Fuel Express Limited
Registered name: FUEL EXPRESS LIMITED
Part of G N G Holdings Limited groupFuel Express Limited made £37.6m revenue and £12.5k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Fuel Express Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £37.6m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £12.5k profit and 8 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of other fuels and related products” and is based in Wakefield; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1997
- 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 a subsidiary of G”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £35.5m | £37.6m |
| Cost of sales | £35m | £37.1m |
| Gross profit | £538k | £517k |
| Operating profit | £44.6k | £7.6k |
| Profit before tax | £77k | £15.6k |
| Profit after tax | £57k | £12.5k |
| Profit (best available) | £57k | £12.5k |
| Staff costs | £282k | £299k |
| Employees (average) | 7 | 8 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.2% | 0% |
| Gross margin | 1.5% | 1.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £5.1m | £4.7m |
| Profit per employee | £8.1k | £1.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼78.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £324k | £11.7k |
| Net assets | £203k | £216k |
| Fixed assets | £36 | £28 |
| Current assets | £8m | £7.9m |
| Debtors | £7.5m | £7.7m |
| Deferred income | £11k | £11k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 1.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £4.7m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.5%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £216k
- Cash at bank
- ▼96%
- Now £11.7k
- Headcount
- ▲14%
- Now 8
- Deferred income
- ▲0%
- Now £11k
- Fixed assets
- ▼22%
- Now £28
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
- G N G Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Fuel Express Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- G.N. Grosvenor LimitedRev. £32.6m · Profit £5.1m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £12.5k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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