Voestalpine Rotec Ltd
Registered name: VOESTALPINE ROTEC LTD
Part of Voestalpine Rotec Gmbh groupVoestalpine Rotec Ltd made £8.9m revenue and a £1.4m loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Voestalpine Rotec Ltd’s revenue fell 9% to £8.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £1.4m and 60 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles” and is based in Leicester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- Age
- 48 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: “voestalpine Rotec GmbH (Krieglach)”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.7m | £9.9m | £8.9m |
| Cost of sales | £7.5m | £8.7m | £7.8m |
| Gross profit | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Operating profit | −£86k | −£393k | −£485k |
| Profit before tax | −£184k | −£565k | −£715k |
| Profit after tax | −£120k | −£449k | −£1.4m |
| Profit (best available) | −£120k | −£449k | −£1.4m |
| Staff costs | £1.9m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 51 | 59 | 60 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −1.4% | −4.5% | −15.7% |
| Gross margin | 14.2% | 12.1% | 13.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £171k | £167k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | −£2.4k | −£7.6k | −£23.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.5% | ▼9.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.7% | ▲1.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.2k | £1.2k | £1.1k |
| Net assets | £3.9m | £3.4m | £4m |
| Fixed assets | £5m | £5.6m | £7.7m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £2.2m | £1.6m |
| Debtors | £425k | £143k | £315k |
| Deferred income | £270k | £148k | — |
| Cash from operations | −£267k | −£1.1m | −£711k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −15.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£23.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 85.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- 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
- ▲16%
- Now £4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼7%
- Now £1.1k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 60
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲36%
- Now £7.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Voestalpine Rotec Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Voestalpine Rotec Ltdthis 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£1.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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