Wrights of Twycross Limited
Registered name: WRIGHTS OF TWYCROSS LIMITED
Part of P a Wright & Sons Limited groupWrights of Twycross Limited made £34.9m revenue and £4.5m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Wrights of Twycross Limited’s revenue grew 32% to £34.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £4.5m profit and 209 employees. The company is classified under “sewerage” and is based in Atherstone; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Atherstone, West Midlands
- Age
- 11 yrs · since 2015
- 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: “The company's immediate and ultimate parent undertaking is P A Wright & Sons Limited, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales, and with the same registered office as that of the com”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.6m | £24m | £26.6m | £34.9m |
| Cost of sales | £17m | £21.7m | £23.1m | £27.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £2.3m | £3.5m | £7.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £2.1m | £3m | £6.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £2m | £2.7m | £6m |
| Profit after tax | £784k | £1.4m | £1.9m | £4.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £784k | £1.4m | £1.9m | £4.5m |
| Staff costs | £5.9m | £7.2m | £8.7m | £9.8m |
| Employees (average) | 140 | 160 | 190 | 209 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 5.8% | 7.2% | 12.9% |
| Gross margin | 8.7% | 9.7% | 13.1% | 20.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £150k | £140k | £167k |
| Profit per employee | £5.6k | £8.7k | £10.1k | £21.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲29.2% | ▲10.7% | ▲31.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲76.6% | ▲38.2% | ▲134.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.3% | ▲18.8% | ▲10% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.9m | £4.4m |
| Net assets | £6.6m | £8m | £9.9m | £14.4m |
| Fixed assets | £9.6m | £13.7m | £14.1m | £16.8m |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £6.1m | £8.1m | £14.1m |
| Debtors | £3.9m | £4.5m | £5.4m | £8.8m |
| Deferred income | £609k | £138k | £120k | £1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £167k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £21.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 48.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 25.2%
- 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 £14.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲136%
- Now £4.4m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 209
- Deferred income
- ▲759%
- Now £1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲20%
- Now £16.8m
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
- P a Wright & Sons Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Wrights of Twycross Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- P D T R LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- Mulholland Contracts LimitedSewerage
- Revenue
- £47.4m
- Profit
- £1.1m
- Staff
- 330
- McAllister Bros LimitedCo Down · Sewerage
- Revenue
- £53.6m
- Profit
- £4.2m
- Staff
- 176
- R.a. Dalton LimitedBishop Auckland · Sewerage
- Revenue
- £19m
- Profit
- £2.4m
- Staff
- —
- Ancala Water Services (Defence) LimitedBarnsley · Sewerage
- Revenue
- £65.6m
- Profit
- £3.6m
- Staff
- 156
- S.e.d. Services LimitedWigan · Sewerage
- Revenue
- £15.4m
- Profit
- £1.8m
- Staff
- 97
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £4.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.