Ian Edgar(Liverpool)limited
Registered name: IAN EDGAR(LIVERPOOL)LIMITED
Ian Edgar(Liverpool)limited made £90.2m revenue and £674k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Ian Edgar(Liverpool)limited’s revenue grew 30% to £90.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £674k profit and 51 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Macclesfield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Macclesfield, North West
- Age
- 69 yrs · since 1957
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £122m | £69.4m | £90.2m |
| Cost of sales | £84.7m | £51m | £70.7m |
| Gross profit | £37m | £18.4m | £19.5m |
| Operating profit | £13.6m | £3.7m | £4.3m |
| Profit before tax | £7.9m | £762k | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £6.1m | £250k | £674k |
| Profit (best available) | £6.1m | £250k | £674k |
| Staff costs | £17.7m | £8.8m | £8.6m |
| Employees (average) | 48 | 52 | 51 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5% | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| Gross margin | 30.4% | 26.5% | 21.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.5m | £1.3m | £1.8m |
| Profit per employee | £126k | £4.8k | £13.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼43% | ▲30% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼95.9% | ▲170.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.3% | ▼1.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £11.8m | £2.4m | £3.2m |
| Net assets | £9.5m | £5.7m | £11m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £40.3m | £46.8m | £32.8m |
| Debtors | £5.7m | £17m | £2.9m |
| Deferred income | £6.8m | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.8m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- 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
- ▲92%
- Now £11m
- Cash at bank
- ▲32%
- Now £3.2m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- ▲13%
- Now £2.7m
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £1.6m
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 2025 (profit £674k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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