Auto Marine Cables Limited
Registered name: AUTO MARINE CABLES LIMITED
Part of PHD Industrial Holdings Limited groupAuto Marine Cables Limited made £13.9m revenue and £963k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2024. read from filing text
Auto Marine Cables Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £13.9m in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with £963k profit and 64 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other electronic and electric wires and cables” and is based in Worsley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worsley, North West
- Age
- 62 yrs · since 1964
- 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 ultimate parent company is PHD Industrial Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.7m | £15.8m | £13.9m |
| Cost of sales | £13.6m | £11.6m | £9.5m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £4.2m | £4.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £1.4m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.4m | £1.4m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £2.1m | £1.2m | £963k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.1m | £1.2m | £963k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £2.7m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 63 | 64 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 11.1% | 7.9% | 6.9% |
| Gross margin | 27.4% | 26.9% | 31.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £288k | £251k | £217k |
| Profit per employee | £31.9k | £19.8k | £15k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼15.5% | ▼12.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼40% | ▼22.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.1% | ▲1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £1.2m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £9.8m | £11.1m | £12m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1m | £741k |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £11.6m | £13.1m |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £2m | £2m |
| Deferred income | £205k | £138k | £111k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £217k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.7%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £12m
- Cash at bank
- ▲56%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- ▼20%
- Now £111k
- Fixed assets
- ▼28%
- Now £741k
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
- PHD Industrial Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Auto Marine Cables International Limited75–100%
- Auto Marine Cables 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 30 Sep 2024 (profit £963k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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