Hickson Limited
Registered name: HICKSON LIMITED
Part of Arch Chemicals UK Holdings Limited groupHickson Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2025 show net assets of £0.
Hickson Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 showed net assets of £0 and 0 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of dyes and pigments” and is based in Manchester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 89 yrs · since 1937
- 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.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Hickson Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 0
- Net assets
- £0
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 | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £70m | £37.1m | — |
| Cost of sales | £53.2m | £25.9m | — |
| Gross profit | £16.8m | £11.3m | — |
| Operating profit | £7m | £7m | — |
| Profit before tax | £7m | −£30.7m | — |
| Profit after tax | £7.7m | −£31.2m | — |
| Profit (best available) | £7.7m | −£31.2m | — |
| Staff costs | £4.8m | £2.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 38 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 11% | −84.1% | — |
| Gross margin | 24% | 30.3% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £947k | £976k | — |
| Profit per employee | £105k | −£821k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼47% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼503.2% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼48.6% | ▼100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £0 | — |
| Net assets | £31.2m | £0 | £0 |
| Fixed assets | £6.2m | £0 | — |
| Current assets | £43.4m | £0 | — |
| Debtors | £8.9m | £0 | — |
| Deferred income | £4.9m | £0 | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
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
- —
- Now £0
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼100%
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Arch Chemicals UK Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hickson International Limited75–100%
- Hickson Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Arch Timber Protection LimitedRev. £33.5m · Profit £46.8m
- Arch Biocides Trustee LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hickson Chemical Supplies LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hickson Pension Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hickson Timber Products 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, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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