Poultry Contracting Services Limited
Registered name: POULTRY CONTRACTING SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Bioticnrg Ltd groupPoultry Contracting Services Limited made £18.7m revenue and £829k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Poultry Contracting Services Limited’s revenue was £18.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £829k profit and 111 employees. The company is classified under “repair and maintenance of other transport equipment” and is based in Wellingborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wellingborough, East Midlands
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1976
- 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 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.4m | £13.8m | £18.7m |
| Cost of sales | £14.2m | £11.4m | £16.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Operating profit | £941k | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £854k | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £857k | £665k | £829k |
| Profit (best available) | £857k | £665k | £829k |
| Staff costs | £5.7m | £4.6m | £6m |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 106 | 111 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 4.8% | 4.4% |
| Gross margin | 13.2% | 17.5% | 13.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £150k | £130k | £169k |
| Profit per employee | £7.9k | £6.3k | £7.5k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £831k | £332k | £687k |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £2.4m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.9m | £5.1m | £6.4m |
| Current assets | £2.9m | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Deferred income | £271k | £312k | £326k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £169k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 33.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.6%
- 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
- —
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £687k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 111
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £326k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £6.4m
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
- Bioticnrg Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Bioticnrg Operations Limited75–100%
- Poultry Contracting Services 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 Dec 2024 (profit £829k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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