Woodside Haulage Limited
Registered name: WOODSIDE HAULAGE LIMITED
Woodside Haulage Limited made £28.4m revenue and £854k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Woodside Haulage Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £28.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £854k profit and 265 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Co Antrim; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.9m | £31.2m | £29.9m | £28.4m |
| Cost of sales | £25.1m | £25.1m | £24.4m | £23.7m |
| Gross profit | £7.8m | £6.1m | £5.6m | £4.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.2m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £1.9m | £2.3m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.4m | £854k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.4m | £854k |
| Staff costs | £10.6m | £10.8m | £10.3m | £10.8m |
| Employees (average) | 260 | 279 | 274 | 265 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.1% | 4.9% | 4.7% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 23.6% | 19.6% | 18.6% | 16.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £126k | £112k | £109k | £107k |
| Profit per employee | £6.5k | £5.4k | £5.1k | £3.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.3% | ▼4% | ▼5.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10.1% | ▼7.6% | ▼38.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▼1.8% | ▼3.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £13.1k | £740k | £475k | £942k |
| Net assets | £10.8m | £12.3m | £13.7m | £14.5m |
| Fixed assets | £15m | £15.3m | £16.5m | £18m |
| Current assets | £8.8m | £8.7m | £10.1m | £10.5m |
| Debtors | £5.9m | £6.6m | £6.1m | £6.2m |
| Deferred income | £907k | £889k | £483k | £412k |
| 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
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £107k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 63.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.7%
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £14.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲98%
- Now £942k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 265
- Deferred income
- ▼15%
- Now £412k
- Fixed assets
- ▲9%
- Now £18m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £854k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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