Shaw Timber Limited
Registered name: SHAW TIMBER LIMITED
Part of Ovm Holdings Limited groupShaw Timber Limited made £326k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Shaw Timber Limited reported £326k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 53 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials” and is based in Huddersfield; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huddersfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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. From the filing: “OVM Holdings Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, is regarded by the director as being the company's ultimate parent company and prepares consolidated financial statements, copies of wh”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £358k |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £326k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £326k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 57 | 53 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £24k | £6.1k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £123k | £7.9k |
| Net assets | £4.5m | £4.9m |
| Fixed assets | £281k | £226k |
| Current assets | £7.2m | £7.5m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £179k | £580k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 £4.9m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £7.9k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 53
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £580k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £226k
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
- Ovm Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Shaw Timber Group Limited75–100%
- Shaw Timber (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Shaw Timber Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Paneltech LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Waterside Garden Products LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures 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 £326k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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