Panel Systems Limited
Registered name: PANEL SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Panel Systems (Holdings) Limited groupPanel Systems Limited made £10m revenue and £72.9k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Panel Systems Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £10m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £72.9k profit and 61 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Rutland Road; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rutland Road, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 52 yrs · since 1974
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is Panel Systems (Holdings) Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales. Panel Systems (Holdings) Limited is the parent company of the smalles”
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) | £11.7m | £11.3m | £10m |
| Cost of sales | £10m | £9.8m | £8.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Operating profit | £495k | £200k | −£88.9k |
| Profit before tax | £668k | £393k | £100k |
| Profit after tax | £507k | £295k | £72.9k |
| Profit (best available) | £507k | £295k | £72.9k |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £2.3m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 63 | 61 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.3% | 2.6% | 0.7% |
| Gross margin | 14.4% | 13.3% | 11.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £178k | £180k | £165k |
| Profit per employee | £7.7k | £4.7k | £1.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.3% | ▼11.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼41.8% | ▼75.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.5% | ▼3.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.4m | £4.3m | £4.2m |
| Net assets | £5.7m | £5.8m | £5.7m |
| Fixed assets | £252k | £248k | £154k |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £7.2m | £7m |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £132k | £49.7k | £66.8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £165k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £5.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼2%
- Now £4.2m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 61
- Deferred income
- ▲34%
- Now £66.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▼38%
- Now £154k
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
- Panel Systems (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Panel Systems 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 2025 (profit £72.9k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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