Harvey Water Softeners Limited
Registered name: HARVEY WATER SOFTENERS LIMITED
Part of Osmosis Topco Limited groupHarvey Water Softeners Limited made £49.4m revenue and £2.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Harvey Water Softeners Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £49.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.3m profit and 227 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Reading; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 48 yrs · since 1978
- 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 | 31 Dec 2021 | 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 | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £40m | £41.9m | £48.3m | £47.3m | £49.4m |
| Cost of sales | £28.8m | £31.8m | £33.7m | −£33m | −£34.5m |
| Gross profit | £11.2m | £10.1m | £14.6m | £14.3m | £15m |
| Operating profit | £641k | −£2.6m | £63.9k | −£1.2m | £5m |
| Profit before tax | £742k | −£2.4m | −£288k | −£3.6m | £2.8m |
| Profit after tax | £316k | −£2.3m | −£186k | −£2.7m | £2.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £316k | −£2.3m | −£186k | −£2.7m | £2.3m |
| Staff costs | £8.1m | £9.6m | £10.3m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 245 | 251 | 248 | 246 | 227 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 0.8% | −5.5% | −0.4% | −5.7% | 4.7% |
| Gross margin | 28.1% | 24.1% | 30.3% | 30.2% | 30.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £163k | £167k | £195k | £192k | £218k |
| Profit per employee | £1.3k | −£9.1k | −£749 | −£11k | £10.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.7% | ▲15.4% | ▼2.1% | ▲4.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼826.8% | — | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.5% | ▼1.2% | ▼0.8% | ▼7.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £177k | £54.8k | £21.9k | — | — |
| Net assets | £8.4m | £6.1m | £5.9m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £8.5m | £9.2m | £10.5m | — | — |
| Current assets | £17.7m | £17.9m | £17.2m | — | — |
| Debtors | £8.7m | £9.4m | £4.8m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £1.7m | £1.3m | £959k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £218k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 227
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Osmosis Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Osmosis Funding Limited75–100%
- Osmosis Buyer Limited75–100%
- Culligan Shared Services (UK) Limited75–100%
- HWS Holdings Limited75–100%
- Harvey Water Softeners Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- North East Water Softeners LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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