Sotech Limited
Registered name: SOTECH LIMITED
Part of Leazes Holdings Limited groupSotech Limited made £8.9m revenue and a £239k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Sotech Limited’s revenue fell 26% to £8.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £239k and 64 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures” and is based in Peterlee; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Peterlee, North East
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1982
- 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 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.9m | £8.9m |
| Cost of sales | £8.8m | £6.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.2m | £2.5m |
| Operating profit | £341k | −£179k |
| Profit before tax | £330k | −£175k |
| Profit after tax | £160k | −£239k |
| Profit (best available) | £160k | −£239k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 64 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 1.3% | −2.7% |
| Gross margin | 26.7% | 27.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £187k | £139k |
| Profit per employee | £2.5k | −£3.7k |
| Cash conversion | −296.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼25.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼249.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £2.4m |
| Current assets | £4.3m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £2.2m | £1.8m |
| Cash from operations | −£1m | −£373k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £139k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 27.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.6%
- 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 £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼15%
- Now £1.2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲49%
- Now £2.4m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Leazes Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Sotech Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Sotech Traynor LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 −£239k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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