Cpi Colour Ltd
Registered name: CPI COLOUR LTD
Part of Bidco 3 Limited groupCpi Colour Ltd made £240k revenue and £212k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Cpi Colour Ltd’s revenue was £240k in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £212k profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “printing” and is based in Croydon; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Croydon, London
- Age
- 54 yrs · since 1971
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.3m | £0 | £0 | £240k |
| Cost of sales | £2.2m | £564k | £362k | £120k |
| Gross profit | £53.4k | — | −£362k | £120k |
| Operating profit | −£1.6m | — | −£222k | £355k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.7m | £1m | −£321k | £306k |
| Profit after tax | — | — | −£356k | £212k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.7m | £1m | −£356k | £212k |
| Staff costs | £568k | £0 | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −73.5% | — | — | 88.4% |
| Gross margin | 2.3% | — | — | 50.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £153k | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | −£113k | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼100% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼134.3% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £125k | £125k | £653k | £762k |
| Net assets | £19.4m | £20.4m | £2.8m | — |
| Fixed assets | £4.1m | £4.9m | £4.3m | £2.8m |
| Debtors | −£4.5k | £0 | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 88.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 50.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1175%
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- ▲17%
- Now £762k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼34%
- Now £2.8m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bidco 3 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Elpis Holdings Limited75–100%
- Elpis Finance Limited75–100%
- Elpis Management Limited75–100%
- Elpis 2022 Limited75–100%
- Cpi Group (UK) Ltd75–100%
- Cpi Colour Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- W. R. Royle Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- Cpi Antony Rowe LtdRev. £45.4m · Profit −£547k
- Cpi William Clowes LtdRev. £7.6m · Profit −£969k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £212k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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