Styrene Packaging & Insulation Limited
Registered name: STYRENE PACKAGING & INSULATION LIMITED
Part of Styrene Packaging & Insulation (Holdings) Limited groupStyrene Packaging & Insulation Limited made £25.6m revenue and a £132k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Styrene Packaging & Insulation Limited’s revenue was £25.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £132k and 160 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Bradford; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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 company's”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 May 2022 | 30 May 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.3m | £24.8m | £20.9m | £20.2m | £25.6m |
| Cost of sales | £17.9m | £20.2m | £16.6m | £15.7m | £20m |
| Gross profit | £3.4m | £4.5m | £4.3m | £4.5m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £1.8m | £1.3m | £1.5m | −£109k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.5m | £877k | £1.1m | −£390k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.3m | £873k | £1.3m | −£132k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.3m | £873k | £1.3m | −£132k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £3.7m | £4.4m | £4.4m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 107 | 116 | 146 | 154 | 160 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 5% | 5.3% | 4.2% | 6.3% | −0.5% |
| Gross margin | 15.8% | 18.3% | 20.6% | 22.5% | 22% |
| Revenue per employee | £199k | £214k | £143k | £131k | £160k |
| Profit per employee | £10k | £11.4k | £6k | £8.2k | −£827 |
| Cash conversion | −42.5% | −146.9% | −154.4% | −227.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.4% | — | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲24.3% | — | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.4% | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £272k | £104k | £300k | £298k | £3.2k |
| Net assets | £4.3m | £4.4m | £4.4m | £3.7m | £2.5m |
| Fixed assets | £9.3m | £8.9m | £8.6m | £8.9m | £3.3m |
| Current assets | £7.5m | £7.6m | £8.4m | £7.3m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £4.9m | £5.2m | £5.4m | £5.2m | £5m |
| Deferred income | £133k | £298k | £383k | £683k | £960k |
| Cash from operations | −£616k | −£2.7m | −£2m | −£3.5m | £343k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £160k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£827
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 12.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 19.4%
- 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
- —
- Now £2.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.2k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 160
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £960k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £3.3m
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
- Styrene Packaging & Insulation (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Styrene Packaging & Insulation 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 −£132k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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