Cotek Papers Limited
Registered name: COTEK PAPERS LIMITED
Cotek Papers Limited made £13.1m revenue and £787k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Cotek Papers Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £13.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £787k profit and 51 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard” and is based in Gloucestershire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gloucestershire, South 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: “Laufenberg GmbH”
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £12.5m | £13.1m |
| Cost of sales | £9.9m | £10m | £10.4m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Profit before tax | −£300k | £995k | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | −£235k | £740k | £787k |
| Profit (best available) | −£235k | £740k | £787k |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 49 | 51 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −2.1% | 5.9% | 6% |
| Gross margin | 11.8% | 20.1% | 20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £211k | £255k | £258k |
| Profit per employee | −£4.4k | £15.1k | £15.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.7% | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲6.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼7.5% | ▲4.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £3.2m | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £6.6m | £7.4m | £7.8m |
| Fixed assets | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.6m |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £6.8m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £910k | £927k | £1.3m |
| Cash from operations | £1.2m | £903k | £442k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £258k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now £7.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼13%
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £2.6m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £787k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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