Trolex Limited
Registered name: TROLEX LIMITED
Part of Trolex Group Limited groupTrolex Limited made £7.6m revenue and £194k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Trolex Limited’s revenue fell 23% to £7.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £194k profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other electrical equipment” and is based in Cheshire; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheshire, North West
- Age
- 66 yrs · since 1959
- 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 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.8m | £11.2m | £9.9m | £7.6m |
| Cost of sales | £3.9m | £5.5m | £4.7m | £3.8m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £5.7m | £5.2m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | £230k | £1.7m | £957k | £266k |
| Profit before tax | £177k | £1.7m | £878k | £221k |
| Profit after tax | £192k | £1.5m | £842k | £194k |
| Profit (best available) | £192k | £1.5m | £842k | £194k |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £4.6m | £4.3m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 73 | 80 | 76 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 13.5% | 8.5% | 2.5% |
| Gross margin | 49.5% | 50.7% | 52.3% | 50.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £115k | £154k | £124k | £101k |
| Profit per employee | £2.8k | £20.8k | £10.5k | £2.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲44% | ▼11.5% | ▼23.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲690.2% | ▼44.4% | ▼76.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▲9.6% | ▼5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £138k | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.6m |
| Net assets | £3m | £4.3m | £5.2m | £5.4m |
| Fixed assets | £2.8m | £3m | £3m | £2.8m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £4.5m | £4.5m | £4.3m |
| Debtors | £595k | £908k | £929k | £673k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 50.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £101k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 36.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £5.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲16%
- Now £1.6m
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £2.8m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Trolex Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Trolex Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 (profit £194k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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