Autohorn Fleet Services Limited
Registered name: AUTOHORN FLEET SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Autohorn Group Limited groupAutohorn Fleet Services Limited made £20.5m revenue and £164k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Autohorn Fleet Services Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £20.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £164k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in York; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- York, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1995
- 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: “Throughout the year, the company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Autohorn Group Limited.”
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 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £49.8m | £17.9m | £20.5m |
| Cost of sales | £41.6m | £13.6m | £16.6m |
| Gross profit | £8.2m | £4.2m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £4.8m | £1m | £676k |
| Profit before tax | £4.4m | £809k | £157k |
| Profit after tax | £3.2m | £660k | £164k |
| Profit (best available) | £3.2m | £660k | £164k |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 59 | 57 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.4% | 3.7% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 16.5% | 23.6% | 18.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £858k | £303k | £359k |
| Profit per employee | £54.8k | £11.2k | £2.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼64.1% | ▲14.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼79.2% | ▼75.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.7% | ▼3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.3m | £2.2m | £1m |
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £10.3m | £10.5m | £17.1m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £3.6m | £3m |
| Debtors | £774k | £320k | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £1m | £489k | £610k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £359k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 83.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- ▼54%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- ▲25%
- Now £610k
- Fixed assets
- ▲63%
- Now £17.1m
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
- Autohorn Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Autohorn Fleet Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Disturb Projects LtdFigures 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 Dec 2024 (profit £164k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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