DP World Freight Forwarding UK Ltd
Registered name: DP WORLD FREIGHT FORWARDING UK LTD
Part of The Government Of Dubai groupDP World Freight Forwarding UK Ltd made £97m revenue and £4.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
DP World Freight Forwarding UK Ltd’s revenue was £97m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £4.2m profit and 97 employees. The company is classified under “other transportation support activities” and is based in Sale; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sale, North West
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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 | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £267m | £171m | £85.2m | £69.6m | £97m |
| Cost of sales | £235m | £149m | £68.2m | £54.5m | £79m |
| Gross profit | £31.3m | £22.5m | £17m | £15.2m | £18m |
| Operating profit | £22.6m | £16.4m | £12.3m | £10.2m | £5.2m |
| Profit before tax | £22.2m | £15m | £11.9m | £12m | £5.3m |
| Profit after tax | £17.9m | £12.1m | £8.6m | £8.9m | £4.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £17.9m | £12.1m | £8.6m | £8.9m | £4.2m |
| Staff costs | £6.3m | £6m | £5.7m | £3.2m | £5.7m |
| Employees (average) | 117 | 115 | 110 | 113 | 97 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 6.7% | 7% | 10.1% | 12.8% | 4.3% |
| Gross margin | 11.7% | 13.1% | 19.9% | 21.8% | 18.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.3m | £1.5m | £774k | £616k | £1m |
| Profit per employee | £153k | £105k | £77.8k | £78.8k | £43.2k |
| Cash conversion | −107.7% | −121.5% | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼35.7% | ▼50.3% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼32.8% | ▼29% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.7% | ▼4.3% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £23.9m | £28.9m | £18.7m | £4.3m | £3m |
| Net assets | £22.9m | £27.8m | £36.3m | £21.8m | £33.1m |
| Fixed assets | £2m | £3.5m | £3.5m | £1.6m | £10.7m |
| Current assets | £72.2m | £55.5m | £59.5m | £35.3m | £37.7m |
| Debtors | £35.3m | £11.4m | £15.2m | £20.5m | £16.8m |
| Deferred income | £9m | £2.7m | £2m | £2.1m | £4.9m |
| Cash from operations | −£24.4m | −£20m | — | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £43.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.3%
- 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
- —
- Now £33.1m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £4.9m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £10.7m
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
- The Government Of Dubai (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- DP World Freight Forwarding UK Ltdthis 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 2025 (profit £4.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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