Spel Products
Registered name: SPEL PRODUCTS
Part of Spel Holdings groupSpel Products made £11.3m revenue and £2.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Spel Products’s revenue grew 25% to £11.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.5m profit and 67 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Shrewsbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shrewsbury, West Midlands
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1964
- Type
- Private Unlimited 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 immediate parent undertaking is SPEL Ltd”
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) | £8.8m | £9m | £11.3m |
| Cost of sales | £3.7m | £3.6m | £4.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £5.4m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.5m | £2.4m | £3.3m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £2.5m | £3.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.9m | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.9m | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.7m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 57 | 60 | 67 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 21.8% | 21.1% | 22.5% |
| Gross margin | 57.8% | 59.8% | 57.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £155k | £151k | £169k |
| Profit per employee | £33.8k | £31.7k | £38k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.3% | ▲25.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▲33.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.3% | ▲11.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.3m | £4.5m | £5.6m |
| Net assets | £5.9m | £7.5m | £8.1m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £7.4m | £9.4m |
| Debtors | £536k | £959k | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £665k | £595k | £714k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 22.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 57.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £169k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £38k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.9%
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £8.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲25%
- Now £5.6m
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 67
- Deferred income
- ▲20%
- Now £714k
- Fixed assets
- ▼32%
- Now £1.5m
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
- Spel Holdingsultimate parent75–100%
- Spel Ltd75–100%
- Spel Productsthis 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 £2.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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