Renthal Limited
Registered name: RENTHAL LIMITED
Part of Race Valley Limited groupRenthal Limited made £12.6m revenue and £143k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Renthal Limited’s revenue fell 5% to £12.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £143k profit and 80 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Stockport; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stockport, North West
- Age
- 51 yrs · since 1975
- 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 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.9m | £18.2m | £11.8m | £13.2m | £12.6m |
| Cost of sales | £10.1m | £11.2m | £7.9m | £8.1m | £8.6m |
| Gross profit | £6.8m | £7m | £3.9m | £5.1m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £2.9m | £2.7m | £116k | £1.2m | £154k |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £2.7m | £65k | £1.1m | £131k |
| Profit after tax | £2.5m | £2.6m | £48k | £953k | £143k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.5m | £2.6m | £48k | £953k | £143k |
| Staff costs | £3.5m | £3.7m | £2.8m | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 97 | 105 | 83 | 78 | 80 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 14.6% | 14.1% | 0.4% | 7.2% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 40.3% | 38.6% | 33% | 38.8% | 31.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £174k | £173k | £142k | £170k | £157k |
| Profit per employee | £25.5k | £24.4k | £579 | £12.2k | £1.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▼35% | ▲12% | ▼5.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3.7% | ▼98.1% | ▲1883% | ▼85% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.3% | ▼20.9% | ▼6% | ▲2.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £2.2m | £1.9m | £1m | £1.2m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £8.2m | £9.7m | £8.8m | £9.7m | £9.9m |
| Fixed assets | £932k | £945k | £866k | £1.8m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £11.1m | £13.7m | £9.7m | £10.3m | £11.2m |
| Debtors | £816k | £1.8m | £1.4m | £1.9m | £1.6m |
| Deferred income | £835k | £1.4m | £418k | £255k | £682k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £157k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.8%
- 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 £9.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲46%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 80
- Deferred income
- ▲167%
- Now £682k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £1.6m
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
- Race Valley Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Renthal 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 £143k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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