Designplan Lighting Limited
Registered name: DESIGNPLAN LIGHTING LIMITED
Part of Fagerhult Group Ab groupDesignplan Lighting Limited made £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024 (revenue not disclosed).
Designplan Lighting Limited reported £1.4m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024, down 28% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 127 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric lighting equipment” and is based in Sutton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sutton, London
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1963
- 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. From the filing: “The company's immediate and ultimate parent company is Fagerhult Group AB, a company incorporated in Sweden.”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
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&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.1m | £20.2m | — |
| Cost of sales | £9m | £9.7m | £7.9m |
| Gross profit | £8.2m | £10.5m | — |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £2.6m | — |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £2.6m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £955k | £2m | £1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £955k | £2m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 111 | 124 | 127 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.6% | 9.8% | — |
| Gross margin | 47.6% | 52% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £154k | £163k | — |
| Profit per employee | £8.6k | £16k | £11.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲17.8% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲107.7% | ▼28.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.7% | ▲2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.9m | £1.7m | £789k |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £4.1m | £4.8m |
| Fixed assets | £2m | £2.1m | £1.7m |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £6.2m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £2m | £2m |
| Deferred income | £1.3m | £1.6m | £1.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲16%
- Now £4.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼53%
- Now £789k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 127
- Deferred income
- ▼32%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▼15%
- Now £1.7m
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
- Fagerhult Group Ab (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Designplan Lighting 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 2024 (profit £1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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