Poli-Film UK Limited
Registered name: POLI-FILM UK LIMITED
Poli-Film UK Limited made £11.7m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Poli-Film UK Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £11.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other plastic products” and is based in Daventry; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Daventry, East Midlands
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1976
- 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: “Mr Christian Runkel and Mr Bastian Runkel own a controlling interest in POLIFILM GmbH, a German registered company, which the directors regard as this company's ultimate holding company.”
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.2m | £11.4m | £11.3m | £11.7m |
| Cost of sales | £9.4m | £8.5m | £8.5m | £8.8m |
| Gross profit | £2.8m | £2.9m | £2.8m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £537k | £575k | £591k | £605k |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10% | 10.4% | 9.2% | 9.1% |
| Gross margin | 23.2% | 25.1% | 24.9% | 25.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £1m | £949k | £943k | £978k |
| Profit per employee | £102k | £98.5k | £86.7k | £89.3k |
| Cash conversion | 53.2% | 157.3% | 69.1% | 112.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▼0.5% | ▲3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼3.2% | ▼11.9% | ▲2.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £656k | £474k | £394k | £699k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £2.9m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Fixed assets | £157k | £109k | £234k | £216k |
| Current assets | £5m | £4m | £4.3m | £4.6m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.9m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Deferred income | £74.5k | £86.9k | £68.5k | £136k |
| Cash from operations | £807k | £2.4m | £964k | £1.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £978k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £89.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 112.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.1%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £3.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲78%
- Now £699k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- ▲99%
- Now £136k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £216k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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