Bryken Limited
Registered name: BRYKEN LIMITED
Part of Bryken Group Holdings Limited groupBryken Limited made £14.3m revenue and £219k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2025. read from filing text
Bryken Limited’s revenue fell 19% to £14.3m in the year to 30 Nov 2025, with £219k profit and 96 employees. The company is classified under “machining” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Bryken (Holdings) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 | 30 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.6m | £15.6m | £17.7m | £14.3m |
| Cost of sales | £9.8m | £10.6m | £11.3m | £8.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.8m | £5.1m | £6.4m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £2.1m | £3.1m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £2.1m | £2.6m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £1.8m | £2m | £219k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £1.8m | £2m | £219k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.1m | £3.9m | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 99 | 95 | 98 | 96 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.7% | 11.2% | 11.3% | 1.5% |
| Gross margin | 27.7% | 32.4% | 36.4% | 40% |
| Revenue per employee | £137k | £165k | £181k | £149k |
| Profit per employee | £10.5k | £18.5k | £20.4k | £2.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.4% | ▲13.1% | ▼19.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲69% | ▲13.7% | ▼89% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4% | ▲3.2% | ▼2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £743k | £735k | £1m | £883k |
| Net assets | £8.2m | £9.8m | £11m | £11m |
| Fixed assets | £5.3m | £5.8m | £5.6m | £6.4m |
| Current assets | £8.2m | £10.3m | £11m | £10m |
| Debtors | £3.7m | £3.8m | £4.9m | £3m |
| Deferred income | £283k | £166k | £274k | £584k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £149k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 44.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.7%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £11m
- Cash at bank
- ▼14%
- Now £883k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 96
- Deferred income
- ▲113%
- Now £584k
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £6.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bryken Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bryken (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Bryken Limitedthis 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 30 Nov 2025 (profit £219k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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