Wilson & Co (Kia) Ltd
Registered name: WILSON & CO (KIA) LTD
Wilson & Co (Kia) Ltd made £114m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Wilson & Co (Kia) Ltd’s revenue grew 41% to £114m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.2m profit and 94 employees. The company is classified under “sale of new cars and light motor vehicles” and is based in Grimsby; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Grimsby, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2012
- 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. From the filing: “RJTK Investments Ltd is regarded by the directors as being the company's immediate and ultimate parent company.”
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £65.6m | £80.7m | £114m |
| Cost of sales | £60.8m | £74m | £105m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £6.6m | £8.8m |
| Operating profit | £867k | £1m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £565k | £544k | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £591k | £244k | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £591k | £244k | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £4.4m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 91 | 108 | 94 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.9% | 0.3% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 7.3% | 8.2% | 7.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £721k | £747k | £1.2m |
| Profit per employee | £6.5k | £2.3k | £12.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23% | ▲40.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼58.7% | ▲383.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲18.7% | ▼13% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £971k | £1m | £3m |
| Net assets | £3.4m | £2.6m | £3.8m |
| Fixed assets | £2.8m | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Current assets | £12.2m | £18.4m | £19.5m |
| Debtors | £519k | £713k | £668k |
| Deferred income | £567k | £742k | £469k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 7.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.2m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- 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
- ▲45%
- Now £3.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲193%
- Now £3m
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 94
- Deferred income
- ▼37%
- Now £469k
- Fixed assets
- ▲7%
- Now £2.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- S. Cropley & Co. 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 Dec 2025 (profit £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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