Wacker Chemicals Limited
Registered name: WACKER CHEMICALS LIMITED
Part of Wacker Chemie Ag groupWacker Chemicals Limited made £2.4m revenue and £358k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Wacker Chemicals Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £2.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £358k profit and 16 employees. The company is classified under “agents involved in the sale of fuels, ores, metals and industrial chemicals” and is based in Purley; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Purley, London
- Age
- 49 yrs · since 1977
- 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 Wacker”
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&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) | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £512k | £481k | £432k | £475k |
| Profit before tax | £513k | £484k | £436k | £479k |
| Profit after tax | £414k | £366k | £328k | £358k |
| Profit (best available) | £414k | £366k | £328k | £358k |
| Employees (average) | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 16.1% | 15.1% | 15% | 14.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £143k | £151k | £137k | £150k |
| Profit per employee | £23k | £22.9k | £20.5k | £22.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.7% | ▼9.8% | ▲9.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼11.5% | ▼10.3% | ▲9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.1% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £398k | £557k | £606k | £443k |
| Net assets | £514k | £466k | £428k | £458k |
| Fixed assets | £10.7k | £11.8k | £8.8k | £10.7k |
| Current assets | £1.1m | £878k | £768k | £738k |
| Debtors | £0 | £2.8k | £145 | £0 |
| Deferred income | £392k | £270k | £197k | £209k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 14.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £150k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £22.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £458k
- Cash at bank
- ▼27%
- Now £443k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 16
- Deferred income
- ▲6%
- Now £209k
- Fixed assets
- ▲22%
- Now £10.7k
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
- Wacker Chemie Ag (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Wacker Chemicals 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 £358k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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