Brinksway Tool Limited
Registered name: BRINKSWAY TOOL LIMITED
Part of Hyde Group Holdings Limited groupBrinksway Tool Limited made £6.4m revenue and £218k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Brinksway Tool Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £6.4m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £218k profit and 31 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) | £3.9m | £5.5m | £6m | £6.4m |
| Cost of sales | £3.8m | £5.3m | £5.6m | £6m |
| Gross profit | £159k | £217k | £393k | £476k |
| Operating profit | £99.7k | £123k | £312k | £313k |
| Profit after tax | £125k | £101k | £320k | £218k |
| Profit (best available) | £125k | £101k | £320k | £218k |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 27 | 31 | 31 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.2% | 1.8% | 5.4% | 3.4% |
| Gross margin | 4% | 3.9% | 6.6% | 7.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £151k | £205k | £192k | £208k |
| Profit per employee | £4.8k | £3.8k | £10.3k | £7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲40.5% | ▲7.8% | ▲7.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18.9% | ▲215.6% | ▼31.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲14.8% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £64.3k | £0 | £659k | £30.4k |
| Net assets | £6.1m | £6.2m | £6.5m | £6.7m |
| Fixed assets | £750k | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.2m |
| Current assets | £6.4m | £6.1m | £6m | £6.5m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £2m | £269k | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £414k | £127k | £74.6k | £189k |
| 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
- 3.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 7.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £208k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.8%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £6.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼95%
- Now £30.4k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 31
- Deferred income
- ▲154%
- Now £189k
- Fixed assets
- ▼13%
- Now £1.2m
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%
- Brinksway Tool 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
- Manchester Precision Engineering LimitedRev. £5m · Profit −£16.8k
- Crest Engineering Company LimitedRev. £4.5m · Profit £169k
- 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 £218k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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