EP Barrus, the century-old Bicester distributor that supplies Mercury and Mercury Diesel outboards to the UK marine trade, is reporting group turnover of £87.70 million for the year to 30 September 2025, up 11 per cent on the previous year’s £79.15 million. Profit before tax is reported at £1.86 million. Powerboat News has looked at the scale of the UK Mercury market before, and Barrus sits at the centre of it as the brand’s national distributor.
The FY2025 figures above have not yet appeared in a filed statutory account. Barrus’s accounts for the year to September 2025 were due at Companies House by 30 June 2026 but had not been published on the public register at time of writing. The £87.70 million and £1.86 million figures should be treated as reported but unconfirmed pending that filing.
What Powerboat News has confirmed directly, by pulling and reading the company’s filed accounts at Companies House, is the trend leading into this year. Turnover fell 8 per cent to £79.15 million in the year to September 2024, with operating profit dropping to £1.27 million from £3.35 million the year before. That capped a run in which turnover peaked at £87.0 million in 2022 before easing back through 2023 and 2024.
| Year to September | Turnover | Movement | Operating profit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £80.8m | +32% | £4.95m | Companies House, verified by PBN |
| 2022 | £87.0m | +8% | £5.56m | Companies House, verified by PBN |
| 2023 | £86.2m | -1% | £3.35m | Companies House, verified by PBN |
| 2024 | £79.15m | -8% | £1.27m | Companies House, verified by PBN |
| 2025 | £87.70m | +11% | £1.86m (PBT) | Reported, unconfirmed |
The 2025 figure quoted is profit before tax rather than operating profit, so it is not directly comparable to the earlier years in the table above. Powerboat News will update this article once the FY2025 accounts are confirmed on the public register.
The results, whichever way they are ultimately confirmed, cover the whole of E.P. Barrus Limited, not the marine business on its own. The company trades across three sectors, marine, outdoor/groundcare and industrial, and its statutory accounts do not break turnover down by division. The “turnover analysed by class of business” note in the filed accounts shows a single company-wide figure. There is no public marine-only number, and Powerboat News is not aware of one being disclosed elsewhere.
On the marine side, Barrus has built its portfolio well beyond outboard distribution. Its current marine brand list runs from Mercury, Mercury Diesel and MerCruiser through to Yanmar Marine, Cox Marine, Hybrid Marine International, Shire and Quicksilver Inflatables, alongside its own Barrus Marine Equipment range. The company also builds custom and bespoke engines for specialist applications, including RNLI lifeboats and military vessels, work that sits outside the volume outboard trade entirely.
The results follow a board change at the company. Long-serving director Andrew Feilden retired on 30 September 2025 after 31 years on the board, having previously served as chairman. Kiki Glen joined as a non-executive director on 1 August 2025.
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