Kilrea Service Station Ltd
Registered name: KILREA SERVICE STATION LTD
Kilrea Service Station Ltd made £25.3m revenue and £554k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Kilrea Service Station Ltd’s revenue fell 15% to £25.3m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £554k profit and 122 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating” and is based in Coleraine; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Coleraine, Northern Ireland
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1994
- 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: “Mr K Bradley is the ultimate controlling party.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 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) | £28.2m | £29.5m | £29.8m | £25.3m |
| Cost of sales | £23.3m | £24.1m | £24.5m | £20.7m |
| Gross profit | £4.8m | £5.4m | £5.3m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £1.6m | £2.9m | £868k |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £1.5m | £2.7m | £902k |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £1.2m | £2.1m | £554k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £1.2m | £2.1m | £554k |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2.2m | £2.4m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 139 | 158 | 147 | 122 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.9% | 4.2% | 7% | 2.2% |
| Gross margin | 17.1% | 18.3% | 17.7% | 18.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £203k | £187k | £203k | £208k |
| Profit per employee | £9.9k | £7.8k | £14.1k | £4.5k |
| Cash conversion | −92.9% | −125.2% | −103.4% | −23.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.8% | ▲0.9% | ▼15% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10.9% | ▲68.3% | ▼73.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.7% | ▼7% | ▼17% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3m | £5.3m | £6.1m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £15.8m | £17m | £19m | £19.5m |
| Fixed assets | £9m | £10.2m | £10.3m | £12m |
| Current assets | £14.5m | £18m | £17.5m | £15.2m |
| Debtors | £125k | £118k | £111k | £116k |
| Deferred income | £114k | £121k | £71.5k | £123k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.6m | −£2m | −£3m | −£202k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £208k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −23.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 47.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £19.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼58%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- ▼17%
- Now 122
- Deferred income
- ▲72%
- Now £123k
- Fixed assets
- ▲16%
- Now £12m
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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £554k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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