Whitfield Service Station Limited
Registered name: WHITFIELD SERVICE STATION LIMITED
Part of Whitfield Service Station Holdings Limited groupWhitfield Service Station Limited made £10.9m revenue and £274k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Whitfield Service Station Limited’s revenue was £10.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £274k profit and 18 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores” and is based in Whitfield, Dover,; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Whitfield, Dover,, South East
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- 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 | 30 Sep 2022 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £15.8m | £10.9m |
| Cost of sales | £9.9m | £13.4m | £9.2m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £2.4m | £1.7m |
| Operating profit | £616k | £979k | £520k |
| Profit before tax | £518k | £704k | £314k |
| Profit after tax | £439k | £439k | £274k |
| Profit (best available) | £439k | £439k | £274k |
| Staff costs | £328k | £570k | £455k |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.9% | 2.8% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 12% | 15.4% | 15.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £624k | £878k | £606k |
| Profit per employee | £24.4k | £24.4k | £15.2k |
| Cash conversion | 151.7% | 84.4% | 158.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3m | £3m |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £3.7m | £3.6m |
| Current assets | £3.7m | £4.6m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £189k | £48.2k | £83.4k |
| Deferred income | £6.3k | £16.8k | £260k |
| Cash from operations | £935k | £827k | £822k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 15.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £606k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 158.1%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 33.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- 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 £3m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 18
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £260k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £3.6m
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
- Whitfield Service Station Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Whitfield Service Station 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 FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £274k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.