Crest Engineering Company Limited
Registered name: CREST ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED
Part of Hyde Group Holdings Limited groupCrest Engineering Company Limited made £4.5m revenue and £169k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Crest Engineering Company Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £4.5m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £169k profit and 28 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Stalybridge; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stalybridge, North West
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 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) | £4.3m | £4m | £4.7m | £4.5m |
| Cost of sales | £3.9m | £3.7m | £4.2m | £4.1m |
| Gross profit | £441k | £254k | £450k | £371k |
| Operating profit | £328k | £206k | £314k | £232k |
| Profit after tax | £326k | £187k | £429k | £169k |
| Profit (best available) | £326k | £187k | £429k | £169k |
| Employees (average) | 27 | 27 | 28 | 28 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.6% | 4.7% | 9.2% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 10.2% | 6.3% | 9.6% | 8.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £160k | £148k | £167k | £161k |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £6.9k | £15.3k | £6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼7.3% | ▲17.2% | ▼3.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼42.6% | ▲129.5% | ▼60.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲3.7% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £550 | £383 | £165k | £29.4k |
| Net assets | £5.1m | £5.3m | £5.7m | £5.9m |
| Fixed assets | £224k | £784k | £883k | £1.1m |
| Current assets | £5.5m | £5.4m | £5.6m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | £996k | £896k | £924k | £631k |
| Deferred income | £175k | £80.7k | £121k | £203k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 8.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £161k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £5.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼82%
- Now £29.4k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 28
- Deferred income
- ▲68%
- Now £203k
- Fixed assets
- ▲24%
- Now £1.1m
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
- Hyde Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hyde Group Limited75–100%
- Crest Engineering Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Park Engineering LimitedRev. £8.7m · Profit £389k
- Brinksway Tool LimitedRev. £6.4m · Profit £218k
- Manchester Precision Engineering LimitedRev. £5m · Profit −£16.8k
- S G Equipment LimitedRev. £4.2m · Profit £80.2k
- Britannia Dynamics LimitedRev. £4.2m · Profit £229k
- North West (Aerotooling) Ltd.Rev. £3.6m · Profit £83.3k
- Hollygate Fabrications LimitedRev. £3.2m · Profit £102k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £169k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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