Harbro Limited
Registered name: HARBRO LIMITED
Part of Kroll International (UK) Limited groupHarbro Limited made £141m revenue and £3m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Harbro Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £141m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £3m profit and 350 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals” and is based in Aberdeenshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 parent undertaking is The Harbro Group Ltd.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £139m | £137m | £141m |
| Cost of sales | £120m | £116m | £121m |
| Gross profit | £19.1m | £21.1m | £20.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.9m | £3.3m | £4.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £3m | £4.3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £2.4m | £3m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £2.4m | £3m |
| Staff costs | — | £14.8m | £16.5m |
| Employees (average) | 385 | 340 | 350 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.5% | 1.7% | 2.1% |
| Gross margin | 13.8% | 15.4% | 14.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £361k | £403k | £404k |
| Profit per employee | £5.4k | £6.9k | £8.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.5% | ▲3.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲14.2% | ▲26.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.7% | ▲2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.2m | £1.3m | £7.8m |
| Net assets | £23.2m | £25.3m | £28.3m |
| Fixed assets | £9.7m | £9.2m | £8.9m |
| Current assets | £39.1m | £36.3m | £61m |
| Debtors | £16.5m | £15.4m | £16.4m |
| Deferred income | £0 | £17k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £404k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.6%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £28.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲485%
- Now £7.8m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 350
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £8.9m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Kroll International (UK) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Kroll Agency and Trustee Services Ltd.75–100%
- Kroll Trustee Services Limited75–100%
- Harbro Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Agricultural and Ironmongery Supplies LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tore Mill LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (9)
- Transpan (Scotland) LimitedRev. £12.2m · Profit £13k
- Murray Farmcare LimitedRev. £11.3m · Profit −£24.7k
- Strathclyde Nutrition Ltd.Rev. £11m · Profit £1.2m
- CC Agritech II LimitedRev. — · Profit −£1.9m
- North Star DB Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Harbro Group Ltd.Rev. — · Profit −£933k
- Viridor (Glasgow) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Viridor Clyde Valley LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Viridor Dunbar Waste 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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