Express Bi Folding Doors Limited
Registered name: EXPRESS BI FOLDING DOORS LIMITED
Part of S and L UK Holdings Limited groupExpress Bi Folding Doors Limited made £32.2m revenue and £148k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Express Bi Folding Doors Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £32.2m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £148k profit and 230 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other furniture” and is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £35.5m | £31.2m | £32.2m |
| Cost of sales | £25.3m | £22m | £23.2m |
| Gross profit | £10.2m | £9.2m | £9m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £586k | £196k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £741k | £262k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £684k | £148k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £684k | £148k |
| Staff costs | £8.9m | £8.4m | £8.4m |
| Employees (average) | 246 | 230 | 230 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.2% | 2.2% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.7% | 29.5% | 27.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £144k | £136k | £140k |
| Profit per employee | £4.7k | £3k | £645 |
| Cash conversion | −90.7% | −55.8% | 547.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12% | ▲3.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼40.4% | ▼78.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.5% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5m | £4.4m | £896k |
| Net assets | £3m | £3.4m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2.5m | £4.2m |
| Current assets | £9.4m | £9.6m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £385k | £420k | £751k |
| Deferred income | £311k | £280k | £250k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.1m | −£327k | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £140k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £645
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 547.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- 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
- ▼4%
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼80%
- Now £896k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 230
- Deferred income
- ▼11%
- Now £250k
- Fixed assets
- ▲71%
- Now £4.2m
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
- S and L UK Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Express Bi Folding Doors Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Exterior Spaces From Express 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 Aug 2025 (profit £148k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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