Active Freight Management Limited
Registered name: ACTIVE FREIGHT MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Part of Léon Vincent groupActive Freight Management Limited made £11.3m revenue and £729k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Active Freight Management Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £11.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £729k profit. The company is classified under “cargo handling for air transport activities” and is based in Middlesex; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Middlesex, London
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.7m | £11.3m |
| Cost of sales | −£7.9m | −£9m |
| Gross profit | £1.7m | £2.3m |
| Operating profit | £710k | £962k |
| Profit before tax | £710k | £979k |
| Profit after tax | £556k | £729k |
| Profit (best available) | £556k | £729k |
| Employees (average) | — | — |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.7% | 6.5% |
| Gross margin | 18% | 20.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲31.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Léon Vincent (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- Active Freight Management 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 accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £729k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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