Willcox Bros Limited
Registered name: WILLCOX BROS LIMITED
Willcox Bros Limited made £8.8m revenue and £761k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Willcox Bros Limited’s revenue was £8.8m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £761k profit and 136 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Bristol; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £4.8m | £6.1m | £8.8m |
| Cost of sales | £2.7m | £3.2m | £5.3m |
| Gross profit | £2.1m | £2.9m | £3.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.8m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1.8m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £871k | £1.4m | £761k |
| Profit (best available) | £871k | £1.4m | £761k |
| Staff costs | — | £3.1m | £5.7m |
| Employees (average) | 134 | 114 | 136 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 18% | 22.6% | 8.6% |
| Gross margin | 43.6% | 47.8% | 39.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £36.1k | £53.1k | £64.9k |
| Profit per employee | £6.5k | £12k | £5.6k |
| Cash conversion | −29.3% | −113.8% | −51.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.3% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲57.4% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼14.9% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £401k | £1.7m | £579k |
| Net assets | £5.4m | £6.3m | £6.3m |
| Fixed assets | £4.3m | £4.3m | £4.5m |
| Current assets | £1.5m | £2.7m | £2.3m |
| Debtors | £335k | £220k | £34.5k |
| Deferred income | £63.5k | £64.6k | £44.5k |
| Cash from operations | −£316k | −£2.1m | −£520k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £64.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −51.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 50.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- 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 £6.3m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £579k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 136
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £44.5k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £4.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £761k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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