KHS UK Ltd.
Registered name: KHS UK LTD.
Part of Salzgitter Ag groupKHS UK Ltd. made £19.6m revenue and £2.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
KHS UK Ltd.’s revenue fell 1% to £19.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.1m profit and 52 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing” and is based in Shirley, Solihull; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands
- Age
- 53 yrs · since 1973
- 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 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) | £17.7m | £19.7m | £19.6m |
| Cost of sales | £12m | £14.8m | £14.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.6m | £4.9m | £5m |
| Operating profit | £3.2m | £2.4m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £2.4m | £2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.2m | £2.4m | £2.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £4.1m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 44 | 51 | 52 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 18.1% | 12.3% | 11% |
| Gross margin | 31.9% | 24.9% | 25.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £402k | £387k | £377k |
| Profit per employee | £72.6k | £47.7k | £41.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.7% | ▼0.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼23.9% | ▼11.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.9% | ▲2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £6.5m | £5.6m | £561k |
| Net assets | £8.4m | £7.2m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | — | £6.2m | £7.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £377k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £41.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 37.5%
- 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
- ▼19%
- Now £5.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼90%
- Now £561k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 52
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Salzgitter Ag (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- KHS UK Ltd.this 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 £2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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