Beakbane Limited
Registered name: BEAKBANE LIMITED
Part of Tmo Capital Investments Limited groupBeakbane Limited made £10.2m revenue and £944k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024.
Beakbane Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £10.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £944k profit and 112 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Kidderminster; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Kidderminster, West Midlands
- Age
- 72 yrs · since 1954
- 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
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.6m | £9.4m | £10.2m |
| Cost of sales | £6.2m | £7.6m | £8m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £1.8m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £17.6k | £359k | £962k |
| Profit before tax | −£80.5k | £241k | £850k |
| Profit after tax | −£80.5k | £241k | £944k |
| Profit (best available) | −£80.5k | £241k | £944k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £3.6m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 101 | 111 | 112 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −1.1% | 2.6% | 9.2% |
| Gross margin | 17.4% | 19.1% | 21.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £74.9k | £84.3k | £91.4k |
| Profit per employee | −£797 | £2.2k | £8.4k |
| Cash conversion | −1202% | 23% | 109.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23.7% | ▲9.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲292.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.9% | ▲0.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £684k | £457k | £832k |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £2.6m | £3.5m |
| Fixed assets | £2.9m | £2.8m | £4.3m |
| Current assets | £3.2m | £3.4m | £4m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.3m | £829k |
| Deferred income | £350k | £268k | £472k |
| Cash from operations | −£211k | £82.5k | £1.1m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 109.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 41.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.1%
- 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
- ▲35%
- Now £3.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲82%
- Now £832k
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 112
- Deferred income
- ▲76%
- Now £472k
- Fixed assets
- ▲52%
- Now £4.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Tmo Capital Investments Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Southwill Holdings Limited75–100%
- Beakbane Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Beakbane Precision LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Crown Precision Engineering LimitedRev. — · Profit −£98.8k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2024 (profit £944k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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