Delivered UK Ltd
Registered name: DELIVERED UK LTD
Part of Scarlet Group Limited groupDelivered UK Ltd made £8.4m revenue and £123k profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Delivered UK Ltd’s revenue grew 12% to £8.4m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £123k profit and 37 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in High Wycombe; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- High Wycombe, South East
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1982
- 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 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8m | £7.5m | £7.5m | £8.4m |
| Cost of sales | £6.3m | £5.8m | −£5.9m | −£6.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.8m | £1.7m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £95.7k | £110k | £23.6k | £195k |
| Profit before tax | £78k | £85.3k | £1.6k | £171k |
| Profit after tax | £87k | £67.8k | −£14.9k | £123k |
| Profit (best available) | £87k | £67.8k | −£14.9k | £123k |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £1.9m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 51 | 42 | 37 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 1.1% | 0.9% | −0.2% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 22.1% | 22.6% | 21.6% | 22.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £139k | £148k | £180k | £228k |
| Profit per employee | £1.5k | £1.3k | −£355 | £3.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.5% | ▲0.3% | ▲11.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼22.1% | ▼122% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12.1% | ▼17.6% | ▼11.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £10k | £31k | — | — |
| Net assets | £309k | £374k | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £115k | £260k | — | — |
| Current assets | £2.2m | £2m | — | — |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.4m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £198k | £162k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £228k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.3k
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼12%
- Now 37
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Scarlet Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Delivered UK Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Delivered (Reading) Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Delivered Portsmouth LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 May 2025 (profit £123k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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