Power Adhesives Limited
Registered name: POWER ADHESIVES LIMITED
Part of Fox Investments [Holdings] Ltd groupPower Adhesives Limited made £11.5m revenue and a £715k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Power Adhesives Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £11.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £715k and 68 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of glues” and is based in Basildon; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Basildon, East of England
- Age
- 51 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”
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 | 31 Dec 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) | £18.7m | £12.8m | £12.3m | £11.5m |
| Cost of sales | £9.1m | £5.6m | £5.1m | £5.4m |
| Gross profit | £9.6m | £7.2m | £7.3m | £6.1m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £3.9m | — | −£684k |
| Profit before tax | £2.4m | £3.9m | £271k | −£728k |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £4m | £226k | −£715k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £4m | £226k | −£715k |
| Employees (average) | 66 | 68 | 70 | 68 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10.7% | 31.2% | 1.8% | −6.2% |
| Gross margin | 51.3% | 56.3% | 58.9% | 52.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £283k | £188k | £176k | £169k |
| Profit per employee | £30.4k | £58.8k | £3.2k | −£10.5k |
| Cash conversion | −48.6% | 130.8% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼3.7% | ▼6.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼94.3% | ▼416.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲2.9% | ▼2.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £970k | £2m | £907k | £965k |
| Net assets | £9.5m | £13.5m | £13.8m | £13m |
| Fixed assets | £4.3m | £1.1m | £936k | £817k |
| Current assets | £7.7m | £15.3m | £15.5m | £14m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.9m | £1.6m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £398k | £531k | £691k | £566k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.2m | £5.2m | £1m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −6.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 52.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £169k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£10.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 7.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11%
- 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
- ▼5%
- Now £13m
- Cash at bank
- ▲6%
- Now £965k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 68
- Deferred income
- ▼18%
- Now £566k
- Fixed assets
- ▼13%
- Now £817k
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
- Fox Investments [Holdings] Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Longacre Group Limited75–100%
- Longacre Group Holdings Limited75–100%
- Mercer Bidco Limited75–100%
- Power Adhesives 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).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£715k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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