Atlantic Service Company (U.K.) Limited
Registered name: ATLANTIC SERVICE COMPANY (U.K.) LIMITED
Atlantic Service Company (U.K.) Limited made £9.6m revenue and a £280k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2023. read from filing text
Atlantic Service Company (U.K.) Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £9.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with a loss of £280k and 76 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Blackwood; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackwood, Wales
- 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 ultimate parent company is Steel Partners Holdings L.P, incorporated in the USA, which is the only group into which the results of the company are consolidated. The consolidation accounts of Steel”
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.1m | £9.6m |
| Cost of sales | £6.8m | £7.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | −£319k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | −£375k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | −£280k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | −£280k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | — | 76 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 12.8% | −2.9% |
| Gross margin | 24.6% | 21.6% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £126k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£3.7k |
| Cash conversion | −21.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼124.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £494k | £527k |
| Net assets | £7.4m | £7.2m |
| Fixed assets | £5.4m | £6.4m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £4.7m |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £223k | £139k |
| Cash from operations | −£278k | −£1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £126k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 66.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.9%
- 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
- ▼4%
- Now £7.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲7%
- Now £527k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- ▼38%
- Now £139k
- Fixed assets
- ▲18%
- Now £6.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (2)
- Claro Hookeye LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Claro Hookeye Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 2023 (profit −£280k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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