Ready Case Limited
Registered name: READY CASE LIMITED
Ready Case Limited made £13.7m revenue and £542k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025.
Ready Case Limited’s revenue grew 48% to £13.7m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £542k profit and 88 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers” and is based in Woking; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Woking, South East
- 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: “May K Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.2m | £8.5m | £9.3m | £13.7m |
| Cost of sales | £7.1m | £6m | £6.3m | £10m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £2.5m | £3m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £53.8k | £580k |
| Profit before tax | −£590k | −£458k | £12.8k | £542k |
| Profit after tax | −£296k | −£458k | £6.5k | £542k |
| Profit (best available) | −£296k | −£458k | £6.5k | £542k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.6m | £2.9m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 77 | 74 | 78 | 88 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −3.2% | −5.4% | 0.1% | 3.9% |
| Gross margin | 23.5% | 29.1% | 31.8% | 27.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £120k | £114k | £119k | £156k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.8k | −£6.2k | £83 | £6.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | 74.2% | 111.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.3% | ▲9.8% | ▲48% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲8284% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.9% | ▲5.4% | ▲12.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £16 | £1.2k | £54 | £78.1k |
| Net assets | £887k | £319k | £205k | £562k |
| Fixed assets | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £2.5m | £2.7m | £3.6m | £4.5m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.1m | £2.7m | £3.5m |
| Cash from operations | £953k | −£956k | £39.9k | £646k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £156k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 111.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 16.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 25.3%
- 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
- ▲174%
- Now £562k
- Cash at bank
- ▲144578%
- Now £78.1k
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 88
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲8%
- Now £2.3m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 (profit £542k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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