Perfectos Printing Inks Co Ltd.
Registered name: PERFECTOS PRINTING INKS CO LTD.
Part of Perfectos Printing Inks Group Ltd groupPerfectos Printing Inks Co Ltd. made £12.1m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 1 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Perfectos Printing Inks Co Ltd.’s revenue grew 15% to £12.1m in the year to 1 Apr 2025, with £1.2m profit and 62 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of printing ink” and is based in Park Row; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Park Row, East Midlands
- 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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Perfectos Printing Inks Group Ltd.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 1 Apr 2022 | 1 Apr 2023 | 1 Apr 2024 | 1 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.2m | £10m | £10.6m | £12.1m |
| Cost of sales | £4.4m | £5m | £5.2m | £6m |
| Gross profit | £5.8m | £5m | £5.4m | £6.1m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £2.3m | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £1m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £1m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.5m | £2.6m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 19.3% | 10.4% | 11.1% | 10.1% |
| Gross margin | 57% | 49.5% | 50.7% | 50.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £176k | £167k | £176k | £195k |
| Profit per employee | £33.9k | £17.4k | £19.6k | £19.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.8% | ▲5.6% | ▲14.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼46.9% | ▲12.5% | ▲3.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.5% | 0% | ▲3.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.1m | £2.8m | £3.4m | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £11.4m | £12.4m | £13.6m | £14.8m |
| Fixed assets | £5.5m | £5.9m | £5.7m | £5.7m |
| Current assets | £13.1m | £14.9m | £16.4m | £17.9m |
| Debtors | £933k | £909k | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Deferred income | £882k | £532k | £940k | £677k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 50.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £195k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 47.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £14.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼34%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 62
- Deferred income
- ▼28%
- Now £677k
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £5.7m
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
- Perfectos Printing Inks Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Perfectos Printing Inks Co 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 1 Apr 2025 (profit £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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