Packaging Automation Limited
Registered name: PACKAGING AUTOMATION LIMITED
Packaging Automation Limited made £11.8m revenue and £161k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Packaging Automation Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £11.8m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £161k profit and 96 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing” and is based in Parkgate Industrial Park; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Parkgate Industrial Park, North West
- Age
- 63 yrs · since 1963
- 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 | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.6m | £11.2m | £11.1m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.7m | £7.9m | £7.2m | £8.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £3.3m | £3.9m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | −£198k | −£463k | £248k | £236k |
| Profit before tax | −£255k | −£534k | £174k | £147k |
| Profit after tax | −£299k | −£238k | £97.9k | £161k |
| Profit (best available) | −£299k | −£238k | £97.9k | £161k |
| Staff costs | £6.1m | £5.3m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 142 | 126 | 101 | 96 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −2.2% | −2.1% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 28.9% | 29.6% | 35% | 30.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.8k | £88.6k | £110k | £123k |
| Profit per employee | −£2.1k | −£1.9k | £970 | £1.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | 37.8% | 229.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18% | ▼0.1% | ▲6.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲64.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.3% | ▼19.8% | ▼5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £74.2k | £772k | £797k | £861k |
| Net assets | £2.8m | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.2m |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £3.4m | £2.9m | £2.7m |
| Current assets | £4.6m | £3.7m | £3.9m | £3.6m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £831k | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £380k | £336k | £441k | £224k |
| Cash from operations | −£318k | £342k | £93.5k | £541k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £123k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 229.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 22.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.4%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £2.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8%
- Now £861k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 96
- Deferred income
- ▼49%
- Now £224k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £2.7m
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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £161k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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