Parvalux Electric Motors Limited
Registered name: PARVALUX ELECTRIC MOTORS LIMITED
Parvalux Electric Motors Limited made £20.6m revenue and a £8.8m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Parvalux Electric Motors Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £20.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £8.8m and 219 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers” and is based in Poole; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 78 yrs · since 1947
- 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 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £25.3m | £18.5m | £20.6m |
| Cost of sales | £21.1m | £21.4m | £21.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.2m | −£2.9m | −£1.2m |
| Operating profit | £629k | −£7.4m | −£6.5m |
| Profit before tax | £275k | −£9.1m | −£8.8m |
| Profit after tax | £517k | −£8.5m | −£8.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £517k | −£8.5m | −£8.8m |
| Employees (average) | 209 | 0 | 219 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.1% | −45.9% | −42.9% |
| Gross margin | 16.6% | −15.5% | −6% |
| Revenue per employee | £121k | — | £94.1k |
| Profit per employee | £2.5k | — | −£40.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼26.7% | ▲11.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼1746% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £528k | £782k | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £8.2m | −£270k | £10.9m |
| Fixed assets | £27.9m | £32.1m | £31.9m |
| Current assets | £16.5m | £15.9m | £16m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £229k | £216k |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £1m | £585k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −42.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £94.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£40.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 154.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- 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
- —
- Now £10.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲45%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 219
- Deferred income
- ▼42%
- Now £585k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £31.9m
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 Dec 2024 (profit −£8.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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