Ceres Energy Limited
Registered name: CERES ENERGY LIMITED
Part of Ceres Energy Trustee Limited groupCeres Energy Limited made £89.9m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Ceres Energy Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £89.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.3m profit and 20 employees. The company is classified under “trade of gas through mains” and is based in Hexham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hexham, North East
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £113m | £82.9m | £89.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£107m | −£76.9m | −£84.9m |
| Gross profit | £6.2m | £6m | £5m |
| Operating profit | £4.4m | £3.9m | £2m |
| Profit before tax | £4.3m | £4.1m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £3.2m | £3m | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.2m | £3m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 17 | 20 | 20 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.8% | 3.7% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 5.5% | 7.2% | 5.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £6.6m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Profit per employee | £188k | £152k | £66.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼26.5% | ▲8.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼5% | ▼56.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.6% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £4.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £66.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- 0%
- Now 20
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Ceres Energy Trustee Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Ceres Energy Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Barrow Shipping LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ceres Energy Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Eris Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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