Hargreaves Services Europe Limited
Registered name: HARGREAVES SERVICES EUROPE LIMITED
Part of Hargreaves Services PLC groupHargreaves Services Europe Limited made £286m revenue and £2.1m profit in the year to 31 May 2025.
Hargreaves Services Europe Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £286m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £2.1m profit and 323 employees. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North 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 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £511m | £336m | £286m |
| Cost of sales | −£437m | −£290m | −£235m |
| Gross profit | £74.1m | £46.5m | £51m |
| Operating profit | £33.3m | £7.3m | £9.4m |
| Profit before tax | £29.8m | £2.3m | £5.3m |
| Profit after tax | £18m | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £18m | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 303 | 319 | 323 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 3.5% | 0.5% | 0.7% |
| Gross margin | 14.5% | 13.8% | 17.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.7m | £1.1m | £886k |
| Profit per employee | £59.4k | £5.3k | £6.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼34.2% | ▼14.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼90.5% | ▲21.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▲1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £886k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.4k
- 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
- ▲1%
- Now 323
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hargreaves Services PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Hargreaves Services Europe Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (14)
- Blackwell Earthmoving LimitedFigures not disclosed
- C.a. Blackwell Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Coal 4 Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Forward Sound LimitedFigures not disclosed
- H Technical Resources LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves (UK) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Carbon Products Europe LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Corporate Director LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Industrial Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Land Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Land Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hargreaves Pension Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hesott LimitedFigures not disclosed
- R. Hanson & Son LimitedFigures 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 May 2025 (profit £2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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