Bim United Kingdom Limited
Registered name: BIM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
Part of Bim Kemi Ab groupBim United Kingdom Limited made £15.5m revenue and £952k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Bim United Kingdom Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £15.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £952k profit and 51 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other chemical products” and is based in Lancashire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Lancashire, North West
- Age
- 56 yrs · since 1970
- 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 is a subsidiary undertaking of BIM Kemi AB which is the ultimate parent company incorporated in Sweden with registered office Box 3102, 443 03 Lerum.”
Key figures
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.8m | £15.6m | £15.5m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £10m | £9.2m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £5.6m | £6.3m |
| Operating profit | −£39.5k | £742k | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | −£73.9k | £704k | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £9.1k | £455k | £952k |
| Profit (best available) | £9.1k | £455k | £952k |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.6m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 51 | 51 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 2.9% | 6.2% |
| Gross margin | 31.9% | 35.9% | 40.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £279k | £307k | £303k |
| Profit per employee | £172 | £8.9k | £18.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.9% | ▼1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲4905% | ▲109.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.8% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £283k | £1.7m | £909k |
| Net assets | £1.4m | £1.8m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £790k | £845k | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £5.7m | £6.4m | £5.6m |
| Debtors | £2.8m | £2.8m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | — | £203k | £220k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £303k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- 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
- ▲53%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼47%
- Now £909k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- ▲9%
- Now £220k
- Fixed assets
- ▲55%
- Now £1.3m
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
- Bim Kemi Ab (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Bim United Kingdom 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 £952k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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