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲223.3% | ▲50.1% | ▼13% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.5% | ▲10.1% | ▲8.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £7.5m | £10.2m | £10.3m | £16.6m |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £8.4m | £14.3m | £19.5m |
| Fixed assets | £5.1m | £4.8m | £4.4m | £4.2m |
| Current assets | £61.9m | £77.6m | £101m | £122m |
| Debtors | £54.1m | £64.7m | £80.8m | £94.9m |
| Deferred income | £1.7m | £3.1m | £3.1m | £2.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £314k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 77.3%
- 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
- ▲36%
- Now £19.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲61%
- Now £16.6m
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 391
- Deferred income
- ▼20%
- Now £2.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £4.2m
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
- Brooklyn Travel Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Brooklyn Travel Limited75–100%
- Stewart Travel Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Stewart Travel Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- STRB LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (6)
- Destinology LimitedRev. £60.3m · Profit £914k
- Canterbury Travel (London) LimitedRev. £38.7m · Profit £3.1m
- BBBR Trading LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Billian I.T. Solutions LimitedRev. — · Profit £106k
- Gazelle Travel LimitedRev. — · Profit £1.3m
- North America Travel Service 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 Dec 2025 (profit £5.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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