Rawlings Fuels Limited
Registered name: RAWLINGS FUELS LIMITED
Part of Edward Rawlings Properties Limited groupRawlings Fuels Limited made £22.6m revenue and £563k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Rawlings Fuels Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £22.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £563k profit and 31 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of fuels, ores, metals and industrial chemicals” and is based in South Warnborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- South Warnborough, South East
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- 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 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Edward Rawlings Properties Limited (company registration number 00781413), a company registered in England and Wales. Edward Rawlings Properties Limited pre”
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) | £24.4m | £23.7m | £22.6m |
| Cost of sales | £22.5m | £21.3m | £20.4m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.4m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £373k | £842k | £632k |
| Profit before tax | £369k | £831k | £626k |
| Profit after tax | £299k | £683k | £563k |
| Profit (best available) | £299k | £683k | £563k |
| Staff costs | £2m | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 27 | 31 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | 2.9% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 7.9% | 10.1% | 9.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £939k | £879k | £728k |
| Profit per employee | £11.5k | £25.3k | £18.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.8% | ▼5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲128% | ▼17.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲14.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £865k | £1.2m | £1m |
| Net assets | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Current assets | £3.4m | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £235k | £241k | £180k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £728k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 11.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼16%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▲15%
- Now 31
- Deferred income
- ▼26%
- Now £180k
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £2.7m
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
- Edward Rawlings Properties Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Rawlings Fuels Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Rawlings Transport (1972 ) LimitedRev. £9m · Profit £257k
- Hartley Tanker Services 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 £563k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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