Tom Prichard Contracting Limited
Registered name: TOM PRICHARD CONTRACTING LIMITED
Part of Tom Prichard (Holdings) Limited groupTom Prichard Contracting Limited made £46.8m revenue and £3.6m profit in the year to 31 Jan 2025.
Tom Prichard Contracting Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £46.8m in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with £3.6m profit and 317 employees. The company is classified under “site preparation” and is based in Pontyclun; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Pontyclun, Wales
- 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 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £38.8m | £49.6m | £46.8m |
| Cost of sales | £28.8m | £35.8m | £30.7m |
| Gross profit | £10m | £13.8m | £16.1m |
| Operating profit | £3.9m | £4.7m | £5.7m |
| Profit before tax | £3.3m | £3.9m | £4.5m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £2m | £3.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £2m | £3.6m |
| Staff costs | £9.1m | £13.2m | £13.1m |
| Employees (average) | 245 | 279 | 317 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.8% | 4.1% | 7.7% |
| Gross margin | 25.7% | 27.8% | 34.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £158k | £178k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | £13.9k | £7.2k | £11.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.9% | ▼5.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼40.8% | ▲79.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.9% | ▲13.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £286k | £3.2m | £2m |
| Net assets | £15.6m | £17.6m | £21.2m |
| Fixed assets | £26.7m | £27m | £32.3m |
| Current assets | £14.6m | £18.9m | £21m |
| Debtors | £4.1m | £5.3m | £6.2m |
| Deferred income | £627k | £650k | £644k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 34.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 69.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.4%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £21.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼36%
- Now £2m
- Headcount
- ▲14%
- Now 317
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £644k
- Fixed assets
- ▲20%
- Now £32.3m
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
- Tom Prichard (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Tom Prichard Contracting Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Project Red Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (9)
- Ack Technical Ground Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Maxibrite LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Prichard Concrete LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Prichard Demolition LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Prichard Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Prichard Remediation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Prichard Tool Hire LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Project Yellow Recycling LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tom Prichard Properties LimitedFigures 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 Jan 2025 (profit £3.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 16 Oct 2026
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