Ring Automotive Limited
Registered name: RING AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
Part of Ams-Osram Ag groupRing Automotive Limited made £32.9m revenue and £323k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Ring Automotive Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £32.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £323k profit and 123 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories” and is based in Leeds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2004
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent undertaking is amsOSRAM AG, incorporated in Austria. ams-OSRAM AG is the only group undertaking of which the company is a member for which group accounts are publish”
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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £45.1m | £46.1m | £34.9m | £32.9m |
| Cost of sales | £30.6m | £30.4m | £23.6m | £21.3m |
| Gross profit | £14.5m | £15.8m | £11.3m | £11.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.6m | £3.6m | −£162k |
| Profit before tax | £946k | £1.3m | £3.6m | −£83k |
| Profit after tax | £895k | £1.1m | £2.7m | £323k |
| Profit (best available) | £895k | £1.1m | £2.7m | £323k |
| Staff costs | £6.1m | £6.6m | £6.2m | £7.1m |
| Employees (average) | 150 | 143 | 126 | 123 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2% | 2.5% | 7.6% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 32.1% | 34.2% | 32.3% | 35.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £301k | £322k | £277k | £268k |
| Profit per employee | £6k | £8k | £21.1k | £2.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.1% | ▼24.4% | ▼5.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲28.2% | ▲132.3% | ▼87.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.7% | ▼11.9% | ▼2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £5.8m | £9.2m | £6.4m | £5.7m |
| Net assets | £15m | £16.2m | £17.4m | £17.7m |
| Fixed assets | £846k | £672k | £399k | £466k |
| Current assets | £27.3m | £31.4m | £26m | £23.1m |
| Debtors | £8.5m | £10.9m | £7.2m | £6m |
| Deferred income | £2.4m | £3.9m | £1.8m | £1.1m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £268k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.1%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £17.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £5.7m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 123
- Deferred income
- ▼42%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £466k
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
- Ams-Osram Ag (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Ring Automotive Limitedthis 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 £323k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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