Dalen Limited
Registered name: DALEN LIMITED
Dalen Limited made £9.2m revenue and £43.8k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Dalen Limited’s revenue fell 15% to £9.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £43.8k profit and 87 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in West Midlands; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- West Midlands, West Midlands
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is Top-Tec Holdings Limited. Group accounts are available from the parent company's registered office 23 Links Drive, Solihull, B91 2DJ.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £9.2m | £10.9m | £9.2m |
| Cost of sales | — | £5.2m | £6.5m | £5.2m |
| Gross profit | — | £4m | £4.3m | £4m |
| Operating profit | — | £579k | £233k | £104k |
| Profit before tax | — | £577k | £231k | £90.8k |
| Profit after tax | — | £559k | £166k | £43.8k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £559k | £166k | £43.8k |
| Staff costs | — | £3.7m | £4.4m | £4.3m |
| Employees (average) | 68 | 78 | 95 | 87 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | 6% | 1.5% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 43.7% | 39.9% | 43.4% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £119k | £114k | £106k |
| Profit per employee | — | £7.2k | £1.8k | £503 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲17.4% | ▼15% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼70.3% | ▼73.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.7% | ▲21.8% | ▼8.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £2.8m | £901k | £938k |
| Net assets | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2m | £2m |
| Fixed assets | £468k | £463k | £672k | £845k |
| Current assets | £3.8m | £5.6m | £3.4m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £489k | £2.1m | £502k | £736k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £106k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £503
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.1%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £938k
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 87
- Deferred income
- ▲47%
- Now £736k
- Fixed assets
- ▲26%
- Now £845k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £43.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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