Grant Palmer Limited
Registered name: GRANT PALMER LIMITED
Part of Grant Palmer (Holdings) Limited groupGrant Palmer Limited made £7.9m revenue and £977k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Grant Palmer Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £7.9m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £977k profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)” and is based in Flitwick; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Flitwick, South East
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.6m | £6.3m | £8m | £7.9m |
| Cost of sales | £3.2m | £3.8m | £4.3m | −£4.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £2.5m | £3.7m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.2m | £2.3m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £1.1m | £2.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £786k | £827k | £1.6m | £977k |
| Profit (best available) | £786k | £827k | £1.6m | £977k |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2.3m | £2.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 77 | 92 | 102 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 14.1% | 13.1% | 20.6% | 12.4% |
| Gross margin | 41.8% | 40.4% | 46.3% | 38% |
| Revenue per employee | £85.5k | £81.9k | £86.4k | £77.1k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £10.7k | £17.8k | £9.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.5% | ▲26% | ▼1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▲97.7% | ▼40.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.5% | ▲19.5% | ▲10.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3m | £2.1m | £3.2m | — |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £4.2m | £5.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £2.1m | £4.1m | £4.4m | — |
| Current assets | £4m | £3.4m | £4.8m | — |
| Debtors | £155k | £262k | £491k | — |
| Deferred income | £325k | £176k | £146k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £77.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.6k
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Grant Palmer (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Grant Palmer Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- J.K Developments (Biggleswade) LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £977k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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