Flagship Logistics Limited
Registered name: FLAGSHIP LOGISTICS LIMITED
Part of Elara Capital PLC groupFlagship Logistics Limited made £8.1m revenue and £202k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2024.
Flagship Logistics Limited’s revenue fell 25% to £8.1m in the year to 31 Oct 2024, with £202k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “cargo handling for water transport activities” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21m | £10.8m | £8.1m |
| Cost of sales | £19.4m | £9.9m | −£7m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £895k | £1.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £23.6k | £273k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £22.9k | £273k |
| Profit after tax | £994k | £16.7k | £202k |
| Profit (best available) | £994k | £16.7k | £202k |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 11 | 9 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.7% | 0.1% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 7.5% | 8.3% | 13.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.1m | £981k | £899k |
| Profit per employee | £99.4k | £1.5k | £22.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼48.5% | ▼24.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼98.3% | ▲1109% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10% | ▼18.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.9m | £3.3m | — |
| Net assets | £3.7m | £2.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.5k | £1.1k | — |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £4m | — |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £648k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £899k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22.4k
- 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
- ▼18%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Elara Capital PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Flagship Logistics 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 accounts for the year to 31 Oct 2024 (profit £202k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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