Westbury Packaging Limited
Registered name: WESTBURY PACKAGING LIMITED
Part of Sundial Management Limited groupWestbury Packaging Limited made £11.3m revenue and £619k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Westbury Packaging Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £11.3m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £619k profit and 62 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers” and is based in Melksham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Melksham, South West
- Age
- 41 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 is controlled by Sundial Management Limited, incorporated in England and Wales and which owns 100% of the issued share capital of Westbury Packaging Limited. Its registered office is Maltr”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.4m | £10.8m | £11.3m |
| Cost of sales | £8.1m | £7.6m | £8.1m |
| Gross profit | £3.3m | £3.2m | £3.2m |
| Operating profit | £852k | £760k | £851k |
| Profit before tax | £801k | £716k | £824k |
| Profit after tax | £666k | £560k | £619k |
| Profit (best available) | £666k | £560k | £619k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.2m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 60 | 63 | 62 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.9% | 5.2% | 5.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.6% | 29.6% | 28.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £189k | £171k | £182k |
| Profit per employee | £11.1k | £8.9k | £10k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5% | ▲4.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼16% | ▲10.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5% | ▼1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £286k | £833k | £165k |
| Net assets | £2.4m | £2.8m | £3.2m |
| Fixed assets | £4m | £3.5m | £200k |
| Current assets | £2.5m | £3.2m | £3.8m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.7m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £399k | £359k | £263k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £182k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.1%
- 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
- ▲15%
- Now £3.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼80%
- Now £165k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 62
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £263k
- Fixed assets
- ▼94%
- Now £200k
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
- Sundial Management Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Westbury Packaging 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 Sep 2025 (profit £619k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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