Tow-Trust Towbars Limited
Registered name: TOW-TRUST TOWBARS LIMITED
Tow-Trust Towbars Limited made £27m revenue and £5.1m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Tow-Trust Towbars Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £27m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £5.1m profit and 103 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles” and is based in Warwickshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warwickshire, West Midlands
- Age
- 35 yrs · since 1991
- 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: “The company is associated with”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.1m | £21.1m | £24m | £27m |
| Cost of sales | £12m | £13.8m | £15.3m | £16.6m |
| Gross profit | £7.1m | £7.3m | £8.7m | £10.4m |
| Operating profit | £4.3m | £4.5m | £5.5m | £6.7m |
| Profit before tax | £4.4m | £4.5m | £5.5m | £6.8m |
| Profit after tax | £3.8m | £3.5m | £4.3m | £5.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.8m | £3.5m | £4.3m | £5.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £3m | £3.5m | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 81 | 82 | 93 | 103 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 19.7% | 16.8% | 18.1% | 18.8% |
| Gross margin | 37.2% | 34.5% | 36.3% | 38.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £236k | £257k | £258k | £262k |
| Profit per employee | £46.5k | £43.1k | £46.6k | £49.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.2% | ▲13.7% | ▲12.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼6% | ▲22.5% | ▲16.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.2% | ▲13.4% | ▲10.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £8.4m | £4.6m | £7.4m | £6.8m |
| Net assets | £2 | £2 | £2 | £2 |
| Current assets | £13.7m | £10.4m | £13.4m | £13.9m |
| Debtors | £2.3m | £2.6m | £2.5m | £2.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 18.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £262k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £49.2k
- 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
- 10.8%
- 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
- 0%
- Now £2
- Cash at bank
- ▼8%
- Now £6.8m
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 103
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £5.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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