Don Valley Engineering Company Limited
Registered name: DON VALLEY ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED
Part of Don Valley Engineering Group Limited groupDon Valley Engineering Company Limited made £19.2m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025.
Don Valley Engineering Company Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £19.2m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £1.3m profit and 44 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Doncaster; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 79 yrs · since 1947
- 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 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.3m | £17.6m | £19.2m |
| Cost of sales | £10.9m | £15.5m | £15.4m |
| Gross profit | £2.4m | £2.1m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £1m | £407k | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £986k | £394k | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £949k | £296k | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £949k | £296k | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.6m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 36 | 38 | 44 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 7.1% | 1.7% | 6.7% |
| Gross margin | 18.1% | 11.9% | 19.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £369k | £463k | £436k |
| Profit per employee | £26.4k | £7.8k | £29.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲32.5% | ▲8.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼68.8% | ▲335.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.6% | ▲15.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £4.5m | £3.6m |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £1.7m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £141k | £111k | £131k |
| Current assets | £8.2m | £10.1m | £13.8m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £4.8m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £718k | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £436k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £29.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 7.3%
- 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
- ▲76%
- Now £3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼19%
- Now £3.6m
- Headcount
- ▲16%
- Now 44
- Deferred income
- ▼19%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲18%
- Now £131k
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
- Don Valley Engineering Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Don Valley Engineering Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Alti Access LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Cleeve Materials Handling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Don Valley Engineering Construction LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Don Valley Engineering Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Don Valley Materials Handling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- GBK Powertech LtdFigures not disclosed
- Torver Engineering 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 Jul 2025 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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