Electronic Temperature Instruments Limited
Registered name: ELECTRONIC TEMPERATURE INSTRUMENTS LIMITED
Part of CLJ Holdings Limited groupElectronic Temperature Instruments Limited made £25m revenue and £2.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Electronic Temperature Instruments Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £25m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £2.7m profit and 211 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control” and is based in Worthing; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worthing, South East
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- 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 ultimate controlling parties are P J Webb, MBE, and M H Webb who own the issued share capital in CLJ Holdings Limited, the company's immediate and ultimate parent company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 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) | £18.9m | £23.1m | £24m | £25m |
| Cost of sales | £12.7m | £14.8m | £15.2m | £15.9m |
| Gross profit | £6.2m | £8.4m | £8.8m | £9.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £3.2m | £3.3m | £3.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £3.2m | £3.4m | £3.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £2.8m | £2.9m | £2.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £2.8m | £2.9m | £2.7m |
| Staff costs | £5.1m | £5.6m | £6.5m | £6.9m |
| Employees (average) | 190 | 192 | 214 | 211 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.6% | 12.2% | 12.2% | 10.9% |
| Gross margin | 32.7% | 36.1% | 36.7% | 36.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £99.2k | £120k | £112k | £118k |
| Profit per employee | £8.5k | £14.6k | £13.7k | £12.9k |
| Cash conversion | −115.7% | −120.6% | −111.7% | −109.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲22.5% | ▲4.1% | ▲3.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲73.9% | ▲4.1% | ▼6.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▲11.5% | ▼1.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2.5m | £4.9m | £5.3m | £4.5m |
| Net assets | £12.4m | £14m | £15.7m | £17.2m |
| Fixed assets | £3.6m | £3.7m | £12.4k | £7m |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £12.7m | £13.2m | £13m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2.5m | £1.5m | £2.2m |
| Deferred income | £155k | £247k | £391k | £362k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.1m | −£3.8m | −£3.7m | −£3.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £118k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £12.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −109.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 27.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now £17.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼16%
- Now £4.5m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 211
- Deferred income
- ▼7%
- Now £362k
- Fixed assets
- ▲56040%
- Now £7m
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
- CLJ Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Electronic Temperature Instruments 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £2.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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